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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Several journalists have reported their Samsung Galaxy Fold review unit's screen breaking after a day or two of use — Yikes — Look closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It's just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under my finger.
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Facebook says it unintentionally collected email contacts of 1.5M users who used email password verification, will notify affected users and delete contacts — - Facebook said that it has “unintentionally uploaded” the email contacts of 1.5 million new Facebook users since May 2016.| Jeremy Kaplan / Digital Trends: |
A look at Microsoft's hardware design labs and how the company designed the Surface Hub 2S — Building 33 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, houses a conference room unlike any you've ever seen. It includes an enormous glowing sphere, a buckyball for a boardroom.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: a team at Facebook Reality Labs has been working on a voice assistant since 2018 and has contacted vendors in the smart speaker supply chain — - Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and the Google Assistant, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researcher takes over a subdomain that Windows 8 and Windows 10 use to deliver RSS-based news and updates to Live Tiles — Subdomain currently in the possession of a German security researcher, preventing any abuse. — Microsoft has lost control over a crucial subdomain …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Pinterest prices its IPO at $19 per share, above the top end of the expected range, valuing the company at $10B — Pinterest raised $1.43 billion in its IPO after pricing the offering at $19 a share on Wednesday, valuing the company at $10 billion. — Pinterest, which is expected …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has acquired highlight sharing app Highly, which will shut down its iOS and Slack app on April 26 — Quotes from articles are much more eye-catching than links on Twitter, so the social giant is scooping up the team behind highlight-sharing app Highly.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Interviews with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and employees shed light on her stewardship and what has been a difficult year so far, with a myriad of scandals — Even by the nightmarish standards of the empire she oversees, Susan Wojcicki, the chief executive officer of YouTube, has had a dreadful start to 2019.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is working on a combined Find My Friends and Find My iPhone app, for iOS and macOS, and a Tile-like tracking device — Apple is working on a new app that's going to replace the Find My Friends and Find My iPhone apps. With codename “GreenTorch”, the app is currently being tested by engineers at the company.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says he opposes China Mobile's plan to enter the US market and will hold a vote on whether to deny its application in May — (Reuters) - Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said on Wednesday he opposes China Mobile Ltd's bid to provide U.S. telecommunications services … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cisco's Talos: state-backed hackers are continuing to brazenly hijack domains, targeting key infrastructure of several countries, in a months-long DNS campaign — Despite widespread attention since January, DNS campaign shows no signs of abating. — The wave of domain hijacking attacks besetting …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
AirPods' rapid ubiquity and wireless design, letting users keep them in constantly, has become a source of annoyance for service industry workers and others — AirPods have taken off as the latest must-have technology gadget. They've shown up in celebrities' ears, become a status symbol, and inspired meetups.
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| CNBC: |
Zoom prices its IPO at $36 per share, above the expected range, valuing the business at $9.2B — Videoconferencing company Zoom priced its IPO at $36 a share, above of its already increased range and valuing the business at $9.2 billion. — Zoom, which is slated to start trading on Thursday …
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
T-Mobile and Comcast say they're rolling out call verification for calls made between their networks, using STIR/SHAKEN protocol, for some Samsung and LG phones — In an attempt to fight robocalls, T-Mobile and Comcast are teaming up to bring their customers call verification.
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Investigation finds six Android apps from DU Group, a major Chinese developer, that have been committing large-scale ad fraud and abusing user permissions — A host of popular Android apps from a major Chinese developer, including a selfie app with more than 50 million downloads … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says it's buying MapAnything, which helps companies make location-based workflows on Salesforce's platform; MapAnything has raised more than $84M — Salesforce announced today it's buying another company built on its platform. This time it's MapAnything, which as the name implies …
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| Chris Horton / New York Times: |
Terry Gou, the founder of Foxconn, has announced he will run for Taiwan's presidency — TAIPEI, Taiwan — The billionaire Terry Gou, whose company is best known for manufacturing iPhones, announced Wednesday he would run for Taiwan's presidency, saying his bid had received a divine blessing — from a Chinese sea goddess.
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Airbnb leads $160M Series B in debt and equity financing for Lyric, a hospitality platform offering short-term serviced apartments for business travelers — Can you be both a marketplace and a supplier at the same time? Airbnb certainly seems interested in testing that theory out.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple is developing its own lidar sensor and has also held talks with four possible lidar suppliers to evaluate their tech for use in self-driving cars — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc has held talks with at least four companies as possible suppliers for next-generation lidar sensors …
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
UK government announces that porn websites will have to introduce age-checks by July 15; sites failing to comply will face being blocked by ISPs — An age-check scheme designed to stop under-18s viewing pornographic websites will come into force on 15 July.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Newzoo data: the top 25 public game companies accounted for nearly 80% of the $134.9B global market in 2018; Tencent, Sony, Microsoft, and Apple topped the list — Market researcher Newzoo reported that the top 25 public game companies account for nearly 80 percent of the global market …
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