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Sources: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday, expected to cost $10/month; NYT and The Washington Post have opted out — SAN FRANCISCO — The Wall Street Journal plans to join a new paid subscription news service run by Apple, according to two people familiar …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview and Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS in limited preview — Microsoft today made a slew of announcements to help IT pros reduce costs, increase security, and boost employee productivity. The headline items are the launch …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the “bitcoin/crypto ecosystem” — Payments startup Square plans to hire a number of engineers and a designer to work on its crypto initiatives, according to tweets from CEO Jack Dorsey.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says support for Windows 7, which makes up 40% of desktop market, will end Jan. 14, 2020; enterprise customers can pay for extended support until 2023 — Microsoft has rolled out a patch that will warn Windows 7 users that security updates will soon come to an end.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Four European Wikipedia sites are blocking access and directing users to contact their EU representatives on March 21 to protest the copyright directive — Sites including Reddit, Twitch, and PornHub are also encouraging users in the EU to contact local politicians
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| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
Facebook says it blocked 800+ visually distinct variants of NZ shooting video, in contrast to ISIS-style propaganda which is not rebroadcast or reshared widely — We continue to keep the people, families and communities affected by the tragedy in New Zealand in our hearts.
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| Laura M. Holson / New York Times: |
After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count — Consider this: a parody account pretending to be an imaginary cow owned by Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple iPad mini (2019) review: same specs as larger iPad, headphone jack, and solid performance, but has huge bezels and a Lightning port instead of USB-C — Sometimes smaller is better — People who love the iPad mini really, really love the iPad mini.
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| Dustin Childs / Zero Day Initiative: |
Researchers hacked Apple's Safari, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation in Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 contest, earning $240K in cash awards — SUBSCRIBE — The first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 is in the books and already, we've seen some great research.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Guesty, which provides tools for property managers who list on Airbnb and other rental sites, raises $35M Series C led by Viola Growth — The growth of Airbnb — and likewise other platforms like Booking.com, VRBO and Homeaway for listing and renting short-term accommodation …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
By integrating Stadia into YouTube, Google plans to cement YouTube's dominance, as 200M users already watch gaming content there every day — Google's starting a revolution just to keep things as they are — Yesterday, Google announced plans for a new game-streaming service called Stadia.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @klobrille, @tomwarren, @benjamintseng, @backlon, @caseynewton, @cnbc, and @karlbode
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at an automated Instagram influencer account made to garner free meals from NYC restaurants in exchange for posts, which advertisers didn't really mind — Chris Buetti had a problem: Dining out in New York was getting too expensive. He saw was one obvious solution … | Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes bitcoin, and CMC Crypto ex BTC, which doesn't, launch on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters — Two cryptocurrency benchmark indices from data provider CoinMarketCap will launch today on financial data feeds …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
US retailers are deploying facial recognition tech to fight shoplifters, raising privacy concerns due to lack of legal restrictions or rules to prevent abuse — At my bodega down the block, photos of shoplifters sometimes litter the windows, a warning to would-be thieves that they're being watched.
Tweets: @alfredwkng, @eff, and @evacide
| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent misses Q4 profit estimates with net income falling 32% YoY to $2.1B on revenue of $12.6B, partially due to China's gaming freeze — Depending on whom you talk to, 2018 was either a bumper year for Tencent Holdings or a year to forget.The first Asian company to breach US$500 billion in market cap …
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon vendors say Amazon is more aggressively blocking ads of unprofitable products and telling them to lower wholesale prices for ads to be reinstated — - In recent months, Amazon has been more aggressively enforcing its policy of suspending ads if the product being promoted doesn't make money.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple approved production of its wireless charging AirPower mat earlier this year, after announcing it in 2017 with a 2018 launch date — The Wall Street Journal today reports that Apple approved production of its long-awaited wireless charging mat AirPower earlier this year …
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Netflix is testing a low-cost, mobile-only subscription with select users in India, for half the price of its entry-level plan in the country — In October last year, Netflix chief product officer Greg Peters had said that they will experiment with their pricing models to grow … | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Epic says Fortnite has 250M registered players, up from 200M in December, releases a free cross-platform SDK to help developers launch, operate, and scale games — When Tim Sweeney built ZZT in 1991, he didn't know how to program graphics. Instead of coding actual characters and objects into his game …
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PC Gamer, GameSpot, Digital Trends, USgamer.net, Android Authority, Gamasutra, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @jessconditt
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
A look at the history of game-playing AI and how it often beats humans, from IBM's Deep Blue to AlphaGo — We're only just beginning to scratch the surface of what artificial intelligence is capable of, from medical advancements to movie recommendations. Despite AI being a potential goldmine … | Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Google's stock rose 2% by the end of trading, adding nearly $17B to its market value, the same day it was fined €1.49B by the EU Commission — - The stock rose 2 percent by the end of trading adding nearly $17 billion to the company's market value. — Alphabet's gains on Wednesday add … | EU Press Room: |
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