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Reddit: Technology
- Loot boxes push kids into gambling, says England's NHS mental health director
- Apple reportedly abandoned plans to roll out end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups, apparently due to pressure from the FBI
- The US needs a national privacy law for personal data, Salesforce co-CEO says
- Trump administration threatens UK with tariffs if Boris Johnson imposes taxes on tech giants
- Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
- South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos
- Exclusive: Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting Backups After FBI Complained - Sources
- Microsoft quietly removes pledge to share 95% of app revenue on the Microsoft Store
- 14% of Android app privacy policies contain contradictions about data collection.
- Schools Took Away Students’ Phones. Now They’re Treating Separation Anxiety
- Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll
- US Cyber Command was not prepared to handle the amount of data it hacked from ISIS | Operation Glowing Symphony was a success, but Cyber Command operators were not prepared for the amount of data they found in hacked ISIS accounts and servers.
- Over 70 Public Libraries Made 2019 a Record Year for Digital Checkouts
- 'Universal memory' research passes new milestone
- Sonos will stop updating its 'legacy' products in May
- Sonos to stop providing software updates for "legacy" products in May.
- Google CEO: 'Artificial intelligence needs to be regulated'
- amazon to roll out 10,000 electric rickshaws in india by 2025
- Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
- China's 500-meter FAST radio telescope is now operational
- A facial recognition company dug up billions of photos from Facebook and beyond
- Court reverses $10.1 million judgement against Nintendo in Wii patent case
- Dad modifies Xbox Adaptive Controller so his daughter can play Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Tech blogs
Techcrunch
- Cruise unveils Origin, an electric driverless vehicle designed for sharing
- Goldman Sachs’s CEO just called WeWork’s pulled IPO — which Goldman was underwriting — proof that the market works
- Female Founders Alliance absorbs Monarq accelerator to better promote women and non-binary founders
- Adblock Plus’s Till Faida on the shifting shape of ad blocking
- India likely to force Facebook, WhatsApp to identify the originator of messages
- Netflix adds 8.8M subscribers despite growing competition
- Cruise doubles down on hardware
- Corporate relocation startup Shyft raises $15M
- Spotify’s new test lets influencers post Stories to introduce their own playlists
- 2020 will be a moment of truth for foldable devices
Engadget
- Boeing doesn't expect the 737 Max to resume flying before mid-2020
- Vodafone is the latest to leave Facebook's Libra Association
- Apple could promote TV+ with companion podcasts
- HP's latest Chromebooks for schools include more durable keyboards
- Some Under Armour fitness devices lose their smarts on March 31st
- Guardian: Saudi prince’s account used to hack Jeff Bezos via WhatsApp
- Spotify tests Stories for influencer playlists
- Netflix changes how it counts viewing popularity, pumps up 'The Witcher'
- Half-Life games are free on Steam until March
- Alexa-powered Lego challenge winners include a game system and waffle iron
ZDNet
- Amazon launches Uber-like package delivery service in Australia
- Australian Taxation Office defaults agent log in to myGovID from Saturday
- Uber sells Indian food delivery arm to Zomato
- HP debuts new Education Edition Chromebooks designed for classroom durability
- VMware to acquire Nyansa for AI-based network analytics
- Amazon brings AWS Outposts to 7 new regions
- IBM beats Q4 expectations with Red Hat bolstering software sales
- Journalist Glenn Greenwald charged with hacking by Brazil prosecutors
- Can AI put humans back in the loop?
- Microsoft discovers new sLoad 2.0 (Starslord) malware
Wired Magazine
- Free Press Advocates Decry Cybercrime Charges Against Glenn Greenwald
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VentureBeat
- GM’s Cruise rolls out Origin, an autonomous electric vehicle with no steering wheel
- Netflix beats Q4 2019 subscriber expectations, misses on Q1 2020 forecast
- Stillfront Group acquires Storm8 for $300 million
- AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT review — More than enough 1080p power
- GamesBeat Decides 136: Game delays and sales charts
- IBM’s biology-inspired AI generates hash codes faster than classical approaches
- Microsoft open-sources ONNX Runtime model to speed up Google’s BERT
- Facebook’s AI learns the relationships between physical places from first-person video footage
- Daybreak creates individual studios for EverQuest, DC Universe, and PlanetSide
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Gizmodo
- Report: Saudi Crown Prince Personally Sent Malware to Jeff Bezos, Possibly to Steal Those Dick Pics
- You Know We Can See the Apple Watches You Snuck Into the Impeachment Trial, Right?
