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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb — Spammers are sending a wave of threats to businesses, schools, and other locations in English-speaking countries across the world …
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Kotaku, Krebs on Security, Gizmodo, Wired, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, Heavy.com, NBC News, Business Insider, NullTX, ZDNet, Bloomberg, BleepingComputer, CoinBlock.Asia, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier, BGR, CryptoGlobe, Latest Ransomware News …, Threatpost, PC Gamer, TechCrunch, Narcity, Comic Book, CNET, GamesIndustry.biz, and IGN
Facebook: Cedar Rapids Police Department. Tweets: @nypdnews, @jasonschreier, @wsbtv, @briankrebs, @certnz, @briankrebs, @onenorthavenue, and @oneunderscore__
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is notifying artists that it is removing their ability to post to Apple Music Connect and is removing previously posted content from Artist Pages — Apple Music Connect appears to slowly be going the way of iTunes Ping. Apple has started notifying Apple Music artists that it is removing …
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, that they have been used for PR, and that they have lost trust in the company — Journalists paid to help fix Facebook's fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform
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The Next Web, Facebook, Fortune, Fast Company, Mashable, CNET, Notes from Silicon Valley, and Business Insider
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Instacart says it will end its partnership with Whole Foods starting in February; source: move is expected to reduce Instacart's revenue by less than 5 percent — Instacart will begin pulling the first group of workers out of Whole Foods locations in February.
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The Instacart Checkout, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, CNET, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, GeekWire, Business Insider, and Axios
| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through “important technology and policy questions” — More than 400 million people in the world have diabetes. A third of them have diabetic retinopathy, a complication that can cause permanent blindness.
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Postmates announces Serve, an autonomous rover launching soon in LA, and says it now averages 4M deliveries per month in 550+ cities — HANGING ON THE wall of Postmates' stealth R&D laboratory, there's a framed photo of an iconic scene from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker bent down beside R2D2.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook is in talks with pay TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, and Starz, about selling their streaming TV services on its platform — The world's biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon. — Facebook is readying … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple announces a $1B Austin campus initially for 5,000 workers, new offices in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, and expansions in several other US cities — Apple plans to build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, adding thousands of jobs, while also setting up new large offices in Seattle …
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| Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land: |
Facebook says it is rolling out Watch globally on desktop and Facebook Lite and expands availability of Ad Breaks, 15-second in-stream ads, to 14 more markets — Says more than 75 million daily Watch visitors spend, on average, more than 20 minutes on the video platform.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
SEC filing: IMAX will close its remaining three virtual reality centers and write off “certain VR investments”; the three sites are expected to close in Q1 2019 — Imax is making its exit from virtual reality (VR) official: The company notified shareholders with a SEC filing Thursday … | Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Niantic, publisher of Pokémon Go, is in the process of raising a $200M funding round that would value the company at $3.9B — The $200 million funding round is expected to be led by IVP, with participation from strategic investors Samsung Electronics Co. and aXiomatic Gaming LLC.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood launches checking and savings accounts in the US with a 3% interest rate and no minimum balance or fees for overdrafts or foreign transactions — Robinhood is undercutting the big banks by forgoing brick-and-mortar branches with its new zero-fee checking and savings account features.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube's annual Rewind video received 10M dislikes in about eight days, overtaking Justin Bieber's Baby to be the most disliked video — Creators help explain why — To say that this year's YouTube Rewind didn't go over well with the YouTube community would be quite an understatement.
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| Bloomberg: |
In a court filing, Apple argues that China's ban on the sale of some iPhones, which it is appealing, would force it to settle its licensing battle with Qualcomm — Apple Inc. said a Chinese ban on the sale of some models of the iPhone will force it to settle a long and bitter licensing battle …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Google Maps adds Lime as a navigation option, showing distance to the nearest bike or scooter and an estimate for the cost and ride time, starting in 13 cities — Google Maps is always ready to help you get where you're going, and the latest addition to its list of features is a tie …
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| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Amazon rolls out preview of Alexa Guard and announces Alexa security panel that lets users control home security systems from ADT, Ring, Abode, and Scout Alarm — Amazon says Alexa wants to keep your home safe. — On Thursday the company rolled out a preview of Alexa Guard …
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Amazon Developer Services, ZDNet, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @paulmarks12
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Medium CEO Ev Williams had preliminary talks about buying New York Media, parent of New York Magazine; source said talks are “unlikely to progress” — - The Twitter co-founder says he wants to invest in media in '19 — Magazine publisher has been exploring its options this year| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe reports mixed Q4 results, with revenue of $2.46B, up 23% YoY, vs. $2.43B est., and FY2018 revenue of $9.03B, up 24% YoY, vs. $8.99B est. — This is Adobe's first financial report since acquiring marketing automation firm Marketo for $4.75 billion back in October.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr reappeared on the App Store this week, after being pulled in November over child pornography concerns and 10 days after announcing a ban on adult content — Tumblr is back. Sort of. The social blogging platform reappeared on Apple's App Store this week, some three weeks after being pulled over child pornography concerns.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and The Verge
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
Wiki site Fandom says it will acquire Curse Media, which runs gaming wiki site Gamepedia, from Twitch, which bought Curse Media parent Curse in Aug. 2016 — Wiki site Fandom announced yesterday that they will acquire Curse Media, which runs gaming wiki site Gamepedia, from Twitch.
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Neowin, GamesIndustry.biz, and Gamasutra
| Ryan Randazzo / Arizona Republic: |
Police in Chandler, AZ have documented 20+ incidents in the past two years where people vandalized Waymo's autonomous vehicles and harassed their test drivers — We followed Waymo vans for more than 170 miles over several days. Here is what we observed. — Police have responded to dozens …
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BGR, Telegraph, TechSpot, Inquirer, Business Insider, and The Next Web
Tweets: @greglinden, @mims, and @stevenjhsieh
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
ASUS says CEO Jerry Shen is stepping down, to be replaced by two co-CEOs from January 1, and it will shift mobile strategy to focus on gamers and power users — Earlier today, ASUS announced that long-time CEO Jerry Shen is stepping down ahead of “a comprehensive corporate transformation” …
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DigiTimes, Gizchina, SlashGear, Android Authority, and AnandTech
| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with the ECG feature in Apple Watch Series 4: taking an ECG is easy, but to review ECG traces you view them on the iPhone, not the watch itself — When Apple introduced the fourth iteration of its smartwatch, the big new selling point wasn't a feature we typically associate with a watch or any sort of smart device.Sponsor Posts
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