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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Assistant will gain multilingual support for English, French, and German and will be available in 30+ languages including Hindi and Thai this year — As teased yesterday by Hiroshi Lockheimer's MWC 2018 post, Google is heading into the mobile trade show with a number of Assistant announcements.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google says it will roll out routines for Assistant in the coming weeks, allowing it to perform multiple actions at once from a single pre-made command — Google is announcing a bunch of forthcoming updates to Assistant today, but one arrives right away: routines, a feature announced …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches ARCore out of preview, says it works on 13 Android phone models, 100M devices, will expand Google Lens to iOS and more Android smartphones — Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Google today launched ARCore 1.0, letting developers create AR experiences on Android.
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| Shirin Rajaee / CBS Sacramento: |
Police say an Apple refurbishing center in Sacramento County has made ~1,600 accidental 911 calls since Oct. 2017; Apple says it's investigating — ELK GROVE (CBS13) - Emergency dispatchers in Elk Grove and Sacramento County are seeing an influx of false alarm 911 calls flooding their emergency communication centers.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
What to expect at MWC 2018: Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+, new flagships from Sony and Nokia, iPhone X notch lookalikes, and further decline of headphone jack — Welcome to the Samsung show — The world's biggest mobile technology event is upon us. This coming week's Mobile World Congress …
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| Kim Zetter / New York Times: |
How “hacker-proof” voting machines that are not connected to the internet can still be vulnerable due to remote access software and internal cellular modems — In 2011, the election board in Pennsylvania's Venango County — a largely rural county in the northwest part of the state …
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
SEC filing: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel received $637.8M compensation in 2017, the third highest annual payout received by a CEO, with stock awards comprising $636.6M — (Reuters) - Snap Inc (SNAP.N) Chief Executive Evan Spiegel received $637.8 million as total compensation last year …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung relaunches Opera Max, the data-saving privacy-focused browser, as Samsung Max, which will work only on some Samsung Galaxy-branded handsets — Samsung has rescued Opera Software's Opera Max data-saving, privacy-protecting Android app from oblivion and relaunched it today as Samsung Max.| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Google launches business messaging for RCS, letting firms send rich messages to Sprint users in US; 40+ carriers and OEMs support Google's RCS implementation — Google's RCS platform will allow businesses to send interactive messages to customers. — Google has begun signing up businesses …
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| Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity Magazine: |
Akamai: 43% of 17B login requests tracked via Akamai platform in November and December involved credential abuse, with bots using stolen login credentials — UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine — More than 40% of global log-in attempts are malicious thanks …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
France's regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers says cryptocurrency derivatives will be regulated like other financial derivatives, no online ads allowed — France's financial regulator has said that financial products based on cryptocurrencies should be formally regulated as derivatives …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Google, YouTube, and Facebook don't find misinformation and hoaxes quickly enough after tragedies, may need breaking news teams to scan for misleading content — In the first hours after last October's mass shooting in Las Vegas, my colleague Ryan Broderick noticed something peculiar …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
HP Inc. reports Q1 revenue of $14.5B, up 14% YoY, $1.2B US tax reform charge, personal systems business revenues of $9.44B, up 15% YoY; stock up 6%+ after hours — HP Inc., the world's largest personal-computer maker, topped analysts' revenue estimates with strong computer and printer sales during …
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