Spotify family plan is now cheaper, $14.99 for up to 6 people
Spotify is catching up with the competition when it comes to family plans. Like Apple Music and Google Play Music, families can now subscribe to Spotify Premium for $14.99 per month and get six diffe...
Google plays catch-up at I/O, relying on its technological dominance to establish Home, Assistant, Allo, and Daydream as viable competitors in their markets
but it might not matter Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central : Google I/O 2016 recap: Rise of the machines New York Times : Farhad and Mike's Week in Tech: The Herd Mentality of Tech C.E.O.s Ben Thomps...
If users prioritize big-data AI services, like those offered by Google, Amazon, Facebook, then Apple will be in a position similar to BlackBerry was in 2007
Before the iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry was the king of smartphones. They seemed unstoppable, because by most accounts …
Analysis of 7K+ cases: strong bias against black defendants found in crime prediction software that's increasingly relied upon to guide sentencing in US courts
There's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks.
Microsoft announces five-year exclusive partnership with Chinese software publisher NetEase to bring Minecraft to PCs and smartphones in China
Long-awaited news serves as reminder of China's resistance to Western software. — When Microsoft opened its wallets in 2014 and traded $2.5 billion …
Race to build VR cameras escalates as Google teams with IMAX and Yi Technology on new rigs
Google is working with new camera manufacturers IMAX and Yi Technology to ramp up production — One of the most impressive things Google unveiled at its developers conference last May was an odd, dis...
Google's open-source research project Magenta uses AI to generate music, video, other visual arts, makes the process easier with TensorFlow, will launch June 1
THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY MACHINE — If Google's artificial intelligence can paint its dreams, why not make other kinds of art?
Study of 1M top sites sheds light on techniques some firms use to track users: Canvas, Canvas-Font, AudioContext fingerprinting, local WebRTC IP discovery, more
During our January 2016 measurement of the top 1 million sites, our tool made over 90 million requests, assembling the largest dataset …
Google's Ara team on why they ditched swappable core components like CPUs and radios to focus on differentiated modules like cameras, batteries, and glucometers
Next year, Google will sell a smartphone with interchangeable parts. Swap in different ones to give the phone new abilities.
Microsoft amends terms for its consumer services to address terrorism-related content, expands “notice-and-takedown” policy, mulls Bing partnerships with NGOs
The threat of terrorism has escalated the age-old battle between national security and individual rights …
Facebook buys VR audio company Two Big Ears and debuts “Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation”, a free software suite for designing spatial audio
Today Facebook announced it's acquired Two Big Ears, a spatial audio technology company, for an undisclosed sum.
Google launches Science Journal, an Android app that uses your phone's sensors to record experimental data including movement, light, and sound
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Kleiner Perkins raising close to $1.3 billion for two funds: Sources
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital firm that last year defended itself against an explosive sexual discrimination lawsuit, is raising two funds totaling close to $1.3 billion, accor...
Ten ways tech products are designed to manipulate users to spur usage
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes. — I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as Google's Design Ethicist caring about how...
How OneCore, the modularized OS at the heart of Windows 10, fulfills Microsoft's quest to enable apps that work well across PCs, phones, tablets, Xbox, and more
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CoinDesk: VC investment in startups commercializing blockchain eclipsed that in pure-play bitcoin companies in Q1 2016 for the first time
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Vizio P-Series review: great 4K TV but Google Cast-powered approach and Android tablet remote have a learning curve, casting via the SmartCast app can be buggy
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Inside the European Commission's antitrust fight against Google, from the first Foundem complaint in 2009 to a potential $3B fine, expected in next few weeks
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says tech industry is underutilizing diverse talent pool
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Researchers demonstrate ability to pinpoint users of Grindr, other gay dating apps with “colluding” trilateration attack
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Clay Bavor talks about Daydream, its Cardboard origins, and Google's ambitions for the new VR platform
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