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January 23, 2018, 3:45 PM
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| Apple: |
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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| 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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| 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.
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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.| 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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MacRumors, Instagram, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, Tech Times, and Refinery29. Tweets: @instagram
| 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 … | Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
Yann LeCun, who founded Facebook's AI Research lab, steps down as its head, to be succeeded by Jérôme Pesenti, former CEO of BenevolentTech and IBM Big Data CTO — Facebook has replaced the man Mark Zuckerberg recruited to run its artificial intelligence research …
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @mhbergen
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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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| 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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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
DJI unveils $799 Mavic Air drone with 4K 30fps recording, 2,375 mAh battery, and up to 21 minute flight time, available for preorder today, ships January 28 — DJI has taken the wraps off its latest drone, the DJI Mavic Air, slotting into the gap between the current Mavic Pro and the company's entry-level Spark.
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TechCrunch, Digital Trends, The Verge, MacRumors, Gizmodo, and The Verge
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Snap opens up ability to share select public Stories outside the app to Twitter and Facebook or via text and email, with Stories displayed in a new web player — Only public Stories can be shared outside the main mobile app — Snap's latest effort to fight back against slow growth …
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TechCrunch, Recode, Android Authority, CNBC, CNET, Wall Street Journal, BGR, Wired, The Next Web, and iPhone Hacks
| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Files Go Android app, which can delete all “good morning” images, a popular morning greeting in India, at once, has 10M+ downloads — The country, newly online, has become obsessed with sending cheery greetings from smartphones, causing head scratching in Silicon Valley
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New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Yourstory, Android Central, International Business Times, and Technology Personalized
Tweets: @newley, @wsjindia, and @durjoydatta
| 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 …
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DuckDuckGo Blog, AVC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, Tom's Hardware, gHacks Technology News, addons.mozilla.org, MacStories, Axios, MacRumors, and The Verge. Tweets: @yegg. Thanks:@riptari
| Ilya Zhegulev / BuzzFeed: |
Investigation into the internal power struggle at Kaspersky Lab, which former staff say was won by managers with ties to Russian intelligence — Kaspersky Lab is under fire in the US over concerns that it could provide its clients' private — and at times secret — information to the Russian government.
Tweets: @yashalevine
| 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.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable, and Droid Life
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Records show Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google spent ~$50M on lobbying US politicians in 2017; Google topped the list, spending $18M+ — Immigration, net neutrality, taxes and Russia dominated tech's agenda in the nation's capital last year, per new reports.
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9to5Mac, Engadget, On MSFT, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Daily Caller, Cult of Mac, Neowin, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @tonyromm
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Google quietly updates design of Gboard for iOS to make the GIF creation feature more accessible — 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.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Democrats Rep. Schiff and Sen. Feinstein call for Twitter and Facebook to investigate if Russian troll accounts fueled the rise of the #releasethememo hashtag — This time, the fear is that they're trying to discredit an investigation into Russia's potential election meddling.| 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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Tweets: @profcarroll, @marshallk, and @moneyries
| Reuters: |
Chinese tech giants including Baidu, NetEase, Toutiao, and UCWeb, are jumping on the mobile-based live quiz craze with cash prizes luring millions of players — BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - It seems like a game everyone wins: some of China's biggest tech companies, looking to hook in new consumers …
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Gizmodo and Tech in Asia
| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook will roll out privacy center globally that puts its core privacy settings in one place, in response to EU's new GDPR regulations — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook will make it easier for its more than 2 billion users to manage their own data in response to a tough … | 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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