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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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The Keyword, Android Police, XDA Developers, CNET, GeekWire, Thurrott, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Google, ZDNet, 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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The Verge, The Verge, Quartz, Search Engine Land, CNET, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable, and The Verge
Tweets: @benpopper, @shannon_liao, @ohmdee, @laurengoode, @wired, and @laurengoode
| 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, TechSpot, The Verge, 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
Tweets: @kr00ney, @plaid, and @julieverhage
| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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, @joshconstine, @taylorlorenz, @paulbisceglio, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| 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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Tweets: @josephfcox and @nytimestech
| 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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EdSurge and Axios
Tweets: @nytimes, @neill4illinois, @antoniogm, @zeynep, @nickconfessore, @lpolovets, @ganeumann, @ycombinator, @bcappelbaum, @mattyglesias, and @austenallred
| 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
| 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, TechCrunch, and PYMNTS.com
| 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, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Engadget, Android Authority, Gizmodo, and 9to5Google
| 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
| Washington Post: |
Facebook is investigating whether News for Democracy, a left-leaning organization backed by Reid Hoffman, violated its community standards and ad policies — Facebook said it is investigating whether an organization backed by Internet billionaire and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman violated …
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CNET, Telegraph, and The Daily Caller
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