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Apple announces a $1B Austin campus initially for 5,000 workers, new offices in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, and expansions in several other US cities — Apple plans to build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, adding thousands of jobs, while also setting up new large offices in Seattle …
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with the ECG feature in Apple Watch Series 4: taking an ECG is easy, but the ECG trace can only be viewed on the iPhone, not the watch itself — When Apple introduced the fourth iteration of its smartwatch, the big new selling point wasn't a feature we typically associate with a watch or any sort of smart device.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Amazon starts selling the Chromecast Ultra and third-gen Chromecast, nearly a year after it promised to sell Chromecast devices again — Amazon pulled the Chromecast from its online store in 2015, after it instated a new rule that only streaming devices that supported Prime Video could be sold.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood launches checking and savings accounts in the US with a 3% interest rate and no minimum balance or fees for overdrafts or foreign transactions — Robinhood is undercutting the big banks by forgoing brick-and-mortar branches with its new zero-fee checking and savings account features.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: stablecoin project Basis, backed by Bain Capital, GV, and a16z, is closing due to regulatory issues and returning most of the $133M capital raised — Basis, one of the most well-known stablecoin projects, is shutting down and returning nearly all capital raised to investors.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The state of technology in 2018: the enterprise market is thriving, and the consumer market is stagnant, dominated by “innovations” from a few large behemoths — This article is a bit of an annual tradition: in mid-December I summarize the state of technology,1 and appropriately enough … | J. David Goodman / New York Times: |
How Amazon is trying to quell opposition to its new NYC offices by hiring well-connected lobbyists and taking to the streets to hear residents' concerns — Amazon is trying to quell rising opposition to its plan for offices in New York, hiring well-connected lobbyists to make its case …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Google Maps adds Lime as a navigation option, with distance to the nearest bike or scooter, estimate for the cost and ride time, starting in 13 cities — Google Maps is always ready to help you get where you're going, and the latest addition to its list of features is a tie …
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| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
Samsung upgrades its two-in-one Notebook 9 Pen with a new 15-inch option, updated S Pen, and a promise of 15 hours of battery life, coming in 2019 — With its updated Notebook 9 Pen two-in-one laptop, Samsung is targeting creative professionals who want the flexibility of both a laptop … | Ryan Randazzo / Arizona Republic: |
Police in Chandler, AZ have documented 20+ incidents in the past two years where people vandalized Waymo's autonomous vehicles and harassed their test drivers — Police have responded to dozens of calls regarding people threatening and harassing Waymo vans. — CONNECT| Gillian Brockell / Washington Post: |
Tech companies should automatically turn off irrelevant ads based on info users share, such as ads for baby gear when a pregnant person has a stillborn child — Dear Tech Companies: — I know you knew I was pregnant. It's my fault, I just couldn't resist those Instagram hashtags — #30weekspregnant, #babybump.
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| Holly Brockwell / Gizmodo UK: |
Source: Samsung Galaxy S10 series will be unveiled Feb. 20, with UK prices starting at £669 for the S10 Lite, £799 for the 6.1-inch model, and £899 for the S10+ — Listen up, Samsung fans: we've got a bumper leak about the upcoming Galaxy S10 for you.
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| Eliza Brooke / Vox: |
How recommendation sites like the Strategist and Wirecutter maintain readers' trust while earning revenue through affiliate links — Sites like the Strategist, Wirecutter, and BuzzFeed Reviews want to help you find the best of the best. … Say you want to buy a travel mug.
Tweets: @voxdotcom, @columbiajourn, @nishachittal, and @myurow
| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Opera releases its Android browser with a built-in Ethereum wallet, support for crypto collectibles such as CryptoKitties and ethereum-based decentralized apps — Opera has announced the public release of its “Web 3-ready” Android web browser, which notably sports a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Postmates announces Serve, an autonomous rover launching soon in LA, and says it now averages 4M deliveries per month in 550+ cities — HANGING ON THE wall of Postmates' stealth R&D laboratory, there's a framed photo of an iconic scene from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker bent down beside R2D2.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Finalcad, a mobile platform that allows the construction industry to digitize its processes, raises $40M Series C led by London-based Draper Esprit — Finalcad, a mobile platform that enables the construction industry to digitize much of its processes, has closed $40 million in Series C funding.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC settles with the former CEO and COO of AriseBank, which it sued in January for alleged fraud and issuing unregistered securities during an ICO, for $2.7M+ — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges with two former executives of AriseBank, which was hit with a token sale fraud lawsuit in early 2018.
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Tweets: @sec_enforcement, @coindesk, and @sec_enforcement
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Epic Games, which makes Fortnite, unveils a free SDK, rolling out in 2019, to help developers build cross-platform games that include login and social elements — Online services SDK will roll out slowly through 2019. — Part of the massive success of Fortnite has been the ability …
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Tweets: @unrealengine, @stillgray, @mattrix, and @chillmage
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How making products easier to use can steer users toward unhealthy behaviors, like viewing overly extreme content that autoplays, or lead to security breaches — Seven years ago, a younger and more carefree Mark Zuckerberg went onstage at Facebook's annual developer conference and announced …
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Techonomy. Tweets: @drewharwell, @kevinroose, @went1955, @aimeevanrobot, @cydharrell, @nytimestech, @puiwingtam, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimestech
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Intel unveils 10nm Sunny Cove architecture, built to execute more instructions in parallel with lower latency, better cryptography support, and more — Finally, a move away from just bundling more cores together. — In 2019, Intel will release Core and Xeon chips built around a new architecture …
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Tweets: @_markel___, @devindra, @tomshardware, @alexsnaps, @mjpt777, @devindra, @dcseifert, @intel, and @ow
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