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Apple HomePod review: looks great, has best-in-class sound for $349 and above, but voice controls only work with Apple Music, no third-party service support — It sounds amazing. Is that enough? — Photography by James Bareham; Video by Phil Esposito, Becca Farsace, Andrew Marino, and William Joel
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: quarterly tablet shipments down 7.9% YoY, the 13th straight quarter of decline; Amazon sells ~7.7M tablets in Q4, overtaking Samsung for second place — The tablet market has now declined year-over-year for 13 quarters straight. Q4 2017 saw a 7.9 percent year-over-year decline … | TechCrunch: |
In email snafu, Apple appears to be sending some developers, who are using Search Ads Basic, ad spend and install details for other developers' apps — Feb 6, 2018, 11:41 amFeb 6, 2018, 2:37 pm — An issue at Apple appears to be resulting in app developers getting emails of ad spend …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
A deep look at Lightning and how it may mitigate Bitcoin's scaling problem by creating a new protocol level on top of Bitcoin to make payments faster, cheaper — The Lightning network could enable much cheaper and faster bitcoin payments. — Three startups are getting ready to launch …
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| David Ingram / Reuters: |
Seattle's Ethics and Elections Commission says Facebook violated election ad law, orders Facebook to disclose political ad spend info during 2017 city elections — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Seattle's election authority said on Monday that Facebook Inc is in violation of a city law …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
New Jersey governor signs executive order requiring ISPs to follow neutrality rules if they sell internet services to state agencies, in effect on July 1 — ISPs can't block or throttle traffic if they sell broadband to state agencies. — New Jersey is enforcing net neutrality … | Nuala Sawyer / SF Weekly: |
WrkRiot CEO Isaac Choi pleads guilty to defrauding employees, faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, sentencing set for May 24 — Isaac Choi pleaded guilty on Monday, and faces up to 20 years in prison. — New businesses are often fraught with stress, bad communication …
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Mercury News, U.S. Department of Justice, Newser, Silicon Valley Business …, and Axios. Tweets: @tigerbeat
| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Education startup Quizlet, which makes virtual flashcards, raises $20M Series B led by Icon Ventures to expand internationally, currently has ~20M users — If you're in high school in the United States, there's at least a 50% chance you're using Quizlet. And there's an even better chance you're at least familiar with it.
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, FinSMEs, Quizlet, and EdSurge
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Alessandro Sabatelli, Twitter's director of AR/VR, has left the company after 18 months — The head of Twitter's AR/VR team announced today via a tweet that he is leaving the social media site after 18 months. — Alessandro Sabatelli joined Twitter in June of 2016 after leaving … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Waymo v. Uber begins with opening slides; Waymo claims Levandowski stole trade secrets, Uber says Alphabet upset over Otto acquisition and Levandowski hire — The trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Alphabet's self-driving arm Waymo began today. — Uber and Waymo are finally having their day in court.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Cloudflare terminates service to domain names of Sci-Hub, the “Pirate Bay of Science”, after the American Chemical Society obtained a permanent injunction — While Sci-Hub is praised by thousands of researchers and academics around the world, copyright holders are doing everything …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Grammarly fixes security bug in its Chrome extension, which is used by about 22M people, that allowed any site to obtain access to user accounts — The grammar-correcting browser extension is used by about 22 million users. — Grammarly has fixed a security bug in its Chrome extension … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
EHang releases footage of latest manned test flights in China of the 184, an autonomous, electric quadcopter taxi that can carry a single person up to 10 miles — But I'm still highly skeptical this can scale — Two years ago, Chinese drone maker Ehang came to CES in Las Vegas and promised …
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