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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Android Wear rebranded as Wear OS to reflect the fact that it works with both Android and iOS smartphones — The Android Wear brand introduced in 2014 is going away and being replaced with a new name: Wear OS. A new area of Google's website has officially confirmed the change.
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The Keyword, Droid Life, Thurrott.com, MacRumors, PCWorld, Android Authority, iMore, Ars Technica, The Next Web, and VentureBeat
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| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Analysis of how Amazon became the third most valuable company in the world after a disappointing 2014, and the industries the company might shake up next — Amazon makes no sense. It's the most befuddling, illogically sprawling, and—to a growing sea of competitors—flat-out terrifying company in the world.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and GeekWire
Tweets: @elidourado, @shiraovide, and @crypto_brahma
| WSJ: |
Timeline of Amazon's rise as it now gets 40%+ of all spending by US consumers online; 54% of US households with internet use Prime; and Alexa has 30,000+ skills — Amazon has grown into a $178 billion-a-year revenue business with online retail, a dominant cloud-services business, a grocery chain and a Hollywood studio.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
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Tweets: @blue439, @sallyshin, @ivanthek, and @trengriffin
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Intel says upcoming 8th-gen Xeon and Core CPUs have been redesigned to provide hardware protection against Spectre variant 2 and Meltdown vulnerabilities — As promised, Intel has redesigned its upcoming 8th-gen Xeon and Core processors to further reduce the risks of attacks via the Spectre …
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Intel Newsroom, Thurrott.com, Windows Central, MacRumors, GeekWire, and ZDNet. Tweets: @witeken
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Android Security 2017 Year in Review: 60.3% of potentially harmful Android apps were detected via machine learning, Play Protect reviews 50B+ apps every day — Google released its Android Security 2017 Year in Review report today, the fourth installment of the company's attempt to educate …
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Google Online Security Blog, Engadget, 9to5Mac, CNET, ZDNet, Android Central, Softpedia News, Android Police, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, and Mashable. Tweets: @androidcentral
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Ex-Apple employees say Siri was released prematurely, leading to development debates after launch, and that the Siri team was unaware of HomePod until 2015 — The Information has published an in-depth look at how Siri has transitioned from one of Apple's most promising technologies into a “major problem” for the company.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
iHeartMedia files for bankruptcy after reaching an agreement in principle with investors for restructuring more than $10B of its outstanding debt of over $20B — Filing, agreement with investors pave way for radio giant to shed most of the debt taken on in 2008 buyout … | Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Wikimedia says it was unaware of YouTube's plans to use Wikipedia content next to conspiracy videos, amid concerns it could increase article vandalism — Well, this is awkward — At SXSW yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would start adding information …
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Engadget, Tubefilter, The Daily Caller, 9to5Google, Media Matters for America, eWeek, BetaNews, USA Today, The Register, Ubergizmo, Slate, Android Authority, Seeking Alpha, and Polygon
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| CNN: |
Trump administration announces new Russia sanctions on 5 entities, including IRA, and 19 individuals, in response to US election interference and cyberattacks — Putin's ‘chef,’ the man behind the troll factory — Washington (CNN)The Trump administration announced Thursday it is enacting … | Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase gets e-money license in the UK and partners with Barclays, enabling easier deposits and withdrawals for UK customers — Coinbase Inc., one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said it obtained an e-money license in the U.K. as it expands services in Europe.
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The Coinbase Blog, CNBC, Business Insider, Bitcoinist.com, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph.com News, NewsBTC, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, BetaNews, Reuters, CCN, and International Business Times. Tweets: @asiffhirji
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nest debuts $39 Temperature Sensor that works in tandem with its thermostats, ships April; $229 Nest Hello video doorbell and $249 Nest x Yale lock now shipping — Plus, the Nest Hello video doorbell and Nest x Yale smart lock are now shipping — Nest just announced a new $39 Temperature Sensor … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based startup Blue Vision Labs, which helps developers build collaborative AR apps, raises $14.5M Series A led by GV — Blue Vision Labs, a London-based augmented reality startup co-founded by computer vision experts from Oxford and Imperial College, is emerging from stealth today …
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VentureBeat, FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, Neowin, UKTN, and Tech.eu
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Experian acquires UK-based ClearScore, which gives users a credit score and matches them to financial products, for £275M plus an unspecified earnout — While credit-scoring behemoth Equifax continues to work through the fallout from its massive security breach, one of its big competitors … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify confirms it is testing an in-app voice control feature and user demo shows fairly accurate speech recognition — Now Spotify listens to you instead of the other way around. Spotify has a new voice search interface that lets you say “Play my Discover Weekly,” “Show Calvin Harris” or “Play some upbeat pop” to pull up music.
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