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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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
How Google is evolving Assistant to combat Alexa by making it easier for developers to integrate services, adding flight check-ins, and much 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.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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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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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Sensor Tower: December was Fortnite's biggest month so far on iOS with $44M in revenue, up 83% over November, and 16% more than the previous top month of July — Fortnite was an unstoppable force in 2018. And throughout the year, the only game you could really compare it to was itself.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
HTC unveils Vive Pro Eye, a new VR headset with eye-tracking capabilities, coming in April, and teases the Vive Cosmos, a new consumer-friendly headset — HTC wants to make it easier for everyone to get into virtual reality. And it hopes to do it through the Vive Cosmos.
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