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EU fines Qualcomm €997M for abusing market dominance, says it paid Apple to buy LTE baseband communication chipsets from Qualcomm exclusively — The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €997m for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets.
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Associated Press, Business Insider, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Verge, Financial Times, Softpedia News, New York Times, Cult of Mac, Financial Times, and Fortune
Tweets: @bzamayo, @eu_commission, @eu_competition, and @robinwauters
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Stripe says it will stop supporting bitcoin on April 23, citing volatility and long transaction times; bitcoin support was originally added in 2014 — Payments platform Stripe will stop supporting bitcoin in April, citing the cryptocurrency's volatility and long transaction times, among other things.
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Stripe Blog, CNNMoney, PYMNTS.com, BBC, CoinSpeaker, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Register, Trustnodes, CNBC, Engadget, The Verge, Business Insider, SlashGear, CoinDesk, Motherboard, and Mashable
Tweets: @stripe, @dakami, @danprimack, @danheld, @thestalwart, @bitcoin, and @nathanielpopper
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook buys Boston software company Confirm, which authenticates IDs, and will wind down its operations — Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that it's acquired... Confirm.io. The startup offered an API that let other companies quickly verify someone's government-issued identification card …
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BGR, Inquirer, Reuters, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Yourstory, Neowin, Xconomy, Recode, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and ZDNet. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2018 to be held May 8-10 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California — This year's Google I/O developer conference will take place from May 8th to May 10th at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Similar to last year, Google revealed the date through an online puzzle.
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| Canalys: |
Canalys: Apple shipped 29M iPhone Xs in Q4 2017, 7M of them in China; iPhone X was the world's best-shipping smartphone model over the holiday season — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Tuesday, 23 January 2018 — Apple shipped 29 million iPhone Xs in Q4 2017.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Newser, FierceWireless, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks
| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
Jérôme Pesenti, former CEO of BenevolentTech and IBM Big Data CTO, to head up Facebook's AI Research lab; Yann LeCun steps into new role as chief AI scientist — Facebook has replaced the man Mark Zuckerberg recruited to run its artificial intelligence research …
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Facebook: Mike Schroepfer, Yann LeCun, and Jerome Pesenti
Tweets: @mhbergen and @joshconstine
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook's survey to rank trust of publications asks two questions: “Do you recognize the following websites” and “How much do you trust each of these domains?” — Last week, Facebook said its News Feed would prioritize links from publications its users deemed “trustworthy” in an upcoming survey.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers show Tinder's lack of encryption lets hackers see all photos, inject their own images in users' photo streams, and watch users' every swipe — IN 2018, YOU'D be forgiven for assuming that any sensitive app encrypts its connection from your phone to the cloud …
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Checkmarx, Inquirer, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Fortune, Engadget, and socalTECH.com
Tweets: @astepanovich and @manan
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google Assistant now supports voice match for multiple Netflix profiles — Netflix was one of the first video services to add support for Google Assistant, but you could only access the main video profile. That really limited usefulness in households where everyone has their own profile.
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The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Beat, Android and Me, Mashable, Engadget, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, and Android Central
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
In security update, Apple backports Meltdown fix to macOS Sierra and OS X El Capitan — The fix, previously reserved for newer Macs, is now available on older versions of macOS. — Meltdown-Spectre: A reminder to the IT industry that security is a mirage
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| Ankit Chawla / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Instagram now supports GIFs in Stories through partnership with GIPHY — Facebook-owned image sharing platform Instagram has collaborated with Giphy to announce the rollout of a new millennial-focused feature on its Android and iOS app. Starting Tuesday, GIF stickers will be available globally …
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Instagram Blog, MacRumors, Highsnobiety, TechCrunch, Tech Times, Refinery29, The Verge, and Engadget
Tweets: @dcseifert and @instagram
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon acquires advanced threat detection startup Sqrrl, to boost the security of AWS; earlier reports pegged the deal at $40M+ — - Amazon's cloud business has recently stepped up its efforts to pick up business from U.S. intelligence agencies. — Amazon's cloud business has acquired Sqrrl …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
HomePod can play podcasts, Beats 1, iTunes purchased content without Apple Music subscription, stream non-Apple music services via AirPlay from an iOS device — Apple today announced that HomePod goes on sale February 9. Whilst HomePod works best with an Apple Music subscription …
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Macworld, TechConnect, Ubergizmo, Slate, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, MacRumors, International Business Times, and Softpedia News
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber CEO says it may commercially deploy fully autonomous cars in the next 18 months, when conditions at locations are perfect, about 5% of time initially — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was speaking to Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait today at the new outlet's event #TheYearAhead event … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine cofounder Don Hofmann details its successor, v2: aiming for summer debut, 6.5 second looping videos, better moderation, Teams for collaboration, no filters — First, don't call it “Vine Two”. Details are starting to emerge about v2, the forthcoming video app built to replace Vine by its former co-founder Dom Hofmann.
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The Verge, International Business Times, AndroidHeadlines.com, Social Media Today, PhoneDog.com, New York Magazine, Fortune, Tubefilter, and Engadget
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @kantrowitz, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says Siri is now being actively used on 500M+ devices — In today's announcement about the HomePod's February 9 launch date, Apple quietly provided new data on how many people are using Siri. According to the company, Siri is now actively used on more than half a billion devices.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Amazon Go is another manifestation of Amazon's strategy: invest massively in R&D for a moat that no retailer or software-based competitor can match — Amazon Go is the story of technology, and so is this tweet: … Yesterday the Amazon Go concept store in Seattle opened to the public …
Tweets: @dtcippy, @ntaylor963, @d_ramsden, @dtran320, and @matthewstoller
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Montreal-based Element AI, which helps firms utilize AI and has raised $102M, opens its first international office in London to work with NGOs, charities, more — Element AI — which last year raised $102 million to build an incubator-meets-consultancy to work with multiple businesses …
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The Verge
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
SheerID raises $18M Series B, helps companies verify online identities of certain customers like students or the military for eligibility to special offers — Portland's SheerID is trying to give web companies a secure and easy way to verify whether prospective customers belong to a special group … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 58 arrives on Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux with smoother rendering, faster JavaScript caching, and Progressive Web Apps on Android — Mozilla today launched Firefox 58 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release builds on the improvements made in version 57 …
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MacRumors, The Mozilla Blog, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Mozilla Hacks, Mashable, Windows Central, BetaNews, and Android Police. Tweets: @simevidas
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo says lower-end 6.1" iPhone, launching 2H 2018, will have a single rear camera, aluminum frame, 3GB RAM, and no 3D Touch, will cost $700-$800 — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today shared additional details about the rumored 6.1-inch iPhone that he expects to launch in the second half of 2018.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Facebook inks exclusive Facebook Live partnership for live streams of Dota 2 and CS:GO competitions run by Germany's ESL One — But will pro gaming fans ever accept Facebook as a credible source for their live streaming fix? — Starting today, Facebook is adding an exclusive new partnership …
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