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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
In a tweet, Trump criticizes Apple for refusing to unlock phones of violent criminals and says his administration helps Apple “all of the time” on trade — - In a tweet, president Donald Trump addressed the conflict between the FBI and Apple over locked iPhones used by the suspected Pensacola shooter.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Apple is preparing for a legal fight with the DOJ, similar to San Bernardino, which was not legally resolved before FBI dropped the case — The Silicon Valley giant is preparing for a legal fight over encryption, even as it works to reduce tensions with the Justice Department.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Smart Lock on iOS now leverages Secure Enclave to enable the iPhone's use as a physical 2FA key to sign in to Google apps via Chrome on nearby devices — Last year, Google announced that all Android 7+ devices can be used as two-factor authentication when signing into Gmail, Drive, and other first-party services.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google says it will phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years — Google's Chrome team, advancing its web privacy effort, later this year will begin testing the “privacy sandbox” proposals it unveiled in 2019. The Chrome tests, which Google announced Tuesday …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In a Q&A, Jack Dorsey discusses Twitter's thinking around an edit button and says “we'll probably never do it” — You've got to live with your mistakes, which includes joining Twitter — Twitter users have been asking for the option to edit tweets ever since the service launched in 2006 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Zinier, which provides workplace automation tools, raises $90M Series C led by ICONIQ Capital, bringing its total raised to $100M+ — It's anticipated that workplace automation tools will see an uptick in adoption in the next few years. One company leading the charge is San Francisco-based Zinier …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Facebook will now notify users via email and the Facebook App when their account is used to login into a third-party app or website — It's pretty easy to forget where you use your Facebook credentials to log in, especially since using it is as easy as clicking a single button.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
6Sense, which helps automate B2B sales processes with AI, raises $40M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $105M — Business-to-business buyers are typically 57% of the way to a buying decision before they engage with sales and marketing departments.
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Interview with US CTO Michael Kratsios on the government's recent regulatory framework for AI, the potential for an AI cold war with China, and more — In a WIRED Q&A, the US chief technology officer warns against overregulating tech, underestimating the Chinese, and losing America's lead in quantum computing.
Tweets: @wiredbusiness, @wired, @sarahnemerson, and @nxthompson
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google acquires no-code app development platform AppSheet, which had raised ~$19M to date, with plans to migrate AppSheet services to Google Cloud — Google is on something of a buying spree. On the heels of its acquisition of retail inventory management startup Pointy …
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Tweets: @ritakozlov_, @fintanr, @chriszeoli, @sarthakgh, @googlecloud, and @mcwm
| Blake Hester / Polygon: |
Former Microsoft employees and third-party developers reflect on the rise and fall of Microsoft Kinect, which was once billed as the future of Xbox — For a moment a decade ago, the game industry looked like a very different place — Illustrations by Cobysoft Joe for Polygon
Tweets: @papakipos, @simulacracid, @samitsarkar, @johntdrake, @phacktweets, and @genepark
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Visa's Plaid acquisition will pay off if Visa can leverage Plaid's fintech network and make it worthwhile for banks to build out the APIs Plaid needs — Before the network, there is the job. — In the case of Visa, or, to be more exact, the Bank Americard that would eventually be spun …
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| Max Weinbach / XDA Developers: |
Source: hands-on with a leaked Samsung Galaxy S20+ shows it has a 120Hz 3200 x 1440 display, ultrasonic under-display fingerprint scanner, and no headphone jack — The Samsung Galaxy S20 series is Samsung's next mainstream flagship series, and all eyes are set on the top Android OEM for its biggest guns yet.
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Tweets: @maxwinebach and @ishanagarwal24
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Hotel and flight search service Hipmunk says it's shutting down on January 23, over three years after SAP Concur acquired it — If you're still using Hipmunk for trip planning, it's time to find another site. Sooner than later, really. — The Hipmunk team announced this afternoon …
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| Thomas Germain / Consumer Reports: |
New study shows how popular apps including Grindr, OkCupid, Tinder, and the period-tracking apps Clue and MyDays share intimate user data with data brokers — A new study shows how information about your sexuality, religion, and location is sent straight from phones to data brokers| Jonathan Lai / Andreessen Horowitz: |
How cloud-native gaming on platforms like Google's Stadia has the potential to usher in entirely new gameplay experiences and business models — Much of the buzz around cloud gaming has centered on its potential to “kill the console”—to remove the need for local hardware to play games.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Verbit, which provides AI-assisted transcription and captioning services to professional users, raises $31M Series B led by growth equity firm Stripes — Verbit, a Tel Aviv- and New York-based startup that provides AI-assisted transcription and captioning services to professional users …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube for iOS adds filters for its Subscriptions tab, letting users sort videos via tags like All, Today, Unwatched, Continue Watching, Live, and Posts — Last year, Google made YouTube's Home tab more manageable by adding a carousel of personalized topics.
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XDA Developers, Tubefilter, and The Verge
| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Equifax to pay $380.5M to members of a class action suit whose data was compromised in 2017 breach, after a federal judge approved the final settlement Monday — Equifax has agreed to pay $380.5 million to resolve allegations related to the 2017 data breach in which hackers stole information belonging …
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Tweets: @agwilliamtong, @jm4n, @shah_sheikh, and @jeffstone500
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare says it will provide its security services, including DDoS mitigation, load balancing, and anti-bot protections, free for US political campaigns — Network security giant Cloudflare said it will provide its free security tools and services to U.S. political campaigns … | Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: European startups raised over $36B from VCs in 2019, up 25% from 2018 to reach a five-year high, and more than double the amount raised in 2015 — Venture capital deals in the United States and China tend to get the most attention, but VC dollars flowing to Europe have quietly been on the rise.Sponsor Posts
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