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January 24, 2018, 3:20 PM
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Apple previews iOS 11.3 with ability to turn off controversial throttling of older iPhones, new Animoji, business chat in Messages, and more, coming this spring — Major Updates to ARKit, Messages and More Coming This Spring — This spring, iOS 11.3 will deliver exciting new ways …
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Tweets: @hmkyale, @flyosity, @geoffreyfowler, @marcoarment, and @mgsiegler
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
New section in Apple's Health app in iOS 11.3 will allow users to automatically download and view their medical records — In the latest indication of Apple's growing ambitions in the digital health market, the tech giant on Wednesday morning unveiled a new feature that would allow users …
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MacRumors, CNBC, SiliconBeat, The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNET, Fortune, FierceHealthcare, Softpedia News, Lifehacker, The Mac Observer, AppAdvice.com, MacDailyNews, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, SlashGear, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacRumors
Tweets: @cerner, @mdudas, @sai, and @paul_sonnier
| EU Press Room: |
EU fines Qualcomm €997M for abusing market dominance, says it paid Apple to buy LTE baseband chipsets from Qualcomm exclusively; Qualcomm to appeal — The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €997m for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets.
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Qualcomm, 9to5Mac, Android Police, International Business Times, Inquirer, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, New York Times, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Reuters, Financial Times, FierceWireless, New York Magazine, Mashable, Digital Trends, Engadget, FOSS Patents, MacRumors, The Daily Caller, Cult of Mac, BBC, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, TechSpot, ValueWalk, Android Authority, The Tech Report, Thurrott.com, Axios, Neowin, iMore, BGR, iLounge, Softpedia News, AnandTech, Business Insider, Fortune, VentureBeat, The Next Web, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @vestager, @ahess247, @danieldancrane, @bzamayo, @eu_commission, @eu_competition, and @robinwauters
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2018 to be held May 8-10 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California — This year's Google I/O developer conference will take place from May 8th to May 10th at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Similar to last year, Google revealed the date through an online puzzle.
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Tweets: @googledevs and @leolaporte
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer, providing an overview of data sent to Microsoft, available to Windows 10 Insiders with a wider rollout expected — A lot more transparency is on the way — Microsoft has faced continued concerns around its collection of data with Windows 10.
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Tweets: @tmyerson and @tomwarren
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: YouTube is asking musicians to sign non-disparagement agreements in exchange for promotional support, has asked other creators to agree to same terms — Artists are said to be asked to sign non-disparagement clauses — Google-owned site has been working to improve relations
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The Verge, TechSpot, RAIN News, Tubefilter, Engadget, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @kylebrussell, @edbott, @stokel, @future_of_music, @future_of_music, @jillianiles, and @mhbergen
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
AT&T CEO pushes for an “Internet Bill of Rights”, a net neutrality law covering ISPs and tech firms, in a series of full-page ads in major newspapers — AT&T is calling on Congress for a national net neutrality law that would govern Internet providers and tech companies alike …
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MacRumors, AT&T, Gizmodo, The Register, The Verge, CNNMoney, Recode, Engadget, The Wrap, Android Central, The Daily Caller, Recode, Variety, and Fortune
Tweets: @karlbode, @karlbode, and @matthewstoller
| Steve Yegge: |
Engineer Steve Yegge leaves Google after 13 years, says it has lost its way due to risk aversion, politics, arrogance, and a focus on competitors over customers — Note: This is my first time using Medium. Please forgive any faux pas. Also, it's pretty long even for me, so you might want to go grab a coffee.
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Tweets: @ryanchris, @laktek, @anildash, @tedonprivacy, @jonrussell, @jtannady, @janiszt, @joonian, @carnage4life, and @mdudas
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
San Francisco-based collaborative inbox startup Front raises $66M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Front App Inc. wants to retool the traditional email inbox for the era of team chat applications and cross-platform customer interactions, and today it said it has raised $66 million to expand its efforts.| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Meg Whitman takes CEO role at Jeffrey Katzenberg's new startup that produces short-form content aimed at mobile consumption — Meg Whitman has been appointed CEO of a new venture backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg that aims to revolutionize entertainment with short-form premium content customized for mobile consumption.
