Chris Lattner joins Tesla as VP of Autopilot software
We would like to welcome Chris Lattner, who will join Tesla as our Vice President of Autopilot Software. Chris' reputation for engineering excellence is well known. He comes to Tesla after 11 years ...
Verizon says customers with unlimited data plans using 200GB+/month must switch to limited plans or be disconnected
Heaviest unlimited data users must switch to limited plans or be disconnected. — Verizon Wireless customers with unlimited data plans who use more than 200GB a month …
Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, LLVM, and longtime leader of Xcode tools team, leaves Apple, says he plans to remain an active member of the Swift Core Team
Update: Tesla has announced that Lattner is joining its Autopilot team. Read more on Electrek.
Instagram will put full-screen, auto-playing, skippable ads in its Stories feature, which now has 150M daily active users five months after launch
If you're one of the millions of Instagram users who likes the service's recently added “Stories” sharing feature, get ready …
Facebook launches the Facebook Journalism Project to collaborate on news products, offer training and tools for jounalists, and curb fake news
Facebook is a new kind of platform and we want to do our part to enable people to have meaningful conversations, to be informed and to be connected to each other.
Chrome, Safari, Opera and extensions such as LastPass can be tricked into leaking private information using hidden text boxes, developer finds
Court documents: FBI paid eight sources at Geek Squad when they found evidence of child pornography on computers sent in for repair
At a giant Best Buy repair shop in Brooks, Ky., Geek Squad technicians work on computers owned by people across the country, delving into them to retrieve lost data.
Greenpeace clean energy report: Apple, Facebook, Google top list, all scoring “A"s; Baidu and Tencent trail pack with “F"s
Apple has earned the title of greenest tech company in the world for the third year in a row, according to a new report from environmental organization Greenpeace.
After criticism, Microsoft adds privacy web dashboard, simplifies existing privacy controls and adds app-specific granular options in Windows 10 Creators Update
In the past year, regulators and privacy advocates have taken potshots at Microsoft over its data collection policies.
iZettle raises $63M more at a $500M valuation to expand from mobile payments
The world of mobile payments continues to consolidate and mature, and today one of the leading players among European mobile payments startups has raised a significant round of money to help keep itse...
Report: VCs invested $69B in 7,350 companies in 2016, down from 11-year peak of $79B in 2015; median exit size was $84.5M, the highest in a decade
Venture capital investment activity dipped last year from a record 2015, but returned to normal activity in 2016 and marked the second-highest total in the past 11 years.
Twitter says it will shutdown its iOS and desktop account management Dashboard app on February 3
In June, Twitter launched Dashboard, a dedicated app brands can use to manage their various accounts, but seven months later, that's all about to change. Today, the company announced …
All-flash storage startup Kaminario raises $75M led by private equity firm Waterwood Group, bringing its total raised to $218M
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Sonos co-founder and CEO John MacFarlane resigns amid growing competition from voice assistants Amazon Echo and Google Home
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Lisa Johnston / TWICE : Sonos Founder John MacFarlane Passes Torch To Patrick Spence Chris Loterina / Tech Times : Sonos CEO Steps Down After 14 Years Due To Heated Smart S...
German politicians weigh new measures to combat misinformation online, asking political parties to disable bots and considering Facebook fines
In May 2015, hackers infected some 20,000 computers in Germany's parliament with malicious software designed to steal sensitive data.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hires David Plouffe, ex-Obama adviser and Uber board member, as president of policy and advocacy, as firm seeks political influence
Quartz Queenie Wong / SiliconBeat : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative taps former Obama, Bush campaign managers to lead policy, advocacy Jessica Guynn / USA Today : Chan Zuckerberg adds political heavyweight...
LG says its next flagship will have 5.7-inch QHD+ 564 PPI display with 18:9 aspect ratio, lower power consumption, and 0.2mm bezels
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Ellen Pao will be joining Kapor Capital as a senior member of the firm's investment team
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Apple says Consumer Reports' battery test had disabled Safari cache in developer settings, which triggered an obscure bug that has since been patched
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Europe proposes expanding telco data privacy rules to email and mobile messaging services like WhatsApp and Gmail, aims for proposal to be adopted by May 2018
Farewell to the EU cookie monster - probably. Denisse Moreno / International Business Times : EU Countries Roll Out Proposals To Curb Targeted Online Ads By Companies Like Google, Facebook Harper Neid...
Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC to use Bitcoin-inspired distributed ledger tech to facilitate transactions beginning early next year, led by IBM
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Spare5 relaunches as Mighty AI to fine-tune AI through human input, announces $14M raise led by Intel Capital with participation from Accenture and GV
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Bumble to debut video stories, letting users add 10-second ephemeral videos to their profiles, which will launch with drawing tools and more filters
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Bankers advising SoftBank say over three-fourths of $100B fund will be invested in larger firms; ex-Deutsche Bank staff to help lead fund, launching this month
Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @m_delamerced Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : Many business titans have made the trek to Trump Tower for a private audience, but none have ...
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