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Larry Page steps down as Alphabet CEO; Sundar Pichai to lead both Alphabet and Google — Our very first founders' letter in our 2004 S-1 began: … We believe those central tenets are still true today. The company is not conventional and continues to make ambitious bets on new technology, especially with our Alphabet structure.
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Alphabet's leadership change is unlikely to mean much to Google employees or users, since Larry Page has not been focused on Alphabet's core business for years — Google co-founder Larry Page speaking at a developer conference in 2013. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images| Tom Krazit / Mostly Cloudy: |
Amazon unveils Local Zones, small data centers far from main AWS regions, general availability of Outposts, and a Verizon partnership for low latency 5G gear — THE AWS TAKE ON EDGE COMPUTING — AWS CEO Andy Jassy (left) and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg (right) introduce AWS Wavelength Tuesday at re:Invent 2019.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
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Mozilla removes four Firefox extensions made by Avast and AVG after reports that they were harvesting user data and browsing histories — The four extensions, two from Avast and two from AVG, are still available on the Chrome Web Store. — Mozilla removed today four Firefox extensions …
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Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India with an enclosed 4,800mAh battery, claims up to 10 hours of continuous music playback — After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix …
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
India, which is increasingly trying to shelter local companies, has erected regulatory hurdles over the past year for how US tech firms operate in the country — New barriers make world's biggest untapped digital market a slog for Walmart, Facebook; taking cues from China's protectionism
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a chat feature to Google Photos, rolling out over the next week to iOS, Android, and the web — An argument could be made that Google has over-indulged in its creation of way too many messaging apps in years past. But today's launch of a new messaging service …
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Tweets: @chrismessina, @peggyktc, @jhpot, @edemkumodzi, @sameer_singh17, @thedextriarchy, @edbott, @campuscodi, @zck, @kiddbubu, @backlon, @backlon, and @caseynewton
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 71 arrives with Picture-in-Picture support on Windows for all video sites, Enhanced Tracking Protection and Lockwise password manager improvements, more — Mozilla today launched Firefox 71 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Firefox 71 includes Lockwise password manager improvements …
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Postmates shuts Mexico City office laying off employees; sources say at least several dozen have been laid off including people across its offices in the US — - Postmates has laid off dozens of employees and told employees in Mexico City that it's closing that office.
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PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @nongaap, @modestproposal1, @trengriffin, @mattrosoff, @bruno_j_navarro, @dee_bosa, and @teddyschleifer. Thanks:@sal19
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex launches a free, ad-supported streaming service featuring thousands of movies and shows from studios like MGM, available in ~220 countries — Plex today is launching its own ad-supported streaming service, a rival to The Roku Channel, Tubi, Crackle, Vudu's Movies on Us … | Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
A profile of Hipcamp, a platform for campsite booking where listings include off-grid plots, RV hookups, ski huts, farmhouses, tepees, tree houses, and cabins — Can a startup save the wilderness by disrupting it? — In Northern California, booking a public campsite is a blood sport.
Tweets: @erikbl, @lennysan, @gpaddymanning, @newyorker, @annawiener, and @daveleebbc
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm debuts a new in-screen ultrasonic fingerprint sensor with a much larger input area, after mixed results from its last attempt found in the Galaxy S10 — A year ago, Qualcomm introduced a new fingerprint sensor that uses sound waves to map the ridges on your finger and unlock your phone.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says 80% of Android apps now encrypt network traffic by default, due to a policy introduced in Android 9, up from less than 20% a year ago — Google has announced that 80% of Android apps now encrypt all traffic by default, thanks to the increased uptake of transport layer security (TLS).| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
For over a year, Ring let police access a heat map of installed Ring video doorbells that let users zoom in very close to street level; it was removed in July — The company once offered a map, now withdrawn, that allowed police to zoom in to see the specific location of Ring customers.
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Inquirer, The Verge, SlashGear, The Overspill, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @rot13x2, @alfredwkng, @acluofil, @laurengoode, @bacontribe, and @alfredwkng
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers achieve new cryptography milestones, including factoring the largest RSA key size ever, largely thanks to improved algorithms, not better hardware — 795-bit factoring and discrete logarithms achieved using more efficient algorithms. — 34 with 24 posters participating
Tweets: @nholzschuch, @dangoodin001, and @arstechnica
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
GitGuardian, a real-time monitoring platform that helps enterprises manage data leaks, raises $12M Series A led by Balderton Capital adarsh checking — GitGuardian, the Paris-based cybersecurity startup specialising in finding company “secrets” in online code, has raised $12 million in Series A funding, led by Balderton Capital.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Panorays, which offers an automated cybersecurity lifecycle management platform, raises $15M Series A led by Oak HC/FT — Lifecycle management might not be the most exciting software segment on the block, but it's poised to grow from $50.7 billion in 2019 to $73.7 billion by 2024.
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YouTube claims users spend 70% less time on “borderline” content, like conspiracies, since it tweaked recommendations in January but fails to offer more details — Video giant says users spent 70 percent less time watching videos pushing miracle cures.Sponsor Posts
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