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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung teases foldable phone that acts as a phone when closed and a tablet when opened, says mass production will begin within months — Our foldable future is here — Samsung has been teasing its foldable smartphone for weeks, and now the company has unveiled it for the first time today.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts One UI, a redesign for its Android skin that has a more minimalist aesthetic, rolling out next year — Your hands will be thankful — Today at its developer conference, Samsung showcased what it calls One UI and kicked off a new approach to the user experience on Samsung smartphones.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla names board member and Telstra CFO Robyn Denholm as Chairman of the Board, replacing Elon Musk; Denholm to leave Telstra to work as Tesla chair full-time — - Tesla delivered its largest quarterly profit in the company's history in the third quarter of 2018, reporting about $6.8 billion …
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| Megan Wollerton / CNET: |
Facebook Portal and Portal Plus video chat devices go on sale on Thursday on Portal online store, Amazon, and Best Buy — Facebook on Wednesday announced retail availability for its Portal Plus and Portal smart displays on the Portal online store, Amazon and Best Buy.
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| Facebook: |
Portal doesn't listen to or view video calls, which are encrypted, runs camera and sound AI locally, and processes usage info like any device with FB apps — We know there are some questions around Portal privacy and ads, so we'd like to provide more details on these topics. — Privacy and Security| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google is planning an expansion of its NYC real estate, which currently houses ~7,000 employees, to add space for an additional 12,000+ — Nears office property deal in Manhattan's West Village for enough space to multiply city workforce — Google is gearing up for an expansion …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces tools for Android devs: new Kotlin language release, more ways to get users to update apps quickly, and Android Studio IDE headed to Chrome OS — At its Android Dev Summit, Google today announced a number of new tools and features for developers that write apps for its mobile operating system.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Some experts say Facebook performed well for the midterms, but disinformation and false news still spread fast, requiring outsiders' monitoring and prodding — After an Election Day largely free of viral social media misinformation, and with little trace of the kind of Russian troll stampede … | Will Oremus / Slate: |
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Source says Ford is buying electric scooter startup Spin and “the total consideration in the deal was close to $100M” — Ford is buying electric scooter startup Spin, Axios reports. The deal, according to a source close to the matter, “the total consideration in the deal was close to $100m.”
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| Conversations with Tyler: |
Eric Schmidt on growing up in Italy, years at Bell Labs, PARC, and Sun, scaling Google, polarization on social platforms, how tech will shape the future, more — Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / SoundCloud / RSS — The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father's profession …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Dutch police say they decrypted 258,000+ messages sent using IronChat, which claims to have end-to-end encryption, as part of a money laundering probe — Weakness allowed cops to monitor encrypted messages for some time. — Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted …
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politie.nl, Firstpost, Gizmodo, HOTforSecurity, and The Register
| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
China's Xinhua News Agency launches “composite anchors”, which combine images and voices of human anchors with text via AI tech from internet company Sogou — - AI anchors have the ability to work 24 hours a day provided human editors keep inputting text into the system| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: Comcast aims to ship a home hub with a voice-enabled remote next year for broadband-only subs that aggregates streaming apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime — - Comcast is planning to debut a product to broadband-only customers that will allow them to aggregate certain streaming apps, such as Netflix and Amazon Video.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, raises $25M Series A led by Accel, with Altair Capital participating — RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, has raised $25 million in a series A round of funding led by Accel …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Check Point: DJI's website and apps had a vulnerability that would have given hackers unfettered access to a drone owner's account, including live video footage — It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps … | Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
New Congress could align around imposing privacy rules on US tech giants, and directing new funds to improve internet service in rural parts of the country — DIVIDED CONGRESS: WHAT IT MEANS FOR TECH — A Democratic House and Republican Senate have a bipartisan shot at legislating on tech issues, but it's a limited one.
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| Reuters: |
Netflix CCO announces plans to produce 17 original productions in Asia including shows in Chinese and Thai as it looks abroad for growth — Jonathan Weber, Aradhana Aravindan — * Firm seeing quicker subscriber growth outside U.S. — * To make 17 more original productions in Asia
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Square reports Q3 adjusted revenue of $431M, up 68% YoY, as gross payment volume rises 29% YoY to $22.5B; stock down 5% after hours — - Wall Street analysts are expecting 11 cents per share and $413.9 million in revenue from the payments company, according to forecasts by Refinitiv.
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Square Investor Relations, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, PaymentsSource, and The Block
| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz with Lightspeed, Zeev, and SGVC participating — Corporate travel isn't typically seen as a rewarding experience. TripActions, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup now valued …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Seagate will use IBM Blockchain Platform to block counterfeit drives from being distributed to users, starting with the drives intended for IBM servers — Global tech giant IBM is partnering with hardware manufacturer Seagate to ensure that computer hard drives are authentic using blockchain tech.
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