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SoftBank’s big investment in Uber comes to a close
It looks like SoftBank’s long-anticipated investment in Uber is almost done. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, a SoftBank-led group has almost finalized a deal to own close to 15% of the company. The transaction could be completed as soon as noon today, Pacific time. The shares purchased from existing shareholders will value the company at approximately $48 billion… Read More
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Britain’s spy agency can’t stop losing cyber talent to major tech companies
The NSA isn’t the only secretive national intelligence agency having trouble keeping its tech-savvy recruits. In a new document from the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, Britain’s spy agency describes its difficulty in fending off tech companies keen to poach its workers. Read More
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Lamborghini’s EV initiatives seem to lack a spark
It doesn’t look like Lamborghini will be joining the race for e-performance vehicles anytime soon. Even as the Italian company announced plans to work with MIT in a collaboration to create “electric super sports cars of the future” with the unveiling of its Terzo Millennio concept car, without an exact EV Lambo production date, it’s unclear when the iconic brand… Read More
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Still living under the tyranny of the password in 2017
When I lost access to my Google account recently, it left a gaping hole in my digital life and showed me just how tenuous the link to our online world can be. One thing I learned from the story I wrote last week about my experience was that I was far from alone. I got more than a dozen emails and tweets from folks who had been similarly locked out of Google, Facebook or Amazon Prime, and… Read More
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Amazon updates Fire TV’s YouTube app to redirect users to a web browser instead
The feud between Amazon and Google continues today with the early removal of YouTube from the Fire TV – a move Google had said wouldn’t take place until January 1, 2018. But as a number of Fire TV owners have now noticed, launching the YouTube app today informs you that you can choose to watch “YouTube and millions of other websites” by using a web browser. You then… Read More
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Crypto prices suffer as Korean government announces new regs, potential ban
The South Korean government announced new legislation today that would put increasingly tough regulations on the country’s burgeoning cryptocurrency markets. Under the legislation, Korea, which is the third largest market for cryptocurrencies in the world after the U.S. and Japan, would ban anonymous accounts and continually monitor crypto exchanges. Perhaps more ominously, the Wall… Read More
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Attending CES 2018? TechCrunch wants to see your company
CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge contingent to the show again this year and want to see your gadgets, toys and products. TechCrunch cares much more for the hardware startups than the big CE players. We want to see the future FitBits and… Read More
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HQ Trivia Is Coming to Android | Crunch Report
HQ Trivia is coming to Android, Amazon Echo is the No. 1 best seller on the site and the founder of LeEco is ordered to return to China. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Thousands of major sites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures
It’s no secret that ad blockers are putting a dent in advertising-based business models on the web. This has produced a range of reactions, from relatively polite whitelisting asks to dynamic redeployment of ads to avoid blocking. A new study finds that nearly a third of the top 10,000 sites on the web are taking ad blocking countermeasures, many silent and highly sophisticated. Read More
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Certain Sonos and Bose models can be accessed by hackers to play sound remotely
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a potential hack opening key speakers from Sonos and Bose to remote access. As first reported by Wired, the Sonos Play:1, Sonos One, and Bose SoundTouch systems can be located and taken over through an online scan, letting hackers play music through the system. For now, the access appears to be largely prank-based. The researchers, naturally, used… Read More
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Instagram will now add ‘Recommended’ posts to your feed
Instagram’s feed will now show users recommended posts – a change that earlier this month was spotted while in testing, and has since quietly gone live. The feature, described here in the company’s Help documentation, will suggest posts for you based on those that have been liked by other accounts you follow. The new section, “Recommended for You,” is clearly… Read More
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King-size games may have to wait as Nintendo reportedly delays 64-gig Switch cartridges
The Switch may be the most pleasant tech surprise of 2017, but although it has many excellent qualities, excessive storage space is not among them. And it looks like that will continue to be a problem if, as The Wall Street Journal hears, Nintendo is delaying the production of 64-gigabyte cartridges. Read More
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LG teams up with HERE for self-driving telematics tech
LG is looking at the rise of autonomous vehicle technologies as an opportunity to expand its electronics business, and it’s now working with mapping provider HERE to put together a telematics product aimed at self-driving vehicle applications. The joint solution will put LG’s telematics tech together with HERE’s location services and high-resolution maps to offer… Read More
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Here’s an easy trick to get an extra life on HQ Trivia without a referral
Want an extra life on HQ but hate shilling out your referral code? Try this trick. Open HQ to the main page (where it shows the next game time and your balance) and swipe up really fast with two fingers over and over again. Do this and you should get an extra life. Yeah, it’s that easy. I just tried it and it worked perfectly, although one friend who already had an extra life said it… Read More
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President Obama warns against getting ‘cocooned’ in bias via social media
Former President Barack Obama sat down with the UK’s Prince Harry for an extended and far-ranging interview with the BBC this week, and their conversation touched on social media, the use thereof, and Obama’s take on what the current state of social media means for human discourse. The full interview covers a lot of ground, but the breakouts regarding social media include an… Read More
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HQ Trivia arrives on Android in Canada in beta
App-based trivia sensation HQ Trivia is on its way to Android, as the company previously revealed, but a special group of users can access it right now — Canadians. The app is now live in the Canadian Google Play Store, though it’s an “Unreleased” beta version of the live trivia game (via MobileSyrup). HQ Trivia debuted on iOS earlier this year, featuring a twice… Read More
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Apple devices again saw the most activations during the holidays
Apple devices accounted for 44 percent of smartphone and tablet activations over the holidays, with nearly a third of those coming from new devices including the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X, according to new data from Flurry Analytics out this morning. However, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 6 actually took the top two spots in terms of Apple activations, at 15.1 percent and 14.9 percent… Read More
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Kia and Hyundai cars will include AI assistants starting in 2019
Vehicles made by Korean carmakers Hyundai and Kia will include built-in virtual assistants with AI-powered smarts beginning in 2019 (via Engadget). The plan to build smart assistants into vehicles will make use of tech created by SoundHound, the music identification company that has recently been focusing more on building AI agent software more akin to things like Siri and Google… Read More
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Theranos
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Internet Archive
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Collibra
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Lendingkart
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Realbest
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Unbound
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Squirrel
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Kolte-Patil Developers
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Futurestay
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Foyr
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Influencer
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Prasos
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Triggi
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Flexenclosure
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MEL Science
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Sirin Labs
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African Export-Import Bank
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Starry
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IGP.com
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OfficeRock
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Long Blockchain
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Imanis Data
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Imanis Data
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Vacayrx
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Labs64 NetLicensing
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Biotricity
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