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EU pledges $53m to help build Palestinian state | Israel News
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EU pledges $53m to help build Palestinian state | Israel News

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The European Union has announced a new funding package of 42.5 million euros (nearly $53m) to help the Palestinians build their new state.  The announcement on Wednesday came as Brussels urged the US to not go it alone in any effort to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The EU  warned that doing so would end in failure. “Any...
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Messaging giant Line catches cryptocurrency fever
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Messaging giant Line catches cryptocurrency fever

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This isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. Japan is one the largest cryptocurrency markets, and it still has a huge user base even when you don’t include its other products. Its existing payment service has about 40 million users, and this would be a logical extension. New financial services could give Line a healthy source of revenue and lock people...
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Apple Stops Signing Older Versions of iOS 11
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Apple Stops Signing Older Versions of iOS 11

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Following the release of iOS 11.2.5 on January 23, Apple stopped signing older versions of iOS 11, including iOS 11.2, iOS 11.2.1, and iOS 11.2.2. iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch owners who have upgraded to iOS 11.2.5 will no longer be able to downgrade to earlier versions of iOS. Apple routinely stops signing older versions of software updates after...
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Lexip’s joystick-mouse combo is a strange but promising hybrid
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Lexip’s joystick-mouse combo is a strange but promising hybrid

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While at CES I try to avoid getting bogged down by dozens of random gadgets, and this time I mostly succeeded — but the mouse reviewer in me was intrigued by Lexip’s new gaming mouse that’s also a sort of floating joystick. It’s a strange but cool idea, and although the learning curve is high, I can see some hardcore gamers and productivity fiends...
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Square Cash now allows anyone to buy and sell bitcoin
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Square Cash now allows anyone to buy and sell bitcoin

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Blockchaiiiiinnnnn! You can now buy and sell Bitcoin instantly with the Cash App! Still unsure what Bitcoin is? https://t.co/5fH7YEolnN 👀 pic.twitter.com/XvYknaEzBl — Cash App (@CashApp) January 31, 2018 The feature is available to most everyone who uses Cash App, unless they’re in New York, Georgia, Hawaii or Wyoming. The company promises that...
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Developers Demo Augmented Reality Improvements Coming in iOS 11.3
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Developers Demo Augmented Reality Improvements Coming in iOS 11.3

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The iOS 11.3 update, seeded to developers and public beta testers last week, introduces ARKit 1.5, an upgraded version of the set of tools developers can use to create augmented reality apps for the iPhone and the iPad. As it turns out, ARKit 1.5 can do a lot of neat things. It can map irregularly shaped surfaces for better detection of your surroundings,...
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Polymail looks to unify business email tools into a single web app
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Polymail looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

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If you’re more of a Gmail power user (or even semi-power user) and other email services geared toward work, you’ve probably installed plenty of plugins like Rapportive to make your job a little bit easier. And while it’s all fine to try to pull together a suite of plugins to make that a little bit easier, a startup called Polymail is hoping to rope...
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Apple could let you run iPad apps on your Mac
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Apple could let you run iPad apps on your Mac

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Apple is working hard on the next major versions of its operating systems — macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. While iOS is the big elephant in the room, the most intriguing new feature could be for macOS. According to reports from Bloomberg and Axios, Apple will let you run iPad apps. Yesterday, Axios first reported that Apple’s senior vice president...
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Apple Begins Shipping 18-Core iMac Pro to Customers
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Apple Begins Shipping 18-Core iMac Pro to Customers

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Apple today began shipping the 18-core iMac Pro to customers in the United States, just over six weeks after it began accepting orders. The first orders are estimated for delivery starting Tuesday, February 6. MacRumors readers Anthony Berenato and Steve McKinnon both alerted us of the shipped status of their orders, while a few other Apple customers...
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Google takes steps to combat fake news ‘snippets’
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Google takes steps to combat fake news ‘snippets’

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The company is also improving the quality of results by displaying more than one snippet. After all, sometimes there isn’t one correct answer to a question. “There are often legitimate diverse perspectives offered by publishers, and we want to provide users visibility and access into those perspectives from multiple sources,” said Matthew Gray, the...
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Critical Oracle Micros POS Flaw Affects Over 300,000 Payment Systems
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Critical Oracle Micros POS Flaw Affects Over 300,000 Payment Systems

