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Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus review: great design, display, and speed, has headphone jack, but average battery life, gimmicks galore, and Bixby is a failure — The Galaxy S9 is all of the good and all of the bad we've come to expect from Samsung — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales; Video by Becca Farsace and Tom Connors
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Samsung Galaxy S9, S9 Plus review: variable aperture and 960FPS slow-motion video is nice, rear camera is good, especially in low light, but still not the best — When Samsung announced the Galaxy S9, “that's it?” wasn't exactly an uncommon refrain. The Galaxy S9 is, frankly, kind of boring.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Travis Kalanick unveils 10100 fund with a theme of “large-scale job creation”, focusing on emerging innovation in China and India, real estate, and e-commerce — The ride-hailing co-founder is shifting his focus away from Uber and toward new ideas| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Oculus releases software fix to revive Rift headsets that stopped working because of an expired certificate — Oculus Rift owners discovered that their headsets had stopped working yesterday, thanks to an expired certificate. It appears Oculus forgot to renew its security certificate …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Grab is close to acquiring certain markets of Uber's Southeast Asia business, may sign a deal this week or next; Uber will take ~15-20% stake in Grab — Grab, the dominant ride-hailing service in Southeast Asia, is close to finalizing a deal to acquire Uber Technologies Inc.'s business … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android P preview: multi-camera API to better use dual cameras, Android Runtime speed boosts of up to 11% across popular apps, tightened API policies, more — Preview the next major version of Android with the Android P Developer Preview. — In what is quickly becoming an annual March tradition … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says it audited 756 suppliers for its annual Supplier Responsibility Report, finds 44 “core violations” of labor rules in 2017, double the previous year — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Wednesday that it had found violations of its labor and environmental policies for suppliers …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon updates Alexa to end random laughter, says laugh was triggered when Alexa mistakenly heard “Alexa, laugh”, will change phrase to “Alexa, can you laugh?” — Is Alexa laughing at you? — In the past few days, some users of Echo home speakers running Amazon …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Fantasy sports site FanDuel in talks to go public, likely through a reverse merger with Platinum Eagle Acquisition Corp. — FanDuel is in advanced talks to go public, but not via an IPO. — The plan: Multiple sources tell Axios that the fantasy sports site is likely to participate …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Square's Cash app on iOS now supports direct deposit for receiving paychecks without a bank — If you're already immersed in the Square Cash ecosystem, Square is adding support for yet another new feature to the app. In a tweet today, the company announced that the Cash app on iOS … | Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
SEC issues strongly worded warning on unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges, saying “many” appear SEC-approved when they aren't; Bitcoin is down 8%+ — Bitcoin falls 10 percent after regulators signal crackdown on exchanges. — The Securities and Exchange Commission issued …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
McAfee acquires Canada-based VPN provider TunnelBear, is likely to integrate it into its Safe Connect VPN service — McAfee announced that it has acquired Canada-based virtual private network (VPN) company TunnelBear. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Filings show Amazon has committed to ~$22B in future food purchases, mostly from Whole Foods supplier United Natural Foods, until 2025 — - Amazon is now on the hook for an additional $22 billion in future purchase obligations following the Whole Foods acquisition, filings show.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based banking platform solarisBank raises €56.6M Series B from BBVA, Visa, Lakestar, and others — SolarisBank, the Berlin-based “banking platform” co-founded by fintech company builder Finleap, appears to be on quite a roll. — The company, which now claims nearly 60 corporate clients … | Chris O'Brien / Trucks.com: |
Autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics raises $16.5M Series A led by Shasta Ventures, says it completed a 7-mile drive in FL without a human in the cab — San Francisco-based Starsky Robotics announced today a new round of investment and a significant milestone toward realizing an autonomous trucking future.
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| Andrea Valdez / Wired: |
The Vatican is hosting a 36-hour hackathon Thursday for 120 students to find tech solutions for social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, refugee and migrant help — IN RECENT YEARS, organizations have used hackathons to find code-enabled solutions for everything from the opioid crisis to gerrymandering.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated operating system and will become a “mode” of Windows 10 in 2019 — Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated version next year — Microsoft says its plans to move Windows 10 S from a dedicated operating system to a special …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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