Facebook Heavily Promotes Live Video But Struggles To Deal With Its Visceral Aftermath
Last night, at 10:06 P.M., a woman by the name of Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds went live on Facebook for roughly ten minutes. During that time, she chronicled the last conscious moments of her boyfriend...
Facebook Messenger begins testing opt-in end-to-end encryption; encrypted messages only visible on one device on each end, can self-destruct after pre-set time
Just a few years ago, end-to-end encryption was a nerdy niche: a tiny collection of obscure software let you encrypt communication …
Apple releases public beta of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra
Two days after releasing the second developer betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra for testing, Apple today is launching its public beta program for the forthcoming updates, allowing a broader cross secti...
Google tests a type of encryption in Chrome called Ring-LWE that could be immune to attacks from quantum computers
For anyone who cares about Internet security and encryption, the advent of practical quantum computing looms like the Y2K bug in the 1990s: a countdown to an unpredictable event that might just break ...
Microsoft's Project Malmo platform for testing AI algorithms in Minecraft, formerly known as Project AIX, goes open source and is now available on GitHub
The system, now available to all, uses Minecraft to test artificial intelligence protocols. — Microsoft has released artificial …
EU-US Privacy Shield data pact gets approval from European governments, paving the way for the formal adoption early next week
A revised pact governing EU-US data flows has been approved by European governments. — The Privacy Shield agreement replaces the previous accord …
Yahoo's Firefox search deal includes a clause allowing Mozilla to walk away from a new buyer and still be paid $375M per year through 2019
The contract clause — personally struck by the CEO — is a “hairy” one for bidders. — Under terms of a contract that has been seen by Recode …
Google acquires Anvato, a platform used by broadcasters for encoding, editing, publishing and distributing video; the team will join Google's Cloud Platform
Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business. The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato …
Lyft launches Lyft Premier, a luxury on-demand service available in NYC, LA, and San Francisco, which costs twice as much as a standard journey
Over the coming months, we are going to be seeing a lot more pink mustaches on Audi, BMW, and Mercedes vehicles. — Today, Lyft is launching Lyft Premier.
Yahoo brings its news, weather, monkey, and finance bots to Facebook Messenger
This summer, Yahoo brought its news, weather, and virtual pet services to the Kik messaging app in the form of chatbots. At the time, the company hoped that these bots would help it learn how people ...
Microsoft makes its Power BI web publishing feature available to all users for free
Microsoft today is announcing that it's making the “publish to web” feature in its Power BI cloud-based business intelligence tool generally available at no additional cost for both free and pro users...
Users can now set Spotify or Pandora as the default music player on Amazon Echo, Dot, or Tap
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Siris Capital to buy Polycom for $2B in cash, Polycom cancels its $1.96B Mitel merger
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Samsung expects Q2 operating profit of $7B, its highest in 2 years, on strong Galaxy S7 sales
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Antivirus software firm AVG acquired by Avast Software for $1.3 billion
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Source: Uber raises $1.15B from its first leveraged loan, to pay a yield of about 5%
Ride-hailing company will pay a yield of about 5%, source says — Uber Technologies Inc. has raised $1.15 billion from a new high-yield loan, according to a person familiar with the matter …
Dating app Bumble to launch BumbleBizz for swipe-based professional networking this fall
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General Catalyst's Phil Libin leads seed rounds for two more bot companies, Butter.ai and Growbot, and explains why he's investing in the space
My name is Jeremy, cofounder & CEO of Growbot … Jack Hirsch / Butter.ai : 7 Questions Everyone Keeps Asking Us About Our New Company Phil Libin / Medium : Bots Get Serious: My Two New Investments from...
Android co-founder Rich Miner cutting back at Google Ventures to lead Google's new education project
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Google says sensors aboard its autonomous cars can detect cyclists' hand signals
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Homee, an app that helps you select furniture, comes out of beta, announces $5M Series A from Founders Fund and Sean Rad
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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