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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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| 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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| 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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Customers have been annoyed by Samsung's deal to pre-install Facebook on devices, including Galaxy phones, because the app can only be disabled, not deleted — - Galaxy owners take to Twitter to complain about permanent app — Pre-install deals are common, but privacy concerns are rising| 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.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Royole unveils FlexPai, a hybrid device that measures 7.8 inches in tablet form and becomes two Android phones when closed; available now in China for ~$1,320 — You asked for this — The Royole FlexPai is the sort of device that companies rush out when they feel the absolute imperative to be first with some new technology.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Chinese startup Nreal unveils Light, consumer AR glasses about the size of a pair of sunglasses, slated to launch mid-2019 for ~$1,000 — A former Magic Leap engineer believes the problem with most consumer-facing augmented headsets on the market is their bulky size.
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| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amid a legal fight in LA over alleged data-mining practices, IBM's Weather Company unveils hyperlocal weather forecasts, which tap users' smartphone sensor data — While IBM is getting sued by the city of Los Angeles, accusing it of covertly mining user data in the Weather Channel app in the US … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Report: VC funding in US startups reached $99.5B in 2018, the highest since 2000, in a total of 5,536 deals, the lowest since 2013 — U.S. startups are raising investment dollars at levels unseen since the dot-com era. — Venture capital funding in U.S. companies reached $99.5 billion in 2018 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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