| #DeleteFacebook never stood a chance, Chinese company Royole beats Samsung to the market with the first foldable phone and controversy is swirling at CES after Lori DiCarlo has its innovation award revoked. Here's your Daily Crunch for January 9, 2019. 1. Facebook is the new crapware Well Facebook, you did it again. Fresh off its latest privacy scandal, the troubled social media giant has inked a deal with Android to pre-install its app on an undisclosed number of phones and make the software permanent. This means you won't be able to delete Facebook from those phones. Thanks, Facebook. 
2. The world's first foldable phone is real Chinese company Royole has beaten Samsung to the market and has been showing off a foldable phone/tablet this week at CES. While it's not the most fluid experience, the device definitely works at adapting to your needs. 3. CES revokes award from female-founded sex tech company Outcries of a double-standard are pouring out of CES after the Consumer Tech Association revoked an award from a company geared toward women's sexual health. 4. Everything Google announced at CES 2019 Google went all in on the Assistant this year at CES. The company boasted that the voice-enabled AI will make its way onto a billion devices by the end of the month -- up from 400 million last year. But what's most exciting is the expanded capabilities of Google's Assistant. Soon you'll be able to check into flights and translate conversations on the fly with a simple "Hey Google." 5. Rebranding WeWork won't work The company formerly known as WeWork has rebranded to the We Company, but its new strategy has the potential to plunge the company further into debt. 6. Despite promises to stop, US cell carriers are still selling your real-time phone location data Last year a little-known company called LocationSmart came under fire after leaking location data from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint users to shady customers. LocationSmart quickly buckled under public scrutiny and promised to stop selling user data, but few focused on another big player in the location tracking business: Zumigo. 7. The best and worst of CES 2019 From monster displays to VR in cars, we're breaking down the good, the bad and the ugly from CES 2019. | 
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