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Apple says it's working on pro displays and Mac Pros with modular designs that can fit high-end CPUs/GPUs shipping after 2017, admitting 2013's model fell short — Let's not beat around the bush. I have great news to share: — Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” …
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| Sam Thielman / The Guardian: |
Interview with Tim Berners-Lee on his 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award, the recent privacy vote, clickbait, and online advertisements — As the world wide web creator accepts the prestigious Turing award, he talks to Sam Thielman about the US Congress's rollback of privacy rules and fake news
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Sources: NFL and Amazon strike $50M deal to stream 10 Thursday night games to Prime members; price is five times that of NFL's agreement with Twitter last year — Deal for 10 Thursday night games will be available only to Amazon Prime members — Amazon is ready for some football.
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
How Aadhaar, India's national ID program that includes citizens' biometric data, has reached ubiquitous integration into society and services, worrying critics — For seven years, India's government has been scanning the irises and fingerprints of its citizens into a massive database.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Play Games Services to drop iOS support, remove Gifts, Requests and more on Android by March 2018 — Google Play Games Services (GPGS) has long supported iOS with game analytics tools and social multi-player features. However, as part of a streamlining effort, support for that OS will be dropped … | Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Recently unsealed exhibits in Waymo-Uber suit point to Otto co-founder Lior Ron as second executive facing legal action — A redaction error in court documents shows that Uber's head of autonomous vehicles might not have been acting alone. — A second Uber executive has been revealed in Waymo's lawsuit.
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| Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump administration considers vetting procedures that would require visa applicants disclose phone contacts, passwords to social-media accounts, more — Foreigners entering U.S. could be forced to hand over phones, answer questions on ideology; changes could apply to allies like France and Germany
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon ends a legal battle with FTC, will begin refunding consumers up to $70M for in-app purchases made by kids — A federal court decision last year found Amazon was liable for in-app purchases children made without their parents' authorization due to a lack of sufficient safeguards.
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| Victor H. / PhoneArena: |
Battery life test shows Galaxy S8+ runs for 8 hours between charges, is second only to iPhone 7 Plus which runs for 9 hours, 5 minutes between charges — We already know that the Samsung Galaxy S8+ is an incredible phone: it has the stunning, futuristic design, it has the camera and it has the performance …
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| Bloomberg: |
Outsourcing firms with lower-skilled staff may get fewer H-1B visas, leaving more for big US tech firms; Google says changes won't affect its software engineers — The new way foreign worker visas are doled out in the U.S. is poised to benefit some of the biggest technology companies …
Tweets: @alantonelson, @robertjwash, @r_bolla, and @nathangenez
| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
VMware to sell its cloud business vCloud Air to French IaaS provider OVH; OVH to continue providing service as vCloud Air Powered by OVH — VMware has severed the final link that kept it in the business of providing cloud services and operating the data center infrastructure to support them.
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| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
Twitch opens up its Steam-like game store, will give partnered streamers 5% of sales that originate from their channel — Amazon-owned Twitch is no longer just about streaming and watching games. It's now a place where you can buy games, too. — The game-streaming service …
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