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Galaxy S9 and S9+ review: great design, display, and speed, better fingerprint sensor placement, but average battery life, gimmicks galore, Bixby still sucks — The Galaxy S9 is all of the good and all of the bad we've come to expect from Samsung — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales; Video by Becca Farsace and Tom Connors
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Tweets: @pierce, @tldtoday, @saschasegan, @andrewmartonik, @andrewmartonik, @vladsavov, @dcseifert, and @dcseifert
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Galaxy S9 and S9+ review: dual aperture and 960fps slow-motion video is nice, rear camera is great, especially in low light, but is worse than Pixel 2's camera — When Samsung announced the Galaxy S9, “that's it?” wasn't exactly an uncommon refrain. The Galaxy S9 is, frankly, kind of boring.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it is taking the lessons it has learned from AMP and is applying them to web standards that could allow instant loading for non-AMP web content — Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard? — In a blog post today, Google is announcing …
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| Maria Temming / Science News: |
Study of 4.5M+ tweets from 2006 to 2017 confirms inaccurate news spreads faster and further than true stories, and humans, not bots, are primarily to blame — An analysis of 4.5 million tweets shows falsehoods are 70 percent more likely to get shared — There's been a lot of talk …
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Tweets: @coreypud and @jeff_lleru
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Netflix data shows that while only 25% of users sign up on TVs, most viewing, ~45% after one month and 70% after six months, happens on TVs — Most Netflix subscribers sign up on phones or computers. But 70 percent of viewing happens on TVs. — You can watch Netflix in almost every country in the world, on any device you want.
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| StarWars.com: |
Iron Man director Jon Favreau to write and produce a live-action Star Wars series for Disney's new streaming service — The director of Iron Man and The Jungle Book will helm the series for Disney's new direct-to-consumer platform. — Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Emmy-nominated producer …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber's VP of Product, Daniel Graf, is leaving and will be replaced by Assaf Ronen, Amazon's VP of Voice Shopping — Assaf Ronen has been running the e-commerce giant's voice shopping efforts. — In another high-profile executive departure at Uber, product head Daniel Graf is leaving the company, according to sources.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
McAfee acquires Canada-based VPN provider TunnelBear, is likely to integrate it into its Safe Connect VPN service — McAfee announced that it has acquired Canada-based virtual private network (VPN) company TunnelBear. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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| Frank Chaparro / Business Insider: |
Coinbase hires Eric Scro, previously head of finance at the NYSE, as its VP of Finance — - The New York Stock Exchange lost an executive to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, according to a blog post by the company. — Eric Scro is set to join the San Francisco-based company as vice president of finance.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says it audited 756 suppliers for its annual Supplier Responsibility Report, finds 44 “core violations” of labor rules in 2017, double the previous year — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Wednesday that it had found violations of its labor and environmental policies for suppliers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Grab is close to acquiring certain markets of Uber's Southeast Asia business, may sign a deal this week or next; Uber will take ~15-20% stake in Grab — Grab, the dominant ride-hailing service in Southeast Asia, is close to finalizing a deal to acquire Uber Technologies Inc.'s business …
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SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, and Telegraph
Tweets: @lewis_lin and @jonrussell
| David McCabe / Axios: |
Twitter, Reddit, Cloudflare, Pinterest, Automattic, and others ask for changes to anti-sex trafficking bill to make it easier for smaller companies to implement — A group of web companies including Twitter, Reddit and Yelp are mounting a last-ditch effort to modify an anti-trafficking bill … | Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis shows that IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to oppose Romney as a possible secretary of state, following claims that Russia was opposed to him — Online campaign targeted the ex-GOP nominee as Donald Trump considered him in late 2016 — Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president … | Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Ad-blocker Ghostery goes open source, changes revenue stream to opt-in notifications about deals and paid insights about the web tracking ecosystem — IN PRIVACY-FOCUSED, ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT corners of the internet, going open source can earn you a certain amount of street cred.| Chris O'Brien / Trucks.com: |
Autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics raises $16.5M Series A led by Shasta Ventures, says it completed a 7-mile drive in FL without a human in the cab — San Francisco-based Starsky Robotics announced today a new round of investment and a significant milestone toward realizing an autonomous trucking future.
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Hacker Noon, VentureBeat, Roadshow, Axios, Wired, and PE Hub Blog
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Snap confirms it has laid off just over 120 people in its engineering department, less than 10% of the unit, in its largest round of layoffs to date — Snap Inc. is preparing its largest round of layoffs to date, Cheddar has learned. — The Snapchat-maker plans to announce …
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Tweets: @bdsams, @kerrymflynn, @_chrisversace, @0xpit, @benbajarin, and @joshuabaker
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated operating system and will become a “mode” of Windows 10 in 2019 — Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated version next year — Microsoft says its plans to move Windows 10 S from a dedicated operating system to a special …
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Ars Technica, ExtremeTech, Inquirer, BetaNews, Thurrott.com, Softpedia News, The Register, Engadget, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, Washington Post, SlashGear, TechCrunch, PCWorld, On MSFT, Neowin, BGR, Windows Central, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Windows Experience Blog, Tom's Hardware, The Next Web, and GeekWire. Tweets: @chrisbhoffman
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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