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Apple HomePod review: best-in-class sound for $349 and above, looks great, but Siri only works with Apple Music, bad support for third-party services — I don't think I've ever described a tech product as “lonely” before, but it's the word I thought about the most as I was reviewing Apple's new HomePod.
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Snap reports Q4 revenue of $285.7M, up 72% YoY, as DAUs rise 8.9M to 187M, up 18% YoY; net loss of $350M, up 106% YoY; stock up 23%+ after hours — 02/06/18 VENICE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2017.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
A pollster Facebook hired in April '17, who quit after 6 months, says his role was to measure Zuckerberg's approval ratings and track speeches amid US tour — Why Tavis McGinn quit after six months — Tavis McGinn applied for a job at Facebook last year hoping to work in market research.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet names Dinesh Jain, former COO of TWC, as CEO of Access, its high-speed internet unit that includes Fiber; Jain is Access' third CEO in under two years — Another new CEO at Access as Alphabet struggles to figure out the future of Google Fiber — Google parent company Alphabet … | Eric Zimmerman / The Keyword: |
Google begins rolling out ability to book flights and hotels directly from search results — Planning a trip involves lots of searching for flights, hotels, things to do, itineraries and more. The process is often cumbersome because we have to use multiple tools to gather everything we need—especially on a mobile phone.
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Apple's Shazam takeover triggers competition review by the European Commission, following request by seven European countries — The European Commission has announced a review of Apple's acquisition of music discovery service Shazam — agreeing to a request made by several countries to weigh competition concerns.| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Streaming service ESPN Plus launching next month at $4.99/mo; sources say it won't have ESPN cable channels' content, which still requires ESPN subscription — How much would you pay for sports you weren't watching on TV? — Want to pay for a subscription to ESPN without paying for a subscription to other cable channels?| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
US regulators say they lack power over cryptocurrency exchanges, citing ease of price manipulation on unregulated exchanges, view ICOs as securities offerings — Two of the nation's top financial regulators said Tuesday that Congress may need to grant them new powers if they are to protect consumers …
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In Waymo v. Uber trial, former Uber CEO Kalanick testifies he tried to find a way to let Levandowski start a company and still feel like he hired him — SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball players have pickup games. Rappers have freestyle cyphers. Tech entrepreneurs, according to the former chief executive …
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Sources: Google to buy 1.2M sq. ft. Chelsea Market building in NYC, where it leases 400K sq. ft. already, for $2B+ in deal expected to close in two months — Jamestown in contract to sell the 1.2M sf office-and-retail property at 75 Ninth Avenue — Google did not have to search far and wide for results.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google brings AR stickers to its Motion Stills app for Android, which does not require ARCore-compatible smartphone or high-end specs — Want to plop a 3D T. rex into a video of your hand? The Motion Stills app for Android phones now lets you do that with a rough-and-ready technique.
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Netgear says it will spin off its Arlo security camera wing into a standalone business by the second half of 2018 and is planning an IPO for Arlo — Netgear announced this afternoon that it plans to spin off its Arlo wing into a standalone business. The networking hardware giant's board … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds flaw in Hotspot Shield, a VPN with ~500M users, that can reveal a user's WiFi network name, country, and more; fix coming in update next week — The virtual private network says it provides a way to browse the web “anonymously and privately,” but a security researcher … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Patreon is launching its Snapchat Stories-like photo and video feed for artists as a feature called Lens in its mobile app, after announcing it last year — Patreon has launched a new feature that it announced last year: a Snapchat Stories-like feed where artists can share pictures and video with patrons.
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Pornhub says it's banning AI-generated fake porn videos because they're “nonconsensual”, yet such “deepfake” videos are still available via site search results — In its search of a platform that will host fake porn videos of celebrities created with a machine learning algorithm … Sponsor Posts
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