Verizon launches unlimited plan at $80/mo. for one device or $45/mo. per device for four lines, with 10GB of 4G LTE tethering; throttling kicks-in at 22GB/line
Verizon today introduced its first unlimited data plan since 2011. Verizon Unlimited, which includes unlimited talk, text …
Google Maps lets you save and share favorite places with launch of Lists, which can be public, private, or shared with a link
Google Maps is today rolling out a new feature to all users on iOS and Android devices that will allow you to make lists of places that you can star, save and share with friends.
Apple joins the Wireless Power Consortium, which promotes the Qi wireless charging standard
Long-running rumors that Apple will add wireless charging to the iPhone 8 have been lent additional weight with the news that the company has joined an industry group devoted to wireless power.
Tim Cook says fake news is “killing people's minds”, calls for a PSA campaign, school education, and new tools from tech companies to battle it
Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news, which is “killing people's minds”.
Tim Cook says augmented reality is ‘a big idea like the smartphone’
Like TV, AR is becoming an Apple passion project — It's no secret that Apple's culture of secrecy forbids even the most powerful at the company from spilling details about upcoming products.
With PC market in decline, Intel shifts its strategy to “data center first”, using newest manufacturing technologies for server chips like Xeon before PC CPUs
With Intel's forecasts projecting the PC could be the smallest moneymaker five years from now, the company has gone …
The Information: Huawei shipped 139M smartphones in 2016, up almost 30% YoY; consumer division revenues grew 42% to $26B as profits declined ~10% to $2B
We've already reported on Huawei's dramatic growth over the last year. The company sold 30 percent more phones in 2016 than in the year previous …
Restricted spyware from government cyberarms dealer NSO Group found on the phones of advocates for Mexico's 2014 soda tax
SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, Dr. Simón Barquera's phone started buzzing with a series of disturbing text messages from unknown numbers. One said his daughter had been in a serious accident.
Instant Tethering, which lets Google devices seamlessly share cellular data connections, is now officially available to select Pixel and Nexus devices
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Analysis of Wikipedia comments shows that under half of personal attacks in 2015 were made anonymously; 30% came from registered users with 100+ contributions
New study of Wikipedia comments reveals most attackers aren't anonymous. — We've all heard anecdotes about trolling on Wikipedia …
Oracle appeals May 2016 ruling that Google's use of Java APIs in Android was fair use, continuing the companies' seven-year legal battle
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Inside NYT's digital transformation: luring subscribers via Beta Group's vertical apps, a Facebook chatbot, live video, VR, and more on top of strong journalism
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn't remember the first time he visited the family business. He was young, he says, no older than 6 … Tweets: @ckummer , @marklittlenews , @mathewi , @aidan___kerr , @brian...
Report documents the views of 1.3K tech experts, scholars, businesspeople, and government leaders on the future of algorithms and their impact on society
Algorithms are instructions for solving a problem or completing a task. Recipes are algorithms, as are math equations. Computer code is algorithmic. Tweets: @mprioleau , @jpalmiotti , @pewinternet ,...
Former members of Google News team remember how Google News accepted sites while mitigating spam and rejecting or de-ranking unreliable and biased sources
For the small team maintaining one of the world's most popular news sites, the job was straightforward: weed out liars and scammers.
As Twitter gained just 2M monthly active users in the quarter of the US election, Facebook gained 72M
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Analysis: Bay Area tech sector's job growth in 2016 slowed to 3.5%, or 26.7K jobs, down from 6% growth, or 42.3K jobs, in 2015
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Sub-Saharan African nations like Cameroon, Gambia, and the Republic of Congo increasingly use internet blackouts to stem protests
@nytimes http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Charles Fogelman / @charlesfogelman : Late 2016's threats to shut down social media platforms in #Lesotho are part of a broader African trend...
Sources: enterprise AR company Daqri, which has raised $132M, is laying off about 25% of its nearly 400-person workforce
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FCC says wireless spectrum auction bidding has ended at $19.6B for 84 MHz, a significantly lower price than many analysts forecasted
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How an increasing number of Silicon Valley employees are trying to organize political resistance against Trump
Lauren Smiley / Backchannel : Tweets: @backchnnl and @backchnnl Tweets: Backchannel / @backchnnl : The same basic tools of tech apply to political resistance: set an incremental goal, move fast, iter...
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