EU's top court rules “general and indiscriminate retention” of electronic communications is illegal, possibly opening UK's Snoopers Charter to legal challenges
Indiscriminate collection of emails is illegal, court rules in response to challenge originally brought by David Davis
AT&T announces Call Protect, a new service for automated blocking of spam calls at network level; feature only available on postpaid iOS and Android devices
Today, AT&T introduced a new service for automated blocking of fraud or spam calls. Dubbed AT&T Call Protect …
Sling TV website shows details for AirTV Player, a new Android-powered device with an interface that combines Sling TV with over-the-air broadcasts and Netflix
Putting streaming and antenna TV channels all in the same guide — Dish's Sling TV website has (perhaps prematurely) unveiled a new set-top box, the AirTV Player.
Twitter CTO Adam Messinger and VP of Product Josh McFarland to leave company; McFarland to join Greylock Partners as a general partner
Twitter CTO Adam Messinger, who has been the company's CTO for almost four years and with the company for five years, said today he was leaving the company.
Nintendo says Super Mario Run was downloaded 40M+ times in its first 4 days of availability, breaking iOS App Store records
Nintendo has confirmed what we all knew was likely - Super Mario Run got a lot of downloads at launch. The company says that the app was downloaded …
House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group report says encryption backdoors pose a security threat, siding with tech experts
Today, the House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group released its year-end report — and the result is good news for technology companies.
White House report: AI will lead to long-term growth in productivity and efficiency, but will likely lead to millions of job losses in low-skill sectors
The growing popularity of artificial intelligence technology will likely lead to millions of lost jobs, especially among less-educated workers …
Microsoft wins $927M tech support contract with US Defense Information Systems Agency following company's earlier deal to move all 4M DoD employees to Win 10
Microsoft has won a $927-million, five-year contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
BlackBerry posts $301M Q3 revenue, below expected $332M; declining smartphone unit made up 23% of company's revenue as software and services made up 55%
Albeit a small profit, the stock jumped by more than 2 percent. — BlackBerry's big bet on software and services is making progress — albeit slowly.
Facebook Live Audio launches with select publishers and authors including the BBC, LBC, and Harper Collins, will open up to more next year
Book readings, interviews, and news radio are coming to Facebook thanks to its new Live Audio feature launching today with a few publishers and authors before opening up next year.
Uber debuts several Snapchat filters unlocked in-app which display travel time to destination, the company's logo, more
Uber's app just got a lot more snappy — Last month, Uber unveiled a totally redesigned and streamlined version of its app that featured a cleaner interface …
Verizon “supercookie” partner Turn settles with FTC over privacy violations charges that it continued tracking consumers even after they opted out of tracking
The ad tech firm was found continuing to track users even after they opted-out. — Turn, which operates …
Uber updates app to let users select friend's contact as destination, which then pings the contact for their GPS location; app will not track friend after ping
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Machine learning firm Dynamic Yield raises $22M series C led by Vertex and ClalTech, with participation from Baidu and Global Founders Capital
The Israeli company's engine enables marketers to increase revenue via personalization, recommendations, automatic optimization and 1:1 messaging.
7-Eleven touts first regular commercial drone delivery service in US via partnership with Flirtey, says 77 deliveries have been made from store in Reno, Nevada
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Uber to meet with DMV and California Attorney General's office amid autonomous vehicle testing issues
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Oracle senior staffer George Polisner resigns after co-CEO Safra Catz joins Trump transition team, starts petition for colleagues to protest Catz's involvement
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Instagram debuts stickers for Stories, including location, time, weather, and emoji overlays and now lets users save 24-hours of updates, again copying Snapchat
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TPG developing a $2B social impact fund called Rise, with board members and investors including Bono, Laurene Powell Jobs, Richard Branson, Reid Hoffman
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Facebook now allows Android apps to request phone number for login and skip SMS verification if the number matches the one in the user's Facebook profile
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HelloFresh raises $88M, bringing total VC funding to nearly $360M as company looks toward possible IPO
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Q&A with Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games on the Metaverse, VR, standardized frameworks, the future of tech, and more
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Documents reveal how Israel-based Cellebrite works with US law enforcement across 20 states to extract data from locked phones, more
Joseph Cox / Motherboard : Tweets: @jason_koebler , @motherboard , @carlfranzen , and @timcushing Tweets: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : Months long FOIA investigation by @josephfcox reveals state ...
Alibaba exec on how company's Cloud Sword effort used big data for finding and deleting counterfeit listings and helped law enforcement apprehend counterfeiters
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Facebook to put more public-event “Moments”, like Holiday Cards and lunar eclipse reminders, at top of News Feed to encourage sharing
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Evernote to release new privacy policy in early 2017 and create new advisory board for customer feedback; CEO to personally manage employee access to user data
Chris O'Neill / Evernote Blog :
Google-owned DeepMind is hiring “a couple of dozen” people to work out of Mountain View campus, the first expansion from its London HQ
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Yahoo kills Radar, its chatbot travel assistant app, 6 months after launch
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