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Apple says HomePod wireless speaker will arrive in stores February 9, will be available to order starting Friday, January 26 in the US, UK, and Australia — Breakthrough Wireless Speaker Brings Advanced Audio Technologies Into Any Home for an Incredible Music Listening Experience
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
HomePod's multi-room audio and stereo features will not be available at launch, will be enabled later this year via a free software update — Within the HomePod's pre-order date and launch announcement today, Apple confirmed that the smart speaker's multi-room audio and stereo features won't be making it into the device at launch.
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter COO Anthony Noto has resigned to become SoFi CEO, starting March 1 — Noto joined Twitter in 2014 after a career on Wall Street — SoFi has been searching for a new leader since September — Twitter Inc. Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned to accept the role …
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| CNBC: |
Snap opens up ability to share select public Stories outside the app, via text or email, or to Twitter and Facebook — - Users will be able to share Stories to their linked social media accounts, or through text or email with a link to a webpage where people who don't have the app can view the message.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
DuckDuckGo launches revamped mobile apps and browser extensions with built-in tracker blocking available globally for Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari — Some major product news from veteran anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo: Today it's launched revamped mobile apps … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix beats in Q4 with 8.3M new worldwide subs, vs 5M est., and almost 2M in US, vs 1.28M est.; revenue of $3.29B meets expectations; stock up 8%+ after hours — Netflix reeled in 8.3 million new streaming subscribers — including almost 2 million in the U.S. — handily beating Wall Street estimates for the fourth quarter of 2017.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Android 8.1 Speed Labels now show WiFi network speeds before connecting, helping decide between networks to join; admins can opt out of having speed displayed — Oreo was a bit of a lackluster update on first launch, but the mobile operating system is getting some nice new tricks with 8.1's updates.
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Files Go Android app, which has a special feature to delete all “good morning” images at once, has 10M+ downloads, mostly in India — The country, newly online, has become obsessed with sending cheery greetings from smartphones, causing head scratching in Silicon Valley
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
By recognizing that it hurts democracy, an admission with little precedent among tech firms, Facebook bolsters the case against itself for users and regulators — Sometimes, it's bad for democracy — In October, I started writing a daily newsletter about Facebook and democracy.| Samidh Chakrabarti / Facebook: |
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Tokyo-based bitFlyer, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, launches in Europe after receiving EU-wide payment institution license — BitFlyer, the Tokyo-based operator of one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, is expanding into Europe after receiving regulatory approval …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: Coinbase crossed $1B in revenue in 2017, sends reminder to investors that it does not allow trading of its stock on secondary markets — Coinbase issues a statement that warns its own shareholders. — Coinbase, the bitcoin trading broker that has exploded in popularity … | Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Google quietly updates design of Gboard for iOS to make the GIF creation feature more accessible by moving the GIF-making button next to the word suggestion bar — Hey, Dieter — Gboard, Google's iOS and Android keyboard app, has quietly updated its design by moving its GIF-making button up next to the word suggestion bar.| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
Linux creator Linus Torvalds criticizes Intel's “garbage” Spectre and Meltdown patches, saying they “do things that do not make sense” — Linux guru complains about approach to patching the chip flaw. — Linus Torvalds is not happy about the patches that Intel …
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