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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @backlon, @steipete, @androiddev, @chriswelch, @ow, @verge, and @alexdobie
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | David McCabe / Axios: |
Senator Lindsey Graham says he wants to hold a hearing to question social media companies about how threats of gun violence spread online — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) says he'd like to grill America's social media companies at a hearing about the way threats of gun violence, including against schools, spread online.
Tweets: @dmccabe
| 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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| 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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Microsoft Developer, Inquirer, International Business Times, Firstpost, Silicon Republic, Engadget, TechSpot, The Next Web, Liliputing, bit-tech.net, Windows Blog, Windows Central, Windows Blog, SiliconANGLE, PCWorld, Softpedia News, GeekWire, Ars Technica, Thurrott.com, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Windows Experience Blog, Thurrott.com, Washington Post, BetaNews, BGR, ZDNet, The Register, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, TechCrunch, PCWorld, On MSFT, Neowin, Engadget, Windows Central, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Tom's Hardware, The Next Web, GeekWire, Gizmodo, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @chrisbhoffman
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