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, Recode, Business Insider, Reuters, and Fortune
Tweets: @erichschwartzel and @scottmaustin
| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Alphabet announces a new “graduate” from its moonshot program, Chronicle, that uses big data to detect security vulnerabilities, run by a former Symantec COO — The research lab at Google's parent company, Alphabet, is known for incubating some of the most far-out ideas in tech.
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Chronicle Blog, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Reuters, Android Central, and The Team at X
Tweets: @martijn_grooten, @stephengillett, @selenalarson, @astroteller, and @theteamatx
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Vivo X20 Plus UD, the first smartphone with in-display fingerprint sensor and 6.43-inch OLED display, announced in China with preorders set to open today — For years, rumors have circulated about companies like Samsung and Apple attempting to integrate fingerprint sensors …
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Engadget, Android Police, Android Central, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, Seeking Alpha, and Liliputing. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google Assistant now supports voice match for multiple Netflix profiles — Netflix was one of the first video services to add support for Google Assistant, but you could only access the main video profile. That really limited usefulness in households where everyone has their own profile.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US Government Accountability Office says it will investigate fake net neutrality comments made on FCC website before repeal vote, starting in five months — Democrats requested investigation after millions of people were impersonated. — The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) …
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9to5Mac, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, and Boing Boing. Tweets: @freepress
| Axios: |
Amazon's HQ2 PR strategy is brilliant, encouraging cities to publicly vie for its favor and inspiring positive media coverage amid a backlash against big tech — Elected officials across the country have spent the past three months falling all over themselves to show Amazon …
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Forbes and Vanity Fair
Tweets: @danprimack, @morgangress, @axios, @lizgreenspan, @mdudas, @danprimack, and @saraeisen
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says it will invest $5M in its Creators for Change program in 2018, aimed at YouTubers who “counter hate and promote tolerance” — YouTube is looking for some upbeat PR — pushing the idea that the Google-owned global video platform can be a force for social good … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Popular home media server application Plex adds support for Google Daydream VR — Last year Plex's reach extended to cover live TV and automobiles, so in 2018 the company is jumping into yet another platform: virtual reality. As it has done before, the company brought in the developer …
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Plex, Android Authority, CNET, and Android Police
| Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat: |
Belgium-based Showpad, which makes a platform for sales and marketing teams to create “microsites” for pitches, adds $25M to $50M Series C raised last May — EXCLUSIVE: — Showpad, which helps sales and marketing teams work together more intelligently, announced today …
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PR Newswire, MarTechSeries, and Built In Chicago
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
UK's technology development arm, Innovate UK, says it will invest £19M in projects related to emerging and enabling tech, such as distributed ledgers, AI, VR — The United Kingdom's technology development arm, Innovate UK, is doubling down on its support for blockchain-based technologies, it announced on Jan. 22.
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GOV.UK and Hacker Noon
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
PrecisionHawk, which makes an analytics platform for commercial drones and sells drone hardware, raises $75M Series D led by Third Point Ventures — Drones may still be having a tough time dispelling the notion that they're just expensive toys when it comes to the consumer space …
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PR Newswire, WRAL TechWire, and VentureBeat
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon acquires advanced threat detection startup Sqrrl, to boost the security of AWS; earlier reports pegged the deal at $40M+ — - Amazon's cloud business has recently stepped up its efforts to pick up business from U.S. intelligence agencies. — Amazon's cloud business has acquired Sqrrl …
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TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, ZDNet, Beyond Search, Seeking Alpha, and GeekWire
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber CEO says it may commercially deploy fully autonomous cars in the next 18 months, when conditions at locations are perfect, about 5% of time initially — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was speaking to Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait today at the new outlet's event #TheYearAhead event …
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Ubergizmo, GeekWire, The Next Web, Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, and Forbes. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook buys Boston software company Confirm, which authenticates IDs, and will wind down its operations — Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that it's acquired... Confirm.io. The startup offered an API that let other companies quickly verify someone's government-issued identification card …
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