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Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify — - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered — Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets …
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CNBC, New York Times, CoinDesk, Washington Post, Business Insider, CoinDesk, 블록인 …, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, ALTCOIN MAGAZINE, CNBC, Nikkei Asian Review, Bloomberg, Quartz, Cointelegraph, The Information, VentureBeat, The Verge, NewsBTC, Bloomberg, GeekWire, CNBC, SludgeFeed, The Information, CCN Markets, Fortune, Axios, and PYMNTS.com
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| European Commission: |
The European Commission launches a formal antitrust investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct by Amazon in its dual role as marketplace and retailer — The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon's use of sensitive data …
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Business Insider, New York Times, The Irish Times, Thurrott, Engadget, The Verge, Inquirer, Adweek, Reuters, CNN, MSPoweruser, CNBC, and CNBC
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company — FOUR OF THE seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company, including two women who claimed Google retaliated against them for their internal activism.
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Medium, Boing Boing, and Los Angeles Times
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Neuralink, which has received $158M in funding including $100M from Elon Musk, hopes to begin testing its brain-computer interface on humans by Q2 of 2020 — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk aspires to make inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painless as Lasik eye surgery.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Reflecting on VidCon, it's clear that influencers' command of social media foreshadows future power in politics and elsewhere — As social media expands its cultural dominance, the people who can steer the online conversation will have an upper hand. — ANAHEIM, Calif. …
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BuzzFeed News, The Verge, and Axios
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years — PAOLI, Pa. — Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle.
Tweets: @eff, @imhassan, and @quatrainman
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu — RingCentral and Zhumu are now patched — Apple informed us that it has sent out a silent security update to Macs to remove software …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, SlashGear, Engadget, Insanely Great Mac, iPhone Hacks, DISPLAYBLOG, iDownloadBlog.com, Appleosophy, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @karanlyons
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers shed light on how WeChat censors images in private chats automatically in real time by using a massive and growing index of MD5 cryptographic hashes — The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing. — WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many different ways.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google has banned Chinese app developer CooTek from its ad platforms and Play Store, removing 60+ CooTek Android apps for bombarding users with disruptive ads — Google is banning CooTek, a publicly traded Chinese app developer, from its Play store and ad platforms after BuzzFeed News …
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9to5Google, ZDNet, TechNode, SlashGear, KrASIA, Pandaily, and The Verge
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| Reuters: |
Review of 33 high-profile blockchain projects within the financial sector and interviews with execs shows the limitations of blockchain and its weak adoption — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years ago Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) and Citigroup Inc (C.N) announced a new blockchain system they said would make payments …
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TechRepublic, The Block, and ETHNews
Tweets: @annairrera, @davidgerard, @mjasay, @reuters, @pmylund, @_johnwhelan, and @ericvanm
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC — Google Maps is bringing bike-sharing station information to global markets from today, more than a year after first debuting the feature in New York City.
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The Keyword, The Verge, Digital Trends, Silicon Republic, MSPoweruser, Firstpost Tech, SlashGear, 9to5Google, and Engadget
| Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: |
Icertis, an enterprise contract management SaaS, raises $115M led by Greycroft and PremjiInvest at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $211M — Indo-US enterprise contract management software provider Icertis has become the latest software-as-a-service (SaaS) … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News — President Trump on Tuesday appeared to threaten that his administration would “take a look” at Google … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected — Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. — US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke …
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CNET, The Verge, Silicon Republic, Gizmodo, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, BGR, SecurityWeek, Android Central, The Register, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, and TechSpot. Tweets: @metacert
| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Unwarranted health fears about wireless tech can be traced to a scientist's flawed report in 2000 that failed to account for the shielding effect of human skin — How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology. — In 2000, the Broward County Public Schools …
Tweets: @martinsfp and @jswatz
| BBC: |
Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis — The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources “digital first”.
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Inside Higher Ed, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, The Times & The Sunday Times, Sky News, CBS News, US News, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Guardian, CNBC, Reuters, NBC News, and EdSurge
Tweets: @ibd_ecarson, @janiswong_, @tombennett71, @rkelchen, @bergmayer, @billmickey, @barlowjk, and @trengriffin
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC authorizes funding for ISPs to provide broadband access for 220,000+ unserved rural homes and businesses in 24 states as part of the Connect America Fund — Tens of millions of Americans still don't have broadband Internet. — More than 220,000 unserved rural homes and businesses …
Tweets: @jbrodkin
| Bloomberg: |
Highlights from the House's antitrust hearing, where Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook executives fought criticism that their companies dominate their markets — U.S. technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown with Congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand …
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| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Finix, a payments infrastructure platform that lets companies own and control their payment processing, raises $17.5M Series A led by Bain Capital — In the U.S., electronic payments is a highly regulated business whose esoteric ins and outs can make your eyes glaze over.
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PR Newswire, Finix, Crunchbase News, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs
| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
LG Pay, with both NFC and magnetic stripe terminal support, is now available in the US for the LG G8, will expand to other LG phones in the coming months — LG Pay, LG's copy and paste alternative to Samsung Pay, has been available in South Korea ever since 2017.
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PR Newswire, The Verge, Android Authority, and Engadget
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