Google's DeepMind has defeated Go champion Lee Se-dol in first of five matches, a historic victory for AI
Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory — A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo …
Google introduces Destinations, a travel tool available via search on mobile, with information on flights, hotels, price comparisons, more
Google Search now has travel guides to help plan your vacation — Google is trying to make planning vacations less of a hassle.
Samsung Galaxy S7 teardown: glued components make it harder to repair than S6, rear camera was downgraded to 12-megapixel/4K from 16-megapixel in S6
Samsung Galaxy S7 Teardown … Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.
How the FBI can bypass auto-erasing without Apple's help by backing up part of the shooter's iPhone
One of the FBI's Major Claims in the iPhone Case is Fraudulent — Does the FBI Need to Worry About the San Bernadino Shooter's iPhone Self-Erasing? — “We have enormous computing power …
Skype says it will end support for its Skype for TV app in June
Skype ditches support for smart TVs — Skype has announced that it is ending support for its smart TV software. — The Microsoft-owned chat app said that the move reflected the public preference for...
Galaxy S7 and S7 edge review: great build quality, design, and cameras, but software bloat and clumsy edge settings undermine the experience
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Replay Technologies acquired by Intel, sources say for $175M, one week after the multi-dimensional video tech startup raised $13.5M
Intel acquires Israeli co Replay Technologies for $175m — The Tel Aviv based startup has developed multi-dimensional video imaging technologies for sports TV coverage.
Let's Encrypt has issued 1M free TLS certificates since launch just over three months ago
Let's Encrypt reaches one million certificate encryption milestone — One million free TLS certificates have now been issued, paving the way for better encryption and security on the Web.
Huawei sends out invitations to April 6th event; unveiling of Huawei P9 is hinted at
Earlier this month, Huawei posted a teaser for what appeared to be an event that was taking place in Berlin on March 9th. At the time, it appeared that at this event the manufacturer would unveil the...
Lower chamber of parliament in France passes bill 474 to 32 that will impose penalties on tech executives who deny access to encrypted data in terror probes
France Clears Bill That Could Force Apple to Unlock Terror Data — Apple's encryption may face tougher legal challenge in France
Facebook Lite data-efficient Android app passes 100M MAUs in 9 months, plans to add background video downloads, after adding low-res streaming last year
Facebook Lite is growing faster than Facebook app — Facebook Lite, the stripped-down version of the social networking app that was launched in 2015 …
Facebook bought a popular selfie filter app Masquerade, will keep it operational as a stand-alone app, integrate its technology
Facebook just bought the popular face swapping app that's dominating the App Store right now — Get ready to see more silly selfies.
Researchers at Michigan State unlocked fingerprint-protected Samsung Galaxy S6 and Huawei Honor 7 phones using inkjet prints
You Can Unlock Fingerprint-Protected Phones with a Regular Inkjet Printer — Two researchers have come up with a new method of hacking smartphones …
Cisco buys SF cloud search startup Synata, creates $150M Spark Innovation Fund for its Slack competitor, to invest $500M to accelerate “digitazition” in Germany
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Air Transport Services Group will lease, operate 20 Boeing 767's for Amazon, issues warrants for Amazon to acquire up to 19.9% of ATSG shares over five years
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Intuit to sell QuickBase software-development unit to New York private equity firm; QuickBase general manager Allison Mnookin to be named CEO of new firm
Hiawatha Bray / BetaBoston :
With just 3 games, Supercell made $924M in profits on $2.3B in revenue in 2015
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Seagate to launch “world's fastest” 10GBps NVMe SSDs with 16-lane PCIe slots this summer
Lucas Mearian / PCWorld :
FCC's Lifeline program overhaul proposal will include $9.25 a month subsidy on broadband fees for low-income households
Cecilia Kang / New York Times :
Home Depot settles lawsuit for $19.5M+ over 2014 data breach that affected 50M+ cardholders
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
Sky makes $45M strategic investment in Asia-based Netflix rival iFlix
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Google renames its satellite startup, Skybox Imaging, to Terra Bella and adds focus on image analysis
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Flickr makes desktop Auto-Uploadr available to Flickr Pro members only, membership remains $5.99/month or $49.99/year
and the war against Google Photos Matthew Roth / Flickr Blog : Changes to Flickr Pro and coupon for 30% off annual rate Rich McCormick / The Verge : Flickr takes a big step backwards by making its pho...
Android Marshmallow hits 2.3% adoption in March, up from 1.2% in February, as 16-month-old Lollipop becomes the most used version
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
FBI applies FISA-approved changes to its rules for accessing NSA data on US citizens; specifics remain classified
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian :
Sources: self-driving car kit startup Comma.ai, founded by former iPhone jailbreaker George Hotz, valued at $20M based on a16z seed round
Aaron Tilley / Forbes :
Pinterest opens up its ads manager tools to smaller and medium-sized businesses
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Behind Dick Costolo's and Jack Dorsey's efforts to fix Twitter
Erin Griffith / Fortune : Tweets: @hbsmktg , @elanazak , @digiphile and @mims . Thanks: @leenarao Tweets: John Deighton / @hbsmktg : Comprehensive history of what went wrong at Twitter (which still h...
Millennial news site Mic acquires Hyper, mobile app that aggregates video content into magazine format
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @niemanlab Tweets: Nieman Lab / @niemanlab : Mic acquires mobile video app Hyper, which packages 6-12 videos into a collection each day http://www.wsj.com...
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