India debuts Unified Payment Interface, a system built on top of its existing biometric-backed ID project to simplify digital banking for its 1.2B+ citizens
India's Audacious Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2 Billion People — A biometrics-backed ID system will make it easier for everyone …
Researchers uncover GozNym, malware that is a hybrid of Nymaim and Gozi that has stolen $4M from customers of 24 US and Canadian banks in just 3 days
Eastern European Cyber Crooks Raid US Banks For $4 Million In Just 3 Days — In early April, cybercriminals believed …
Apple opposes unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn drug case, saying the government has not proven its help is necessary
Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case — Apple Inc argued on Friday that the U.S. Justice Department had failed to substantiate that it needed …
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Plans Digital City for Google Car, Internet
When Google launched a new company to “fix cities,” speculation swirled as to what, precisely, that company would do. One idea: What if it built its own city, a laboratory vision of a thoroughly conn...
SF to send letters to 37K Uber and Lyft drivers demanding they obtain $91 business licenses if they drive in the city more than seven days per year
SF to require Lyft, Uber drivers to obtain business licenses — For the first time, San Francisco is going to require the 37,000 Lyft …
Sources: Intel planning job cuts significantly larger than last year's 1,100, could come after Q1 financial results on Tuesday
Intel planning for thousands of job cuts, internal sources say — Intel is preparing a significant round of job cuts across business units this spring …
Huawei VR headset announced in China, works like Samsung Gear VR but with P9, Mate 8 phones
Of course Huawei is making a Gear VR rival — Huawei may have just announced the fancy P9 and P9 Plus smartphones in London last week, but it actually saved a little surprise for its Shanghai launch ...
Facebook says it won't try to influence how people vote, despite verbal jabs between Zuckerberg and Trump campaign plus staffers' internal questions
Facebook promises not to use its product to influence the US presidential election — Despite some not-so-subtle political jabs …
Researchers detail how they brute forced shortened URLs from OneDrive and Google Maps to access private information; Microsoft and Google respond
Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google's Shortened URLs to Spy on People — For anyone with minimalist tastes or an inability …
The history of content moderation, the laws that govern internet speech, and how safety works online
The secret rules of the internet — Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University …
Google updates Chrome Web Store user data policy with stricter privacy and transparency requirements, gives developers until July 15 to comply
Google updates Chrome Web Store user data policy, will remove violating apps and extensions on July 15, 2016 — Google today updated …
Updated Apple webpage suggests company will rebrand OS X to MacOS, possibly as early as WWDC
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comScore: time spent online on desktop devices declined 9.3% in December, 7.6% in January, 2% in February, and 6% in March compared to the same period last year
Has Desktop Internet Use Peaked? — ComScore data show Internet use from desktop devices has declined year-over-year for four straight months Tweets: @stevesi , @jackmarshall , @ia , @brianrose and @...
Quartet Health raises $40M Series B led by GV to expand its behavioral health care platform
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Sling is working on AirTV box able to stream local TV channels, FCC filing shows
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Mitel buys Polycom for $1.96B in enterprise communications consolidation play
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Google adds a secure beacon feature to its Eddystone beacon format to enable private interactions
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica :
Naked Labs unveils 3D Fitness Tracker, which uses a mirror and scale to scan your body in 3D and track changes over time; set available for preorder at $500
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Sources: Verizon readying all IP-based set-top box using OnCue tech, with pay-tv, online services; testing to begin this summer, available Q3 or Q4
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Yelp's Request a quote feature, which is opt-in for businesses, lets customers get up to 10 price quotes for a home services job and see response times, rates
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @fwd Tweets: BuzzFeed Tech / @fwd : Now you can get a price quote on local services like mechanics and even party photographers inside Yelp: http://www.buzzfee...
Sources: Disney in advanced talks for equity stake in BAM Tech, the streaming video unit of MLB Advanced Media
Peter Kafka / Re/code :
Sources expect fewer than ten offers from bidders by Yahoo's Monday deadline; many of the rumored 40 bidders have not even read Yahoo's sale book
ing joke’ Sei Chong / New York Times : Morning Agenda: Yahoo's Potential Bidders Frustrated Over Lack of Figures Tweets: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Hilarious that media only now discovering what I s...
Microsoft rolls out preview of plugin-free Skype for Web support in Edge
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