- PSA: Sony Will Officially Kill Playstation Vue This Month
- 'Walking Sharks' Confirmed as the Newest Addition to the Shark Family Tree
- Deadly New Virus in China Has Reached the U.S., CDC Reports
- The World Was Supposed to Eliminate This Greenhouse Gas—But Emissions Hit a New High Instead
- Okay, But Have You Tried Just Making Them Employees?
- How Much Should Tech Pay?
- Why the Latest FDA Sunscreen-in-the-Blood Study Shouldn't Scare You
- Change These Facebook Settings to Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition Software
Techmeme
- Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone
- Sources: Apple dropped plan to encrypt backups of devices in iCloud about two years ago, after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations
- Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M
- Source: Uber is testing a feature letting drivers in three California cities set fares on rides from the airport; drivers can charge up to 5x the Uber fare
- Source: the new low-cost iPhone, which looks like iPhone 8 and has a 4.7" screen, will enter production in February and may be announced as early as March
- Google debuts experimental wellbeing apps including Activity Bubbles, which slowly fill the screen after unlocking, and wallpaper showing phone usage time
- Federal court reverses $10.1M judgment against Nintendo in case involving the Wii remote, calling iLife Technologies' patent for motion sensing tech “abstract”
- SCOTUS declines to review Facebook facial recognition case, meaning FB will likely face a class-action suit alleging its photo-tagging feature violated IL law
- France has agreed to suspend this year's digital tax until the end of 2020 as part of trade negotiations with the US
- Facebook says it plans to hire 1,000 workers in the UK this year, with over half in technology, bringing its total in the UK to over 4,000
The Verge
- Google designed an envelope you can use to hide your phone from yourself
- Exclusive look at Cruise’s first driverless car without a steering wheel or pedals
- Google is giving free $130 Stadia gaming kits to new Verizon Fios subscribers
- The patent that would have cost Nintendo $10 million is worthless, judge rules
- Netflix uses Google Trends to claim The Witcher was more popular than The Mandalorian
- Cold with a chance of falling iguanas, Miami National Weather Service warns
- Saudi Arabian prince reportedly hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone with malicious WhatsApp message
- Netflix grew bigger even amid competition from Baby Yoda
- Oculus is dropping the Oculus Go from its business platform
- Eight Senators snuck Apple Watches into impeachment hearings despite electronics ban
TNW
- Valve makes all Half-Life games free in anticipation of Alyx
- Nebia’s new showerhead helps you save more water with fewer compromises
- YouTube TV just debuted on the PS4, replacing Vue
- Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
- See how hard you gamed in the last ten years with MyDecadeOnXbox
- Modern Warfare Season One’s been extended, should I purchase the Battle Pass now?
- Report: Apple drops plan to encrypt iCloud backups after FBI protests
- Apple’s strong iPhone 11 sales last quarter bode well for the SE 2
- Leaked trailer offers a new look at Godfall, the first game announced for PS5
- Tesla says there’s no unintended acceleration in its vehicles, blames short seller
Slashdot
- Amazon To Ramp Up Counterfeit Reporting To Law Enforcement
- Boeing Officially Stops Making 737 Max Airplanes
- AMD Launches Navi-Based Radeon RX 5600XT To Battle GeForce RTX 2060 Under $300
- Wine 5.0 Released
- Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos' Phone 'Hacked By Saudi Crown Prince'
- First Case of New Coronavirus Detected In US
- Notorious Crime Gang Targets Internet Routers Using Tomato Firmware
- AR is the 'Next Big Thing', Says Apple CEO Tim Cook
- 14% of Android App Privacy Policies Contain Contradictions About Data Collection
- Federal Workers Kept Clicking on Tech Jobs Months After Shutdown
ArsTechnica
- 737 Max fix slips to summer—and that’s just one of Boeing’s problems
- Coronavirus from China has made its way to the United States
- Brazil prosecutes Glenn Greenwald in “attack on press freedom”
- Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam
- Internet routers running Tomato are under attack by notorious crime gang
- Smart scale goes dumb as Under Armour pulls the plug on connected tech
- Dealmaster: A bunch of Amazon Fire tablets are on sale today
- Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129
- Why isn’t California using more prescribed burns to reduce fire risk?
