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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Investigation shows how easy and affordable obtaining cellphone customers' real-time location data can be, as T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T peddle it to middlemen — T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers' location data, and that data is ending up in the hands …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Google debuts Interpreter Mode in Google Assistant for smart displays and speakers, to translate languages in real-time for people in the same physical space — OVER THE PAST year Google has been making its virtual assistant, the eponymous Google Assistant, more capable of handling …
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CNET, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Mashable
Tweets: @laurengoode and @wired
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google is evolving Assistant to combat Alexa by adding flight check-ins, helping developers integrate services via a new Assistant Connect platform, and more — Today, Google is showing off auto-translation on smart display speakers, letting you naturally talk to each other with the speaker acting as the translator automatically.
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The Keyword, GeekWire, Thurrott, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, MacRumors, ZDNet, Android Police, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, and The Verge. Tweets: @backlon
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps on iOS and Android today, to help users with navigation, music, and replying to texts, now with auto-punctuation — We've known for a while now that Google Assistant (the company's voice powered AI, a la Siri or Alexa) would eventually be built right into Google Maps.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple erred on China and “S” cycles, XR, and growth strategies, but reasons for optimism remain as headwinds, like cheap battery swaps, will fade — As rare as last week's Apple revenue warning from CEO Tim Cook may have been — the company last issued a revenue warning in June 2002 …
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Tweets: @stratechery and @trengriffin
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung forecasts decline in Q4 operating profit to ~$9.65B, below analyst estimates of ~$12.4B, due to weak memory chip demand and competition in smartphones — Samsung Electronics Co. posted fourth-quarter profit below estimates as demand for memory chips slumps amid deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China.
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Tweets: @thekenyeung, @mattrosoff, @ow, @charlesarthur, and @samkimasia
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Plaid, which links US bank accounts to popular fintech apps like Venmo and Robinhood, is buying competitor Quovo, source says for ~$200M — - Plaid, which links one quarter of U.S. bank accounts to popular fintech apps, is buying a similar data company called Quovo.
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Tweets: @kr00ney, @plaid, and @julieverhage
| Axios: |
Amazon is quietly piloting a program for brands like Folgers to pay to send free samples to Amazon users, who are likely to enjoy them based on order history — Amazon is quietly piloting a program to let brands like Maybelline and Folgers pay to send free samples to consumers …
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Quartz, The Verge, InvestorPlace, Lifehacker, and CNBC
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Self-driving vehicle startup Udelv debuts the Newton, its delivery van using Baidu's Apollo platform, and says some Walmarts in AZ will trial deliveries with it — Udelv has had an eventful 2018 — and that's putting it lightly. In September, the Carson, California autonomous car startup inked … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Yubico unveils the first Lightning security key for iPhones, which has received Apple's approval and is slated to launch this year — The Apple-approved device is currently in private preview, aiming to launch sometime this year — Yubico has announced a new version of its popular Security Key …
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| Mark Zuckerberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg says his challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society — Every year I take on a personal challenge to learn something new. I've built an AI for my home, run 365 miles, visited every US state, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Over a dozen ex-Facebook employees detail how the company's leaders and stacked ranking performance reviews foster a culture where any dissent is discouraged — - More than a dozen former Facebook employees detailed how the company's leadership and its performance review system has created a culture where any dissent is discouraged.| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Lambda School, which trains students online to be software engineers in exchange for a share of future income, raises $30M Series B from Bedrock, GV, YC, others — Income Sharing Agreements are gaining the attention of higher education and Wall Street. One early success story is getting a boost from venture capital.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Lenovo debuts the first non-Amazon Fire tablets with Alexa, the 10.1" Smart Tab M10 and P10, coming this month with a smart dock for $200 and $300 respectively — Lenovo knows a good smart assistant when it sees one. The company was one of the first to team with Google on a third-party smart display …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer, a 20-qubit system that combines quantum and classical computing parts and is still lacking breakthrough speed — At CES, IBM today announced its first commercial quantum computer for use outside of the lab.
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SiliconANGLE, IBM, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Mashable, and ZDNet
| Melissa Eddy / New York Times: |
Twenty-year-old German man admits to stealing and publishing data on hundreds of lawmakers, journalists, and other figures from every party except far-right AfD — BERLIN — A 20-year-old German student took advantage of passwords as weak as “Iloveyou” and “1234” to hack into online accounts …
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The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, BusinessLIVE, Mashable, CyberScoop, Axios, The Verge, and Business Insider
Tweets: @josephfcox and @nytimestech
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
AT&T has rolled out software updates to some Android phones changing its branding of 4G LTE to “5G E”, says that 5G with mmWave technology will be branded “5G+” — AT&T starts swapping out “4G” status bar icons with “5GE.” — There's a new cellular network technology …
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Verizon Fios & Custom TV, The Verge, ZDNet, BBC, TechCrunch, Android Central, Android Authority, Phandroid, TechSpot, BGR, Silicon Republic, IT PRO, Engadget, Telecoms.com, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, and The Next Web
Tweets: @tmobile, @reckless, @verizonnews, @jbrodkin, @jbrodkin, @johnlegere, @harrymccracken, @patricknorton, @chillmage, and @cnet
| New York Times: |
A Facebook ad campaign associating Roy Moore with calls for a state alcohol ban during Alabama's Senate race was a false flag operation by Democratic activists — The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink …
Tweets: @sonnybunch and @byronyork
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba acquires Berlin-based Data Artisans, which provides distributed systems and large-scale data streaming services for enterprises, for €90M — Alibaba has paid €90 million ($103 million) to acquire Data Artisans, a Berlin-based startup that provides distributed systems … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces Yoga A940, an all-in-one PC with a 27" display that flexes on a hinge, similar to the Surface Studio but cheaper, coming March from $2,350 — The Yoga A940 is more than $1,000 cheaper than Microsoft's all-in-one PC — Lenovo has a new type of Yoga ready for CES 2019 this week …
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PCWorld, Digital Trends, CNET, Thurrott, Engadget, Windows Central, and Featured News
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu says it passed 25M subscribers at the end of 2018, a ~47% YoY increase, with avg. daily watch time up 20% for the year; ad revenue rose 45%+ YoY to ~$1.5B — Hulu is keeping its pedal to metal in the streaming TV race: The company said it ended 2018 with more than 25 million total subscribers …
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Bloomberg, The Verge, Axios, Thurrott, CNET, TechSpot, Fast Company, The Wrap, and Fortune. Tweets: @brbarrett
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Fossil's Kate Spade Scallop Smartwatch 2, which has GPS, NFC, and heart-rate sensors and will be in stores January 28 starting at $295 — Gallery: Kate Spade Scallop Smartwatch 2 hands-on | 7 Photos … Gallery: Kate Spade Scallop Smartwatch 2 press images | 6 Photos
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The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, and Android Authority
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces Smart Clock, a $79 clock powered by Google Assistant with a 4-inch display, shipping this spring — The Google-Amazon smart home war is coming for your bedside — Amazon's philosophy on the smart home — put Alexa in literally everything, even the most mundane of products …
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