While Hillary Clinton's stance on encryption is unclear, her campaign staffers are reportedly required to use “Snowden-approved” encrypted messaging app Signal
Hillary Clinton wants Edward Snowden in jail but that doesn't mean her campaign won't eagerly take the whistleblower's advice …
Fitbit unveils $100 ‘swim-proof’ Flex 2 and $150 Charge 2 with heart rate monitoring
Meet Fitbit's next Fitbits. — The fitness-tracker company is unveiling two new devices today, the $150 Charge 2 with heart rate monitoring and a larger screen, and the smaller, “swim-proof” …
US federal court convicts Russian hacker Seleznev in theft and sale of credit cards resulting in $169M in losses; he could face up to 40 years in prison
Roman Seleznev could face between four to 40 years in prison — The son of a Russian lawmaker was convicted Thursday in federal court …
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga (OLED) review: incredible screen but expensive compared to LCD models, meager battery life during typical use, stylus is uncomfortable
The dream of large OLED screens has, for the past few years, seemed perpetually on the horizon.
Nutanix is acquiring cloud storage startup PernixData and DevOps automation firm Calm.io
Nutanix, which combines server, storage, and virtualization into a single “converged” piece of data center gear, said it is in the process of buying PernixData and has completed an acquisition of Calm...
Boomerang for Gmail creators launch Respondable to help you write better emails using A.I.
The battle over how to make our lives more productive continues, especially on the email front. Baydin has spent the past six years helping people bring a degree of normalcy to their inbox through it...
Sources: red tape and internal politics are slowing down moonshot efforts at Alphabet's X
Why? — Google's famed corporate research lab, first launched as Google X, was a sandbox for the company founders and its band of experimental scientists. When Google became Alphabet …
Square brings payment and capital offerings to TouchBistro and Vend customers
Square is turning point-of-sale companies that at one time could've been considered enemies into allies, with two new partnerships with Vend and TouchBistro. Square will now offer Vend and TouchBistr...
Massive data centers in small towns mostly create low-wage, temporary jobs for the locals, high-tech workers at these facilities are usually outsiders
BOYDTON, Va. — A giant Microsoft facility just outside this very small town hides behind a quarter-mile berm and a guard house …
Snapchat's head of revenue operations says the company is planning to introduce behavioral ad targeting in Q3 2016
Snapchat is planning to introduce behavioral targeting for advertisers, the company's director of revenue operations Clement Xue revealed in an eMarketer report published earlier this week.
Shadow Brokers leak shows how NSA's tendency to hoard vulnerabilities instead of reporting them is putting our devices and networks at risk
Saturday, August 27, 2016 Tweets: Bart Silverstrim / @bsilverstrim77 : Basically the NSA warns companies of vulnerabilities as promised, unless they don't feel like it. http://www.vox.com/... @voxdotc...
AlphaBay, the largest darknet market, begins supporting Monero, a cryptocurrency meant to be more anonymous than Bitcoin
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Amazon's $970M bet on Twitch in 2014 gives Amazon an edge as Facebook, Google, and others jockey to own live video
In 2014 Amazon surprised many by buying Twitch. Today it has an edge as Facebook, Google and others jockey to own live video. — 2015, Twitch viewers watched …
Quanergy Systems, maker of light-sensitive radar sensors used in self-driving cars, raises $90M at $1.59B post-money valuation
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Source: Indian digital payments startup Paytm raising $300M at a $5B valuation led by Taiwan's MediaTek
Indian digital-payments and e-commerce startup Paytm is raising $300 million in a funding round led by Taiwan's MediaTek Inc. and other investors, more than doubling its valuation to $5 billion … Twee...
TripAdvisor acquires social mapping service Citymaps, says it will continue on as a standalone business
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Hackers at startup MedSec find security vulnerabilites in St. Jude's medical devices, make deal with investment firm to short manufacturer's stock
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Inside NBC's Olympic live streaming operation, which required a remote support staff of 1,100+ in Stamford, Connecticut
Lauren Goode / The Verge : Tweets: @sportstvratings Tweets: Sports TV Ratings / @sportstvratings : “The audience is moving to streaming faster than the money” via @LaurenGoode http://www.theverge.com...
As major tech firms focus on voice assistants, microphone makers face pressure to improve product that hasn't seen much change since 2012
Matthew Braga / Bloomberg : Tweets: @dwlz Tweets: Dan Loewenherz / @dwlz : Compare Google Now or Alexa with Siri and it's clear Siri's issues aren't microphone related. At all. http://www.bloomberg.c...
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