Apple hints at autonomous vehicle ambitions in letter advising NHTSA that new auto industry entrants should get the same testing rights as incumbents
Apple last week submitted a letter to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that suggests it's interested in testing self-driving cars.
Apple says faulty battery causes unexpected shutdowns on “a small number of iPhone 6s devices”, offers free battery replacement
Apple customers have been reporting recently that certain iPhones seem to be randomly shutting off when their batteries say they are about 30% charged.
Airbnb and New York City settle suit over short-term rentals after city agrees to fine hosts and not the company for illegal listings
Airbnb has capitulated to the demands of lawmakers over its operations in New York City, the company's largest market in the United States …
Mirai-based botnet tried to hijack Deutsche Telekom, UK's TalkTalk and Post Office customer routers, disrupting internet access for over 1M customers
The Mirai worm also hit the broadband, internet and TV networks of 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers — Around 100,000 Post Office …
Zenefits CEO David Sacks confirms he's stepping down, says search for new CEO has begun; one source says he's open to working in the Trump administration
David Sacks is giving up the CEO job less than a year after taking over amid a legal scandal. — David Sacks, the CEO of Zenefits …
Snapchat avoids the fake news epidemic by vetting publishers who appear in Discover, hiring human editors for Live Stories, and limiting re-sharing
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and cofounder — Facebook emerged during the U.S. election as a central political and news source …
Amazon's Alexa VP on the platform's future, the $2.5M Alexa Prize, concerns about poaching key AI talent from academia, new developer tools, privacy, more
Amazon's VP of Alexa talks about machine learning, chatbots, and whether industry is strip-mining AI talent from academia.
Pandora's stock up 16% on reports of a possible sale; sources say Sirius XM approached the company again and Pandora has reached out to other potential suitors
Board hasn't responded to new engagement from Greg Maffei — Pandora advisers have begun soliciting interest from buyers
Jake Beckman, the creator of @SavedYouAClick, a Twitter account with 230K+ followers that aims to combat clickbait, creates @SavedYouATrick to oust fake news
For over two and a half years, Jake Beckman has been waging a war against clickbait. The flashy headlines peppered with teasers …
A look at Gab, the social network launched in August that has become a haven for the far right and now hosts 98K accounts
When the white nationalist leader Richard B. Spencer was suspended from Twitter recently, he hopped over to YouTube to address his supporters. Tweets: @shannoncoulter Tweets: Shannon Coulter / @shanno...
Chrome 55 for desktop starts rolling out, blocking Flash even further by defaulting to HTML5; sites that only support Flash and top 10 sites are exempted
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Facebook leasing two office buildings totaling 384,000 sq. ft. and 4,100 sq. ft. of retail space in Seattle, nearly doubling its footprint in city
Social media giant Facebook is growing its presence in Seattle in a big way, leasing a pair of planned office buildings in the South Lake Union neighborhood, right in Amazon's backyard.
Three years after launch, The Information has a reporting staff of 10, is cash-flow positive, and juggles a closed-club feel with aggressive reporting
On the astro-turfed rooftop of a SoHo penthouse this summer, a mix of tech executives, investors, and B-list celebrities sipped Champagne … See also Mediagazer
FCC reaches preliminary conclusion that AT&T is violating net neutrality with DirecTV data cap exemption
and it's warning Verizon, too Jake Smith / ZDNet : FCC doesn't like AT&T, Verizon ‘zero rating’ their own video apps T.C. Sottek / The Verge : This insane example from the FCC shows why AT&T and Veriz...
BLU phone update prevents rogue application from sending user data to China; all new phones will use Google's OTA update utility in its place
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Sources: Microsoft developing Home Hub software feature for Windows 10 to compete with Google Home and Amazon Echo
Zac Bowden / Windows Central :
Steve Kondik leaves Cyanogen Inc., blames co-founder and CEO Kirt McMaster for company's troubles, ponders what's next for CyanogenMod
Earlier this week I shared the plan … Kellex / Droid Life : Cyanogen CEO Says Team is Consolidating to California, Steve Kondik is Out Joe M. / PhoneArena : Cyanogen's co-founder Steve Kondik has offi...
Sources: Facebook is working on Collections, a feature to showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed
Alex Heath / Business Insider :
Obama prohibits German semiconductor equipment maker Aixtron from selling its US-based business to a Chinese investment fund, citing national security risks
Diane Bartz / Reuters :
Sources: key executive for Apple health initiatives, Yoky Matsuoka, has left the company after joining in May
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :
Mozilla's 2015 revenue up 28% YoY to $421M in 2015, the first full year of Yahoo search deal
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IFTTT's new plan: companies pay $199 per month to list their services on IFTTT's directory and embed “Applets” (recipes) in their own apps
Jared Newman / Fast Company : Tweets: @fastcompany and @teaneedz Tweets: @fastcompany : “We want to become a PayPal for access.” http://www.fastcompany.com/... @teaneedz : Inside IFTTT's Plan to char...
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