Apple unveils new credit-card: the Apple Card | Link Apple announces Arcade, its new game streaming subscription service | Link Apple announces news subscription service, Apple News Plus | Link Apple unveils TV+ video streaming service to rival Netflix and Amazon | Link Doom Eternal and Rage 2 still headed to Steam despite Bethesda.net | TechRadar | Link Uber buys rival Careem in $3.1bln deal to dominate ride-hailing in Middle East | ZAWYA MENA Edition | Link Goldman Sachs hints that Apple Card will be rolled out internationally (over time) | Link US Marines Successfully Test Disposable Delivery Drones | Ubergizmo | Link EA Lays Off 350 Employees in Marketing, Publishing, and Operations – IGN | Link Microsoft exec bans company from pulling any dumb April Fools’ pranks | Ars Technica | Link Lyft Rises 9% on First Day, Stock Valued at $26.5 Billion | Fortune | Link Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware | TechCrunch | Link
Android game development site goes live ahead of Google’s GDC talk – SlashGear | Link Google expected to announce Yeti gaming console, streaming service | Link Apple updates $499 iPad Air, $399 iPad mini ahead of services event next week | Ars Technica | Link Nvidia Announces Jetson Nano Dev Kit & Board: X1 for $99 | Link Google announces Stadia, its streaming game platform, in an effort to upend the $140 billion video game industry | Link Facebook says only 4,000 users viewed original NZ shooter livestream | Link Nvidia Debuts Toolkit to Push Game Developers Toward Ray Tracing | Link Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security | Link Internet TV Service Overtakes Cable TV for First Time Ever | Fortune | Link
VIDEO
Google Gaming Console Controller Surfaces in Newly Discovered Patent | Digital Trends | Link Nvidia to make largest acquisition in its history with $6.9 billion deal for Mellanox – MarketWatch | Link US warns Germany that using Huawei tech will come at a cost – CNNPolitics | Link F5 Ups Its Container and Open Source Game With $670M Nginx Deal | Data Center Knowledge | Link News | Opportunity’s Parting Shot Was a Beautiful Panorama | Link Google GDC dev sessions include Ubisoft, id Software, Amy Hennig, more | Link Gearbest’s unprotected databases leave millions of users at risk | Link Facebook live shooting video has social media companies scrambling – CNN | Link Steam Link Anywhere lets you stream games from, well, anywhere | TechRadar | Link
Feds investigate why a Tesla crashed into a truck Friday, killing driver | Ars Technica | Link Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shares a video of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down on asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for scientists back home | Link Google’s Edge TPU Machine Learning Chip Debuts in Raspberry Pi-Like Dev Board | Link Amazon to close all of its 87 pop-up stores in the US beginning in April | Link China’s Huawei sues the US, claiming it shouldn’t be blocked from selling to federal government | Link NASA captures ‘first’ images of supersonic shockwaves colliding in flight | Link Airbnb Gobbles Up Last-Minute Booking Service HotelTonight | Link Tesla Investors Are Suing Over Elon Musk’s Bad Tweets | Link
VIDEO
Two bodies recovered after plane used by Amazon crashes in Texas | Link Huawei Mate X revealed: 5G foldable phone looks stunning – SlashGear | Link Microsoft Announces HoloLens 2 Augmented Reality Headset | Fortune | Link Google Assistant button coming to more Android phones in 2019 – 9to5Google | Link U.A.E. to Use Equipment From Huawei Despite American Pressure – The New York Times | Link USB 3.2 at 20 Gb/s Coming to High-End Desktops This Year | Link Tesla changes entire sales strategy, makes sales online-only, closes stores w/layoffs – Electrek | Link Amazon will reportedly launch its own chain of supermarkets | Link NASA’s new Mars lander starts digging on red planet, hits snags | Link
