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AT&T and T-Mobile say they will stop selling customers' location data to 3rd-party service providers by March; Verizon says it's winding down sharing agreements — AT&T said Thursday it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Sources: Amazon-owned Ring gave its teams in Ukraine and the US unfiltered cloud access to unencrypted home security camera videos and live feeds — The “smart home” of the 21st century isn't just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we're told, but also to protection …
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Inquirer, Engadget, The Information, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, MediaNama, Gizmodo, Android Police, The Verge, Android Authority, MacRumors, Mashable, SlashGear, BGR, VentureBeat, Wirecutter, Android Central, Fortune, and Notes from Silicon Valley
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| Bloomberg: |
Shareholder sues Alphabet's board of directors, claiming they breached fiduciary duty by covering up sexual misconduct by execs and giving Andy Rubin a payout — - Investor accuses Alphabet directors of abusing their power — Android creator allegedly got $90 million payout amid probe
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Google Walkout For Real Change, The Verge, The Verge, Reuters, New York Times, Inquirer, Washington Post, Wired, Gizmodo, San Francisco Chronicle, Android Central, Fortune, CNBC, Android Authority, Superior Court …, Beyond Search, Reuters, Boing Boing, CNET, CNN, 9to5Google, Engadget, Droid Life, Business Insider, Axios, TechCrunch, Telegraph, BuzzFeed News, and Recode
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera — Three new iPhone models planned for 2019, including one with a triple rear camera — Apple Inc. AAPL .32% is planning to release three …
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| Fraser Brown / PC Gamer: |
After an outcry from Improbable, Unity says the recent change to its ToS won't affect Unity-based games using Improbable's SpatialOS cloud platform — Unity CTO Joachim Ante said Improbable's warning that SpatialOS could not longer be used with Unity was ‘incorrect.’
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing's broad and punitive new censorship push — SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IDC reports global PC shipments in Q4 were down 3.7% YoY, while Gartner estimates a 4.3% YoY decline, amid CPU shortages and the US-China trade war — IDC and Gartner market share stats illustrate how trade wars and CPU shortages hurt fourth quarter sales for PC makers.
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Gartner, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, IT PRO, MacRumors, TechSpot, Gizchina, Softpedia News, CRN, Forbes, MarketWatch, The Register, VentureBeat, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @shiraovide and @charlesarthur
| The Information: |
Sources say Amazon is developing a game streaming service, but it isn't likely to launch until next year at the earliest — Amazon is developing a service for streaming videogames over the internet, joining Microsoft, Google and other companies that are building similar offerings …
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Inquirer, The Verge, Business Insider, TechCrunch, TechSpot, VG247, BGR, The Next Web, Neowin, GameSpot, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Gizmodo, InvestorPlace, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, CNET, GeekWire, GamesIndustry.biz, Deadline, Blue's News, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @boringstein, @jtoonkel, and @kmclaughlinsf
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview that reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space — Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with improvements to disk space management, Reset this PC, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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Windows Blog, BetaNews, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, PC Gamer, and The Register
| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Ford is shutting down Chariot, the startup it acquired in 2016 that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and in London — Chariot, the Ford-owned transportation startup that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and internationally in London, is shutting down.
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Chariot, The Verge, The San Francisco Examiner, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, CNET, Engadget, Bloomberg, Axios, and Autoblog
| David Randall / Reuters: |
Analysts and fund managers speculate about how the Bezos divorce could affect Amazon, with the couple holding a roughly 16% ownership stake — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) shares see-sawed on Thursday as investors questioned how the impending divorce of company founder Jeff Bezos …
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Business Insider, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, National Enquirer, Boing Boing, Wired, and Fortune
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say it is easy to find child porn images on Bing, which also actively suggests related keywords and images; Microsoft says it is working on fixes — A TechCrunch-commissioned report finds damning evidence — Illegal child exploitation imagery is easy to find on Microsoft's Bing search engine.
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Inquirer, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Telegraph, CNET, GeekWire, The Mac Observer, OnMSFT.com, and Notes from Silicon Valley
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The resumes of 202M+ Chinese users, with personal data including home addresses and mobile numbers, were exposed online on an unsecured MongoDB database server — Data appears to have originated from a data scraping app that collected resumes from Chinese job portals.| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Ahead of its expected IPO, Postmates has raised a $100M investment, which a source says values the company at $1.85B, up from $1.2B in September — Just in the nick of time. — The food delivery startup Postmates has raised a $100 million investment just before it plans to go public … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon's IMDb launches Freedive, an ad-supported streaming service offering movies and TV shows in the US; site now lists 130+ free movies and 29 shows — Amazon has extended its tentacles into the ad-supported VOD space — stocking IMDb with a back-catalog of dozens of movies and TV shows that are free to watch.
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Business Wire, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, GeekWire, CNET, Engadget, Android Police, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, and Polygon
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Videolan says it expects VLC to surpass 3B downloads on Friday and that Airplay support is coming to the main VLC app, possibly arriving in about a month — Open source video player app VLC was mere hours away from surpassing 3 billion downloads Friday, and the Videolan team celebrated …
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VentureBeat, The Next Web, TechCrunch, BGR, The Verge, AppleInsider, Firstpost, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@jank0
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Researchers develop tool that can predict where Twitter users live with 92.5% accuracy using GPS data from geotagged tweets posted prior to April 2015 — AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live …
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @wired, and @alexwhitcomb
| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
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