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| James Risen / The Intercept: |
Sources: US officials tweeted from @NSAGov to prove to Russians that US government was indeed behind secret negotiations to buy stolen NSA documents — The United States intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents …
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New York Times, Fortune, Gizmodo, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @evan_mcmullin, @tedlieu, @kevinmitnick, @petersterne, @sharylattkisson, and @snowden
| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
APK teardown suggests Google may be preparing to launch an Android Messages web interface, enabling texting from the desktop — There's a new version of Android Messages rolling out to our phones. So far, we haven't seen any significant changes to the UI, but huge things are happening under the surface.| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Inside the prerecorded drone light show at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, which used 1,218 Intel drones; medal ceremonies to feature live 300-drone acts — THE OPENING CEREMONY of any Olympics provides pageantry at a global scale, a celebration that, at its best … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Study: facial recognition systems of Microsoft, IBM, and China's Megvii had 21%-35% error rate for dark-skinned women versus below 1% for light-skinned men — Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell if a person in a photograph is male or female 99 percent of the time.
Tweets: @tressiemcphd, @upulie, @nytimesbusiness, @lesliefeinzaig, and @ceciliakang
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail says it lost 17M tokens of Nano/XRB cryptocurrency, worth about $170M, suspends withdrawals for all cryptocurrencies — BitGrail says it lost about 17 million tokens of Nano — An Italian cryptocurrency exchange called BitGrail said on Friday …
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Engadget, Bitgrail, Nano, BleepingComputer.com, Anycoin.news, Cointelegraph.com News, and Vadim
Tweets: @ofnumbers, @nic__carter, @cz_binance, @patio11, @nanocurrency, and @nic__carter
| Alyssa Abkowitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Tencent's Palo Alto-based “chief exploration officer” David Wallerstein, responsible for finding moonshot investments such as air-taxi company Lilium — David Wallerstein is guiding Chinese internet giant's investments in electric flying cars, agriculture startups
Tweets: @jrichlive, @mdudas, and @preetatweets
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
History of estimated Uber valuations, including the latest $1.25B financing round from SoftBank in January; sources: Uber was valued at $72B in Waymo settlement — That's the new claim in the settlement agreement between Uber and Waymo. — How much a company is worth is always a bit of an artificial question in Silicon Valley.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
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Fortune, Ars Technica, CNNMoney, BetaNews, Recode, CNET, Business Insider, SlashGear, The Register, Tech Times, IPWatchdog.com, NBC News, Brad Ideas, Business Insider, Digital Trends, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @bgurley
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says creators posting videos harmful to users may lose their monetization options and eligibility to be recommended on the platform — After barring Logan Paul earlier today from serving ads on his video channel, YouTube has now announced a more formal and wider set of sanctions it's prepared …
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9to5Google, Engadget, SlashGear, Neowin, YouTube Creator Blog, USA Today, Polygon, HYPEBEAST, NBC News, The Verge, and The Verge
Tweets: @ytcreators and @phillyd
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Android smartphone maker Wileyfox, an early Cyanogen adopter, confirms it's gone into administration; at least 20 employees laid off — It's been more than a year since the well-funded startup Cyanogen announced that it would shut down its mobile OS development, and since pivoted to self-driving technology.| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Periscope's users dwindle and future seems uncertain as Twitter fails to invest in the app, communicate clearly, or handle the ongoing child pornography issue — When Twitter announced it had acquired Periscope in March 2015, the app was full of promise. It was one of the first to let … | Pavan Rajam / the rajam report: |
The rise of subscription streaming services shows Apple's video strategy should focus more on developing original content than building premium TV products — It's been over 2 years since Apple and the TV Market was published, before Apple TV 4's launch. With Apple TV 4K's release in 2017 …
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Co-founder forks MyEtherWallet ERC20 token wallet generation tool, changes @myetherwallet Twitter account to @mycrypto, and announces rival MyCrypto service — There's controversy in the crypto community after one of the founders of a prominent wallet service for storing and sending cryptocurrencies abruptly announced a rival venture.
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The Merkle, MyCrypto, Cointelegraph.com News, MyCrypto, and reddit
Tweets: @spudowiar, @lwsnbaker, @mycrypto, @myetherwallet, @moutonnoir67, @spudowiar, @ethereumnetw, and @mdudas
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Profile of Chinese wearable device maker Huami, which is now valued at $600M+ after Thursday's NYSE IPO — Chinese tech companies are still struggling to get the international recognition they deserve. The latest example is Huami, a Beijing-based company of which you are unlikely to have heard …
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Reuters, Caixin Global, China Money Network, TechNode, Technology Personalized, xinhuanet.com, PR Newswire, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @pernillet
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