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Echo owners can now ask Alexa to control their Roku devices via a new skill, months after a similar capability came to Google Assistant-powered devices — Roku this morning announced its devices will now be compatible with Amazon's Alexa. Through a new Roku skill for Alexa … | Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Report: hackers believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government targeted over two dozen universities in an apparent bid to access maritime military research — Chinese hackers singled out over two dozen universities in the US and around the world in an apparent bid to gain access …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How Corning is working to create truly bendable, ultra-thin glass, as Samsung and others announce folding phones with plastic polymer screens — Foldable phones like Samsung's Galaxy Fold and Huwaei's Mate X are coming, whether you're ready or not. In fact, they're coming whether they're ready or not.
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Tweets: @kkieller, @pascalaram, @wired, @wired, and @laurengoode
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Russia is pushing “Sovereign Internet”, a draft law designed to create a single command post from which data flows can be managed across Russian cyberspace — When anti-government protests erupted on Russia's side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something …
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Tweets: @business, @jenniferjjacobs, @macaesbruno, @neerajka, and @sarafischer
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2018 MacBook Pros include a longer screen cable, a part prone to fail on earlier models, requiring screen replacements, an issue Apple never acknowledged — In 2018, a number of MacBook Pro users—with models from 2016 onwards—discovered a serious design flaw that causes the screen to fail …
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| Washington Post: |
T-Mobile acknowledges that its executives' patronage of Trump's Washington hotel, spending ~$195K, increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint — T-Mobile's patronage of President Trump's Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April …
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| Aliya Ram / Financial Times: |
Report: 40% of 2,830 AI startups in Europe do not use AI programs in their products; ~8% of EU startups were AI companies in 2018, up from ~3% in 2015 — Two-fifths of Europe's artificial intelligence start-ups do not use any AI programs in their products, according to a report that highlights the hype around the technology.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Mountain View-based Y Combinator is looking for space in San Francisco for its HQ, following other VC firms that have opened offices in the city — Y Combinator, a longtime resident of Silicon Valley, is planning to move its HQ to San Francisco — For a long time …
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @kateclarktweets, and @kateclarktweets
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at how Spotify plans to crack the podcast market: making it easier to find podcasts, investing in creation tools, exclusive original content, and more — Spotify has been on a media blitz to hype up its plans. Most everyone involved in the deals, including Spotify CEO Daniel Ek …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find that ~400 servers running unpatched Docker instances are also cryptojacked, after a flaw was found last month in runC, a command line utility — Hundreds of vulnerable and exposed Docker hosts are being abused in cryptojacking campaigns after being compromised with the help …
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Apple acquired the patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI, including those related to visual authentication, late last year — Apple has recently acquired a handful of patents from Lighthouse AI, a defunct home security camera company.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Internal doc: iPhones with batteries installed by third-party repair shops are now eligible for being repaired at Apple Stores and authorized service providers — iPhones with aftermarket batteries installed by third-party repair shops are now eligible for service at Genius Bars …
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| Matt Wales / Eurogamer.net: |
Valve faces criticism for its hands-off approach to content moderation as upcoming game glorifying rape and sexual assault is listed on Steam — Valve's ‘anything goes’ content policy has come under fire once more as a game enabling players to “control the choices of a menacing serial killer rapist” is listed on Steam.| Megan Wollerton / CNET: |
August View wireless video doorbell unveiled with 1440p recording, 24/7 live video streaming, and rechargeable battery, available for $230 from March 28 — August just introduced a new device to its lineup — the $230 August View. Available in the United States beginning March 28 …
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| Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post: |
Proposed agreement from Amazon HQ2 winner Arlington County, Virginia says Amazon must only meet specific office space targets to get about $23M in incentives — In exchange for giving Amazon about $23 million in incentives, activists wanted Arlington County to require the retail giant …
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Tweets: @hshaban, @postlocal, @jrreed, @ceciliakang, @suzykhimm, and @mffisher
| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
The Financial Times has acquired a majority stake in Amsterdam-based tech blog and events company The Next Web — The Financial Times has bought a controlling stake in consumer publisher The Next Web, marking its first acquisition in continental Europe. — The FT didn't disclose the terms …
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Tweets: @ftpressoffice, @rafat, @mattnavarra, @bryanclark, @thenextweb, @robinwauters, @martinsfp, and @emilybell
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud now offers SoundCloud Go+ subscriptions to students for $5/mo., a discount of 50%; it's the last major streaming service to offer student pricing — SoundCloud wants to make its streaming music service more affordable to a key demographic: younger users who generally spend …
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SoundCloud, MacRumors, Digital Music News, The Verge, RAIN News, MacRumors, Engadget, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @soundcloud and @caro_milanesi
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Dalil, a caller ID Android app for Saudi and other Arabian users with 5M+ downloads, has exposed user data, including some GPS coordinates, for more than week — Database is still available online after failed attempts to contact the app maker. — Dalil, an Android app …
Tweets: @zdnet, @cipherstorm, and @zackwhittaker
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based insurance tech startup Wefox Group, which runs Wefox and One, raises $125M Series B to help it become an all-in-one insurance platform — Wefox Group, the Berlin-based ‘insurtech’ startup behind the consumer-facing insurance app and carrier One and the insurance platform Wefox, has raised $125 million in Series B funding.Thanks:@sohear
| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com launches Joybuy, a store offering simple consumer electronics, on Alphabet's Google Express shopping site — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce company JD.Com Inc has launched a store on Google Express, the online shopping site owned by the search engine of Alphabet Inc.
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Amazon and Mexico's central bank are working on CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes; testing begins this month — MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's central bank is in talks with Amazon.com Inc to launch a new government-backed mobile payment system …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SurveyMonkey acquires Amsterdam-based website and app survey company Usabilla for $80M in cash and stock — SurveyMonkey announced today that it has acquired Usabilla, an Amsterdam-based website and app survey company, for $80 million in cash and stock. — Zander Lurie, CEO at SurveyMonkey …
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