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Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database — Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday with the acquisition of Citus Data.
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| Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech: |
DeepMind introduces AlphaStar AI, which won 10-1 in a series of StarCraft II matches against professional players — Humans tend to think we're adept at the games we create, but computers have proven time and time again that we're just not fast enough to stay on top.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey's recent media tour is largely performative, substituting talking for doing, masking Twitter's slow response to many of its issues — Jack Dorsey has a lot to say — but he has more to do — Jack Dorsey is talking. — He is talking to the Huffington Post's Ashley Feinberg.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes the Office suite available via the Mac App Store, with users needing an Office 365 subscription — An Office 365 subscription is required for most apps — Microsoft is making its Office suite available on Apple's Mac App Store today. The software giant originally promised … | Bloomberg: |
FOIA inquiry: Google urged US Labor Board to drop an Obama-era protection for staff organizing over work email; Google says doing so was part of a legal defense — While Google publicly supported employees who protested company policies, it quietly asked the government to narrow the right to organize over work email
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft — In new tests, Amazon's system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood says it will roll out its cryptocurrency trading product in New York in the coming months after NY regulators grant the firm a BitLicense — Stock trading startup Robinhood and bitcoin ATM provider LibertyX have become the latest companies to be granted New York's BitLicense.
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Sources: Apple laid off 200+ employees this week from Project Titan; Apple acknowledges it has restructured its autonomous systems tech team — - Apple dismissed just over 200 employees from Project Titan this week, its stealthy autonomous vehicle initiative, people familiar with the group told CNBC.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Facebook says it will shut down its private photo-sharing app Moments on Feb. 25; users can export photos until May — Take a moment to remember Moments. — Facebook said on Thursday it was shuttering Moments, its standalone app for privately sharing photos with friends, in part because few people were using it.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos is planning to launch wireless, over-ear headphones with the ability to work with multiple digital assistants next year, for $300 or more — - Audio device maker seeks new markets after disappointing IPO — Company targets growing but crowded market that includes Apple
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MacRumors, Android Central, The Nokia Blog, KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, Fast Company, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @alexhern and @reneritchie
| The Intercept: |
Snowden documents shed light on how states can compromise hardware supply chains, a practice undertaken by the US, France, Germany, China, and others — In October, Bloomberg Businessweek published an alarming story: Operatives working for China's People's Liberation Army had secretly implanted microchips …
Tweets: @bobmcmillan and @kimzetter
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel Q4: revenue of $18.7B, up 9% YoY, vs. $19.01B est., Client Computing Group revenue of $9.82B, up 10% YoY, vs. $10.01B est.; stock down 6%+ after hours — Shares of Intel stock fell as much as 8 percent on Thursday after the company reported lower-than-expected revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter and light guidance.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Verizon's Visible, which offers unlimited text, voice, and data for $40/month, announces Android compatibility and starts selling Galaxy S9, S9+, and iPhones — When Verizon stealthily launched a new startup called Visible last year, it operated under a bring-your-own-device model …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS launches Neo-AI, an open source project for ML training models that can be run across multiple operating environments, under the Apache Software License — Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped an estimated 34.2M iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7M in 2017, and was the number five smartphone vendor in the country — Apple shipped an estimated 34.2 million iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7 million in 2017, according to new data shared today by Strategy Analytics.
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YouTube's “Up Next” still suggests conspiracy videos, hate group videos, and pirated videos after news searches; YouTube says it's still working to improve — How many clicks through YouTube's “Up Next” recommendations does it take to go from an anodyne PBS clip … | Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google Express quietly removes Walmart as a retail partner, leaving Target as the only major partner for the beleaguered delivery service — When Google Express re-launched in 2017 as a free service, it had two major retail partners — Walmart and Target. Both companies have a massive amount … | Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Bing appears to be accessible in China again, as sources say the earlier block was due to a technical error rather than censorship — Internet users in mainland China have begun to report that Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine is accessible again after outages in the country persisted for many hours Thursday.
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Tweets: @paulmozur, @matthewstoller, @gillianwong, @s_rabinovitch, @yaqiu, @nytimesbusiness, @nvanderklippe, and @paulmozur
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
As the number of US students studying computer science doubled to over 106,000 from 2013 to 2017, the supply of professors is struggling to keep up — Lured by the prospect of high-salary, high-status jobs, college students are rushing in record numbers to study computer science.
Tweets: @puiwingtam and @mark_riedl
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Source: US pressed Chinese tech companies to show their autonomy by giving an example of resisting a data request from the Chinese government, but they couldn't — Chairman of Chinese telecom firm contends Huawei is being unfairly targeted — The chairman of embattled telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co … | Alex Allegro / 9to5Mac: |
CIRP: iPhone XR accounted for 39% of US iPhone sales last quarter, making it the best selling iPhone model, while XS and XS Max combined accounted for 26% — New data from CIRP, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, shows that iPhone XR was the best selling iPhone model in the United States …
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