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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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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus review: dual aperture and 960fps slow-motion video is nice, rear camera is great in low light, but still not better 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.| 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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| 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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Accelerated Mobile …, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, and Engadget. Thanks:@steverubel
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @jonrussell
| 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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Apple, Gizmodo, MacRumors, iLounge, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, 9to5Mac, The Indian Express, The Independent, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @robertomulazzi
| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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: @benbajarin, @bdsams, @kerrymflynn, and @joshuabaker
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android P preview: multi-camera API for dual cameras, runtime speed improvements, tightened API policies, idle apps can't access sensors such as camera and mic — 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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| 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, Windows Experience Blog, Inquirer, Washington Post, ExtremeTech, Thurrott.com, The Register, Softpedia News, BetaNews, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, BGR, Engadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, PCWorld, On MSFT, Neowin, Windows Central, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Tom's Hardware, The Next Web, GeekWire, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @chrisbhoffman
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