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Apple says its delayed HomePod smart speaker will be available to order on Friday for $349 in US, £319 in UK, A$499 in Australia, will arrive in stores Feb. 9 — Breakthrough Wireless Speaker Brings Advanced Audio Technologies Into Any Home for an Incredible Music Listening Experience
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| 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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| 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 CMO Gary Briggs is leaving to advise other companies, sit on some boards and help the Democrats in 2020 — Briggs has been Facebook's chief marketing officer since 2013. — Facebook CMO Gary Briggs is retiring. — Briggs, who joined Facebook in 2013 from Google …
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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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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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber CEO says they 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 … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber has hired its first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Bo Young Lee, following a Holder Report recommendation to create the role — Bo Young Lee will be filling a role the Holder Report recommended that Uber create. — Uber has been on a C-suite hiring spree.
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| 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 … | 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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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 … | 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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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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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.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Play now sells audiobooks in 45 markets and nine languages, with voice support for Google Assistant — Ever since Google ditched Android Market in 2012 and brought all its digital media content into a single marketplace, Google Play has emerged as the go-to place for apps, movies, TV shows, magazines, music, games, and books.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Qualcomm to be sanctioned by EU on Wednesday for abusing dominance in paying Apple to buy communication chipsets from Qualcomm exclusively — Brussels is poised to sanction Qualcomm for abusing its dominance when it paid Apple to use its chips exclusively in its smartphones and tablet devices …
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| 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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Internet Association, a lobbying group for Amazon, Facebook, Google and others, to create new campaign to improve diversity in the tech industry — The Internet Association told lawmakers this week that its new campaign aims to “improve diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.”Sponsor Posts
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