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- SF-based Skip, a scooter-sharing startup formerly known as Waybots, is raising $25M Series A from Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners, and YC at a $100M valuation (Amir Efrati/The Information)
- A look at one of about a million small retail shops that Alibaba has transformed into a digitized Tmall store equipped with AI apps and heat sensors (Steve LeVine/Axios)
- Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, including Slack and Reddit, announces $10.5M Series A led by Greylock Partners (Shana Lebowitz/Business Insider)
- 17 backdoored Docker images, posted to Docker Hub over the past year and downloaded 5M+ times, removed; some were used to mine at least $90K worth of Monero (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence: Google Assistant is coming, Dolby Atmos in current speakers is doubtful, "Works with Sonos" program to expand, more (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- Researcher details SigSpoof, a recently patched critical flaw in PGP that allowed hackers to spoof digital email signatures, says the bug dates back to 1998 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Docker pulls 17 malicious images, which installed reverse shells and Monero miners on servers this past year, from Docker Hub; some systems may still be at risk (Catalin Cimpanu/BleepingComputer.com)
- Seattle's dockless bike trial shows 74% of city is in favor of bikeshare even as some complain about clogged streets and working conditions at bike providers (Mark Harris/Wired)
- Amazon ends its Mayday video calling service for customer support for Fire tablets, nearly five years after its high-profile launch (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
- Foxconn says it is establishing its North American headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after announcing plans to build a $10B LCD plant in the state last year (Andrew Galbraith/Reuters)
- In the past few months CryptoKitties saw sharp drop in daily active users, number of transactions, and average price of kitties according to analytics sites (Zoë Bernard/Business Insider)
- As Facebook and Google start using Wikipedia to combat fake news and conspiracy theories, Wikimedia Foundation says companies should do more to support the site (Katherine Maher/WIRED UK)
- Block.one finally launches EOS blockchain but many in the crypto community remain skeptical about project's centralization and its prospects (Muyao Shen/CoinDesk)
- Some mass email marketing firms complain they cannot get most of the people in mailing lists to check their emails and may lose ~80% of them due to EU's GDPR (Michelle Castillo/CNBC)
- JD.com's new Shanghai fulfillment center ships 200,000 orders per day and employs four people to service the robots (Steve LeVine/Axios)
TechCrunch
Silicon Alley Insider
- 35 Big tech predictions for 2018
- The issues with discoverability, monetization, and retention, and how to solve them
- This $30 million San Francisco mansion, once owned by Vanessa Getty, is one of the city's most expensive homes ? take a look inside
- We compared the 'Costco for millennials' with the real Costco, and one had a clear advantage over the other (COST)
- How to use Zelle, the lightning-fast payments app that's more popular than Venmo in the US
- There's a beach separating the US and Mexico where families meet on either side of towering border walls ? see what it looks like
- Generation Z is obsessed with this $20-a-year Instagram alternative because it doesn't have any ads
- 13 apps for your iPhone that are better than the ones Apple made (AAPL)
- Here's how Amazon's and Apple's new smart speakers stack up with consumers (AMZN, AAPL)
- There?s a sea change coming for the $1 billion marijuana-based industry you?ve never heard of
- A 28-year-old entrepreneur reveals how she snagged $66 million and 10 term sheets in 5 days
- Here's what we learned about 'Cyberpunk 2077' from the 50-minute gameplay demo held behind closed doors at E3 2018
- Amazon won a major battle in Seattle, but a Big Tech 'head tax' could still happen for Apple and Google
- The 20 best places for new dads to work in 2018
- How to see exactly which Google Chrome tabs, websites, and extensions are slowing down your computer
- Mars will come closer to Earth in the coming weeks than it has been in 15 years ? here's how to see it
- A new feature in the next iPhone software is going to shock people ? it surprised even Apple's CEO (AAPL)
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield says the rockets from NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin won't take people to Mars
- Former Google and Instagram engineers got millions to take TV into the future ? here's what it looks like
- Actor Mary McCormack shared a video of her husband's Tesla catching fire in LA
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