Sources: Apple abandons development of wireless routers, disbands its router division, and reassigns engineers
Apple disbands its router division, reassigns engineers — Apple Inc. has disbanded its division that develops wireless routers, another move to try to sharpen the company's focus …
Instagram launches ephemeral live video that followers can watch only when it's streaming and Snapchat-style disappearing private messages
Instagram is combining the best of Snapchat and Periscope to help you get comfortable on camera. Rather than overlap with Facebook Live and Messenger …
Symantec has agreed to acquire ID theft protection service LifeLock for $2.3B
Acquisition forms “world's largest digital safety platform for consumers and families.” — Symantec on Sunday agreed to acquire LifeLock, a consumer identity-theft protect service, for $2.3 billion t...
Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn for an undisclosed amount with plans to add its DNS solution to its cloud computing platform
A timely, if a little surprising, piece of M&A this morning from Oracle: the enterprise services company announced that it has acquired Dyn …
Eero update adds Alexa integration to devices; new “TrueMesh” technology adds dynamic rerouting, reduces connections issues, and improves LAN speeds up to 40%
Earlier this year, Eero launched a home WiFi solution that it claimed would solve all our wireless woes.
nuTonomy signs agreement with Boston city officials to test its self-driving car tech on Boston streets, limited to within an industrial park
NuTonomy is coming to Boston — NuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup that's been testing its technology in Singapore …
The buggy $1,495 June Intelligent Oven is all that's wrong with Silicon Valley design: automated yet distracting, boastful yet mediocre, confident yet wrong
Automated yet distracting. Boastful yet mediocre. Confident yet wrong. — I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built.
Programmers share stories about being asked to write code for illegal or unethical purposes and ponder the need for self-regulation
Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It's called “Code I'm Still Ashamed Of.”
Cybersecurity company Optiv filed for $100M IPO on Friday
Cybersecurity company Optiv Security Inc, majority owned by Blackstone Group LP (BX.N), filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering of its common stock on Friday. — The company set a n...
Macom buys Applied Micro for $770M to combine its analog processors with connectivity chips for data centers, plans to sell Applied Micro's ARM server chip unit
Macom is buying Applied Micro so it can provide a set of connectivity processors from switches to fiber in the network.
With Mi Mix, Xiaomi resolves challenges of placing speaker, proximity sensor, and front-facing camera on nearly bezel-less phone with no sacrifices to usability
Xiaomi elegantly solves a lot of problems to create a more screen-centric smartphone. — Smartphone design has stagnated.
Facebook says it will increase UK employees by 500, or 50%, in 2017 when new London HQ opens
Chromecast Ultra review: great 4K HDR streaming, but limited 4K content selection and marginal quality improvement over 1080p make $35 Chromecast a better value
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Hands-on with Intel's Project Alloy “merged reality” headset prototype; Intel says a new version with upgraded internals and camera is coming in 2017
Stranger than fiction — In August of this year, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich appeared onstage during …
Facebook is shutting down Atlas ad server and will focus on Atlas measurement tools
Tim Peterson / Marketing Land :
Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick for CIA director, is a strong supporter of mass surveillance but opposes mandating backdoors in encryption
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard :
LeEco Le Pro3 review: good build, battery life, and performance, but cameras perform poorly in low light, custom UI skin hinders usability, no headphone jack
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Sources: Joya Communications, developer of video sharing app Marco Polo, raises around $20M, now valued near $100M; Benchmark's Bill Gurley to join firm's board
Sunday, November 20, 2016 Tweets: Eze Vidra / @ediggs : Benchmark's next social media bet @getjoya (Marco Polo) has on its homepage 'that's it, I'm deleting Skype' - a video walkie talkie http://twitt...
Experts say in-car smartphone use and dashboard apps are partly to blame for alarming rise in highway fatalities in the US in the past two years
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times :
Sources describe how Facebook's community operations team, which consists of several thousand people, rapidly judges flagged content
Aarti Shahani / NPR :
Interview with Manuela Veloso, head of machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University on personal assistants, robots, and challenges of AI for humanity
Russell Brandom / The Verge : Tweets: @seb66 and @scsatcmu Tweets: Seb Chalmeton / @seb66 : Carnegie Mellon's Head of Machine Learning: “Humanity and AI will be inseparable” http://www.theverge.com/....
Behind the design and development of Google's Daydream View VR headset and controller, which were optimized for comfort and simplicity
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