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Sources: Apple is working on a redesigned Books reading app that includes a Reading Now section, a dedicated tab for audio books, and a digital book store — Company working on new digital book reader for iPhones, iPads — iPhone maker hires former Amazon, Barnes & Noble exec for unit| 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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Tweets: @techcrunch, @lmeyerov, @chronic, @martijn_grooten, @theteamatx, @stephengillett, and @selenalarson
| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Samsung announces Unpacked event on February 25 in Barcelona at 6PM CET during Mobile World Congress, hinting at launch of Galaxy S9 with improved camera — Samsung has officially marked the calendar for Feb. 25 as the date it will launch its next big phone, all but confirmed to be called the Galaxy S9.
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| Sean Buckley / CNET: |
Nintendo is shutting down its first smartphone game Miitomo on May 9, just a little over two years after initial launch — Miitomo wasn't what anybody expected from Nintendo's first smartphone game. Now it's shutting down. — For years, fans and analysts had anticipated Nintendo's move … | Writankar Mukherjee / The Economic Times: |
Canalys and Counterpoint say Xiaomi became India's No. 1 smartphone vendor for the first time in Q4 2017 after shipping more smartphones than Samsung — KOLKATA: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has become the No 1 smartphone brand in the Indian market in the quarter ended December 2017 …
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter is working on a Snapchat-style tool to more easily share videos and photos on the network, but its design and launch aren't yet finalized — Social network is experimenting with new products to woo users — Company seeks to streamline process of posting photos, videos| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Phil Harrison, a veteran of Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox businesses, has joined Google as vice president and general manager — Phil Harrison, a veteran of Sony's and Microsoft's game console businesses, tweeted today that he has taken a job at Google.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake raises $263M Series E at a pre-money valuation of $1.5B — Snowflake, which is aiming to win data warehouse workloads in the cloud, has raised $473 million in total funding. That's a lot of dough, but the competition is more than well funded.
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75% of the top performing IPOs of the last 4 years went public at a valuation less than $1B — It's true. 75% of the top performing IPOs of the last 4 years went public at a valuation less than $1 billion. It's time to make the small cap IPO cool again.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 Insiders to get Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer this week, providing an overview of data sent to Microsoft — A lot more transparency is on the way — Microsoft has faced continued concerns around its collection of data with Windows 10. France previously ordered Microsoft …
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Tweets: @tmyerson and @tomwarren
| Samantha Cole / Motherboard: |
The rise of AI-assisted tools like FakeApp have made it easy for users with no technical background to create convincing face-swap porn videos — In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named ‘deepfakes’ quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers' bodies.
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| Már Másson Maack / The Next Web: |
iOS 11.3 enables Advanced Mobile Location, a feature that automatically sends accurate locations of emergency calls and is supported on Android — Apple just announced that the next version of iOS, 11.3, will enable Advanced Mobile Location (AML), which automatically sends your location …
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BuzzFeed identified 1,700+ accounts Twitter censored in specific countries at the request of governments and “trusted flaggers” like NGOs — BuzzFeed News has identified more than 1,700 Twitter accounts that have been blocked in at least one country.
Tweets: @craigsilverman
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 64 strengthens pop-up blocker to prevent sites with “abusive experiences” from opening new tabs or windows, adds option to disable audio for whole sites — Google today launched Chrome 64 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Additions in this release include a stronger pop-up blocker and a slew of developer features.
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Tweets: @epro and @sgrover1981
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
New York governor signs executive order requiring ISPs with state contracts to abide by net neutrality rules; Montana signed similar order Monday — In an announcement today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he has signed an executive order that would require internet service providers … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap's VP of Product Tom Conrad leaving in March after 2 years; director of growth Jacob Andreou steps in at executive level, but no new title assigned to him — One of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel's top lieutenants Tom Conrad will leave Snapchat, and the whole tech industry, in March.
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