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AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6 — The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces a new search feature that lets logged-in users access past searches on specific topics, available now in the US — Google is now rolling out a new feature in search named “your related activity.” This feature lets signed in Google users pick up on previous searches they've done related to the query they just added.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD announces the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII GPU, which it says will be 27% to 62% faster, coming in Feb. for $700; CEO Su says 400M+ gamers use Radeon graphics — Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, announced the chip makers new graphics processing unit, the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII graphics chip.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will now let users post to multiple accounts at once on iOS and begins testing easier Google Photos imports on Android — Instagram is swaying the balance towards simplicity but away from originality. It's adding the ability to publish feed posts to different accounts you control …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
NYU and Princeton study of 3,500 US adults: 11% of those over 65 have shared a hoax article on Facebook, while just 3% of those 18 to 29 have done so — And the finding holds true across party lines — Older Americans are disproportionately more likely to share fake news on Facebook …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
AT&T says its mobile 5G network will be available nationwide in 2020 on its sub-6GHz spectrum amid competitor criticism of its 5G E branding on non-5G devices — AT&T already launched its initial mobile 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities last December, but it's now preparing …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker, which adheres to Coalition for Better Ads' guidelines, is rolling out globally on July 9 — Google today announced that Chrome's ad blocker is expanding across the globe starting on July 9, 2019. As with last year's initial ad blocker rollout, the date is not tied to a specific Chrome version.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: e-scooter startup Bird is raising $300M, led by Fidelity, as an extension of its prior round at its current $2B pre-money valuation — E-scooter startup Bird is raising $300 million in new funding led by Fidelity, Axios has learned. Bird would maintain its existing $2 billion pre-money valuation … | Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan to step down as co-CEOs, will be succeeded by product engineering director Wang Haichao — - Bitmain accounts for 75 per cent of the world's specialised computers used to earn new units of digital money
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| Kim Zetter / Politico: |
Sources: Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab helped the US government catch NSA contractor Harold Martin, who was accused of stealing a trove of classified data — The U.S. has accused Kaspersky Lab of working with Russian spies. But sources say the company exposed a massive breach that U.S. authorities missed.
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| Jesus Diaz / Fast Company: |
IKEA's battery-powered smart blinds supporting HomeKit, Alexa, Google Assistant, and IKEA's Trådfri will be broadly available in Europe Feb. 2, in the US Apr. 1 — Ikea is finally introducing low-cost, motorized smart blinds. Called Fyrtur, the blinds will be available … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google's “knowledge panel” search results can be manipulated for users visiting via specially-crafted URL; researcher says he told Google of the issue last year — Dutch researcher argues that Google should remove support for knowledge panels. — A feature of the Google search …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Some VCs say they are rooting for a market dip to counterbalance an overheated startup market, with a VC at IVP predicting valuations will drop 10%-40% in 2019 — Some venture capitalists are rooting for a market dip to calm Silicon Valley's overheated start-up scene.
Tweets: @nytimes and @nytimesbusiness
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia's content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages — For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit's effort has been slow …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mobile retail banking startup N26 is raising $300M Series D at a $2.7B valuation led by Insight Venture Partners, says it is live in 24 European markets — Fintech startup N26 is raising a Series D round of $300 million. Following this new funding round, the company is now valued at $2.7 billion.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft updates group chat app Teams with location sharing, secure audio messaging, and a camera feature to securely save photos to Teams and not locally — Microsoft is adding location-sharing, a smart camera and secure messaging capabilities to its Teams group-chat product, specifically targeting mobile, firstline workers.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Register, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, OnMSFT.com, GeekWire, and VentureBeat
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Overview of the high-end monitors announced at CES so far, including 49-inch ultrawide offerings from Samsung, Dell, and others — Giant, wide, and sometimes even portable — It's barely the second week of the year, and we've already been treated to an arrangement of weird and wonderful monitors … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announce they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage; MacKenzie worked at Amazon from the beginning — Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, announced this morning via the Amazon CEO's personal Twitter account that they've decided to divorce after 25 years of marriage.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Square launches an in-app payments SDK for iOS, Android, and Google's Flutter cross-platform mobile development SDK — Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as well, the company is launching a mobile software …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu to start testing a new home screen to replace the “confusing” Lineup feature with two different options called “Hulu Picks” and “Unwatched in My Stuff” — Hulu is preparing to update its streaming app in order to make its simpler to navigate to and discover content you want to watch.
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