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Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone — Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple dropped plan to encrypt backups of devices in iCloud about two years ago, after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices …
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Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M — Fellow shareholders, We had a strong finish to 2019, with Q4 revenue growing 31% year over year, bringing full year 2019 revenue …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Uber is testing a feature letting drivers in three California cities set fares on rides from the airport; drivers can charge up to 5x the Uber fare — Move gives drivers more control in response to state's gig-economy law — SAN FRANCISCO— Uber Technologies Inc. UBER 1.30% …
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| Garrett Bridges / Android Police: |
Google debuts experimental wellbeing apps including Activity Bubbles, which slowly fill the screen after unlocking, and wallpaper showing phone usage time — Google has been on a roll recently with its digital wellbeing initiatives, releasing Family Link for parental controls …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Federal court reverses $10.1M judgment against Nintendo in case involving the Wii remote, calling iLife Technologies' patent for motion sensing tech “abstract” — Judge says 1999 patent idea was too “abstract” to be protected in the first place. — Remember the Nintendo Wii?
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| Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: |
SCOTUS declines to review Facebook facial recognition case, meaning FB will likely face a class-action suit alleging its photo-tagging feature violated IL law — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a high-profile court battle over whether users can sue Facebook …
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Source: the new low-cost iPhone, which looks like iPhone 8 and has a 4.7" screen, will enter production in February and may be announced as early as March — - New model will look similar to 2017's iPhone 8 with Touch ID — Apple expected to launch the 4.7-inch phone as early as March| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Massachusetts-based startup Berkshire Grey, which develops AI-powered pick-and-place retail and warehouse robots, raises $263M Series B led by SoftBank — In recent years, the retail category has become one of the biggest and best-funded robotics categories — particularly when coupled …
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| Reuters: |
France has agreed to suspend this year's digital tax until the end of 2020 as part of trade negotiations with the US — PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had a “great discussion” with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Business Insider, Vox Media, The Information, Axios, and Politico all turned profits in 2019, in some cases for the first time ever — Digital publishing is doing something it hasn't done en masse since the dawn of the Internet: make money. — Why it matters: Business Insider … | Reuters: |
Facebook says it plans to hire 1,000 workers in the UK this year, with over half in technology, bringing its total in the UK to over 4,000 — LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) will hire 1,000 people in London this year in roles such as product development and safety as it continues to grow …
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| BBC: |
Disney+ to launch on March 24 in the UK and other parts of Europe, a week earlier than originally planned, for £5.99 per month or £59.99 per year — The new streaming service Disney+ is to launch on 24 March in the UK, a week earlier than originally planned.
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| Sumukh Rao / Technology Personalized: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 720G, 662, and 460 chipsets with support for Wi-Fi 6 and NavIC, India's homegrown GPS — Qualcomm has introduced three new Mobile Platforms today for smartphones at an event in New Delhi, India, and the new chipsets cater to three different segments right …
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| Megan Cassidy / San Francisco Chronicle: |
How social networks cite the Stored Communications Act, a privacy law from the '80s, to withhold information that might exonerate defendants in criminal cases — By the time the FBI raided Omar Ameen's Sacramento apartment in August 2018, his extradition back to Iraq seemed all but inevitable.Thanks:@techchronicle
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