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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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| 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.| 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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The state of technology in 2018: the enterprise market is thriving, and the consumer market is stagnant, dominated by “innovations” from a few large behemoths — This article is a bit of an annual tradition: in mid-December I summarize the state of technology,1 and appropriately enough … | 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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| 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.
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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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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Google Maps adds Lime as a navigation option, with distance to the nearest bike or scooter, 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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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Amazon starts selling the Chromecast Ultra and third-gen Chromecast, nearly a year after it promised to sell Chromecast devices again — Amazon pulled the Chromecast from its online store in 2015, after it instated a new rule that only streaming devices that supported Prime Video could be sold.
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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 … | 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 — Police have responded to dozens of calls regarding people threatening and harassing Waymo vans. — CONNECT
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with the ECG feature in Apple Watch Series 4: taking an ECG is easy, but old ECG traces can only be viewed 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.| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, they have been used for PR, and 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 — Journalists working as factcheckers …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Brave ad-blocking browser moves to Chromium codebase, now supports Chrome extensions but says it won't integrate any Google-based features — Brave replaces ambitious Muon interface and goes full Chromium. Gets 22 percent speed boost in the process. — Privacy-focused browser Brave … | 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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| J. David Goodman / New York Times: |
How Amazon is trying to quell opposition to its new NYC offices by hiring well-connected lobbyists and taking to the streets to hear residents' concerns — Amazon is trying to quell rising opposition to its plan for offices in New York, hiring well-connected lobbyists to make its case …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
South African fintech startup Jumo, which specializes in microloans, savings, and insurance, adds $12.5M to $52M round from September as it expands into Asia — Months after a big round, African fintech startup Jumo has pulled in a fresh $12.5 million to add more fuel for its expansion into Asia Pacific.
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| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
Samsung upgrades its two-in-one Notebook 9 Pen with a new 15-inch option, updated S Pen, and a promise of 15 hours of battery life, coming in 2019 — With its updated Notebook 9 Pen two-in-one laptop, Samsung is targeting creative professionals who want the flexibility of both a laptop … | Gillian Brockell / Washington Post: |
Tech companies should automatically turn off irrelevant ads based on info users share, such as ads for baby gear when a pregnant person has a stillborn child — Dear Tech Companies: — I know you knew I was pregnant. It's my fault, I just couldn't resist those Instagram hashtags — #30weekspregnant, #babybump.
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Stablecoin project Basis, backed by Bain Capital, GV, and a16z, confirms it is closing due to regulatory issues and will return the $133M capital raised — Not even three Princeton honors students and $133 million could save the Basis cryptocurrency from the scrap bin of SEC rejects.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Juniper Square, which operates a platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raises $25M Series B led by Ribbit Capital — Juniper Square, a four-year-old startup at the intersection of enterprise software, real estate and financial technology, has brought in an additional $25 million … | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Online design marketplace Minted, which sells stationery, art, and home decor, raises $208M Series E led by Permira, bringing total raised to $300M — Minted, a company we've been covering on this site for a decade-plus, plans to double down on its wholesale and licensing business … | Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Opera releases its Android browser with a built-in Ethereum wallet, support for crypto collectibles such as CryptoKitties and ethereum-based decentralized apps — Opera has announced the public release of its “Web 3-ready” Android web browser, which notably sports a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.
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