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Senate Commerce Committee chairman John Thune sends Apple letter asking about iPhone performance throttling as Paris prosecutor's office confirms investigation — Sen. John Thune writes letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook; Paris prosecutor's office opens investigation
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Samsung says it will launch its flagship Galaxy S9 at Mobile World Congress in February and plans to launch its foldable phone sometime next year — Samsung Galaxy S9 will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in February, the company's mobile boss said, denying rumors of a CES 2018 unveiling.
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Nvidia CEO says its GPUs “immune” to flaws from Spectre threat, but Nvidia is updating software drivers because they interact with potentially vulnerable CPUs — Nvidia Corp said some of its chipsets have been affected by Spectre, a memory corruption flaw that allows hackers … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook tests local news feature called Today In across six US cities, combining human curation and AI to surface news, events, and announcements in its app — Facebook is vetting local publishers that appear in this section. — Facebook wants to make it easier for people to find local news from vetted sources.
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Experts dispute WhatsApp's “end-to-end encryption” claim, saying confidentiality of group chat could be broken if servers were compromised — When WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption to every conversation for its billion users two years ago, the mobile messaging giant significantly raised …
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Jimmy Iovine casts doubt on earlier report that he planned to leave in August: “I am committed to doing whatever Eddy (Cue), Tim (Cook) and Apple need me to do” — Music mogul Jimmy Iovine shot down rumors that he plans to exit Apple in August telling Variety that he's committed …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Self-driving car startup Voyage says it will launch a taxi fleet in Florida's The Villages, a 125K-person retirement community, after $20M Series A in 2017 — Largest retirement community in the US gets robot taxis courtesy of startup Voyage — With 125,000 residents, over 54,000 homes …
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UK's information regulator fines Carphone Warehouse £400K over preventable 2015 breach that exposed 3M+ customer details — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's information regulator said on Wednesday it had fined Carphone Warehouse 400,000 pounds ($539,400) after a 2015 cyber attack exposed …
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| Dan Murtaugh / Bloomberg: |
Report: Bitcoin mining is so profitable in China that miners will make money as long as bitcoin is worth more than $6,925 — Bitcoin mining is so profitable in China that the cryptocurrency could fall by half and miners would still make money, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Comcast says it will let US Xfinity customers control certain connected home products using its apps and hardware starting in the first half of 2018 — The connected home has been a big theme at CES, and today Comcast is turning on a new service that underscores its intention to be central player in it.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Qualcomm announce new additions to list of major carriers supporting upcoming ARM “Always Connected” PCs running Windows 10, bringing total to 18 — Microsoft and Qualcomm announced at CES 2018 that they have lined up a handful of additional mobile operators … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
After an Oracle server exploit was published in December, reports surfaced of cryptominers on compromised systems; one attacker netted $226K+ worth of monero — Exploit published in December makes cracking unpatched Oracle servers easy. — In a report published on January 7 by SANS Technology Institute … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to relocate Chinese customer iCloud data and operations from US to mainland China starting February 28 to comply with local laws — Apple has today announced a date for when it will hand over operations of iCloud data services for residents of mainland China to GCBD.
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| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
Netflix, Amazon, and major studios sue Dragon Box, alleging it facilitates piracy with its $350 streaming box that offers easy access to illegal movies and TV — Netflix and Amazon joined with the major studios on Wednesday in a lawsuit against Dragon Box, as the studios continue their crackdown on streaming devices.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter's ad “transparency center”, announced before Congressional hearings in October, slated at the time to debut in “the coming weeks”, has yet to launch — In October 2017, as Congress probed Russia's suspected manipulation of Twitter's platform … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Amazon Fire tablets in the US, following iOS launch in early December — Messenger Kids, Facebook's new app designed to allow those under the age of 13 to more safely communicate thanks to parental controls, is today launching on Fire tablets.| 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.| David Pierce / Wired: |
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Huawei Mate 10 Pro launching as an unlocked phone in US for $799 on 2/18, pre-orders start 2/4; Huawei committing to two years of Android security updates — Huawei is in the top three for worldwide smartphone market share and is finally kicking off an intense effort to make Huawei a name US consumers will recognize.
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