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Samsung says it will launch its flagship Galaxy S9 at Mobile World Congress in February and plans to launch its foldable phone sometime next year — Samsung Galaxy S9 will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in February, the company's mobile boss said, denying rumors of a CES 2018 unveiling.
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Senate Commerce Committee chairman John Thune sends letter to Apple asking about iPhone battery throttling as Paris prosecutor's office confirms investigation — Sen. John Thune writes letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook; Paris prosecutor's office opens investigation
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Jimmy Iovine casts doubt on earlier report that he planned to leave in August: “I am committed to doing whatever Eddy (Cue), Tim (Cook) and Apple need me to do” — Music mogul Jimmy Iovine shot down rumors that he plans to exit Apple in August telling Variety that he's committed …
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Nvidia says GeForce, Tesla, Grid, NVS, and Quadro chipsets affected by Spectre, begins rolling out software patches; CEO says GPUs are “immune” — Nvidia Corp said some of its chipsets have been affected by Spectre, a memory corruption flaw that allows hackers to bypass operating systems and steal passwords of devices.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook tests local news feature called Today In across six US cities, combining human curation and AI to surface news, events, and announcements in its app — Facebook is vetting local publishers that appear in this section. — Facebook wants to make it easier for people to find local news from vetted sources.
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Apple to relocate Chinese customer iCloud data and operations from US to mainland China starting February 28 to comply with local laws — Apple has today announced a date for when it will hand over operations of iCloud data services for residents of mainland China to GCBD.
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Experts dispute WhatsApp's “end-to-end encryption” claim, saying confidentiality of group chat could be broken if servers were compromised — When WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption to every conversation for its billion users two years ago, the mobile messaging giant significantly raised …
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UK's information regulator fines Carphone Warehouse £400K over preventable 2015 breach that exposed 3M+ customer details — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's information regulator said on Wednesday it had fined Carphone Warehouse 400,000 pounds ($539,400) after a 2015 cyber attack exposed …
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Source: Verizon faces political pressure to cancel launch of Huawei Mate 10 amid allegations of Huawei being a security threat, news that AT&T ended Huawei deal — Speaking to a source familiar with the company's plans, Verizon is facing political pressure to cancel the launch a Huawei smartphone later this year.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Self-driving car startup Voyage says it will launch a taxi fleet in Florida's The Villages, a 125K-person retirement community, after $20M Series A in 2017 — Largest retirement community in the US gets robot taxis courtesy of startup Voyage — With 125,000 residents, over 54,000 homes …
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Microsoft and Qualcomm announce new additions to list of major carriers supporting upcoming ARM “Always Connected” PCs running Windows 10, bringing total to 18 — Microsoft and Qualcomm announced at CES 2018 that they have lined up a handful of additional mobile operators … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
As Jeff Bezos becomes the richest man in history, now worth over $105B, questions loom large on his philanthropic intentions — It's been seven months since Bezos tweeted a request for philanthropic ideas. — After the New York Times questioned Jeff Bezos about his level of philanthropic giving …
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Comcast says it will let US Xfinity customers control certain connected home products using its apps and hardware starting in the first half of 2018 — The connected home has been a big theme at CES, and today Comcast is turning on a new service that underscores its intention to be central player in it.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bugsnag, which makes an automated error monitoring platform for developers, says it raised $9M Series B in Feb. 2017 from GV, Benchmark Capital, Matrix Partners — Bugsnag, an automated error monitoring platform for software developers, has revealed it raised a $9 million series B round last year … | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter's ad “transparency center”, announced before Congressional hearings in October, slated at the time to debut in “the coming weeks”, has yet to launch — In October 2017, as Congress probed Russia's suspected manipulation of Twitter's platform … | Luke Larsen / Digital Trends: |
HTC Vive Pro hands-on: increased resolution is great, built-in earphones are high-quality, and has a clean design, but still doesn't work well with glasses — The Vive Pro is a VR headset made for virtual reality enthusiasts … Today at CES 2018, HTC put the emphasis on its new premium, PC-based virtual reality.
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Samsung spent $44B on capital expenditures in 2017, topping world's publicly traded companies for the first time, nearly doubling its investment in facilities — The tech giant spent more on capital expenditures last year than any other publicly traded company| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
UK forces Apple to pay an extra £136M tax bill after “an extensive audit” of Apple Europe, one of its UK subsidiaries — Apple's tax struggles in Europe have been well documented in the past, and now an extensive audit has forced the company to pay an additional tax bill.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Bitcoin wallet app Electrum had a critical flaw for two years that would let attackers remotely steal bitcoins; flaw went unpatched for weeks after discovery — Developers left the vulnerability unpatched for months after being alerted. — For almost two years, hackers could have easily stolen … | Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Lenovo unveils Mirage Solo, its first Google WorldSense VR headset, which has dual mics, 2560x1440 screen, Snapdragon 835, 4GB RAM, ships Q2 for “under $400” — Last year, Google announced that it would be making standalone Daydream headsets with the help of HTC and Lenovo.
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