Google's diverse emoji for women at work approved by Unicode Consortium
Back in May, Google proposed 13 new emoji meant to better represent women in professional fields, and now 11 of those emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium. The new emoji, including a ch...
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were temporarily blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt
follow the Moment for updates. https://twitter.com/... Katharina Borchert / @lyssaslounge : It is decidedly surreal sitting in a Silicon Valley meeting room watching a coup unfold via Twitter and Peri...
Facebook shows little progress in diversity report, blames lack of available talent
Many observers say talent pipeline isn't primary factor — Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it made meager increases in the number of women and minorities working at the social-network giant …
Attempted coup's failure to block internet in Turkey allowed President Erdogan and civilians to organize resistance through FaceTime, Periscope, Facebook Live
Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower — Mere hours after the putsch in Turkey has failed, it is still too early to understand exactly what went on.
In a non-public filing with the US Copyright Royalty Board, Apple proposes simplified flat rate of 9.1¢ per 100 streams in songwriting royalties
In the music industry's streaming battles, the fight extends to even the minutiae of copyright. — Apple, in a government filing on Friday …
Civil Maps, a startup that uses AI software to convert data from sensors on self-driving cars into detailed 3D maps, raises $6.6M seed from Ford and others
Automaker is among participants in $6.6 million seed funding — Civil Maps' system aggregates data from sensors on vehicles
Netflix launches Flixtape, a tool for making shareable mixtape-like short playlists for shows and movies
Just in time for the weekend, Netflix today announced the launch of a new service called Flixtape, which the company describes as a way to make short playlists of your favorite Netflix titles.
How ingrained hiring practices at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook hinder their efforts to diversify their workforces
In the past week or so I've had three instances to reflect on how three major tech companies talk about diversity hiring and their actions.
Google recently shut down project to create high-end standalone VR headset with non-Android OS
Another sign that Google is putting its eggs into mobile VR. — Google recently shut down an internal project to create a high-end standalone virtual reality headset akin to devices …
Inside the small teams at Spotify, Google, and Apple that make tens of thousands of playlists listened to by tens of millions of people around the world
When he's choosing your music for you, Carl Chery, 37, is in Culver City, California, sitting at his desk in an office with no signage …
Microsoft concedes that it won't have Windows 10 installed on 1B devices by mid-2018, as previously projected
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US Department of Defense acknowledges it created a cyber-offensive unit in May, called Joint Task Force Ares, to develop weapons to target ISIS
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Kantar: Samsung's Galaxy S7 outsold Apple's iPhone 6s in the US between March and May 2016
emerging markets like India & ambitious Chinese rivals are the real focus now http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/ ...
As Yahoo puts itself up for sale, early employees known as “surfers” recall building the company's directory
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Back in the mid-1990s, before Google even existed, the world's best guides to the internet sat in Silicon Valley cubicles, visiting websites and carefully categorizing them by hand...
Profile of Airbnb's Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer Belinda Johnson, second in command at the company
Belinda Johnson knew a decision needed to be made quickly. She pulled her boss, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, into a small conference room in the company's highly designed downtown San Francisco headquart...
Obama administration working with foreign governments to let them to serve US tech firms with warrants for email searches and wiretaps
Internet companies could face overseas demands for email searches, wiretaps — The Obama administration is working on a series of agreements … Tweets: @ijurisdiction and @mbrauchli Tweets: InternetJu...
Sources: final bids for Yahoo are due on Monday, with the board set to make a decision soon afterward
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FCC released a list of 62 bidders who made deposits for the next stage of spectrum auction; Chamath Palihapitiya's Rama is not among them
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal :
US pledges $400M over the next 7 years for 5G research led by National Science Foundation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
BitTorrent Now officially launches on iOS and Apple TV
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
AT&T and IBM to combine their cloud and IoT platforms in an effort to provide developers with easier tools to build and implement IoT offerings
Colin Gibbs / FierceWireless :
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle closes $50M Series C
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Interview with users and creator of Ohlala, a Berlin based casual dating app, often referred to as “Uber for escorts”
Emily Yoshida / The Verge : Tweets: @binarybits Tweets: Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits : Startup idea: women go on “dates” with men for money. Oh wait... http://www.theverge.com/...
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