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Source: Verizon faces political pressure to cancel launch of Huawei Mate 10 amid allegations of Huawei being a security threat, news that AT&T ended Huawei deal — Speaking to a source familiar with the company's plans, Verizon is facing political pressure to cancel the launch a Huawei smartphone later this year.
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Inside Huawei's push into the US telecom market as it sells equipment to a range of carriers, despite new Washington warnings of it being a spy threat — Chinese telecom giant has gobbled up huge global market share; now Washington is warning anew about alleged spy threat as U.S. telecoms embark on $275 billion 5G network build-out
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft on Spectre updates' speed impact: “single-digit slowdowns” on new PCs, big effect on PCs with Haswell/older chips and servers with I/O-intensive work — It's bad news for older Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines — Microsoft is taking the surprise step of detailing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of some AMD PCs becoming unbootable after installing recent updates — Microsoft blames AMD's documentation — Microsoft has paused distributing its Meltdown and Spectre security updates for AMD machines after reports of PCs not booting.| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Facebook plans to unveil Portal, an Echo Show-like video chat device with a screen and camera, at F8 in May and ship it in second half of 2018 for $499 — Facebook is about to jump into the consumer hardware business in a big way with a video chat device named “Portal,” …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
Leaked Snapchat DAU metrics from April to September 2017 show Snapchat is used mainly as a chat app, with Snap Maps' usage trailing off to ~19M since launch — Snapchat takes its secrecy seriously. Very, very seriously. — Take the case of one former Snapchat employee.
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| Colin Gibbs / FierceWireless: |
T-Mobile announces launch of NB-IoT offering for $6/year for up to 12 MB per connected device, says it's roughly one-tenth the cost of Verizon's Cat-M plans — T-Mobile launched what it said is the nation's first narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) service plan for customers looking to provide connectivity to a range of devices.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Lenovo unveils Mirage Solo, its first Google WorldSense VR headset, which has dual mics, 2560x1440 screen, Snapdragon 835, 4GB RAM, ships Q2 for “under $400” — Last year, Google announced that it would be making standalone Daydream headsets with the help of HTC and Lenovo.
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Hulu says it's surpassed 17M subscribers in 2017, a 40% increase YoY, and viewers have a median age of 31 and median annual household income of $92,000 — Streaming service now tops 17 million total subscribers — Hulu eclipsed 17 million total subscribers in 2017, the streaming service announced Tuesday.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Ford teams up with Lyft, Domino's, Postmates to pilot autonomous vehicles and will work with Qualcomm on “Transportation Mobility Cloud” initiative — Auto giant is teaming up with Lyft, Domino's, and now Postmates, to deploy autonomous vehicles
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| Jeremy Herron / Bloomberg: |
Kodak's stock spiked as much as 77% on its announcement to launch KODAKcoin, “a photocentric cryptocurrency” for better image rights management — Kodak's latest moment has it joining the cryptocurrency frenzy. — Shares in Eastman Kodak Co. jumped as much as 77 percent …
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MarketWatch, USA Today, TechCrunch, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @chrisbhoffman, @joshelman, @haldash, @mgsiegler, and @pt
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Riding in a self-driving Lyft in Las Vegas is smooth, in-car audio cues and a tablet share information about ride, but human safety driver required for now — The future of Lyft feels a lot like the present — for now — It's not terribly easy to go to a casino in Las Vegas and come …
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City of Tomorrow, GeekWire, Curbed, Mashable, and FactorDaily
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Coinbase fixes bug that let customers of Overstock.com buy items for about 15% of the listed price by paying in bitcoin cash instead of bitcoin — Coinbase and Overstock.com just fixed a serious glitch that allowed Overstock customers to buy any item at a tiny fraction of the listed price.
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BleepingComputer.com, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and CBS New York. Tweets: @briankrebs
| Robert Ferris / CNBC: |
Toyota says it will add Amazon Alexa to some Toyota and Lexus models in 2018 and plans to add to other models in 2019 — Toyota said Tuesday it will introduce Amazon Alexa, Amazon's cloud-based voice-assistant, in some Toyota and Lexus vehicles in 2018. — The feature will be available …
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
Twitter misses Senate Intelligence Committee deadline for questions on Russian election interference, says it will respond soon; Facebook, Google meet deadline — Twitter missed a Monday deadline to respond to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian online interference … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Dell unveils a XPS 15 2-in-1 with keyboard that uses magnets for key feedback, Intel-AMD chip, 1080p or 4K touchscreen display, shipping this spring for $1,300+ — It's way more powerful than the 13-inch version — Dell is introducing a 15-inch version of its XPS 2-in-1, after debuting a 13-inch model last year.
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple issues statement in response to investors' concern about kids' iPhone addiction, says it will address the issue with enhanced iOS parental controls — Apple has a response of sorts to activist shareholders concerned about kids' addiction to iPhones: Enhanced parental controls are coming to iOS.
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Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Ubergizmo, New York Magazine, and Fast Company
| Michelle Robbins / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces that Google AMP cache will display publisher URLs and drop the Google AMP URL prefix in search results, starting in the second half of 2018 — Google announced today that it is well on its way to solving one of the most annoying (to publishers) “features” of AMP …
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Accelerated Mobile …, Engadget, Android Police, Search Engine Roundtable, The Register, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @cramforce, @ginnymarvin, @robpegoraro, and @ia
| Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority: |
Danish watch brand Skagen announces Falster, its first touchscreen smartwatch with a minimalist design running Android Wear, launching this month for $275-$295 — Skagen is perhaps most well known for its beautiful analog watches, and over time those watches have been getting smarter.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CNET, Digital Trends, Android Police, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Maker of Blocks modular smartwatch, unveiled at CES in 2015, says it's on track to deliver units to all its Kickstarter backers within the next few months — It's been several years since Blocks had its initial 15 minutes of fame, capturing the internet's attention with the idea of a modular smartwatch.
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Digital Trends, Android Police, and CNET
| David Pierce / Wired: |
Inside Amazon's Alexa Voice Services division, which makes hardware and software development kits that help manufacturers build Alexa-enabled products — WHEN IT FIRST launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment. It appeared first inside the Echo …
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Engadget, Android Police, TechCrunch, CNET, Fossbytes, TechRepublic, TechRadar.com, The Verge, AnandTech, Digital Trends, and SlashGear
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