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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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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
HomePod review roundup: Siri is very limited, despite integration with iCloud and iPhone, recognizing few commands and not being able to tell voices apart — Apple seeded HomePod review units to a number of websites, embargoed for today, and the first reviews are landing. — There are quibbles.
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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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| 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 … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Data management startup Rubrik acquires Datos IO, which specializes in backing up NoSQL data; deal estimated at $45M+ based on Datos IO's earlier funding — Rubrik, the enterprise startup that provides data backup and recovery services across cloud and on-premise environments … | 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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| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mixmax, which makes a Gmail and Salesforce extension for one-click tasks that has 10K+ users, raises $10.35M to expand team from 18 to 50 people — Hundred of startups have tried to kill it, but email is still alive and well. That doesn't mean it can't be improved upon, though.
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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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