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Australia bans Huawei and ZTE from providing 5G equipment to support the country's new telecom networks, citing risks of foreign interference and hacking — BEIJING — The fog of cyberespionage concerns surrounding Huawei has for years kept the Chinese technology giant largely out of the United States.
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| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
DJI launches $1,449 Mavic 2 Pro drone with an embedded Hasselblad camera and $1,249 Mavic 2 Zoom with 2x optical zoom, available today — DJI's bringing the Mavic Pro back, and it has a friend. — The Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, accidentally revealed in July, are now official.
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A look at the Russia-linked NotPetya cyberattack, which caused an estimated $10B+ in damages worldwide after initially targeting Ukrainian companies — Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
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| Catherine Cadell / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Q1 revenue beats estimates, rising 61% YoY to ~$12.2B, but net income falls 41% YoY to ~$1.27B — BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), the world's biggest online retailer, said on Thursday first-quarter revenue rose 61 percent, beating analysts' estimates, driven by growth in its core e-commerce business.
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Apple pulls Facebook's Onavo VPN app from the App Store, says that apps should not collect information about other installed apps for the purposes of analytics — - Facebook acquired Israeli security app developer Onavo in 2013 and has used it to offer consumers access to a virtual private network.
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Magic Leap One teardown shows the six-layer “waveguide” display used for projection and other internals, like 8GB RAM and 128GB storage — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — The Magic Leap One's mixed-reality tech has been so much pie in the sky for so long …
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Leaked docs and sources describe Facebook's content moderation apparatus and the logistics of trying to moderate billions of posts a week in 100+ languages — Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook's biggest challenge.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Online ticketing service Eventbrite files for an IPO, seeking to raise $200M, and reports 2017 revenue of $201.6M, up 51% YoY, on a $38.6M loss — - Eventbrite had $38 million in losses last year, while revenue increased 51 percent to $201.6 million. — Eventbrite, a provider … | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Sony says it will bring its new dog-like robot Aibo to the US in September for $2,899, including accessories and a three-year subscription to Sony's AI Cloud — We got a brief glimpse at Sony's sixth-generation Aibo back at CES — but we couldn't touch it, no matter how adorable it looked …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
A look at SurfSafe, a browser plug-in that cross-references images with 100 trusted news sites and fact-checking organizations to determine if they are fake — WHEN MICHAEL BENNETT played for the Seattle Seahawks, he celebrated wins with a victory dance in the team locker room.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Datally, Google's Android app for data management, updated with “Emergency bank” to save data for emergencies and a “Bedtime mode” to stop overnight data drain — Datally is an app from Google's Next Billion Users initiative for managing data usage in constrained cellular markets around the world.
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft to unveil “Xbox All Access”, a contract-based US monthly subscription offering an Xbox One, Xbox Live, and Xbox Game Pass, later this month — We've heard Microsoft is soon planning to debut a new contract-based monthly subscription service dubbed “Xbox All Access …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Encrypted messaging app Wickr partners with circumvention service Psiphon to dodge internet blocks and evade censorship — As encrypted chat apps grow more popular, they're also becoming more popular targets for state-level blocks. Whether it's brief interruptions in Brazil and Egypt … Sponsor Posts
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