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Apple shipped about 8M watches in Q4 2017 according to Canalys, which is more than the entire Swiss watch industry sold last quarter — - A new estimate suggests that Apple sold more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry last quarter. — Estimates suggest Apple sold about 8 million watches during the holiday quarter.| Chris Williams / The Register: |
4200+ websites, including USCourts.gov, UK's NHS services, other government sites were infected today with cryptocurrency mining malware via hacked plugin — Biz scrambles to shut down crafty coin crafting operation — Thousands of websites around the world - from the UK's NHS and ICO …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm last announced a new smartwatch chip two years ago, allowing the Android Wear ecosystem to stagnate — This weekend will mark two years since Qualcomm's last smartwatch chip was announced. — Ars Technica would like to wish a very special second birthday to the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC.
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| Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese police deploy mobile facial-recognition units mounted on eyeglasses for surveilling crowds — Police are donning the devices as hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday — BEIJING—As hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar … | Caixin Global: |
Tencent to invest $474M in Chinese game developer Shanda Games, which is preparing for an IPO in China after delisting from Nasdaq a few years ago — Social media giant Tencent Holdings plans to invest 3 billion yuan ($474 million) into online game developer Shanda Games in a strategic partnership.
| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
RBC: 19 cloud service operators spent $63.8B on capital expenditure in 2017, up 22% YoY, and will spend $81B in 2018, a rise of 27% — Capital spending by big cloud operators accelerated last year and is unlikely to slow this year — The world's largest tech companies further their advantage …
Tweets: @djtgallagher
| Reuters: |
Alibaba is investing $486M for 38% stake in Beijing Shiji Retail Information Technology Co., a big data firm focused on hotels and retailers such as Starbucks — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest $486 million for a stake …
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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Hon Hai's Foxconn Industrial Internet files for an IPO in China, says it will spend $4.3B on next generation projects like cloud computing, IoT, AI, and 5G tech — Smart manufacturing, data centers, AI among areas for growth — Hon Hai unit Foxconn Industrial Internet plans IPO in China
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
Profile of Google's SVP of hardware Rick Osterloh, who restructured its hardware organization and is tasked with integrating Google Assistant into devices — IT'S EARLY IN the morning on October 4, 2016, and in a few seconds, Rick Osterloh will present Google's latest gadget portfolio to the world.
Tweets: @kevinctofel and @nxthompson
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
How scammers impersonating Twitter celebrities con people via fake giveaways, asking for small bitcoin, ether amounts, promising to send back several times more — And they're using automated networks of bot accounts to do it. — What do @Eilon_Musk, @ElonMuski, @EloonMusk, @Elonn_Musk, and @Alon_Musk have in common?| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
Tech firms on mandatory arbitration agreements for employees: Amazon and Verizon have none, Facebook does, no comment from Google, Uber, Twitter, Apple, Lyft — Last year, after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published her blog post alleging the company was rife with sexual harassment …
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| Libby Watson / Splinter: |
Advertisers can promote Tweets that aren't linked to any Twitter profile, allowing fake organizations to run policy ads while obscuring their bankrollers — A few weeks ago, Bloomberg published a damning piece about how the DCI Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm, creates phony echo chambers to help push its clients' interests.
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