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| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Filings show Google quietly bought UK sound tech startup Redux that turns surfaces like phone displays into speakers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has quietly acquired a U.K. startup focused on technology that turns surfaces such as phone displays into speakers.
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| Harper Neidig / The Hill: |
More than 100 CEOs and company executives including Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Jeff Bezos sign open letter urging Congress to protect DACA — More than a hundred prominent chief executives are urging Congress to pass legislation to protect the young undocumented immigrants …
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Verizon, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, CNET, SiliconBeat, and Fast Company. Tweets: @kylegriffin1
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Sources: in 2015-2016 Uber used “Ripley” tool to remotely shut down the company's devices and shield files and data from police raids in foreign countries — At least two dozen times, the San Francisco headquarters locked down equipment in foreign offices to shield files from police raids.
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9to5Google, EU Press Room, The Independent, and Phys.org
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Report: US VC funding hit $84B in 2017, most since the dotcom boom, across 8,076 deals, fewest since 2012; unicorns accounted for 23% of funding, 0.9% of deals — Venture capitalists were busy in 2017, pouring $84 billion into 8,035 companies across the U.S..
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces the Virtual Dash Button Service, a developer kit that lets third parties create virtual Dash buttons for their own devices — First Amazon announced physical Dash buttons to make it easy for consumers to reorder their favorite products. Then it launched virtual versions …
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Amazon.com, Whirlpool Corporation, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, and ZDNet
| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
YouTube says it is putting original projects with Logan Paul on hold and removes him from Google Preferred ad program after his video showing suicide victim — The video platform says it will not feature Paul in the fourth season of YouTube Red original comedy ‘Foursome.’
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Apple's China iCloud data migration includes international users whose country setting is set to China, raising concerns among users living temporarily in China — Apple's plan to migrate China-based iCloud user accounts to a local host on Chinese soil is already running into controversy …
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9to5Mac, Apple Support, MacRumors, AppAdvice.com, Cult of Mac, Fortune, The Register, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, and 9to5Mac
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| Denisse Moreno / International Business Times: |
Confide unveils ScreenShield, a new anti-screenshot feature for its iOS app, says it will make the technology available to third-party developers — Encrypted messaging app Confide is boosting its efforts against unwanted screenshots on iOS devices, the platform announced Wednesday.
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Confide Blog, MacRumors, The Next Web, Daring Fireball, AppAdvice.com, TechCrunch, Fortune, and 9to5Mac
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Kodak now is not Kodak we knew, it's a shell of a bankrupt company that was worth $135M before blockchain announcements like KODAKCoin and KashMiner this week — The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) can be a showcase of invention. Each year, giant corporations from around the world flock …
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CNBC, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, CoinSpeaker, Newser, Bitcoinist.com, Quartz, TechCrunch, Socialnomics, Barron's Online, Ubergizmo, SiliconANGLE, and Engadget
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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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A Few Thoughts …, BetaNews, Inquirer, Help Net Security, BGR India, Firstpost, Ubergizmo, The Hacker News, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, and International Business Times
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| Reuters: |
South Korea says it is considering a ban on domestic cryptocurrency trading, as authorities raid local exchanges like Coinone, Bithumb for alleged tax evasion — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges were raided by police and tax agencies this week for alleged tax evasion …
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CNBC, Engadget, Fortune, Reuters, Tech in Asia, New York Times, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Mashable, Bloomberg, NewsBTC, The Next Web, Bitcoinist.com, Newser, Crowdfund Insider, Beyond Search, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @iamjosephyoung, @d_cryptoknight, @cryptopeterd, @spyder2k1, and @staska
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
macOS versions after 10.12.6 include flaw that unlocks system preferences App Store menu with any password, if locked by admin; fix coming in macOS 10.13.3 — A bug report submitted on Open Radar this week has revealed a security flaw in the current version of macOS High Sierra that allows …
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