Author: Tech Support

    • GDPR has helped big tech companies cement their dominance in the data economy while smaller companies have suffered from relatively high compliance costs (Mark Scott/Politico)

    Mark Scott / Politico: GDPR has helped big tech companies cement their dominance in the data economy while smaller companies have suffered from relatively high compliance costs  —  The region’s data protection overhaul was supposed to help citizens.  Instead, it’s helped Big Tech. GDPR has helped big tech companies cement their dominance in the data

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    • A breakdown of Huawei's supply problems after the US ban, using its latest flagship phone as an example, from hardware to software to building an app ecosystem (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

    Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: A breakdown of Huawei’s supply problems after the US ban, using its latest flagship phone as an example, from hardware to software to building an app ecosystem  —  Huawei’s hardware independence is actually pretty good!  The software, though…  President Trump’s Huawei ban is in full effect … A breakdown of

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    • Walmart launches a line of Android tablets under its Onn store brand starting at $64, which ship with Play Store and Google apps, unlike Amazon's Fire tablets (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

    Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Walmart launches a line of Android tablets under its Onn store brand starting at $64, which ship with Play Store and Google apps, unlike Amazon’s Fire tablets  —  Earlier this year it was reported that Walmart was working on bringing its own Android tablets to the market to compete with Amazon’s

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    • Cala Health, an SF-based medical tech company developing wearable electronic devices to tackle chronic disease, raises $50M Series C from investors including GV (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Cala Health, an SF-based medical tech company developing wearable electronic devices to tackle chronic disease, raises $50M Series C from investors including GV  —  Cala Health, a medical technology company that develops “wearable therapies” to tackle chronic disease, has raised $50 million … Cala Health, an SF-based medical tech company developing

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    Wolfram Engine Now Free… Sort Of

    You’ve probably used Wolfram Alpha and maybe even used the company’s desktop software for high-powered math such as Mathematica. One of the interesting things about all of Wolfram’s mathematics software is that it shares a common core engine — the Wolfram Engine. As of this month, the company is allowing free use of the engine

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    • Researcher: since at least October, source code for thousands of Instagram profiles leaked the user's contact info when loaded in a web browser; fixed in March (Laura Hautala/CNET)

    Laura Hautala / CNET: Researcher: since at least October, source code for thousands of Instagram profiles leaked the user’s contact info when loaded in a web browser; fixed in March  —  Instagram’s website leaked user contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, over a period of at least four months, a researcher says. Researcher:

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    • IHS reports cloud-based gaming earned $387M in 2018, with Sony's Playstation Now responsible for 36% of that total, and predicts it will grow to $2.5B by 2023 (Giancarlo Valdes/VentureBeat)

    Giancarlo Valdes / VentureBeat: IHS reports cloud-based gaming earned $387M in 2018, with Sony’s Playstation Now responsible for 36% of that total, and predicts it will grow to $2.5B by 2023  —  Cloud-based gaming is starting to heat up.  In a new report from market research firm IHS Markit, cloud gaming earned $387 million in

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    • Indiegogo CEO and President David Mandelbrot steps down, citing personal reasons, will be replaced by Andy Yang, former Reddit core product lead and 500px CEO (Bijan Stephen/The Verge)

    Bijan Stephen / The Verge: Indiegogo CEO and President David Mandelbrot steps down, citing personal reasons, will be replaced by Andy Yang, former Reddit core product lead and 500px CEO  —  Reddit’s Andy Yang takes over  —  David Mandelbrot is out as CEO of crowdfunding site Indiegogo, citing “personal reasons” in his farewell LinkedIn post.

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    • Samsung files emergency motion to redact details of its settlement with Qualcomm last year, revealed to be $100M, made public in the FTC v. Qualcomm ruling (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

    Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: Samsung files emergency motion to redact details of its settlement with Qualcomm last year, revealed to be $100M, made public in the FTC v. Qualcomm ruling  —  Phonemaker Samsung on Wednesday filed an emergency motion to redact “highly sensitive and confidential” details of its settlement … Samsung files emergency motion

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