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Apple previews iOS 11.3 with ability to turn off controversial throttling of older iPhones, new Animoji, business chat in Messages, and more — Major Updates to ARKit, Messages and More Coming This Spring — This spring, iOS 11.3 will deliver exciting new ways to experience augmented reality …
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Tweets: @flyosity, @mgsiegler, @marcoarment, and @geoffreyfowler
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
New section in Apple's Health app in iOS 11.3 will allow users to automatically download and view their medical records — In the latest indication of Apple's growing ambitions in the digital health market, the tech giant on Wednesday morning unveiled a new feature that would allow users …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Apple announces ARKit 1.5 in iOS 11.3 beta with support for vertical planes, 2D image recognition, and imagery in 1080p HD — Vertical planes and 2D image recognition are coming to ARKit — Apple just announced an updated version of its augmented reality platform, timed to the developer beta release …
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EU fines Qualcomm €997M for abusing market dominance, says it paid Apple to buy LTE baseband chipsets from Qualcomm exclusively; Qualcomm to appeal — The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €997m for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets.
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| 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.| Steve Yegge: |
Engineer Steve Yegge leaves Google after 13 years, says it has lost its way due to risk aversion, politics, arrogance, and a focus on competitors over customers — Note: This is my first time using Medium. Please forgive any faux pas. Also, it's pretty long even for me, so you might want to go grab a coffee.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
San Francisco-based collaborative inbox startup Front raises $66M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Front App Inc. wants to retool the traditional email inbox for the era of team chat applications and cross-platform customer interactions, and today it said it has raised $66 million to expand its efforts.| 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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Tweets: @stripe, @dakami, @danprimack, @thestalwart, @bitcoin, @danheld, and @nathanielpopper
| 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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| 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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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Vivo X20 Plus UD, the first smartphone with in-display fingerprint sensor and 6.43-inch OLED display, announced in China with preorders set to open today — For years, rumors have circulated about companies like Samsung and Apple attempting to integrate fingerprint sensors … | 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.| 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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Facebook: Wolfgang Blau. Tweets: @karaswisher, @kantrowitz, @louisgray, @profcarroll, @sarahfrier, @david_ingram, @hannahkuchler, @matthewknell, @caseynewton, @willoremus, @stevekovach, @mosseri, @mosseri, @caseynewton, @pashulman, @scottthurm, and @asharma
| 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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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Popular home media server application Plex adds support for Google Daydream VR — Last year Plex's reach extended to cover live TV and automobiles, so in 2018 the company is jumping into yet another platform: virtual reality. As it has done before, the company brought in the developer …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Nexar raises $30M Series B led by Ibex Ventures for its AI-based road safety dashcams and network — Nexar, a startup that makes an AI-based dashcam app to monitor road safety, announced today that it has raised a $30 million Series B led by Ibex Ventures.
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Tech.eu, Reuters, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, PR Newswire, and Forbes
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
AT&T CEO pushes for an “Internet Bill of Rights”, a net neutrality law covering ISPs and tech firms, in a series of full-page ads in major newspapers — AT&T is calling on Congress for a national net neutrality law that would govern Internet providers and tech companies alike … | Axios: |
Amazon's HQ2 PR strategy is brilliant, encouraging cities to publicly vie for its favor and inspiring positive media coverage amid a backlash against big tech — Elected officials across the country have spent the past three months falling all over themselves to show Amazon …
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Vanity Fair and Forbes
Tweets: @saraeisen, @morgangress, @axios, @lizgreenspan, @danprimack, @mdudas, and @danprimack
| 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.
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SiliconANGLE, iPhone Hacks, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, and Engadget
Tweets: @asymco and @neilcybart
| 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 … | 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, Tech Times, Refinery29, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @dcseifert and @instagram
| 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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| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
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Tweets: @mhbergen and @joshconstine
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