Sources: Russia hacked Republican National Committee's systems too but didn't release data, US intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence”
Washington — President Obama has ordered American intelligence agencies to produce a full report on Russian efforts …
Leading Senate Republicans are preparing to launch a wide-ranging probe into Russia's alleged meddling in the US elections, despite Trump's opposition
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post :
Samsung says next update will stop US Galaxy Note7s from charging starting December 19
Update will be released December 19th and rolled out within 30 days — Samsung will render remaining Galaxy Note 7s in the United States useless and inoperable with its next and final update for the ...
Sources: Tim Cook, Larry Page, Satya Nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, plus CEOs of Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Oracle to attend Trump's tech summit in NY; Bezos may attend
The gathering will take place Wednesday in New York — Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg …
Verizon says it will not push Samsung's Galaxy Note7 disabling update to customers
George Koroneos / Verizon Fios & Custom TV :
US Congress passes bill seeking to ban ticket-scalping bots by making it illegal to circumvent the security measures of ticketing websites
With public attention focused on the scourge of online ticket scalping, Congress has passed a bill outlawing bots, or computer programs that let users scoop …
Google's self-driving car team is hiring executives as it prepares to spin out from Alphabet's X
The company also expects “significant growth in both team size and geographical footprint” as it graduates from Alphabet's moonshot shop. — Google's self-driving project …
Vesper, which builds always-on, low powered mics, raises $15M Series A led by Accomplice, with Alexa Fund, Hyperplane, Miraenano Tech, and others participating
As digital assistants like Siri and Alexa become more intelligent, there's a growing need for them to always be accessible.
Kids are now emulating the child YouTubers they've grown up watching, by posting videos of themselves and performing even when they're not being recorded
always land their bottles perfectly upright. Max Cole has spent hours studying their routine, and now, his own viewers are waiting: Empty half the blue juice. Tweets: @ella_dickinson Tweets: Ella Dic...
AirDroid updates Android and desktop apps to fix previously reported security flaws, improves encryption method, upgrades all communication channels to HTTPS
The developers behind AirDroid say they've fixed the security flaw in the popular remote PC app that left Android devices vulnerable to hacks.
a16z and USV invest $10M in Polychain Capital, a hedge fund started by the first Coinbase employee; the fund invests in Bitcoin, Ether, and other digital assets
Polychain Capital, a new hedge fund investing in bitcoin, ether and other digital assets, has garnered $10 million in investment …
Google's former car guru Chris Urmson is working on his own self-driving company
The most high-profile autonomous vehicle engineer seems ready to return to the stage. — When Chris Urmson announced he was leaving Google X's self-driving car project, he wrote: “If I can find anoth...
Discord, a text and voice chat app for gamers with 25M registered users, releases GameBridge SDK to let developers integrate Discord's services into their games
Discord has hit 25 million registered users for its popular voice-communications app for games.
Delivery Hero buys Foodpanda in sought after food delivery market
Berlin-based online food takeaway service Delivery Hero, one of Europe's biggest start-ups, will acquire competitor Foodpanda, a sign of further consolidation to fend off new competition in Europe's s...
A Facebook glitch is causing old posts and photos to be posted as new on some users' timelines; Facebook says it's investigating
Stephanie Mlot / PC Magazine :
Facebook discloses more engagement measurement errors; some of the faulty stats were used by The New York Times and BuzzFeed in their stories about fake news
Tim Peterson / Marketing Land :
Occipital announces Bridge, a $499 AR/VR headset for iPhone with a built-in sensor that maps the environment, letting the user move around in real time
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
Nearly 3M AT&T customers will receive $88M in credits and refunds for mobile cramming fees, following 2014 settlement with FTC
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Procore raises $50M at $1B+ valuation, bringing the total amount raised to $179M for its cloud software for the construction industry
Amy Feldman / Forbes :
Molotov, a free app that allows users to watch 70 free channels in France and bookmark shows in the cloud for alerts and later viewing, raises $23M
Paris-based startup Molotov has raised $23 million and launched a service that is poised to revolutionize the way we watch live TV, doing what Apple has tried but thus far failed to do.
Sources: Spotify testing new feature, Jump In, that lets free users play songs on-demand in certain playlists, but negotiations with labels may delay release
Micah Singleton / The Verge :
How and why devices like Echo and Home record your voice, what they do with the data, and how to scrub those recordings
Tim Moynihan / Wired : Tweets: @roseveleth Tweets: Rose Eveleth / @roseveleth : This feels like an important thing to know. https://www.wired.com/... pic.twitter.com/nAsDAyC5Ln
Sources: Meerkat founders raise about $50M for Houseparty in a round led by Sequoia, with previous Life on Air investors Aleph, Comcast, Greylock participating
and it just got a $50 million check Tweets: Katie Jacobs Stanton / @katies : So impressed with @benrbn and the Meerkat's team pivot to @houseparty. If my kids are any indication, it's a huge hit! @C...
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