Sources: Google planning to launch an ultra-thin convertible laptop, nicknamed Pixel 3 running combined Android-Chrome OS “Andromeda” in Q3 '17 starting at $799
Two independent and reliable sources have confirmed to us that Google is planning a new Pixel laptop to be released in Q3 2017.
As insecure IoT devices make large-scale DDoS attacks more potent, the Internet community should work to adopt standards and tools to prevent these attacks
John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
California enacts law, effective Jan. 1, 2017, requiring some entertainment sites with paid subscriptions like IMDb to remove actors' age info upon request
“On behalf of everyone in the industry who has struggled with age discrimination, whose opportunities to showcase their talent may have been blocked …
Israel-based equity crowdfunding firm OurCrowd raises $72M Series C for global expansion and additional capital to co-invest in startups that use its platform
The Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding firm has invested more than $300 million to date, mostly in Israeli start-ups
Plex partners with Amazon to launch a hardware-free media server, Plex Cloud, available to Plex Pass users that have an Amazon Drive account
You no longer need an always-on PC or any other network-attached hardware in order to use Plex's media player. The popular service …
Online grocery service FreshDirect, popular in New York, raises $189M round led by JPMorgan Asset Management to expand in new cities
One of the oldest online grocers gets a huge cash infusion. — FreshDirect, an online grocer that has a large following in the New York metropolitan area …
Sex cam site Megacams implements face search using Microsoft facial recognition API to let you “find a live sex doppelganger of someone you know”
Welcome to the future, where you can face search for a live sex webcam performer and be served real-life humans to your telescreen …
Pay-per-mile auto insurance firm Metromile has raised $191.5M in 3 rounds since late 2014, will acquire Mosaic Insurance to start underwriting policies itself
The automotive industry is in flux with the rise of self-driving and electric cars, and the concept of car ownership altogether being thrown into question.
A look at Microsoft's Project Catapult, a multi-year effort to design FPGA chips in-house to power cloud services including Bing, Azure, Office 365, more
It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future.
Alcatel Idol 4s review: good build quality, display, camera; programmable Boom Key to launch apps is a nice idea but lacks polish; OnePlus 3 is a better phone
Build and design: The first time anyone picks the Idol 4S up, they have the same reaction, “Oooh! This is nice."
Adobe partners with Microsoft to use Azure as ‘preferred solution’ for cloud services
ATLANTA, GA. — Technology giants Adobe and Microsoft announced a strategic cloud partnership at Microsoft Ignite on Monday, with each company throwing its weight behind the other in some of the most h...
Samsung Gear IconX earbuds review: good sound, accurate heart rate and distance tracking, useful 4GB storage, but bad battery life, pricey, and requires Android
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Sources: accounting software maker BlackLine confidentially filed for an IPO that could value the company at over $1B
Accounting software maker BlackLine Inc is preparing for an initial public offering that could value it at more than $1 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The potential opportunities and pitfalls of Snap's new Spectacles
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Reporter follows all of Facebook's prompts and suggestions for weeks, leading to extreme oversharing, polluted news feeds, and awkward encounters
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Bank of America, Santander, and the Royal Bank of Canada partner to create a global blockchain payments network using Ripple's distributed ledger technology
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DARPA prevented hackers from taking control of an unmanned drone using “formal methods”, a technique that can verify whether programs are error-free
Kevin Hartnett / Quanta Magazine : Tweets: @k8em0 , @kennwhite and @darpa Tweets: Katie Moussouris / @k8em0 : http://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... “We're not claiming we're going to prove an entire sys...
How Apple and IBM's partnership to develop hundreds of enterprise apps actually works: IBM does the app building, and Apple enforces design standards
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Companies like ApolloShield and Battelle are developing hardware and software that can disable drones without destroying them
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