A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- Rethinking Your Data Deduplication Strategy | IT Pro
- Tethers Unlimited lays off 20 percent of staff due to NASA shutdown – GeekWire
- There is a Right Way to Go All-in on the Cloud | IT Pro
- Mediagazer: A look back at the evolution of RSS and why it lost out to centralized information silos on the web controlled by corporations, despite being an open format (Sinclair Target/Motherboard)
- Hands On: Reserved Storage on Windows 10 (19H1) | WindowsObserver.com
- AT&T and Cricket customers receive texts that their location was used by third parties
- Techmeme: Sources: Viacom in talks to acquire Tubi TV, an ad-supported streaming service partly owned by MGM and Lionsgate; one source estimated a cost of around $300M (The Information)
- Techmeme: Microsoft has avoided the scrutiny over privacy issues that has ensnared rivals by working with regulators and advocating its own solutions (Daria Solovieva/Fast Company)
- Mediagazer: CBS reaches an agreement to keep using Nielsen's Total Audience measurement services, resolving an impasse since their previous contract expired December 31 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
- Microsoft releases new Office Insider Fast ring build for Windows – Neowin
- APOD: 2019 January 11 – Partial Eclipse over Beijing
- CES 2019: Taking a look at Samsung's Digital Cockpit; its vision of driving in the future – Neowin
- Assistant icon shows up on the Google.com mobile page
- From Uncharted to Obra Dinn: Lucas Pope dishes on his illustrious game-dev career | Ars Technica
- Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Laptop Get New Firmware Updates – Thurrott.com
- Mediagazer: Job openings at Vox are up 100% since September 2018, but many are freelance or contract positions, possibly to sidestep the union or adapt to seasonal content (Joshua Fruhlinger/Thinknum Media)
- Good night, viaduct: Watch our final voyage over Seattle’s favorite elevated freeway – GeekWire
- Epic Games Store updates refund policy, now in line with Steam – Neowin
- OPPO joins the Wireless Power Consortium suggesting a future device with QI wireless charging – Neowin
- Every product with Google Assistant announced at CES 2019
- Every product with Amazon Alexa announced at CES 2019
- OnMSFT.com Build 2019: Microsoft leaks dates for its annual Build conference OnMSFT.com
- Getting started with ML.Net – Le Café Central de DeVa
- Mediagazer: A look at how data brokers identify people and how much personal information they sell as IDC forecasts data vendor sales will triple to $10.1B by 2022 (Financial Times)
- Hands-on with nubia's Red Magic Mars and nubia X – Neowin
- APOD: 2019 January 12 – Milky Way Falls
- Process Isolation for containers in Windows 10 – Freddys Blog
- Lesson Learned #54: The specified schema name name@domain.com either does not exist or you do not have permission to use it – Azure SQL Database Support
- Mediagazer: Spotify outlines its strategy for podcasts that includes bringing talent in-house or exclusively licensing content and selling ads within its podcasts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Nokia 9 PureView could be launched at MWC 2019 as HMD teases unveiling with throwback video – Neowin
- Some Pixel 3 and 3 XL users have reported HDR support in Netflix – Neowin
- Firefox 69 will have Flash disabled by default – Neowin
- cloud.google.com