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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Investigation shows how easy and affordable it is to obtain cellphone customers' real-time location data, 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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Engadget, iMore, Ars Technica, Mercury News, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Register, TmoNews, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Slashdot, and Boing Boing
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google makes over a dozen announcements for Google Assistant at CES, including Google Assistant Connect for third-party developers and flight check-ins — 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, Android Police, XDA Developers, CNET, 9to5Google, GeekWire, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Thurrott, 9to5Google, MacRumors, CNET, and TechCrunch
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps on iOS and Android today, will 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.
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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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| 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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| 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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CNET, Quartz, Marketing Land, CNBC, BGR, The Verge, TechSpot, PYMNTS.com, InvestorPlace, and Lifehacker
| 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.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @sal19, @carnage4life, @mattrosoff, and @lorakolodny. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer, a 20-qubit system that combines quantum and classical computing parts but is still lacking breakthrough speed — At CES, IBM today announced its first commercial quantum computer for use outside of the lab.| 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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Plaid - Blog, Bloomberg, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Reuters
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| 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 … | Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: self-driving startup Aurora is raising $500M+ at a $2B+ valuation in a round led by Sequoia — Aurora's appeal is predicated on three well-credentialed founders from Google, Tesla, and Uber. — The startup Aurora — which is not yet two years old but has made waves …
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| 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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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Twitter says it is launching a program to let a limited set of users try out new conversational features with their followers in the coming weeks — Twitter is launching a new program to let users reshape how conversations on its site look and feel, the company announced today in an interview with Engadget at CES 2019.| 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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Axios. Tweets: @nytimes, @neill4illinois, @antoniogm, @zeynep, @nickconfessore, @lpolovets, @ganeumann, @ycombinator, @bcappelbaum, @mattyglesias, and @austenallred
| 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, BusinessLIVE, Mashable, Axios, CyberScoop, Gizmodo, Business Insider, and The Verge
Tweets: @josephfcox and @nytimestech
| 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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The Verge, Digital Trends, PCWorld, Gizmodo, and Engadget
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Instagram accounts were allegedly coordinating sharing of child porn using hashtags, then a viral campaign spotlighted it, and finally Instagram banned the tags — A hashtag war has been brewing on Instagram between users who appear to be trading child pornography and the memers intent on stopping them.
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Firstpost. Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @paulbisceglio, @joshconstine, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Comcast now offers Xfinity customers additional security protection on home networks for $5.99/month with xFi Advanced Security, which can quarantine devices — Better internet protection, for a price — Comcast has announced a new service as part of its Xfinity xFi internet platform at CES 2019 …
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corporate.comcast.com, CyberScoop, TechHive, Engadget, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
| 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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MacRumors, Silicon Valley Business …, Cult of Mac, Macworld, hypebot, Abacus, The Guardian, 9to5Mac, The Ringer, Computerworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Technology Personalized, Techdirt, TechCrunch, Music Industry Blog, The Mac Observer, TechCo, and The Register
Tweets: @stratechery and @trengriffin
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon has acquired Israeli disaster recovery service CloudEndure for around $200M — Amazon has reportedly acquired Israeli disaster recovery startup CloudEndure. Neither company has responded to our request for confirmation, but we have heard from multiple sources that the deal has happened.
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SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, and Globes Online
| 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 … | Washington Post: |
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