Harvard Business School study finds Airbnb hosts accepted guests with stereotypically black names 42% of the time versus 50% for white names
Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts — Renters with names that seemed African American had a harder time booking reservations …
OpenAI, a new nonprofit for AI research, gets $1B commitment from SV leaders including Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, also AWS, Infosys, YC Research
Introducing OpenAI — OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence …
Apple advertising iPhone 6s to older iPhone owners through App Store popups
Apple has begun advertising the iPhone 6s to older iPhone users through the App Store, as spotted by @Dirk_Gently on Twitter. If a user browses the App Store, perhaps updating apps, with an iPhone 5s...
Alibaba Buying South China Morning Post, Aiming to Influence Media
The Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, is making an ambitious play to reshape media coverage of its home country, taking aim at what company executives call the “negative” portrayal of China i...
France won't block public Wi-Fi or ban Tor, PM says
Public Wi-Fi networks and Tor won't be blocked or forbidden in France in the near future, even during a state of emergency, despite the country's Ministry of Interior reportedly considering it. — Da...
Microsoft backtracks on some OneDrive storage changes after user complaints, lets users opt-in to keep 15GB of free storage, doesn't reinstate unlimited storage
Microsoft apologizes for offending OneDrive fans, but won't restore unlimited storage — Customers of Microsoft's OneDrive …
Q&A with Elon Musk and Sam Altman on the challenges and benefits of guiding AI research with OpenAI
How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Their new organization, OpenAI, wants to pursue the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence—and give the results to th...
Appeals court judge allows FanDuel, DraftKings to continue to operate in New York state while waiting on another ruling
Daily Fantasy Sites Back in Business in N.Y. After Appeal — DraftKings and FanDuel can continue doing business in New York for now, after an appeals court halted …
Attorney in Uber class action case files motion to block Uber from enforcing new driver agreement, alleging it aims to bypass recent arbitration ruling
Uber Class-Action Attorney Wants To Stop Uber From Enforcing New Driver Agreement — Early Friday morning, just two days …
Tor Project hires Shari Steele, who led the EFF for 15 years, as its new executive director
Tor Hires a New Leader to Help It Combat the War on Privacy — The Tor Project is entering a crucial phase in its nearly 10-year existence. In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks …
Tumblr for iOS now supports sharing Live Photos & 3D Touch
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Reality Editor, an iOS app developed by MIT researchers, lets you connect smart objects by drawing lines between them via an augmented reality interface
MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object — The end goal of the Internet of Things is to make every object in your life programmable.
Analytics firm Factual raises $35M to analyze streams of app user location data to build profiles for ads
Startup Factual Knows Your Commute, and Much More... Company, which announced a $35 million funding round, analyzes streaming location data — Researchers earlier this year found …
Microsoft updates Band with music controls, activity reminders, and improved exercise tracking
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Google Wallet Will Now Let You Send Money To Anyone With A Phone Number Via SMS (US Only)
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Dan Pfeiffer, former communications director and senior adviser to President Obama, joins GoFundMe as VP of communications and policy
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T-Mobile Giving Verizon Users Free Year of Hulu to Switch
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Large-scale clustered computing firm SGI denies links with alleged Bitcoin creator Craig Wright and his supercomputer firm Cloudcroft
WIRED” http://www.wired.com/... Andy Greenberg / @a_greenberg : Though I'm still scratching my head about this part (among others): pic.twitter.com/rWcAQEzkZ8 Thanks: @dobes
Google Play adds family groups, allowing family members to make purchases using a family payment method
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Ted Cruz using UK behavioral targeting firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvests psychological profiles of millions of unwitting US Facebook users
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Google launches 2nd generation of its Cloud SQL service, with up to 10TB per instance
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Co-creator of FarmVille Amitt Mahajan, ex-HTC exec Phil Chen, and startup vet Paul Bragiel create Presence Capital, a $10M seed fund for VR/AR games and apps
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Inside the NSA's battle with the private sector to recruit coders, hackers, and engineers
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico : Tweets: @20committee and @peterwsinger Tweets: John Schindler / @20committee : “According to #NSA, more than 100,000 résumés flood in every year, and only a small numbe...
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