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Spotify says it will launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio — Your turn, Apple Music — Spotify is going hi-fi. Well, “HiFi.” It's taken longer than competitors like Tidal …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Gartner: in Q4 2020, Apple sold 80M new iPhones globally, overtaking Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% — Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016 …
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Microsoft partners with EU publishing lobbyists to push for payment for news content amid Australia's effort to force Facebook and Google to share their revenue — Seattle-based company aligns with press industry and exploits rivals' difficulties — Microsoft has joined forces …
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| Jimmy Jenkins / KJZZ: |
Whistleblowers: Arizona's inmate management software has been unable to interpret sentencing laws since 2019, leaving hundreds eligible for release incarcerated — According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release …
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| The Verge: |
Epic will give Fortnite and Rocket League players who have bought loot boxes ~$8 worth of credits and set aside $26M+ for claims to settle a class action suit — The class action settlement also provides an additional $26 million in benefits — Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks …
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| VICE: |
Researchers say a change in iOS 14.5 beta, which improves how iOS handles pointers, makes sandbox escapes and “0-click” attacks much harder to pull off — Multiple exploit developers tell Motherboard an upcoming change in iOS could make zero-click exploits harder to pull off.
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| Sean Highkin / Bleacher Report: |
NBA Top Shot, a marketplace for NBA video highlights, says it has 50K+ users and sales of $60M+ since Oct.; its owner Dapper Labs reportedly just raised $250M — In the third quarter of a regular-season game against the Houston Rockets last February, LeBron James broke away … | Anton Troianovski / New York Times: |
Russian officials are trying to lure people onto social networks tied to the government, in an attempt to keep dissent from going viral at moments of crisis — The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Huawei unveils the foldable Mate X2 with an exterior 6.5" screen and interior 8" screen, both with 90Hz refresh rates, available in China from $2,785 — Announced today for release in China — Huawei has announced the Mate X2, its first all-new foldable device since 2019's Mate X …
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XDA Developers, Android Authority, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android Police, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, MSPoweruser, BGR India, CNET, NextPit, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, Neowin, Tom's Guide, The Register, Android Beat, CNBC, Engadget, AppleInsider, Liliputing, Wccftech, SlashGear, BBC, PetaPixel, Huawei Central, MacRumors, GSMArena.com, phonearena.com, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @backlon
| Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook made up the biggest sources of Biden campaign contributions among corporate employees, who gave $15.1M+ — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook made up biggest source of donations to Democrat among corporate employees| Jason Cipriani / ZDNet: |
Samsung extends security updates for Galaxy phones released in 2019 or later from three years to a “minimum of four” — Previously, Samsung only guaranteed security updates for 3 years. — Samsung on Monday announced that it's extending the amount of time it will provide security updates …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, 9to5Google, The Verge, MUO, MSPoweruser, Pocketnow, Neowin, Android Central, Phandroid, Android Beat, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, Gizchina, Wccftech, Android Headlines, AndroidGuys, Liliputing, and SlashGear
Tweets: @samsungnewsus and @samsungnewsin
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
EquityBee, a marketplace that aims to help startup employees exercise stock options, raises $20M Series A led by Group 11 — EquityBee, a stock option marketplace startup, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. — Group 11 led the financing, which also included participation … | Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple says it has revoked certificates for dev accounts used by the creator of the “Silver Sparrow” malware, effectively preventing new Macs from being infected — Following the discovery of a new and unusual malware that had the potential to attack Macs running on Apple Silicon …
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