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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac using a new SDK that will be released as early as June at WWDC — - This year, it will be easier to turn iPad apps into Mac apps — App merger initiative comes as Apple plans its own Mac chips
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Engadget, Fortune, VentureBeat, Apple Must, Cult of Mac, CNET, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, Thurrott, Patently Apple, MSPoweruser, and iPhone Hacks
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Microsoft says Russia-linked Fancy Bear targeted European research groups and think tanks that work on issues including election security and nuclear policy — SEATTLE — A group of hackers associated with Russian intelligence targeted civil society groups across Europe ahead of May elections there, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
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EU Policy Blog, Politico, CNN, The German Marshall Fund …, Threatpost, CNET, Financial Times, CyberScoop, The Hill, The Register, Engadget, Neowin, SecurityWeek, IT PRO, Forbes, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, BetaNews, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times, CNBC, GeekWire, Axios, Fortune, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @donie, @politicoeurope, @microsofteu, @olivia_gazis, @jsaryuszwolski, and @cnn
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Xiaomi debuts Mi 9 with three rear cameras, 6.39" AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, and 20W wireless charging, for ~$446 in China, shipping on Feb. 26 — Xiaomi has officially launched the Mi 9 at an event in China after months of teasers. The triple-camera flagship is powered …
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| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was “never intended to be a secret” — - In early February, Google announced that Assistant would work with its home security and alarm system, Nest Secure.
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Soundcloud adds a self-distribution feature to its Premier tier, currently in beta, that lets artists publish and monetize their songs on other platforms — SoundCloud announced today that it is adding distribution to its self-monetization Premier program.| Chris Morris / Fortune: |
Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19 — Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo might want to brace themselves. Googleis about to enter the lucrative video game sector with its Project Stream.
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| eMarketer: |
eMarketer predicts that US digital ad spending will surpass traditional in 2019, growing 19% YoY to $129.34B, of which mobile will account for ~$87B — Amazon's ad business to grow more than 50%, taking bite out of duopoly — This year will mark a major milestone in the world of advertising.| Nicole Kobie / WIRED UK: |
Citymapper announces a £30-£40/month subscription service for London transport with access to its Ride car-sharing service, TfL trains, and Santander bikes — The company's transport as a service plan combines Transport for London services with other ways of getting around the city under one subscription
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| K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: |
Investigation: YouTube is monetizing sexualized videos of minors, many with comments from predators; Epic Games pauses all pre-roll ads following enquiry — Scores of YouTube videos with tens of millions of views are being inundated with comments by paedophiles, with adverts from major brands running alongside the disturbing content
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The Verge, KnowTechie, Business Insider, and Mashable
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Arm unveils two new products for cloud and edge applications, the Neoverse N1, which focuses on compute speed, and the Neoverse E1, focusing on throughput — For the longest time, Arm was basically synonymous with chip designs for smartphones and very low-end devices.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches Binance DEX, a decentralized trading platform built on its own blockchain network, for public testing — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has rolled out public testing for a decentralized trading platform built on its own blockchain network.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Cisco Visual Networking Index: by 2022, 5G will power as many 9% of mobile data connections in North America, compared to 6.5% in Western Europe, and 4% in Asia — U.S. policymakers keep wringing their hands over a competition with China to build the world's first mass-market 5G wireless network.| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
CrowdStrike: Russian state-sponsored hackers take less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally in a targeted organization's network after an initial breach — It takes Russian state-sponsored hackers less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally within a targeted organization's network …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The DoD will investigate some of the complaints raised by Oracle in a lawsuit over the JEDI cloud computing contract, which is expected to be won by Amazon — A federal judge delayed a lawsuit over a massive Pentagon cloud-computing contract Amazon.com was favored to win while the government continues … | Chloe Bryan / Mashable: |
A look at “Reply Guys”, a harmless but annoying Twitter phenomenon where one or two men reply to every tweet from a woman — On Twitter, a place where a lot of bad things happen, there's a mostly harmless but decidedly annoying phenomenon. A lot of people, mostly women …
Tweets: @sbarolo, @the_shitface, @taylorlorenz, @raxkingisdead, @chloebryan, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
German insurance giant Allianz increases the size of its VC fund, Allianz X, from €430M when it launched in 2016, to €1B, making it one of the largest in Europe — Allianz X, the venture capital arm attached to German insurance giant Allianz, has increased the size of its fund to €1 billion …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Fabless semiconductor company Peraso, which is developing wireless networking chips based on WiGig, has raised $42M Series D, bringing total raised to $79.3M — Peraso Technologies, a Toronto-based fabless semiconductor company developing wireless networking chips based …
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Globe and Mail, FinSMEs, MobileSyrup, Wi-Fi NOW Events, FierceWireless, Peraso, and BetaKit
| Natasha Korecki / Politico: |
Analysis of data from social platforms: Democratic 2020 candidates are being targeted by a coordinated campaign of misinformation focused on sensitive issues — A coordinated barrage of social media attacks suggests the involvement of foreign state actors.| Facebook: |
Facebook introduces new location controls for Android, letting users limit location data collection, and will prompt iOS and Android users to check settings — Android and iOS are by far the two most popular mobile operating systems, but their location settings work differently.
Tweets: @shiraovide
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q4 2018, shipments of smart speakers grew 95% from 22.6M units in Q3 to 38.5M units, with Amazon shipping 13.7M units and Google 11.5M — Smart speakers continue to sell like hotcakes. That's according to Strategy Analytics, which today reported that in the fourth quarter of 2018 …
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Strategy Analytics, Strategy Analytics …, Thurrott, Cult of Mac, Recode, MacDailyNews, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, CNET, and 9to5Mac
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Sphero is crowdfunding RVR, a new robot that can connect to accessories like Raspberry Pi through its universal expansion port, starting at $199 on Kickstarter — The RVR is coming — Sphero, the Colorado-based connected toy company, has had a successful, conventional run making sphere-shaped, smartphone-controlled robots.
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TechCrunch, Geek.com, Robotics Business Review, KnowTechie, VentureBeat, MacRumors, IEEE Spectrum, Pocket-lint, Hackaday, SlashGear, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @captain_primate
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
ThousandEyes, which provides a network intelligence platform to monitor performance, raises $50M Series D led by GV — ThousandEyes, a San Francisco cloud analytics startup founded in 2010 by UCLA Internet Research Lab grad students Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira, today announced …
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FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, Network Intelligence Blog, and ThousandEyes
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could be leaked by joining closed groups — House committee asked for a briefing — Lawmakers are looking to question Facebook about its privacy practices after allegations …
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Committee on Energy …, Washington Post, missingconsent.org, The Verge, STAT, Gizmodo, The Hill, ZDNet, Multichannel News, Bloomberg Law, NDTV Gadgets 360, CNET, Engadget, The Telegraph, Silicon Valley Business …, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @donie, @ravindranize, @matthewstoller, and @frankpasquale
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