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Oracle has released a security patch update to address a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability that affects its MICROS point-of-sale (POS) business solutions for the hospitality industry. The fix has been released as part of Oracle’s January 2018 update that patches a total of 238 security vulnerabilities in its various products. According...
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Saving refugees in the Mediterranean Sea |
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Saving refugees in the Mediterranean Sea |

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A fortnight ago, the crew of the Dutch NGO boat Sea Watch 3 saved 165 people onboard a rubber vessel north of Libya. The refugees, who had fled Libya and were trying to reach European shores, included eight children and 28 women, three of whom were pregnant. Libya’s coast is a staging post for tens of thousands of people from Africa and the Middle...
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South Korea will regulate, not ban, cryptocurrency trading
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South Korea will regulate, not ban, cryptocurrency trading

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South Korea’s finance minister Kim Dong-yeon said, “Customs service has been closely looking at illegal foreign exchange trading using cryptocurrency as part of the government’s task force,” and noted that it has detected around 637.5 billion won ($596.02 million) worth of foreign exchange crimes, with cryptocurrency forming the bulk of that figure....
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Apple Supplier Wistron to Explore iPhone 6s Assembly in India Following Plant Expansion
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Apple Supplier Wistron to Explore iPhone 6s Assembly in India Following Plant Expansion

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Apple’s main iPhone manufacturer in India is closing in on a land deal in the tech hub of Bengaluru that will see the firm invest around $157 million to assemble iPhone SE and potentially iPhone 6s models on the site, according to Reuters. Unnamed Indian government officials on Wednesday reportedly confirmed the Taiwanese contractor’s intentions, which...
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Samsung confirms it is making ASIC chips for cryptocurrency mining
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Samsung confirms it is making ASIC chips for cryptocurrency mining

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Fresh from toppling Intel as the planet’s biggest seller of chipsets, Samsung has confirmed that it has begun manufacturing ASIC chips which are used to mine bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies. “Samsung’s foundry business is currently engaged in the manufacturing of cryptocurrency mining chips. However we are unable to disclose further...
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SoftBank buys into Line’s mobile service in Japan
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SoftBank buys into Line’s mobile service in Japan

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SoftBank is partnering up with messaging app Line to help develop its Line Mobile telecom service. Line announced that it has agreed to allow SoftBank to take a 51 percent in the business via an issuance of new shares. The deal is expected to close by March. From the documents, its mobile business is valued at around $15 million (1.7 billion JPY)...
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Nintendo Switch sales have surpassed the Wii U
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Nintendo Switch sales have surpassed the Wii U

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Nintendo’s latest earnings, which cover the nine months leading up to December 31st, 2017, reveal some software triumphs too. The award-winning Super Mario Odyssey has reached 9.07 million sales, while Mario Kart 8 Deluxe — a re-release of the Wii U version with a reworked battle mode – has sold 7.33 million units to date. The Legend of Zelda: Breath...
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Samsung topples Intel to become the world’s largest chipmaker
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Samsung topples Intel to become the world’s largest chipmaker

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Samsung has ended Intel’s 25-year run as the world’s biggest seller of chipsets after it posted its 2017 end of year financials. The Korean tech giant’s chipset division — which has long been its biggest hitter — grossed total revenue of $69 billion in 2017, eclipsing the $62.8 billion Intel reported for last year. That was a record year for Intel...
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Samsung sets record Q4 profits ahead of Galaxy S9 launch
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Samsung sets record Q4 profits ahead of Galaxy S9 launch

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen the company’s mobile division become its top earner, and that definitely didn’t happen in the fourth quarter. Samsung’s mobile biz earnings were affected by the hike in marketing costs over the holidays, and the division’s operating profit was down YOY from $2.3 billion in Q4 2016 to around $2.25 billion in Q4 2017....
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Appeals court rules that Tinder’s pricing violates age discrimination laws
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Appeals court rules that Tinder’s pricing violates age discrimination laws

