Study co-authored by MIT professor finds Uber drivers in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men
Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men.
New president to get @POTUS on Twitter, White House on Facebook and Instagram, with clean timelines; Obama's accounts will be archived and accessible to public
Summary: Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration.
Google discloses actively exploited Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to Microsoft
Google today shared details about a security flaw in Windows, just 10 days after disclosing it to Microsoft on October 21. To make matters worse, Google says it is aware …
Lenovo starts shipping the first Google Tango, fully capable AR phone, Lenovo Phab 2 Pro for $499
The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is shipping now — If it weren't for Pokémon Go, augmented reality might have stayed another forlorn futurist technology the public paid little attention to.
Instagram to test shoppable photo tags for iOS users in the US, letting the user tap to learn more about products on posts from 20 participating brands
Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That's why today it will start …
A roundup of the mostly negative reactions to the new MacBook Pros and the current state of the Mac by creative professionals and developers
I was really disappointed with today's Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) …
Hacking group Shadow Brokers share what they allege to be hundreds of orgs hacked by NSA with IP addresses of the compromised devices in a post on Medium
Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it published some of the National Security Agency's …
Twitter tests enabling Apple's distraction-free Reader mode by default on links opened within its iOS app's browser
Reader mode is a Safari feature, which strips out most of the formatting from a webpage, removing adverts, navigation links and comments — Twitter is testing a new feature …
Report: AWS has 45% share of worldwide public Infrastructure as a Service market, more than Microsoft, Google, and IBM combined
Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) — greater than Microsoft …
Google doling out $50 Play Store credits due to Pixel shipping delays
Google's new Pixel-branded smartphones have proven to be a little too popular. Already, Google statedthat pre-order demands had exceeded the company's expectations, and now the company is trying to m...
Apple's apparent disinterest in supporting users with compute-intensive and memory-intensive applications risks alienating developers across all its platforms
Last Thursday's event was a pretty hard hit to me. Tweets: Matt / @mattk : It's simple: you need MacBook Pros to create apps for iOS. The cost for this equipment is rising without meeting the needs of...
President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) convenes semiconductor industry working group to advance US competitiveness
President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST) today announced the launch of a new Semiconductor Working Group …
New York's aspirations to become a global hub for Bitcoin fade, as delays in licensing process and strict requirements drive companies away
New York's financial regulator had sights set on becoming a global hub for innovations like bitcoin when it adopted trailblazing virtual currency rules last year.
Toyota debuts Smart Key Box, a device that lets smartphones unlock and start cars via bluetooth; tests begin next year with P2P car-sharing service Getaround
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Nitrous.io, an online development environment and IDE, to shut down November 14; company says it will release open source version of cloud IDE in future
Nitrous.io, an online development environment and IDE, today announced that it is shutting down its service on November 14.
IDC: Q3 tablet shipments down 14.7% YoY to 43M, as low-cost detachables, tablets reach record sales; iPad Air, Mini make up over two thirds of Apple's shipments
Palantir wins lawsuit against US Army, gets second chance at contract worth hundreds of millions, after judge rules army failed to consider existing tech
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Palantir beats the Army over battle to allow project bid Cromwell Schubarth / Upstart Business Journal : Judge gives Palantir a shot at huge con...
Alibaba creates new digital media company, Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, to consolidate media assets, announces $1.48B fund for new projects
Yu Yongfu, of UCWeb, will become CEO of new group under Zhang — Breaking out media assets is part of transparency efforts
Sony's mobile unit reports Q2 profit of $37M, a huge gain on the $172M loss from a year ago, on sales of 3.5M phones down 40% YoY
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Thiel defends Trump donation: says lewd tape was poor taste, doesn't back policies like Muslim ban with religion test, and his business relationships are intact
Speakers NPC — This event is open … Mark Wilson / BetaNews : Tinder has spoken — Hillary Clinton will beat Donald Trump Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Really not sure about this livestream from Peter...
Customer support SaaS platform Freshdesk raises $55M Series F led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from Accel Partners
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Samsung Electronics to invest $1B+ by the end of June 2017, to boost system chip production at its Austin, Texas facilities to meet growing demand
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Twitter's India head and VP Asia Pacific/Middle East, Rishi Jaitly, says he's leaving the company in November; no replacement has been announced yet
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Microsoft EVP of Windows and Devices Terry Myerson talks Windows 10 priorities, VR headsets, Surface hardware goals, Windows Mobile, and more
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Source: this summer Facebook tried to buy Snow, a Snapchat clone from Korean firm Naver, which is also behind chat app Line
Vine is Dead — Anyone remember Vine … Katie Collins / CNET : Facebook reportedly tried to buy Snow, a Snapchat-like app Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : @Techmeme you might say it flaked on the...
As Moore's Law slows, leading chipmakers weigh adoption of EUV Lithography tech, which may be used to mass produce chips as soon as 2018
the cycle continues! http://www.wired.com/... Robin Bordoli / @rbordoli : #AI is a titanic battle changing silicon and software http://www.wired.com/...
Justin Kan, cofounder of Justin.TV and Twitch, launches video Q&A app Whale
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Clarifai raises $30M from Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, and others for its AI-based image and video search API
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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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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.