- Reuters: Apple cut backup end-to-end encryption plans after FBI complained
CNET
- Opera defends its Android apps after accusation of 'predatory lending'
- Boeing says 737 Max will stay grounded until mid-2020
- Vodafone has exited Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
- We're back from the future -- CES 2020 (The Daily Charge, 1/21/2020) video
- France and Trump agree to temporary truce on digital tech tax
- Google Stadia 2020 plans, newest games and everything else we know
- Facebook promises 1,000 new jobs in London as Brexit looms
- Google wants AI regulation, Netflix snags Studio Ghibli video
- Samsung mobile chief steps back from day-to-day operations
- Alternatives to Google Chrome video
Flipboard: Tech
- 4 reasons why passwords are becoming a thing of the past
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- 11 DevOps trends that will matter most in 2020
- Average IT salary hits record $113,639 in US due to these certifications
- Here’s what a $10 million lab dedicated to cracking iPhones looks like
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- Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
- NAMM 2020 VIDEO: Vox's Nutube tech gives its new Valvenergy pedal series a valve amp feel
- Elon Musk: Tesla acquisition of Maxwell is going to have a very big impact on batteries
- Brain-hacking is the next big nightmare, so we'll need anti-virus for the mind
The Register
- Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message
- Bank IT bod pocketed nearly $1m in kickbacks from tech contractor bosses for sending deals their way, Feds claim
- Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons
- No backdoors needed: Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt iCloud backups after heavy pressure from FBI – claim
- CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow
- Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors
- South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos
- Dixons Carphone to London Stock Exchange: Yay, we grew 2% in the festive quarter. Oh, hang on, no we didn't
- New SAP co-CEO 'runs simple' to Davos in Mercedes hydrogen car
- WTF, EFS? Experts warn Windows encryption could spawn nasty new ransomware
Medium: Technology
- Your Vibrator Is a Spy
- Google’s New Search Engine
- Startup Shows Off Smart Contact Lens Prototype With Tiny Display
- Inside the $10 Million Cyber Lab Trying to Break Apple’s iPhone
- AirPods Have Changed My Life
- Tesla Hit With Reports of Unintended Acceleration
- IoT can Disrupt Every Industry
- Tech addiction explained with one simple analogy
- CES 2020: The driving forces behind Total Health Ownership
- Smart Sensors: Game Changers For Every Industry Across The Globe
Vox: Recode
- Marc Benioff picks a new fight with Silicon Valley — over trees
- Netflix says Disney and Baby Yoda may have cut into the streaming service’s growth
- Amazon Ring sales nearly tripled in December despite hacks
- AI can help find illegal opioid sellers online. And wildlife traffickers. And counterfeits.
- Spotify may buy The Ringer. Here’s why that makes sense.
- Mike Bloomberg throws shade at Joe Biden as a looming “lame duck”
- Things can get “really bad, really quickly” when a 24-year-old runs a company
- When Pinterest users started searching for vaccines, CEO Ben Silbermann pulled all medical information from the platform
- Amazon’s Ring blamed hacks on consumers reusing their passwords. A lawsuit says that’s not true.
ReadWrite
- How to Keep Recorded Video Data Properly Secured and Encrypted
- How Self-Driving Cars Can Shape Our Future
- 5G Isn’t Pie in the Sky—It’s Here and We Need Infrastructure
- The Biggest Growth Marketing Trend of 2020: Radically Inclusive Advertising
- 3 Tech-Driven Ways to Engage Your Employees
- Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups
- How Robocallers Get Your Phone Number?
- Best Mattress Brands of 2020
- How to Be an Agile Entrepreneur (with Ramesh Dontha)
- Facial Recognition – Shaping the future of Identity Verification Market
MIT Technology Review
- What the GOP’s proposed climate policies would, and wouldn’t, do
- IBM’s debating AI just got a lot closer to being a useful tool
- There’s been a huge spike in one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases
- Your kid’s phone probably isn’t causing depression
- SpaceX’s Crew Dragon abort system works—now it’s ready to send astronauts into space
- Force social-media firms to share data to cut teen suicides, say psychiatrists
- The EU might ban facial recognition in public for five years
- Microsoft will invest $1 billion into carbon reduction and removal technologies
- Australia had plans to prevent fire blackouts. They just weren’t ready in time.
- The latest numbers on renewable investments are in, and they aren’t great
Mainstream media
NYTimes: Tech
- Netflix Reports a Subscriber Bump as Disney Poses a New Threat
- Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
- Alone on a Mountaintop, Awaiting a Very Hard Rain
- India Targets Jeff Bezos Over Amazon and Washington Post
- How Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’
- Unmasking a Company That Wants to Unmask Us All
- SpaceX’s Explosive Test May Launch Year of Renewed Human Spaceflight
- Who’s Watching Your Porch?