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A California appeals court has sided with Allan Candelore, a man suing Tinder over the pricing for its premium service, Tinder Plus. Specifically, Candelore and his lawyers argued that by charging $9.99 per month if a user is under 30, versus $19.99 per month if you’re 30 or older, Tinder is discriminating based on age, in violation of the Unruh Civil...
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Canada’s BC submits new rules to restrict oil shipments | News
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Canada’s BC submits new rules to restrict oil shipments | News

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The government of British Columbia has proposed new regulations restricting the transportation of oil through the Western Canadian province in what is expected to be a major setback for a planned pipeline expansion project. The province announced on Tuesday it would seek the public’s feedback on the newly proposed regulations, which include “restrictions...
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CNN Blames Apple for Apple News Bug That Caused Repeat Notifications
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CNN Blames Apple for Apple News Bug That Caused Repeat Notifications

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Earlier this afternoon, a bug with the Apple News app caused notifications for a single CNN news story to be sent out to iPhone and iPad users over and over again. The issue, which lasted for approximately 15 minutes, appears to have impacted all Apple News subscribers who had alerts turned on for CNN based on a slew of complaints that popped up on...
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DroneGun Tactical is a portable (but still illegal) drone scrambler
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DroneGun Tactical is a portable (but still illegal) drone scrambler

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The only thing growing faster than the global drone population is the population of people thinking “how can I knock these annoying things out of the sky?” DroneShield offers a way to do just that, and now in a much more portable package, with the DroneGun Tactical — that is, if you’re an authorized government agent, which I doubt. Over the last few...
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A state-run 5G network is impossible in the US
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A state-run 5G network is impossible in the US

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This kind of state-run network is completely antithetical to the administration’s public stance on deregulation and privatization. It even prompted FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to come down strongly in opposition. It turns out, however, that the document was outdated, and the Trump administration strongly denies it ever seriously considered such a proposal. Which...
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Pinterest hires a new head of computer vision
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Pinterest hires a new head of computer vision

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As Pinterest increasingly tries to sell itself as a startup specialized in computer vision that it plugs into visual discovery, it’s continuing to pick up additional pieces to help continue to build that out. Today, the company said it is hiring former Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg, who was at Google for 14 years. Pinterest...
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Apple reportedly under investigation by SEC and DOJ for phone slowdown
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Apple reportedly under investigation by SEC and DOJ for phone slowdown

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The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are jointly investigating Apple’s communications about the software update that slowed down older models of the iPhone, Bloomberg is reporting. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the government has reportedly requested details on the company’s communications about the...
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Google says it removed 700K apps from the Play Store in 2017, up 70% from 2016
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Google says it removed 700K apps from the Play Store in 2017, up 70% from 2016

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The relatively open nature of Android has made it a target for malware authors and other bad actors of all stripes who often try to get their wares onto your phone through both the official Google Play Store, third-party app stores and any other way they can think of. For most users, though, the main Android app store is Google’s own Play Store and...
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Elon Musk has now sold 15K flamethrowers, earning $7.5M for boring
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Elon Musk has now sold 15K flamethrowers, earning $7.5M for boring

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The Boring Company is getting decently well-capitalized on the back of sales of its flamethrower (yes, flamethrower). The no-doubt overpriced piece of knack, which can be make yourself at home using likely around $30 in parts, is selling for $500 and has already netted Elon Musk’s digging venture $7.5 million. That’s after just over a day of being...
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U.S. Government Investigating Apple’s Power Management Features That Slow Older iPhones
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U.S. Government Investigating Apple’s Power Management Features That Slow Older iPhones

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Apple is continuing to face scrutiny over the power management features it introduced in older iPhones last year, with the U.S Department of Justice and the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission launching an investigation into the company, reports Bloomberg. The DoJ and the SEC are aiming to determine whether Apple violated security laws “concerning...
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Mammoth Media, the startup behind chat fiction app Yarn, raises $13M
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Mammoth Media, the startup behind chat fiction app Yarn, raises $13M

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Mammoth Media has raised a $13 million Series A funding to create what it calls “entertainment experiences for the mobile-first generation.” Mammoth is not the first startup to pitch itself as reinventing entertainment for smartphones, but for the most part, that message has come from gaming companies. Co-founder and CEO Benoit Vatere said he wanted...
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