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WhatsApp sues NSO Group after investigating an attack from last year that sent malware to 1,400 devices and targeted 100+ human rights defenders and journalists — Will Cathcart is head of WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook. — In May, WhatsApp announced that we had detected and blocked …
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
HBO Max to launch in May and cost $15 a month, same as the existing HBO; AT&T plans to bundle free subscriptions for some customers of its other services — HBOMax, WarnerMedia's new streaming service, will feature all of HBO's shows, like Game of Thrones, plus new programing. HBO
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| Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: |
Sony says it will shut down its PlayStation Vue live TV subscription service on January 30 — After much reports about trying to find a buyer, it seems that PlayStation Vue has decided to shut down the service instead. The service, which launched in 2015, was one of the first Live TV Streaming Services …
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Slack rival Quill, which promises more focused team messaging, raised $2M seed led by Sam Altman and $12.5M Series A led by Index Ventures partner Sarah Cannon — Slack created a new solution for workplace communication, one copied by many, even Microsoft.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Uber refuses to provide LA with real-time location data on its scooters, sues the city, requests restraining order in case LA decides to suspend Uber's license — The ride-hailing company doesn't want to share everything with the city's government. — Los Angeles wants a peek …
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| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Activist registers as a candidate in California's 2022 gubernatorial election merely to run false Facebook ads, in a challenge to its controversial policy — New York (CNN Business)A San Francisco man is going to extreme lengths to call out Facebook's controversial policy of allowing politicians to run false ads on its platform.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
MX Player, a streaming and offline video app popular in India, raises ~$111M Series A led by Tencent; source: MX Player has a post-money valuation of $500M — MX Player, a popular video app that offers both local playback and streaming services, said on Wednesday that it has raised $110.8 million …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung says SmartThings has over 45M monthly active users and works with more than 5,000 devices, as it announces new developer and partner programs — Today at the 2019 Samsung Developer Conference in San Jose, Samsung announced that SmartThings, the Seoul company's internet of things …
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| Stan Schroeder / Mashable: |
Xiaomi's first high end smartwatch looks a lot like the Apple Watch, with a button and twisting control knob on the right side — Xiaomi's November 5 event is shaping up to be a pretty big one. — On Monday we wrote about the company's upcoming 108-megapixel phone, but now the company …
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XDA Developers, Firstpost Tech, MacDailyNews, Android Central, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @viditb, @whatthebit, @reneritchie, and @rstephens
| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
EA partners with Valve to bring its EA Access subscription service to Steam next spring and launch games on Steam starting with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — SVP Mike Blank talks about the need to reduce fragmentation as EA pledges to bring Jedi Fallen Order, EA Access to Valve's storefront
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases watchOS 6.1 with support for AirPods Pro, and Watch Series 1 and Series 2, which were excluded from initial release of watchOS 6 — Apple today is releasing watchOS 6.1 to the public after developer beta testing. The update includes performance improvements …
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Thurrott, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Next Web, iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, and The Verge. Tweets: @apollozac
| Emily Stewart / Vox: |
A look at Sen. Josh Hawley's war against Big Tech, which could portend the GOP's future approach to Silicon Valley as he draws bipartisan support on some issues — Facebook's biggest problem in Washington might not be Elizabeth Warren. — Tech has become one of the major issues of political debate heading into 2020.
Tweets: @freedaaron, @voxdotcom, @voxdotcom, @recode, @sivavaid, and @recode
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Kenya-based Twiga Foods, an online B2B marketplace for agricultural and packaged foods, raises $30M Series B led by Goldman Sachs, 11 months after a $10M raise — Kenya's Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts Galaxy Book Flex and Ion laptops, to replace Notebook 9 models, with QLED screens, 10th-gen Intel, and touchpads that wirelessly charge devices — More premium designs for Samsung's premium laptops — Samsung has a pair of new laptops — the Galaxy Book Flex and Galaxy Book Ion …
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Inquirer, Samsung Mobile Press, Neowin, Gizmodo, PCWorld, ZDNet, and Windows Central
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.1 update with new emoji, Siri privacy settings, and support for AirPods Pro and more HomeKit devices — Apple today released macOS Catalina 10.15.1, the first update to the macOS Catalina operating system that was released in October.
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9to5Mac, International Business Times, Digital Trends, Michael Tsai, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, AnandTech, Coinspeaker, Firstpost Tech, and Lifehacker
Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @vladsavov, @tomwarren, and @panzer
| Rachel Siegel / Washington Post: |
Common Sense Media: screen time for Americans aged 8 to 12 has remained flat since 2015, but time spent watching videos has doubled to an hour per day — More than twice as many young people watch videos every day as did four years ago, and the average time spent watching videos …
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Vox and Associated Press
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Razer announces $100 Hammerhead True Wireless earbuds, which it claims can offer low audio latency of 60ms on iOS and Android when enabled via its app — The Hammerhead True Wireless earbuds have a low 60ms latency mode — One of the worst things about using wireless headphones while gaming on an Android phone is the latency.
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Razer Press, Engadget, 9to5Google, Engadget, and Android Police
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