Apple apologizes for inadequately communicating battery management practices that slowed down iPhones with older batteries, will offer $29 battery replacements
and Its Strengths John Keefer / Neowin : iFixit matches Apple's $29 battery swap deal, adds older iPhones, as well Mike Snider / USA Today : Is your iPhone battery causing your smartphone to run slowl...
LG, HTC, Motorola say they don't throttle phones with older batteries; Samsung says it doesn't throttle via software updates “over the lifecycles of the phone”
Two of the biggest Android phone makers - Samsung and LG - have just confirmed that they do not slow down phones …
Gamers say deadly shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a swatting prank
A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home.
Apple posts explainer of its device battery power management practices and their noticeable effects for users, like longer app launch times, slower scrolling
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Apple says it will issue an iOS software update in early 2018 with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone's battery
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In a tweet, President Donald Trump calls on the United States Postal Service to charge Amazon “much more” in postage fees
Latest criticism of online retailer and its CEO Jeff Bezos — Amazon stock opens as much as 0.6 percent lower after tweet
Pavel Lerner, an executive of Bitcoin exchange Exmo who was kidnapped in Ukraine, was released after paying $1M+ ransom in bitcoins, according to a Ukrainian MP
An executive of a UK-registered cryptocurrency exchange kidnapped in Ukraine this week has been released after paying a ransom …
Ripple surged 50%+ on Friday and is now valued at ~$85B, surpassing Ethereum's market cap and becoming the second-most valuable cryptocurrency
- Officially called XRP, ripple climbed 55.9 percent to a record high of $2.23 Friday afternoon, according to CoinMarketCap.
AT&T says all 50 states will participate in FirstNet wireless broadband network for emergency responders, funded with $6.5B over 5 years by federal government
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Friday that all 50 U.S. states had decided to participate in the nationwide broadband network …
Two Romanians arrested for hacking Washington DC police surveillance cameras just days before President Trump's inauguration
US prosecutors have charged two Romanians with hacking Washington DC police computers linked to surveillance cameras just days before President Donald Trump's inauguration.
OKCupid's rating sinks as users rebel over new ‘real name’ policy
OKCupid's users are angry - very, very angry. Just ahead of the new year, the company made a radical change to its policies, and now requires people to use real names instead of an OKCupid username, ...
Nielsen: Netflix's “Bright”, which had a ~$90M budget, had 11M viewers on its opening weekend, roughly equivalent to $99M at the box office
Netflix Inc.'s ambitious attempt at a big-budget film, “Bright” starring Will Smith, drew an enough viewers in its first three days …
LastPass fixes vulnerability in Authenticator Android app that let you bypass PIN/fingerprint lock to access 2FA codes; flaw was reported to LastPass in June
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Amazon's “Alexa everywhere” strategy is winning the smart speaker battle and Apple's delayed and high-priced HomePod may not be able to compete
And what that might mean for Apple's HomePod — My post a couple days ago about the opportunity for Amazon Echo devices in hotels …
Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio to buy Reliance Communications' spectrum, tower, fiber optic, other telecom infrastructure assets; sources say for $3.75B
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Debt-laden Reliance Communications has signed a deal to sell its wireless assets to Reliance Jio Infocomm …
Facebook says it removed Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov's accounts due to US sanctions, prompting questions on why others, like Venezuela's Maduro, are still active
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How quantum computers will speed up the breaking of public-key cryptography and how “post-quantum cryptography” researchers are trying counter that threat
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, certainly raised the profile of quantum computing a few notches last year …
States including New York will attempt their own net neutrality legislation in 2018, testing a provision in the FCC's order that bans states from doing this
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Huawei's Ken Hu expects 2017 revenue to rise 15% to ~$92B, the firm's slowest growth in 4 years, amid shipment of 153M smartphones for 10%+ global market share
Sijia Jiang / Reuters :
Some positive tech of 2017: helping blind people navigate, cryptocurrencies for charity, fighting hiring bias with AI, helping immigrants navigate laws, more
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Sensor Tower: consumers spent $196M on apps across the Google Play and App Store on Christmas Day, up 12.3% YoY
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Analysis finds that the 50 most viral fake news stories on Facebook in 2017 generated more shares, reactions, and comments than those of 2016
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @daviddeutschoxf , @anneapplebaum , @craigsilverman , and @craigsilverman See also Mediagazer Tweets: David Deutsch / @daviddeutschoxf : 9% more. Did the total tr...
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