Facebook announces it is banning private, person-to-person sales of guns on its network and Instagram
Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site — Facebook is banning private sales of guns on its flagship social network and on its Instagram photo-sharing service, the company said late Frida...
Obama proposes $4B in funding for states to expand computer science education in schools
Obama Pledges $4 Billion to Computer Science in US Schools — President Obama today pledged $4 billion in funding for computer science education in the nation's schools.
Documents show Alphabet is testing solar-powered internet drones that use millimeter-wave transmissions to deliver data at speeds up to 40 times faster than 4G
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Ashkan Soltani, who contributed to reporting on Snowden docs, departs White House Office of Science and Technology Policy after being denied security clearance
White House denies clearance to tech researcher with links to Snowden — Pulitzer prize-winning journalist …
Sources: Apple's virtual and augmented reality research team includes hundreds of staff from poaching and acquisitions; Apple confirms purchase of Flyby Media
Apple builds secret team to kick-start virtual reality effort — Apple has assembled a large team of experts in virtual …
Tesla hires Jim Keller, engineer behind Apple's A-series and AMD's Zen processors, as vice president of autopilot hardware engineering
The chip guru who built Apple's Ax microprocessors joins Tesla to lead the Autopilot Hardware Engineering team — Electrek has learned that Tesla …
Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick releases 51-page brief concluding T-Mobile's Binge On violates FCC's Open Internet Rules
Stanford study: T-Mobile's Binge On is ‘likely illegal’ — The debate over the potential harm of T-Mobile's Binge On continues, with a new study …
NSA, GCHQ used open source software to spy on Israeli, Syrian drones
Image tools unscrambled encrypted analog video feeds, documents reveal. — Documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden show new evidence of a long-run...
Google Fiber is sending invitations to trusted testers for experimental telephone service called Google Fiber Phone, similar to Google Voice
Google Fiber may be looking to add phone services — Google Fiber is sending out invitations to an experimental telephone service …
Vantiv, a firm handling millions of FanDuel and DraftKings transactions, to stop processing fantasy sports payments on February 29, citing legal cases
Payment Processor to Stop Working With Daily Fantasy Sports Clients — A payment processing company that handles a significant number …
Apple fixing issue that directed users searching “abortion” to adoption and fertility centers, nearly five years after it was first identified
Apple Maps Stops Sending People Searching For “Abortion” To Adoption Centers — Apple is fixing a flaw in its algorithm …
Birchbox lays off 15% of staff, citing funding environment and a need to rebalance the company
Founder Katia Beauchamp tells Pando: “It's 100% the right decision for the company.” — From The Lessons from the Trenches Desk — This member-only article was unlocked for you by Andrea Wasserman.
EA's CFO estimates 55M current-gen consoles have been sold, putting Xbox One at around 19M or less units sold
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Fewer than 700 Jolla Tablets will ever ship; 21K backers may eventually get a refund
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Congress to probe Juniper ‘back door’ exposure, possible U.S. involvement
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Snapchat rolls out Live Score geofilters at NBA arenas, other events, lets you overlay stats on photos, videos; last week geofilters saw 20M views at 51 games
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Amazon ramps up investment in podcasts, other radio-style shows to expand Audible offering
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Google releases AdWords app on iOS so marketers can track campaign performance, change bids, and adjust budgets on the go
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Tencent drops plans to develop Windows 10 Mobile app for popular chatting tool QQ, citing declining users on platform, will maintain current Windows Mobile app
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Craigslist Competitor VarageSale Lays Off About One-Third of Staff
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IBM closes Weather Co. purchase, names Weather Co. CEO David Kenny head of Watson platform; sources say the deal's reported $2B cost was inaccurate
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Blackshades co-creator Michael Hogue of Arizona sentenced to 5 years of probation for distributing malware, conspiring to hack computers
SEC filing shows Roku raised $45.5M in late 2015, bringing total to about $200M
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