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Canalys analysts forecast that the installed base of smart speakers will grow from 114M units in 2018 to 207.9M in 2019, a growth of 82.4% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Canalys analysts forecast that the installed base of smart speakers will grow from 114M units in 2018 to 207.9M in 2019, a growth of 82.4%  —  Smart speakers’ global installed base is on track to top 200 million by the end of this year, according to a report out today from

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Source: Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life, which would typically be removed once reported, so law enforcement could investigate them (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed News)

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: Source: Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life, which would typically be removed once reported, so law enforcement could investigate them  —  Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life over the weekend so law enforcement could investigate them, BuzzFeed News has learned. Source: Twitter left up

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Some companies attacked in 2017's NotPetya ransomware plague have been denied insurance coverage over "war exclusion" clauses (New York Times)

New York Times: Some companies attacked in 2017’s NotPetya ransomware plague have been denied insurance coverage over “war exclusion” clauses  —  LONDON — Within days of a cyberattack, warehouses of the snack foods company Mondelez International filled with a backlog of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers. Some companies attacked in 2017's NotPetya ransomware plague have

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Hulu has repurchased AT&T's 9.5% stake in the business for $1.43B, giving Hulu a valuation of $15B; Disney said in November that Hulu was worth $9.26B (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC: Hulu has repurchased AT&T’s 9.5% stake in the business for $1.43B, giving Hulu a valuation of $15B; Disney said in November that Hulu was worth $9.26B  —  – Hulu bought back AT&T’s 9.5 percent stake in the entity for $1.43 billion, valuing the streaming company at $15 billion. Hulu has repurchased

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Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in recent months but withheld the privilege from anyone without backchannel access (Karissa Bell/Mashable)

Karissa Bell / Mashable: Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in recent months but withheld the privilege from anyone without backchannel access  —  Jack Dorsey’s mother and father, the ’80s band Whitesnake, a “war room” associated with Donald Trump’s reelection campaign … Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in

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