Apple readies Transit subway, train + bus guides for iOS 9 Maps, deploys robots for indoor mapping
Having originally planned to add a new transit directions feature to Maps last year, only to pull the feature before WWDC 2014, Apple now hopes to launch its Transit service with iOS 9, according to s...
Pew Report: 69% of US adults are not confident social networks will keep their data private and secure
Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
Apple's planned iOS 9 ‘Home’ app uses virtual rooms to manage HomeKit accessories
Apple's plan to manage upcoming HomeKit-compatible accessories could revolve around a new iOS app called “Home,” according to sources familiar with the app. Introduced at last year's Worldwide Develo...
US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to implant spyware on smartphones
Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware — Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows
Troll uses Twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Promoted tweet from fake account purporting to be that of Australian feminist campaigner inserts transphobic content into Twitter users' timelines — Twitter users have expressed outrage at a troll's...
YouTube live streams now support HTML5 playback and 60fps video
YouTube today announced it is enabling HTML5 playback for live streams. At the same time, live streams can now be viewed at 60 frames-per-second. — A few puzzle pieces had to come together to make ...
Apple's new MacBook, with its shallow keyboard and Force Touch trackpad, makes major usability compromises for thinness
Mistake One — MacBook “One”, 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and Hops for scale. — I've had mixed luck with impulse buys. — As a kid, I impulse-bought Marble Madness for my Sega Genesis.
Amazon's Prime Now service will start delivering from local stores in Manhattan
Amazon announced today that its Prime Now service will now start delivering goods from local stores in Manhattan, with plans to expand soon to other communities later this year.
Shopify prices IPO at $17 per share, sells 7.7M class A shares raising about $131M, valuing the company at about $1.27B
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Lenovo Shipped Record 18.7M Smartphones in Q4 2014, But Profit Dropped 37%
Lenovo just completed its first full quarter of business as the owner of Motorola and, with its $2.91 billion acquisition from Google under its wing, the Chinese company shipped a record 18.7 million ...
Shopify pops 65% on the NYSE, starts trading above $28 per share
E-commerce platform Shopify began trading above $28 a share, up from the $17 per share price the company originally set last night. — The company put up 7.7 million shares of stock for sale this mor...
Delta cuts off over a dozen travel sites including Hipmunk and TripAdvisor from its flight and fare data, as travel sites fear more airlines may follow suit
Travel Websites Allege Delta Air Lines Is Shutting Them Out — Carrier says it reserves right to decide where and how flight, fare data is displayed
QuizUp is trying to reinvent itself by turning into a social network
One of the strangest things any company can do is suddenly shove a social network in your face. It's even worse when a service you're used to suddenly gets socialized in a way that is unavoidable.
Google Webmaster Tools Rebrands To Google Search Console
Google announced they have renamed Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console. — The ten year old name for the toolset designed for webmasters, publishers and business owners is changing to Goo...
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership”
Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one. In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors. On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
US proposes tighter export controls limiting sales of zero-day flaw information outside US without special license
U.S. aims to limit exports of undisclosed software flaws — The U.S. Commerce Department proposed new export controls Wednesday that would treat unknown software flaws …
H-P to Sell 51% of Chinese Data-Networking Unit to Tsinghua Holdings
Buyer is expected to pay $2.3 billion for majority control of H3C Technologies — Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to unveil sweeping changes to its business in China, including the sale of a majority stake...
Nikesh Arora to replace Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son as Yahoo Japan Chairman
Arora to Replace Softbank CEO Son as Yahoo Japan Chairman — SoftBank Corp. chief executive Masayoshi Son will step down as chairman of Yahoo Japan Corp.'s board of directors to be replaced by Nikesh...
Stripe is in talks to raise at a $5B valuation, just seven months after its last round that valued the company at $3.5B
Stripe to Land $5 Billion Valuation in New Investment — In Silicon Valley, the rich keeping get richer. — Stripe, the online payments company …
Birth dates, names, emails, and addresses of 1.1M DC-area customers of health insurer CareFirst potentially accessed in a June 2014 cyberattack
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About 20K secure websites will be unavailable to browsers fixed for Logjam under their current settings
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Video On Demand content comes to mobile Twitch app in latest update
Stephen Hall / 9to5Mac :
FICO: theft of debit card data from bank ATMs is up 174% YoY, up 317% at nonbank machines
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Private bus startup Leap suspends service after the California Public Utilities Commission serves company with cease-and-desist order amid permit dispute
Kristen V. Brown / San Francisco Chronicle :
Comcast Now Supports HBO GO And Showtime On Amazon Fire TV Devices
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Uber poached 50 experts in vehicle autonomy from Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, a third of the lab's staff
Josh Lowensohn / The Verge :
Wave Broadband raises $130M to expand gigabit fiber Internet network across West Coast
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Flickr's image-recognition tech tagged photos of faces, including black people, with “ape” and “animal”, images of Dachau concentration camp as “jungle gym”
Alex Hern / Guardian :
Netflix To Roll Out A New, More Immersive Web Interface Starting In June
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Ancestry.com explores sale; with 2.1M paying subscribers, accounting for 83% of its $620M revenue last year, could fetch up to $3B
Huawei launches Lite OS, an operating system for the Internet of Things
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Leaked docs show Cisco altered sales records in Russia, source claims intent was to dodge Western sanctions; Cisco denies attempting to violate sanctions
Lycos puts patents covering search engine tech, online ads, and games up for sale; plans to release new products incorporating IoT hardware in coming weeks
Curt Woodward / BetaBoston :
Tilt, formerly Crowdtilt, has raised new funding valuing the company at $400M, as it eyes international markets
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
NetApp to Lay Off 500 Workers in Restructuring
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