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Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a fully functional foldable screen phone and the 10th anniversary Galaxy S10 phone lineup on February 20 — Tech giant to also unveil its 10th anniversary flagship phones at events in San Francisco and London — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. plans …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Unpacked event on February 20 at 11AM PT at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, hinting at launch of Galaxy S10 series — ‘Fully functional’ foldable phone also expected to break cover — Samsung has announced the date of its next Unpacked event …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6 — The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Adviser to EU court backs Google, says search engines shouldn't be forced to apply “right to be forgotten” beyond the bloc's borders — Recommendation largely backs Google, which appealed a French order to apply the EU right to searches globally
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| Matthew Handrahan / GamesIndustry.biz: |
UK-based Improbable says a recent change in Unity Engine's ToS on “streaming and cloud gaming restrictions” makes Improbable's cloud-based SpatialOS illegal — Update: Spilt Milk Studios has taken its upcoming title Lazarus offline until the dispute is solved, but Bossa's Worlds Adrift is “operating as normal”
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mobile retail banking startup N26 is raising $300M Series D at a $2.7B valuation led by Insight Venture Partners, says it is live in 24 European markets — Fintech startup N26 is raising a Series D round of $300 million. Following this new funding round, the company is now valued at $2.7 billion.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD announces the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII GPU, which it says will be 27% to 62% faster, coming in Feb. for $700; CEO Su says 400M+ gamers use Radeon graphics — Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, announced the chip makers new graphics processing unit, the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII graphics chip.
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces a new search feature that lets logged-in users access past searches on specific topics, available now in the US — Google is now rolling out a new feature in search named “your related activity.” This feature lets signed in Google users pick up on previous searches they've done related to the query they just added.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
NYU and Princeton study of 3,500 US adults: 11% of those over 65 have shared a hoax article on Facebook, while just 3% of those 18 to 29 have done so — And the finding holds true across party lines — Older Americans are disproportionately more likely to share fake news on Facebook …
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources says Coinbase plans to shift its institutional efforts away from Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs to crypto funds and crypto-native firms — For many crypto enthusiasts, mid-2018 feels like a lifetime ago. — In those heady days, crypto's market capitalization stood at $300 billion …
Tweets: @ncweaver, @daveweisberger, and @fintechfrank
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu to start testing a new home screen to replace the “confusing” Lineup feature with two different options called “Hulu Picks” and “Unwatched in My Stuff” — Hulu is preparing to update its streaming app in order to make its simpler to navigate to and discover content you want to watch.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will now let users post to multiple accounts at once on iOS and begins testing easier Google Photos imports on Android — Instagram is swaying the balance towards simplicity but away from originality. It's adding the ability to publish feed posts to different accounts you control … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Overview of the high-end monitors announced at CES so far, including 49-inch ultrawide offerings from Samsung, Dell, and others — Giant, wide, and sometimes even portable — It's barely the second week of the year, and we've already been treated to an arrangement of weird and wonderful monitors …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
AT&T says its mobile 5G network will be available nationwide in 2020 on its sub-6GHz spectrum amid competitor criticism of its 5G E branding on non-5G devices — AT&T already launched its initial mobile 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities last December, but it's now preparing … | Jesus Diaz / Fast Company: |
IKEA's battery-powered smart blinds that support HomeKit, Alexa, Google Assistant, and IKEA's Trådfri will arrive in Europe on Feb. 2 and in the US on April 1 — Ikea is finally introducing low-cost, motorized smart blinds. Called Fyrtur, the blinds will be available … | Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan to step down as co-CEOs, will be succeeded by product engineering director Wang Haichao — - Bitmain accounts for 75 per cent of the world's specialised computers used to earn new units of digital money
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| Alex West / New York Magazine: |
For many adolescents, TikTok videos they consume are primarily repurposed content on curated YouTube channels and Instagram meme accounts — If you're looking for a window into contemporary youth culture, there is nothing better than TikTok. The social short-video app's primary feature … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
OneLogin, which provides cloud-based identity and access management solutions for enterprises, raises $100M Series D led by Greenspring Associates — Not every startup manages to reach — or exceed — $100 million in financing. Those that do join an exclusive group of fundraisers …
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