Johns Hopkins researchers find an iMessage bug that allows attackers to decrypt photos and videos on older iOS versions
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Facebook “multicultural affinity” ad targeting guesses user's race based on behavior, used to serve different Straight Outta Compton film trailers
Facebook's ad platform now guesses at your race based on your behavior — Company profiles users so Facebook can sell against their “ethnic affinity.”
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Samsung's appeal in Apple patent case
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How the White House, initially receptive to Apple's arguments for strong encryption, came to support the FBI
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Medium spins off longform publication Matter as separate company, Matter Studios, owned and funded by Ev Williams, aims to be incubator for digital storytellers
Medium spins off Matter into new company owned by Ev Williams — The self-publishing service and social network Medium …
GoDaddy launches AWS-style servers and apps to build, test and scale cloud services
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Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of neural networks” on the importance of AlphaGo's use of intuition, why humans shouldn't fear AI, and what AI can take on next
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Google developed tool to publicly track defections in Syria, planned to share with Al Jazeera, Clinton state department email from July 2012 shows
Clinton email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Syria's Assad — Google in 2012 sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad …
Microsoft's Azure Deutschland region, where access to customer data is controlled by Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, now available in preview
Microsoft expanding its cloud service availability in Germany, Canada and for the U.S. DoD — Microsoft is turning on a preview of select cloud services …
Airbnb in Cuba now available to all, not just US-based travelers, after special authorization from the Obama administration
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Microsoft plans to offer tool to port Chrome extensions to Edge browser
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Mattermark announces $7.3M Series B at a $42M valuation, led by Foundry Group, which also led their Series A; company now emphasizing sales intelligence service
Sales research startup Mattermark raises $7.3 million, now valued at $42 million — Mattermark, which has evolved rapidly …
How hackers and pirates worked together to locate and steal millions of dollars in diamonds from cargo ships
How Pirates And Hackers Worked Together To Steal Millions Of Dollars In Diamonds — A tanker travels through the Singapore Strait July 7, 2014. Tweets: @verovaleros Tweets: _Veronica_ / @verovaleros ...
How 21-year-old Opera sold for $1.2B and why CEO Lars Boilesen and CTO Håkon Wium Lie are ambivalent about it
Opera's $1.2B sale: Shocking underdog victory or cruel twist of fate 21 years in the making? — The news that Norway's Opera Software accepted a $1.2 billion buyout offer …
EU Commission inquiry reveals 68% of digital content providers geo-block in EU, content supplier contracts forcing it may be investigated
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Movidius' Myriad 2 chip and algorithms power DJI Phantom 4, enabling drone's autonomous features like obstacle avoidance
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Google's Chris Urmson envisions decades-long incremental rollout of self-driving cars, beginning in locations with good weather and easy driving conditions
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GroupM: 49.7% of total ad spend in China will go toward the Internet this year, up 30% year-over-year; 31% of worldwide ad spend will go toward the Internet
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Xiaomi Mi 5 review: at $260, raises bar for cheap phones with great performance, helpful software additions, but has fit and finish issues, disappointing camera
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Sources: Google considers acquisitions to expand cloud business; possible targets include Shopify, Namely, Metavine, CallidusCloud, and Xactly
Intel's new Skull Canyon NUC gaming mini-PC supports external Thunderbolt 3 graphics cards, ships in May starting at $650
Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld : Tweets: @bradchacos Tweets: Brad Chacos / @bradchacos : Intel's Skull Canyon gaming NUC looks SICK. It can play Just Cause 3 at 1080p/30fps! http://www.pcworld.com/... http...
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