UK security chiefs: Huawei risk in 5G can be contained | Technology | The Guardian | Link Researchers blame YouTube for the rise in Flat Earthers | Link Mystery Google gaming event announced for GDC, maybe Project Stream | Link Users alarmed by undisclosed microphone in Nest Security System | Ars Technica| Link Samsung announces Galaxy Fold foldable phone priced at $1,980 | Link Microsoft releases new Office app for all Windows 10 users and its free – MSPoweruser | Link Samsung has sold 2 billion Galaxy phones in nine years – GSMArena.com news | Link Galaxy Watch Active, Galaxy Fit & Galaxy Buds are Samsung’s new wearables | Link NASA launches weekly Mars forecast site using InSight weather data – SlashGear | Link Apple, Goldman Sachs Team Up on Credit Card Paired With iPhone – WSJ | Link Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic sends first test passenger on spaceflight | Link Microsoft workers demand it drop $480 million U.S. Army contract | Reuters | Link
Goodbye Mars One, The Fake Mission To Mars That Fooled The World | Link Amazon Acquiring Alexa-Compatible Wi-Fi Router Startup Eero | Fortune | Link Small drones in the US will require an external ID starting February 23 – SlashGear | Link NASA Is Making One Last Attempt to Call Opportunity Rover on Mars | Space | Link NASA’s history-making Mars rover Opportunity declared dead – CNET | Link Former Apple lawyer charged with insider trading – BBC News | Link Apple concedes to Qualcomm to escape German iPhone ban | Link Amazon kills New York City headquarters plan, but keeps HQ2 in Virginia – CNET | Link JP Morgan is rolling out the first US bank-backed cryptocurrency | Link
Xbox Live Cross-Platform Play Coming To 2 Billion iOS, Android And Switch Screens | Link The north magnetic pole just changed. Here’s what that means | Link Our Milky Way galaxy is truly warped, at least around edges | Link MarCo spacecraft unlikely to be heard from again says NASA – SlashGear | Link Profits at The New York Times show media dinosaurs are ruling the internet | TechCrunch | Link NYPD demands that Google’s Waze app stop revealing DWI checkpoints | Link 2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record | Science News | Link Amazon just invested in self-driving car company Aurora | Link Raspberry Pi opens first High Street store in Cambridge – BBC News | Link Jeff Bezos accuses the National Enquirer of ‘extortion and blackmail’ | Link Amazon Reportedly Reconsidering New York HQ Amid Opposition | Fortune | Link
VIDEO
Pi on a Stick: Raspberry Pi Launches SODIMM-Sized Compute Module 3+ | Link NASA is sending a desperate message to wake up Opportunity on Mars – BGR | Link Three Major February PC Releases Are Not Coming To Steam – GameSpot | Link NASA Probe Snaps 1st Photos from Just a Mile Above Asteroid Bennu and the View’s AMAZING! | Link Apple’s streaming video service could launch by mid-April, report says | Link NASA’s Curiosity Rover Snaps a Selfie Before Its Next Mars Journey – Geek.com | Link Facebook confirms plans to merge Messenger, WhatsApp & Instagram messages | Link Facebook soars after it crushes earnings, posts record profit | Link Teslas, EVs struggle in the polar vortex | Link Hubble Telescope Discovers ‘Living Fossil’ Galaxy in Our Milky Way’s Backyard | Link Energizer is bringing two phones with pop-up cameras to MWC | Link A meteorite may have struck western Cuba, National Weather Service says – CNN | Link
France fines Google nearly $57 million for first major violation of new European privacy regime – The Washington Post | Link Holy Crap, the Moon Was Struck by a Meteorite During the ‘Super Wolf Blood Moon’ Eclipse | Link Google finally provides timeline for classic Hangouts shutdown and transition to Chat … for some people | Android Central | Link Twitter starts rolling out new web interface: Here’s how to get it – SlashGear | Link Amazon stops selling Echo Wall Clock due to connectivity issues, says report – CNET | Link Amazon (AMZN) Testing Robot Delivery Near Seattle – Bloomberg | Link Apple lays off over 200 from Project Titan autonomous vehicle group | Link Resident Evil TV Series In Works At Netflix, According To Report – GameSpot | Link Amazon joining the Zigbee Alliance is a huge statement of future intent | Link