- Facebook Apologizes for Vulgar Translation of Chinese Leader’s Name
- The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
WSJ: Tech
- Netflix Subscriber Growth Falls Short in U.S., but Leaps Abroad
- Uber Is Testing a Feature That Lets Some Drivers Set Fares
- IBM Earnings Hint at Signs of Turnaround
- Tesla's Post-China Challenge: Bats and Bombs in Germany
- Mnuchin Warns U.K., Italy Over Digital-Tax Plans
- How a Military Cyber Operation to Disrupt Islamic State Spurred Debate
- U.S. Turns Up the Spotlight on Chinese Universities
- When Social Media Is Too Much, Some Teens Tune Out
- IBM Sales Expected to Dip Despite Red Hat Purchase
- France, U.S. Agree to Tech-Tax Truce
Washington Post: Technology
- So far, under California’s new privacy law, firms are disclosing too little data — or far too much
- Evgeny Kuznetsov takes on Capitals’ new esports pro, gets smacked in NHL 20
- The Technology 202: Google’s Sundar Pichai is the latest tech titan to embrace regulation
- Waiting and watching: How brutally difficult Mario levels helped me through my mom’s stroke recovery
- SpaceX completes key test of its Dragon capsule. Its first human spaceflight might come in spring.
- Companies burned by Big Tech plead for Congress to regulate Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google
- Facebook is ordered to hand over data about thousands of apps that may have violated user privacy
- Yes, Trump campaign ad uses a song from League of Legends. No, he didn’t steal it from Riot.
- The Technology 202: Pelosi’s Facebook slam reflects rising tensions between social media giant and Democrats
- Our best guesses on the next 6 Super Smash Bros. characters. (No, not Waluigi.)
Guardian: Tech UK
- 16in MacBook Pro review: bigger battery, new keyboard, new Apple
- US case against Huawei's Meng Wanzhou is 'fiction', say lawyers
- Jabra Elite 75t review: small and long lasting AirPod beaters
- Trump’s greatest ally in the coming election? Facebook | John Harris
- Facebook blames 'technical error' for Xi Jinping offensive name translation gaffe
- Johnson will defy US and allow use of Huawei, says top security adviser
- Wattam review – wacky world where, from acorns, golden poos grow
- I’m still on Windows 7 – what should I do?
- Google Nest Mini review: better bass and recycled plastic
- Huawei critics must come up with an alternative, says Boris Johnson – video
BBC: Tech UK
- Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
- France agrees to delay new tax on tech giants
- Glenn Greenwald: Brazil accuses journalist of cyber-crimes
- DDoS: Man who sold website defences pleads guilty to attacks
- Disney+ to launch a week earlier than planned in the UK
- Facebook creates 1,000 new UK jobs
- Meng Wanzhou case: Huawei executive's extradition hearings begin
- Robot tanks: On patrol but not allowed to shoot
- Google boss Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation
- Regus sales staff data exposed after undercover job review
Computing UK
- Temporary patch issued to cover IE 11 security flaw being actively exploited in the wild
- Apple U-turned on iCloud end-to-end encryption plan following FBI complaints
- CityFibre acquires TalkTalk's FibreNation fibre network
- Emotet malware operators now using new spam template to demand $50 extortion from potential targets
- Apple CEO Tim Cook calls for global corporate tax reform
- Peter Cochrane: Technology is not a threat - people are!
- GDPR claims €114m in fines in under two years - with more to come this year
- How workforce insights can enable positive change
- How cloud human capital management can aid employee engagement
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for 'proportionate' regulation of artificial intelligence
BleepingComputer
- Microsoft Starts Pushing Windows 10 1909 to More Devices
- Final Windows 7 Update Breaks Desktop Wallpaper Functionality
- Windows 10 PowerToy Quick Launcher to Simplify Launching Apps
- ProtonVPN Apps Open Sourced for Added Transparency and Security
- FBI Warns Job Applicants of Scams Using Spoofed Company Sites
- This Citibank Phishing Scam Could Trick Many People
- Wine 5.0 Released With Numerous Gaming Improvements for Linux
- Phishing Incident at UPS Store Chain Exposes Customer Info
- Actively Exploited IE 11 Zero-Day Bug Gets Temporary Patch
- Microsoft Tests Office 'Ads' in Windows 10 Wordpad
Reuters: Technology News
- How social media services handle political ads
- Facebook tweaks ad policy but still allows political lies in U.S. campaign 2020
- GM's Cruise unit unveils driverless vehicle for ride-sharing service
- Huawei CFO's lawyers argue U.S. extradition charges not a crime in Canada
- Netflix subscriber forecast misses Wall Street estimate as market leader faces Disney
- Vodafone Group exits Facebook-led Libra currency group
- IBM forecasts full-year profit above estimates on cloud growth
- Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources
- Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll
- Merkel ally sees growing German support for tough Huawei stance