Chris Urmson, CTO of Google's self-driving car project, announces he is leaving after seven years
A key executive of Google's self-driving car project is leaving the company. Chris Urmson, who serves as CTO and technical lead, announced that he was leaving after seven years.
Every Mac in Apple's current lineup except the 12-inch MacBook is outdated; the 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro was last updated in June 2012, still costs $1.1K
One thousand, five hundred and fourteen days. Or: four years, one month, and twenty-four days.
US Copyright Office sides with cable companies on set-top boxes, says proposed FCC rules may encourage piracy
Set-top box rules could enable piracy, copyright official warns. — The United States Copyright Office has sided with cable companies in their fight against a Federal …
Sources: Apple acquires Seattle-based machine learning startup Turi for around $200M
Machine learning and artificial intelligence startup Turi has been acquired by Apple in a deal characterized as a blockbuster exit for the Seattle-based company, formerly known as Dato and GraphLab, G...
Disney launches its own messaging app, Disney Mix, aimed at kids and families
Disney today is wading into the mobile messaging marketwith a new chat applicationcalled Disney Mix, aimed at kids, tweens and families. While the app will compete to some extent with popular messagi...
Apple's bug bounty program is a good start, focuses on finding high-quality exploits in a few key areas on iOS and iCloud, will grow and evolve over time
It should surprise no one that Apple is writing their own playbook for bug bounties. Both bigger, with the largest potential payout I'm aware of …
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom gives full credit to Snapchat for Stories format, and looks at how tech companies build on each others' innovations
The one thing you never hear in Silicon Valley is an entrepreneur admit they copied someone else. Yet there in the headquarters of Facebook …
Strava adds Beacon safety feature, letting premium users share a live workout with up to three contacts
Your safety contact can see where you're working out — Strava, the maker of a popular cycling and running app that is one of the few holdouts in an era of health and fitness acquisitions …
China floods Silicon Valley with cash: $6B+ invested total, $3B+ in the last 18 months; Alibaba's troubled investment in Quixey shows how such deals can go bad
SAN FRANCISCO — Mountain View, Calif., start-up Quixey was the envy of many in Silicon Valley when the company announced …
Torrentz.eu, one of world's largest torrent meta-search engines, shuts down without warning
One of the largest and oldest … Chris Smith / BGR : The world's largest torrent search site has shut down Vinay Devnath / Storypick : After 13 Years, Torrentz Has Mysteriously Shut Down Its Operations...
Google to shut down Together Android Wear app on September 30, citing redundancy with Android Wear 2.0, according to Android Wear app update
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FTC to crack down on sponsored celebrity social media posts that aren't explicitly disclosed
The agency says brands and the social media stars who promote their products need to be more transparent about sponsored content — Snapchat star DJ Khaled raves about Ciroc vodka.
Sources: Wal-Mart's $3B acquisition of Jet.com would require Jet founder Marc Lore to head the retailer's online division for several years
Marc Lore said to stay to run retailer's e-commerce division — Purchase for $3 billion would help Wal-Mart challenge Amazon Tweets: @ericnewcomer , @fmanjoo , @mdudas , @ericnewcomer and @gregbettin...
Filing: Airbnb raising $850M, sources say at a $30B valuation, bringing total raised to about $3.2B
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NPD: sales of portable power packs for mobile devices doubled between July 10 and July 23 compared to same period a year ago, likely due to Pokémon Go
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Orkut creator Orkut Büyükkökten launches Hello, an interest-based social network that lets you select personas like geek or foodie that serve as communities
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Inside DARPA's first Cyber Grand Challenge, which pitted bot against bot to exploit security holes
Last night, at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, seven autonomous bots proved that hacking isn't just for humans. — The Paris ballroom played host to the Darpa Cyber Grand Challenge … Tweets: @mcuban an...
Honor, a startup that helps connect seniors with home care workers, raises $42M led by Thrive Capital
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Sources: US is preparing to separate Pentagon's Cyber Command from NSA and make it equal in stature to the combat branches like Central and Pacific commands
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After losing in the UK, Privacy International takes its case against government's bulk hacking powers abroad to the European Court of Human Rights
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Facebook starts testing MSQRD selfie filters in Canada and Brazil, opening to your camera instead of a status update prompt on top of your feed
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Behind Meitu, a Chinese developer of selfie apps with hundreds of millions of MAUs and a valuation in the billions of dollars
Emily Rauhala / Washington Post : Tweets: @paulmozur and @klustout Tweets: Paul Mozur / @paulmozur : Selfies in China: “When girls go out, it just means finding a place to take pictures and post them...
Indonesia-based Go-Jek confirms $550M raise, source says at a $1.3B post-money valuation, to expand its motorbike taxis on-demand service
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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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