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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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| 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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| 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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Sources say Ring provided unfiltered access to unencrypted videos in cloud and live feeds to its teams in Ukraine and US, including feeds from inside houses — The “smart home” of the 21st century isn't just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we're told, but also to protection …
Tweets: @samfbiddle, @johnwilson, @samfbiddle, and @samfbiddle
| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
T-Mobile launches call verification tech that detects scammers spoofing local numbers and displays a “Caller Verified” label otherwise, on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 — If you own a smartphone, you have likely seen and answered calls that appear to come from your local area code, but are actually automated messages and scams.
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi's stock has declined 17% over the past three days, erasing $6.2B in value, as analysts cut price targets and post-IPO stock sales are unlocked — - Shares tumble 17 percent as IPO lock-up period expires — Cost of unlocked shares is as low as 2 Hong Kong cents| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
China's internet censor approves new regulations for blockchain startups, requiring registration of users' real names, censoring posts, more, in effect Feb. 15 — China's internet censorship agency has approved a set of regulations for blockchain service providers in the country that will take effect in mid-February.
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| Ben Klemens / Ars Technica: |
US Patent Office proposes new rules with tighter restrictions on what may be excluded from patentability, potentially making it easier to patent software — New rule narrows landmark 2014 Supreme Court decision limiting software patents. — A landmark 2014 ruling by the Supreme Court called …
Tweets: @binarybits and @binarybits
| 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.| 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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The Keyword, KnowTechie, CNET, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, SlashGear, Mashable, Android Police, VentureBeat, Android Authority, The Verge, BleepingComputer, 9to5Google, and Engadget. Tweets: @dejanseo
| 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.
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Tech.eu, CNBC, Forbes, Telegraph, EcommerceBytes, TaxJar, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @romaindillet
| Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: |
French-founded Talentsoft, which develops a cloud-based HR platform, raises $50M led by Francisco Partners and says it now has 2,000 customers — French-founded HR tech company Talentsoft has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Francisco Partners, with participation from Bpifrance and Goldman Sachs.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
US-Indian online education startup Emeritus, which partners with universities to offer digital courses, raises $40M Series C led by Sequoia India — The funding streak for educational startups in Asia continues into 2019 after Emeritus, a U.S-Indian company that partners with universities …
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PR Newswire and PE Hub Blog
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources say 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, @fintechfrank, and @daveweisberger
| 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 … | Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia's content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages — For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit's effort has been slow …
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Wikimedia Foundation, The Verge, Engadget, The Mac Observer, and 9to5Google
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