After signing a licensing deal with Getty, Google Image Search removes View Image button; Search by Image button also removed but still works through search bar
Google has removed the View Image button and the Search by Image feature when viewing an individual image within Google Image Search.
Sonos One speakers also leave marks on unprotected wood surfaces, but they appear to fade over time; Sonos says it is investigating
The HomePod isn't the only smart speaker that can damage your furniture. — White rings caused by the Apple HomePod (left) and the Sonos One (right)
Swiss pharma giant Roche is paying $1.9B to acquire the rest of clinical data platform Flatiron Health, in which it had a 12% stake, valuing Flatiron at $2.1B
- Swiss pharma giant Roche is acquiring Flatiron Health, which has an electronic medical record used by physicians treating cancer …
Google to buy IoT company Xively, which lets firms manage devices remotely, from LogMeIn for $50M; 45 Xively staffers go to Google, LogMeIn exits IoT space
Google said Xivley will complement its Google Cloud objectives with analytics and data storage as the cornerstones.
Strategy Analytics: Apple captured 51% of Q4 global smartphone revenue, Samsung captured 15.7%, Huawei captured 7%, all others 26.2%
The iPhone maker grabbed over half of all global smartphone revenue last quarter. — Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone unit sales may have come up slightly short …
Coinbase says it will issue refunds after an issue with its payment processor led to some users being repeatedly charged for purchases
‘I am FREAKING OUT’ — A growing number of Coinbase customers are complaining that the cryptocurrency exchange withdrew unauthorized money out of their accounts.
Belgian court rules Facebook is illegally collecting user data via cookies on third party sites, must remove data, threatens €250K/day fines for non-compliance
Fine of up to 250,000 euros a day if company doesn't comply — Social network to appeal, says cookies are industry standard
Facebook complies with demand of Russia's internet censor to remove Instagram video by opposition activist Alexei Navalny, but the video remains on YouTube
Instagram has blocked posts in Russia relating to corruption claims made by the country's most prominent opposition leader.
District court in New York rules that by embedding a tweet with copyrighted content, websites may violate copyright, rejecting years of settled legal precedent
Rejecting years of settled precedent, a federal court in New York has ruled [PDF] that you could infringe copyright simply by embedding a tweet in a web page.
Google tests 911 call location tech expected to launch this year; RapidSOS says tests got to within 121 feet of callers while carriers averaged 522 feet
911 centers often struggle to locate cellphone callers, but new technology from Google could improve the U.S. system
SEC filing: Intel facing 32 class action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws and three shareholder derivative actions over alleged insider trading
Shareholders also allege insider trading — Intel has revealed today that the company is facing at least 32 lawsuits over the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws.
US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand officially attribute 2017 NotPetya attack that targeted Ukraine and some large businesses to Russia
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
DroneBase, which connects drone users with commercial customers for specific jobs, raises $12M Series B co-led by Upfront Ventures and Union Square Ventures
If you have purchased a drone in the last year or two, there's a high likelihood that it only emerges from your gadget closet a few times per year, if that.
Latest Windows 10 Insider build has “Ultimate Performance” power mode, which Microsoft says builds on “High Performance” mode by removing more micro-latencies
Monica Chin / Mashable :
Apple says fix is coming for iOS and macOS bug that blocks access to apps like Messages, Messenger, WhatsApp if user gets message with specific Indian character
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Google releases Gmail Go, a scaled-down version that takes up less storage space, on Android, following YouTube Go, Assistant Go, and others
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Chartbeat: AMP traffic to publishers increased 100% since 2017 as mobile dominates traffic growth; Parse.ly data shows Facebook referral traffic fell to 25.3%
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Microsoft says it fixed Skype security flaw allowing DLL hijacking in Oct. 2017 when it released version 8; vulnerability still in versions 7.40 and lower
Shaun Nichols / The Register :
Gaming Facebook's new algorithm, which lifts friends' content with many comments, led to horrid video sitting atop friends' News Feed for 12 days
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed :
Cisco says it will repatriate $67B to the US this quarter after new tax law, expects to spend much of it on share buybacks and dividends
Austen Hufford / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @douglasblackmon Tweets: Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : Would be great to see @cisco invest some of that $67B into some M&A ...
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