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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook cancels its F8 developer conference amid growing concerns around COVID-19, says it is planning “locally hosted events” and livestreamed content instead — Facebook said Thursday it's cancelling its annual F8 developers conference, the social media giant's biggest event of the year …
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| Carli Velocci / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says it will not attend Game Developers Conference due to coronavirus concerns and will make sessions and experiences available in a digital event — The move follows Sony, Facebook, and Unity. — What you need to know — Microsoft Game Stack announced it's pulling out of GDC due to coronavirus concerns.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Docs show Best Buy and Walmart, alongside ICE, DOJ, and FBI, are among the 2,200+ companies and law enforcement agencies listed as clients of Clearview AI — The United States' main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy's …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is planning to release an iPad keyboard with a built-in trackpad, likely with the next version of the iPad Pro, later this year — Apple is planning to release an iPad keyboard accessory later this year that will include a built-in trackpad, the latest step in its effort …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: FCC proposes fining AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon at least $200M in total for improperly disclosing some real-time location data of users — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is set to propose fining four major U.S. mobile phone companies …
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| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
Senate passes bill that bans the government from purchasing Huawei and ZTE equipment, funds small telecoms to replace equipment; bill heads to Trump for signing — The Senate unanimously approved legislation on Thursday that would ban the use of federal funds to purchase telecommunications equipment …
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| Maddie Stone / OneZero : |
Researchers argue that fear of rising data center usage, accounting for 1% of global electricity demand, is overblown and will be offset by improved efficiency — Researchers argue that new technology and greater efficiency could offset energy demands — The climate impact of the data centers …
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| Let's Encrypt: |
Let's Encrypt says it has issued 1B free TLS certificates on around 192M unique domains in the four years since its launch — We issued our billionth certificate on February 27, 2020. We're going to use this big round number as an opportunity to reflect on what has changed for us, and for the Internet, leading up to this event.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience, claiming it paid app developers to install its SDK in their apps so it could harvest data on Facebook users — Data analytics firm OneAudience allegedly paid app developers to include its SDK in their code so it could harvest data from Facebook users.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review: 120Hz screen is nice and battery life is good but the main camera often acts like a first-gen product with first-gen problems — A new-generation camera with first-generation problems — Samsung has something to prove. — That's the most obvious feeling …
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart plans to start publicly testing a membership program called Walmart+ as soon as next month to compete with Amazon Prime — Walmart has struggled to keep up with Amazon's online dominance for years. Javier Zarracina/Vox — Amazon Prime has devastated traditional retail.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find an Android malware strain Cerberus that can extract and steal one-time passwords generated by Google's Authenticator mobile app — A new version of the “Cerberus” Android banking trojan will be able to steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA-protected accounts.
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Terence Eden's Blog, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Android Headlines, Wccftech, Tom's Guide, and Gizchina
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
DocuSign acquires Seal Software, which develops AI-powered contract discovery and management software, for $188M in cash — Note: This article was updated post-publication with comments from DocuSign — Today, DocuSign announced it would acquire Seal Software, which develops AI-powered contract discovery …
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| New York Times: |
Pakistan to review new internet censorship rules after a group representing Facebook, Google, and Twitter writes a letter threatening to leave the country — The battle is the latest skirmish between internet companies and governments over who decides what content should be online.| Gideon Lichfield / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at IBM and Google's efforts to build a practical quantum computer, as Google chases quantum supremacy as a milestone while IBM chases “quantum advantage” — IBM thinks quantum supremacy is not the milestone we should care about. — Rigetti Computing / Justin Fantl
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| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Counterpoint: iPhone XR was the best selling phone globally for 2019, followed by the iPhone 11, with the Samsung Galaxy A50 coming in third — According to Counterpoint Research's Market Pulse, iPhone 11 raced to become the second-best selling model globally for 2019 despite it being launched in September.
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| Baidu Inc: |
Baidu reports Q4 revenue of $4.15B, up 6% YoY, and iQIYI revenue of $1.08B, up 7% YoY; iQIYI subscribers grew to 106.9M and membership revenue grew 21% YoY — Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) ("Baidu" or the “Company"), a leading search engine, knowledge and information centered Internet platform and AI company …
| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
YouTube says it is testing a way for creators to sell ads directly to brands “with whom they already have a relationship” — In the perhaps not-too-distant future, YouTube will let creators sell ad space on their own videos. — “We're experimenting with a new way for creators … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
VMware reports Q4 revenue of $3.07B, up 11% YoY, subscription and SaaS revenue up 14% YoY, but misses expectations, stock down 6% after hours — However, shares fell in after-hours trading as Q4 earnings fell below expectations. — VMware crossed a new revenue threshold in fiscal year 2020 …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash announces it has confidentially filed documents for an IPO with the SEC — Food delivery service DoorDash announced Thursday it has taken a first step toward a public offering. — DoorDash said it has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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