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Google unveils Chat, an RCS-based carrier messaging service to supplant SMS, with typing indicators, video, and group texts, as it pauses investment in Allo — A top-tier Android phone can cost upwards of a thousand dollars, and for that money, you'll get some amazing features.
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Sources: Apple's efforts to lessen its reliance on Samsung as the sole OLED display supplier for iPhones in peril due to manufacturing problems at LG Display — Manufacturing problems at South Korea's LG Display could force Apple to rely solely on its competitor for high-end and costly smartphone screens
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| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
At antitrust trial, AT&T CEO announced AT&T Watch, a $15/month streaming TV bundle without sports; service is free for cellular customers, will debut in weeks — CEO unveils ‘skinny bundle’ service in testimony during antitrust case — AT&T Inc. T 0.13% plans to launch a …
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| Reuters: |
German Supreme Court rules that ad blockers are legal, in favor of Adblock Plus, and throws out a case brought by Axel Springer — KARLSRUHE/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a case brought by Axel Springer seeking to ban a popular application …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
Pivotal priced IPO at $15/share, in the middle of announced range of $14-$16, raising $555M and giving company a valuation of about $3.8B — Pivotal Software Inc. PVTL, +0.00% priced its initial public offering at $15 a share early Friday, raising $555 million at a valuation of about $3.8 billion based on shares outstanding.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Profile of Mark Zuckerberg as told by those who knew him growing up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and those who met him on his 2017 tour of the US — The world's largest social network needs fixing. Facebook's frontman has known for years. … A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
A look at the different methods and technologies that Waymo and Tesla use to collect data from the billions of miles their self-driving vehicles have driven — Autonomous cars won't happen without tons of data. Tesla and Waymo have a big head start — There's a race happening right … | Kat Hall / The Register: |
BT to shutdown its traditional PSTN phone network and shift customers to VoIP by 2025 with public consultations about the closure starting next month — Consultation next month following plan to shift all punters to VoIP — BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network …
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| Zeke Turner / Wall Street Journal: |
How Iceland, which offers plentiful energy and cooling, is reckoning with a tech boom driven by data centers that cause power usage to surge — Lawmakers rethink whether a proliferation of data centers lured by the island's Nordic climate and geothermal steam is risking the environment and tourism business
Tweets: @macrodidact, @jreed193, @zekefturner, @ranimolla, and @mike_w_allen
| Masha Borak / TechNode: |
Alibaba is developing its own neural network chip, the Ali-NPU, and has acquired Chinese IoT chip designer C-SKY Microsystems — After announcing its very own neural network chip, Alibaba has made another step towards strengthening its new AI chips business.| Wall Street Journal: |
Filings show gaming chat app Discord has raised ~$50M, bringing total funding to ~$152M, at a valuation of ~$1.65B; Discord says it had 90M users as of January — Maker of videogame chat app raises fresh $50 million — Discord Inc., maker of a popular chatting tool for PC and mobile gamers …
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Companies are scaling back and simplifying their ToS to comply with GDPR because users' consent would be legally invalid if they don't understand the agreement — Everyone from Uber to PayPal is facing a backlash against their impenetrable legalese. — Eleanor Margolis had used PayPal … Sponsor Posts
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