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Google releases Android P developer preview with support for iPhone X-style notch, updates to Quick Settings and notifications, and more — But don't install it on your main phone — As it has for the last couple years, Google is releasing a developer preview of the next version of Android in March.
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| 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 … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Travis Kalanick unveils 10100 fund, with an investing theme of “large-scale job creation”, focusing on real estate, e-commerce, and startups in China and India — The ride-hailing co-founder is shifting his focus away from Uber and toward new ideas
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Sources: Snap plans layoffs to its engineering department, the largest layoffs to date; source says about 100 people, less than 10% of the unit, are affected — Snap Inc. is preparing its largest round of layoffs to date, Cheddar has learned. — The Snapchat-maker plans to announce …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces new AI platform for Windows 10 developers ahead of Build, including ability to import different learning models, available in Visual Studio — Microsoft is planning to include more artificial intelligence capabilities inside Windows 10 soon.
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| 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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| Russell Holly / Windows Central: |
Oculus Rift users say a problem with Oculus Runtime Service's certificate has made all Rift devices useless until Oculus releases an update — Oculus goofed, and it's going to be a little bit before you can use your Rift again. — If you were hoping to get a little VR in today …
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| 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 … | 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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google updates Duo with ability to leave 30-second video messages for users who miss or decline calls, rolling out to iOS and Android users this week — 30-second ephemeral video messages — Duo, Google's take on Apple's FaceTime, is getting video messages today in an update.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Interview with Peter Thiel on Facebook's board dynamics, Russian interference in 2016 election, his continued support for Trump, his bid for Gawker assets, more — Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley's homegrown Cassandra. He warned for years that the big tech companies were arrogant and clueless …
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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 … | Lisa Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber is seeking $1.25B for its second leveraged loan and has been approaching loan investors directly instead of going through banks — Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking $1.25 billion in its second foray in the U.S. leveraged loan market, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| 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.| 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.
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| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Study of Shadow Brokers documents: in 2013 the NSA was tracking 45+ different nation state operations by detecting other hackers on machines it had infected — When the mysterious entity known as the “Shadow Brokers” released a tranche of stolen NSA hacking tools to the internet a year ago … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Changelog: MoviePass updates iOS app to “remove unused location capabilities” following privacy concerns — Earlier this week, Mitch Lowe, CEO of the popular all-you-can-eat movie subscription service MoviePass, made headlines for bragging about how the app can track the location of its users.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
NYT journalist Farhad Manjoo spent nearly two months relying solely on print for his news and concluded that digital has broken how we process information — I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Magic Leap raises an additional $461M from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on top of its $502M round in October, bringing total Series D funding to $963M — Magic Leap still hasn't released a product, but they're continuing to raise a lot of cash to get there.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find bug in Exim message transfer tool that allows remote code execution, affecting up to 400K servers — Widely used message transfer agent patched buffer overflow last month. — A bug in an obscure but widely used email program may be putting as many as 400,000 servers around … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Early data from AdStage suggests Facebook's News Feed changes have driven ad prices up by decreasing the amount of time users spend on the social network — Mark Zuckerberg said people would spend less time on Facebook after the change. It looks like that might be happening.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
A consortium of 61 Japanese banks plans to use Ripple's blockchain technology for a consumer payments app, starting with a trial in three banks in autumn 2018 — A group of Japanese banks is planning to use Ripple's blockchain-based payments technology in a forthcoming product aimed at general consumers.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Khronos Group announces Vulkan 1.1, the first big update to its cross platform GPU API, with multi-GPU support, better DirectX compatibility, and more — Updated drivers that support the latest version should be out today. — The Khronos Group today launched Vulkan 1.1 …
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