Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review “the majority of” hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified — and to remove it...
New Microsoft Ventures division to focus on early-stage investments in cloud, SaaS, security, and machine learning startups
When I came to Microsoft earlier this year, I was driven by the opportunity to establish a corporate venture group that would create an additional channel to engage the start-up ecosystem.
Intel's Broadwell-E gaming CPU is a stunner, offering 10 cores for a whopping $1,723
Meet the next flagship chip for overclocking, gaming, and transcoding. — On paper, Intel's massive new 10-core—yes, 10—Broadwell-E gaming chips top out at 3.8GHz. But buying one is like purchasing ...
Asus debuts Transformer 3 Pro, Transformer 3 with new Kaby Lake chips, from $799, to challenge Surface Pro 4, launch date unknown, also debuts ZenFone 3 line
Asus has bombarded the world with several new Zen-branded products, with three new phones, a new laptop and two new tablet/laptop hybrids.
Asus unveils Zenbo, a $599 home robot with voice command recognition, touchscreen, smart-home integrations, more; dev program in works; launch date undisclosed
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Why motion sickness will remain a serious issue for many users of VR products and create problems for the industry in terms of product liability
• This answer won a Most Viewed Writer in — INTRODUCTION: — I've been working with helmet mounted displays in military flight simulation …
PayPal to halt service in Turkey after losing license over unwillingness to comply with new rules requiring IT systems be local, impacts “hundreds of thousands”
Turkey has been making moves to bring tech business in the country under more localised control …
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 1100 chip for small, limited-task wearables that don't need much power, includes LTE/3G modem, location tracking with iZat
Qualcomm is launching a new set of Snapdragon Wear chips for targeted wearable devices. — The company made the announcement at the Computex trade show in Taiwan today.
A deep dive into internet infrastructure including submarine cable networks and landing stations, data centers, and last-mile networks in the UK
Ah, there you are. That didn't take too long, surely? Just a click or a tap and, if you've some 21st century connectivity, you landed on this page in a trice. Tweets: @stshank . Thanks: @ravichandra...
Source: Uber gets $1B credit facility, basically a line of credit, in a deal led by Goldman Sachs to expand its Uber Xchange subprime auto leasing business
In its relentless pursuit for growth, Uber needs new drivers, and many of those drivers need cars.
Terrapattern, the first open-access, neural net-powered reverse image search tool for satellite imagery, launches in alpha
“Why don't you click on the tennis court?” Golan Levin, an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested. I was looking at a satellite image … Thanks: @ravichandrans25
Ruling from Delaware judge finds that Michael Dell, Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9B buyout of Dell by 22%, may have to pay tens of millions
Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9 billion buyout of Dell Inc [DI.UL] by about 22 percent …
Defense argues Bitcoin isn't actually money under Florida law, in what is believed to be the first money-laundering case against someone for dealing in bitcoins
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NuTonomy raises $16M Series A, source says at about $100M valuation, plans to launch a self driving taxi service in 2018 in Singapore
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Interview with FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles on the history of the company from news-prediction platform Hubdub to an American fantasy sports giant
The daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry has taken one hell of a beating these past seven months, with states from New York and Illinois to Nevada concluding that …
Interview with Roku CEO Anthony Wood on competitors, specifically Google, licensing its tech and OS to TV makers, and how the company makes money
Roku has built most of its reputation on making high-quality “streaming boxes” that plug into your TV to let you watch apps like Netflix.
Microsoft adds a warning pop-up to “upgrade to Windows 10” prompt that tricked many to upgrade, but the main prompt remains deceitful
Gordon Kelly / Forbes :
Samsung disputes reports that it is dropping Android Wear, says it has not changed commitment to any of its platforms
Chris Velazco / Engadget :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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