ICANN gains full oversight of Domain Name System as its contract with US NTIA expires on October 1
A judge in Texas has put the kibosh on a last-minute legal attempt to block the controversial decision for the US to give up control of one of the key systems that powers the internet.
Apple threatens to pull top-grossing iMessage sticker pack Phoneys, which overwrites your friends' messages
Wednesday night of this week, John Gruber wrote, “This is very clever, and I can see how it could be damn funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if Phoneys gets pulled from the App Store.”
Apple loses patent retrial to VirnetX, ordered to $302.4M in damages after federal jury finds FaceTime and other applications infringed on patents
A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple Inc to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp's patented …
Arduino.cc and Arduino.org settle trademark dispute, announce Arduino Holding for product distribution, and Arduino Foundation for managing IDE and community
For the last two years, Arduino LLC (the arduino.cc, Massimo one) and Arduino SRL (the arduino.org, Musto one) …
How cobalt sourced from dangerous mines in DR Congo ends up inside Li-ion batteries powering gadgets made by Apple, Samsung, and other tech companies
Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez … The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba got ready for work.
What to expect at Google's Oct. 4 event: two new flagship devices without Nexus branding, more details about Home, Google Wi-Fi, Android-Chrome OS hybrid, more
So. Much. Hardware. — PIN — Now that Apple has had its big fall phone event, it's Google's turn to show off its goods.
Life On Air, developers of Meerkat, pull the app from the App Store to focus on group video chat app Houseparty
Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone's tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope …
Sources: Google is telling home audio vendors they won't be allowed to add competing smart assistants like Alexa if they want to continue to use Google Cast
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Amazon announces Twitch Prime with ad-free streaming and other perks for Amazon Prime members; Twitch adds video uploads, loyalty badges, HTML5 support, more
Twitch, the video game live-streaming service acquired by Amazon for nearly a billion dollars back in 2014, kicked off …
WeChat testing new feature called “little program” that lets service providers build apps within the messaging app, instead of linking to webpages as before
TENCENT Holdings built a hugely successful messaging platform with its WeChat app. Now an experimental new service …
Line invests $45M for 25% of Asia-focused Snapchat-like app Snow
Line, the messaging company that went public in the year's highest IPO to date, is diversifying its business and focusing on social after it invested $45 million (50 billion KRW) in Snow, a Snapchat c...
Amazon's jobs website shows Echo and Alexa groups are currently looking to fill 400 positions
Alexa, we're going to need some more recruiters. — When Jeff Bezos revealed in May that Amazon employed more than 1,000 people working on Echo and Alexa products, he warned: “It's just the tip of th...
Source code behind IoT device botnet Mirai, responsible for DDoS of KrebsOnSecurity, publicly released by Hackforums user
The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
Remitly raises $38.5M Series D led by World Bank's IFC for its P2P international money transfer service, bringing total raised to just under $100M
Today Remitly, the largest independent … Erin Hobey / Crowdfund Insider : US Fintech Platform Remitly Secures $38M, Expands into Latin America Iris Dorbian / PE Hub Blog : Remitly nabs $38 mln from IF...
Nutanix closes up 131% on its first day of trading after raising $238M in an IPO, now valued at around $5B
Marisa Kendall / Mercury News :
Exploit broker Zerodium triples bounty to $1.5M for iOS, and doubles bounty for Android to $200K
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Anecdotes show increased use of electronic devices can injure hands, wrists, and other body parts, but effects of long-term exposure are still unclear
Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @pierce Tweets: David Pierce / @pierce : What gadgets are doing to our bodies is really, truly, terrifying http://www.buzzfeed.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Alibaba's Ant Financial launches Alipay Everywhere app in Shanghai that allows users to find and order a specific service or task from strangers nearby
Josh Horwitz / Quartz :
Sources: NXP Semiconductors hired Qatalyst Partners to help find a buyer while Qualcomm is exploring other large acquisition options in addition to NXP
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg :
Sources: Travis VanderZanden, Uber's VP of Driver Growth and ex-Lyft COO, is leaving Uber
Biz Carson / Business Insider :
How a startup called Augmedix, which has raised over $36M, is enabling hundreds of doctors in the US to use Google Glass for remote medical scribing
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post : Tweets: @erictopol , @tom_weaver , @geofutures and @cpmcinsf Tweets: Eric Topol / @erictopol : Redux of @Google glass, “low cost scribes” A1 @Washingtonpost http...
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