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| Max Weinbach / XDA Developers: |
Leaked photos confirm the name Galaxy S20 for the next Samsung flagship and a large four-camera setup on the back — The next major smartphone launch event for Samsung, Samsung Unpacked 2020 is just a few weeks away. On February 11th, Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S20 trio …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
CES 2020 show notes: a look at 12 technologies/categories, the raw materials of the primordial soup of innovation that the show has become over the years — CES continues to be an event where you can see the raw materials of the next big thing far more often than you can see the next big thing.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
CES roundup: flexible screens are coming, battle between Intel and AMD to intensify, sex tech is on the rise, tech companies fetishized AI and 5G a little less — iCES is over, and I am quite sure you'll be happy to be done with it. We still have more to come today and perhaps a little next week.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's healthcare efforts, like Project Nightingale and “Guardian” search tool, which are drawing scrutiny over mass collection of medical records — The company has struck deals that grant it access to troves of patient data; ‘We want to be helpful’
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
epiFi, an India-based neo-banking startup, raises a $13.2M seed round at a $50M valuation led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital — Two co-founders of Google Pay in India are building a neo-banking platform in the country — and they have already secured backing from three top VC funds.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
1B+ medical images of patients found online, as hospitals and doctors' offices ignore security and upload X-rays, ultrasounds, and CT scans to unsecured servers — Every day, millions of new medical images containing the personal health information of patients are spilling out onto the internet.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Study: most cookie consent forms served to EU users violate GDPR's informed consent requirement by using pre-ticked boxes, hiding “reject all” option, and more — Most cookie consent pop-ups served to Internet users in the European Union — ostensibly seeking permission …
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arXiv.org. Tweets: @iethics, @aaronklein, @midasnouwens, @cklokmose, @privacymatters, @privacyproject, and @medvidekpu
| Financial Times: |
How Travelex is trying to recover from Dec. 31 hack, ordering staff to hand over laptops, using WhatsApp to bypass email, as hackers demand $6M for client data — Travelex staff have been told to hand over their laptops as a cyber attack on the company affected its internal network …
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BBC, New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC, The Guardian, Travelex, Financial Times, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, infosecurity-magazine.com, and PYMNTS.com
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
StreamElements: Twitch's “Just Chatting” category for non-gaming streamers was the most popular category for the first time in December with 81M hours watched — After years of ridicule, Just Chatting streamers prove that there's room for gabbing, not just gaming, on the platform.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Mobileye collects 3.7M miles of sensor data daily from vehicles, using it to produce HD maps that will let its partners offer Level 2+ driver assistance systems — Mobileye made a self-driving car that only uses cameras—no lidar or radar. — A lot of media coverage of self-driving technology … | Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News: |
Legalpad, which uses a mix of software and attorney support to help entrepreneurs and startup employees with the US visa process, raises $10M Series A — It's clear that work authorization for international talent in the United States is getting increasingly harder in the Trump administration.
Tweets: @nmasc_
| Masha Borak / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent says users spent ~$115B in 2019, up 160% YoY, through WeChat mini programs, which are miniature apps that work within the chat app — WeChat users spent US$115 million through mini programs in 2019WeChat users spent US$115 million through mini programs in 2019This article originally appeared … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Facebook shares closed at an all-time high of $218.30 on Thursday, valuing it at $622B and surpassing the previous high of $217.50 reached in July 2018 — Facebook's share price has hit an all-time high, surpassing the peak it reached before a series of privacy scandals in 2018 and despite attacks …
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Newser, Road to VR, Wired, Business Insider, New York Post, Cointelegraph, Telegraph, Decrypt, TechSpot, and BitcoinExchangeGuide
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