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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Galaxy S9 and S9+ review: great design, display, and speed, better fingerprint sensor placement, but average battery life, gimmicks galore, Bixby still sucks — 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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Tweets: @pierce, @tldtoday, @dcseifert, @saschasegan, @andrewmartonik, @andrewmartonik, @vladsavov, and @dcseifert
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Galaxy S9 and S9+ review: dual aperture and 960fps slow-motion video is nice, rear camera is great, especially in low light, but is worse than Pixel 2's camera — When Samsung announced the Galaxy S9, “that's it?” wasn't exactly an uncommon refrain. The Galaxy S9 is, frankly, kind of boring.| Maria Temming / Science News: |
Study of 4.5M+ tweets from 2006 to 2017 confirms inaccurate news spreads faster and further than true stories, and humans, not bots, are primarily to blame — An analysis of 4.5 million tweets shows falsehoods are 70 percent more likely to get shared — There's been a lot of talk …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it is taking the lessons it has learned from AMP and is applying them to web standards that could allow instant loading for non-AMP web content — Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard? — In a blog post today, Google is announcing …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Netflix data shows that while only 25% of users sign up on TVs, most viewing, ~45% after one month and 70% after six months, happens on TVs — Most Netflix subscribers sign up on phones or computers. But 70 percent of viewing happens on TVs. — You can watch Netflix in almost every country in the world, on any device you want.
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Tweets: @247ls, @backlon, @pkafka, and @fromedome
| StarWars.com: |
Iron Man director Jon Favreau to write and produce a live-action Star Wars series for Disney's new streaming service — The director of Iron Man and The Jungle Book will helm the series for Disney's new direct-to-consumer platform. — Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Emmy-nominated producer …
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Tweets: @reignofapril, @adambvary, and @zhandlen
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber's VP of Product, Daniel Graf, is leaving and will be replaced by Assaf Ronen, Amazon's VP of Voice Shopping — Assaf Ronen has been running the e-commerce giant's voice shopping efforts. — In another high-profile executive departure at Uber, product head Daniel Graf is leaving the company, according to sources.
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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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Tweets: @thetunnelbear and @leojtravis10
| 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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Gizmodo, Apple, CNET, MacRumors, Neowin, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, The Independent, and The Indian Express. Tweets: @robertomulazzi
| 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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TechCrunch, reddit, Engadget, Neowin, BBC, VRFocus, The Tech Report, ValueWalk, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, UploadVR, Business Insider, MSPoweruser, and Windows Central. Tweets: @oculusrift
| 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 …
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SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @lewis_lin and @jonrussell
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Snap confirms it has laid off just over 120 people in its engineering department, less than 10% of the unit, in its largest round of layoffs to date — Snap Inc. is preparing its largest round of layoffs to date, Cheddar has learned. — The Snapchat-maker plans to announce …
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Tweets: @_chrisversace, @benbajarin, @bdsams, @kerrymflynn, @0xpit, and @joshuabaker
| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis shows that IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to oppose Romney as a possible secretary of state, following claims that Russia was opposed to him — Online campaign targeted the ex-GOP nominee as Donald Trump considered him in late 2016 — Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president … | Taiga Uranaka / Reuters: |
Japan punishes seven cryptocurrency exchanges and suspends trading at two of them for one month following $530M Coincheck hack — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday punished seven cryptocurrency exchanges, ordering two of them to suspend business, in an effort to shore up consumer protection … | 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
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The Hill, CNNMoney, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Yourstory.com, The Guardian, PE Hub Blog, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, TechCrunch, Recode, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Financial Times, Business Insider, Fortune, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Reuters
Tweets: @travisk, @dataandpolitics, @tanayj, @semil, @alexqgb, @kfury, and @ericnewcomer
| Frank Chaparro / Business Insider: |
Coinbase hires Eric Scro, previously head of finance at the NYSE, as its VP of Finance — - The New York Stock Exchange lost an executive to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, according to a blog post by the company. — Eric Scro is set to join the San Francisco-based company as vice president of finance.
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The Coinbase Blog, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, and Ars Technica
| 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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Ars Technica, Inquirer, Windows Experience Blog, ExtremeTech, Thurrott.com, BetaNews, Softpedia News, The Register, ZDNet, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Washington Post, BGR, SlashGear, TechCrunch, PCWorld, On MSFT, Neowin, Windows Central, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Tom's Hardware, The Next Web, and GeekWire. Tweets: @chrisbhoffman
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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