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Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera — Three new iPhone models planned for 2019, including one with a triple rear camera — Apple Inc. AAPL .32% is planning to release three …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
More than 80 TLS certificates used by US government websites have expired without being renewed due to government shutdown, leaving some websites inaccessible — Over 80 government websites are down after TLS certificates and there's nobody on hand to renew them.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google has stopped making its Chromecast Audio streaming adapter, focusing on smart speakers instead — Google has stopped making its Chromecast Audio streaming adapter, and is instead focused on smart speakers going forward. A company spokesperson confirmed Friday that Chromecast Audio …
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| Kit Walsh / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Bird sends dubious DMCA takedown notice to Boing Boing over a post explaining how to legally buy abandoned Bird scooter and convert it into a personal scooter — Every now and then we have to remind someone that it's not illegal for people to report facts that they dislike.
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| Vanessa Gera / Associated Press: |
Poland has searched the Warsaw offices of Huawei and Orange, arrested a Chinese manager at Huawei and charged him with espionage on behalf of China — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Internal Security Agency has charged a Chinese manager at tech giant Huawei in Poland and one of its own former officers …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
During FTC vs Qualcomm trial, Apple supply chain exec Tony Blevins details “Project Antique”, the company's search for a second modem supplier, starting in 2013 — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) considered tapping Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) and MediaTek Inc (2454.TW) … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The resumes of 202M+ Chinese users, with personal data including home addresses and mobile numbers, were exposed online on an unsecured MongoDB database server — Data appears to have originated from a data scraping app that collected resumes from Chinese job portals.
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| Adario Strange / Next Reality: |
In a court filing, Meta, maker of the Meta 2 AR headset, says its assets have been sold off by a lender and it is insolvent; Meta had raised $73M in VC funding — The last time we heard from Meta, the makers of the Meta 2 augmented reality headset, things looked pretty bleak.| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Slack is planning to go public through a direct listing, likely to debut in the second quarter — Messaging company, recently valued at $7 billion, aims to debut in the second quarter — Slack Technologies Inc. is planning to go public through a direct listing …
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Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Business Insider, and Reuters
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Munich court rules that Amazon's Dash buttons do not provide consumers with sufficient information about a purchase in breach of consumer e-commerce rules — Amazon's Dash buttons have been found to breach consumer ecommerce rules in Germany. — The push-to-order gizmos were debuted by Amazon in 2015 …
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Reuters, The Register, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, Mashable, and The Verge
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing's broad and punitive new censorship push — SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.
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| Fraser Brown / PC Gamer: |
Unity says Improbable's claims are “incorrect” and game devs using SpatialOS are not affected by Unity's TOS update; Improbable says it was a “misunderstanding” — Unity CTO Joachim Ante said Improbable's warning that SpatialOS could not longer be used with Unity was ‘incorrect.’| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
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Unreal Engine, TechCrunch, Pocket Gamer.biz, TechCrunch, PC Gamer, GamesIndustry.biz, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @lucasmtny and @hoeglaw
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
ThreeKit, a startup that helps ecommerce clients turn static images into interactive 3D presentations, raises $10M seed round — A picture's worth a thousand words, but what about a three-dimensional rendering? Ask ThreeKit — it's in the business of creating 3D renderings for clients such as Crate and Barrel, Steelcase, and CIROC.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
In a follow-up to its 2013 plan to back 100 startups, Xiaomi to invest ~$1.5B in “AIoT”, IoT devices enhanced by AI via Xiaomi's platform, over the next 5 years — Xiaomi, the Chinese company best known for budget phones, is betting big on a future of connected homes.
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Mi Blog, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, and Neowin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify outlines its strategy for podcasts that includes bringing talent in-house or exclusively licensing content and selling ads within its podcasts — Having established itself as a top streaming service with now over 200 million users, Spotify this year is preparing to focus more of its attention on podcasts.
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Sources: Commerce Department signals it will not renew export license for Futurewei Technologies, Huawei's Silicon Valley-based R&D unit — R&D unit Futurewei is no longer able to send home some technologies developed in U.S. — Huawei Technologies Co. is contending with a new obstacle … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
British man sentenced to 2+ years in prison for DDoS attack that took down internet connectivity in Liberia in 2016, after an ISP hired him to attack a rival — Hacker knocked an entire country's internet connection offline. — A UK court sentenced today a 30-year-old man to two years … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IDC reports global PC shipments in Q4 were down 3.7% YoY, while Gartner estimates a 4.3% YoY decline, amid CPU shortages and the US-China trade war — IDC and Gartner market share stats illustrate how trade wars and CPU shortages hurt fourth quarter sales for PC makers.
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Gartner, Business Wire, Windows Central, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, IT PRO, Softpedia News, MacRumors, and CRN
Tweets: @shiraovide and @charlesarthur
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Room rental startup Badi, which uses AI to match flatmates in Spain, France, Italy and the UK, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $45M — Should you let AI help you pick your roommates? Barcelona-based urban room rental startup Badi thinks so, and it's just closed …
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London Evening Standard, Telegraph, Tech.eu, and VatorNews
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Producers of French TV shows agree to give Salto, an OTT service for French content, extensive and exclusive content rights, blocking sales to Netflix, others — France's major broadcasting companies have struck a deal with producers that will allow them to remove their content from streaming services … Sponsor Posts
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