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Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip with a foldable 6.7" FHD+ AMOLED display, 3,300 mAh battery, dual front-facing cameras, coming February 14 starting for $1,380 — Foldable phones still feel like a dream, but to kick off the 2020 smartphone season, Samsung is hoping to change that.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Live blog from Galaxy Unpacked 2020 — Samsung Unpacked is back — Samsung is back with another Unpacked event in San Francisco. The Verge is here to live blog the keynote, which begins at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. What should you expect? Phones, lots of phones.| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Samsung's new S20 lineup: 120Hz refresh rate makes the screens stand out, the Ultra is significantly bigger, and the cameras are ambitious — If you were planning to buy a premium Android smartphone this year, you can rest easy knowing they'll all come with more or less the same things.
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| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
| Greg Miller / Washington Post: |
Sources: CIA secretly owned Crypto AG, the leading supplier of encryption systems globally, and could read allies' and adversaries' communications for decades — For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
US judge rules in favor of T-Mobile-Sprint merger, the final hurdle for the deal; Sprint's stock rises 70%+ — - A U.S. District judge ruled in favor of Sprint's $26 billion deal to merge with T-Mobile. — The ruling clears one of the final hurdles for the deal, which still can't close until …
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| Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: |
The FTC is asking Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft about acquisitions from the past decade that were small enough to not be reported to the gov't — FTC to review acquisitions made by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — The Federal Trade Commission …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft shows how containerized and dual-screen apps will work in Windows 10X with a new emulator and SDK and also refreshes its Android-based Duo SDK — Microsoft is delivering its promised Windows 10X emulator and SDK, plus a refresh of its Android-based Duo SDK as its next milestones along its dual-screen device path.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @thurrott, and @maryjofoley
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Source: Spotify is paying close to $200M upfront for the Ringer, to be followed by more than $50M later — - Streamer has spent more than $600 million on podcast deals — Sports columnist Bill Simmons founded the Ringer in 2016 — Spotify Technology SA is paying close … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google partners with non-profit Defending Digital Campaigns to offer its Advanced Protection tools, including Titan keys, to US political campaigns for free — Candidates can also get trained up on how to use Advanced Protection to keep their accounts safe.
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Nielsen: streaming makes up 19% of US TV watching, with Netflix comprising 31% of streaming on TVs, followed by 21% on YouTube, 12% on Hulu, and 8% on Amazon — Netflix is big and it's getting bigger. And we're not just watching it on our phones and tablets: That dominance translates … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft backtracks on forcibly installing the Bing extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus enterprise customers and changing the default search engine — Sanity prevails: Microsoft is no longer planning to automatically deploy its Microsoft Search in Bing browser extension to Office 365 ProPlus users.
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Tweets: @maryjofoley and @bradchacos
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Snapchat will launch tools and custom content around mental health and wellness in a few months, including a search tool surfacing helpful resources — Snapchat is launching a new set of tools and custom content around mental health and wellness, sources tell Axios.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Airbnb had a $322M net loss for the nine months through Sept. 2019, down from a $200M profit a year earlier, raising concerns ahead of its expected IPO — Coronavirus impact also could delay closely watched markets debut — Airbnb Inc. swung to a loss for the first nine months …
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Draft paper shows the EU backing off proposed five-year moratorium on facial recognition tech, instead leaving it to member states to set their own rules — New draft of AI paper drops suggestion of 5-year moratorium on surveillance technology — Brussels has backed away from plans to call …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Search warrant reveals how Apple uses hashes of previously identified child abuse images to flag, evaluate, and, if needed, intercept emails — Apple is well known for the secretive ways it sometimes operates, whether that's in protecting its iOS platform or how it deals with egregious criminals …
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9to5Mac, Business Insider, The Next Web, iMore, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, and The Mac Observer
| Bloomberg: |
To challenge Netflix and tap Culver City's deep entertainment resources, Amazon, Apple, and HBO are moving into vast office and production spaces in the city — - They set up shop in California town to be where the talent is — Spending billions on content, they fuel a development frenzy| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
Sirius XM invests $75M in SoundCloud in exchange for a minority stake and two seats on the board — The audio entertainment giant puts money into the open audio platform. — Audio entertainment giant SiriusXM Holdings said Tuesday it has invested $75 million in open audio platform SoundCloud … | Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Shippeo, which works on improving supply chain visibility by digitizing freight transport, raises €20M Series B led by NGP Capital and ETF Partners — Shippeo, the French startup working in supply chain visibility, has raised a €20 million Series B round, led by NGP Capital …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple joins the FIDO Alliance, an open industry association which promotes the U2F authentication standard and helps reduce the over-reliance on passwords — Apple has joined the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an open industry association whose mission is to develop …
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Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, iMore, iPhone Hacks, and The Mac Observer
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources detail how popular email apps like Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox scrape users' inboxes, using harvested data to power market research products — The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users' email inboxes …
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Changing Communications, TechRadar.com, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, and SlashGear
Tweets: @doctorow, @doctorow, @karissabe, @bigblackjacobin, @edison_apps, @privacyproject, @a_w_gordon, and @vice
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Docugami, which uses AI to let companies create and analyze documents in aggregate, as if they were in a database, raises $10M seed round led by SignalFire — Docugami, a startup aiming to reinvent the way businesses create and extract information from documents, has raised an extraordinary $10 million … Sponsor Posts
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