Fitbit unveils Alta HR with heart rate monitoring, available at the end of March for $150; Alta HR, Blaze, and Charge 2 get improved sleep tracking
This might be the tracker you want to wear both day and night. — Fitbit's thin Alta tracker dropped around this time last year, and the company is already making an update to it.
Google's featured snippets, presented as the “one true answer” in search and by Google Home, sometimes give false information from untrustworthy sources
The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad.
Federal prosecutors drop charges in another of 135+ Playpen child porn cases in order to keep the source code of its Tor hack secret
DOJ: “Disclosure is not currently an option.” — Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect …
MWC 2017 recap: retro phones, no Samsung handsets, 5G hype, shrinking bezels, and less VR gear
Retro phones, shrinking bezels, 5G on deck and Samsung's no-show: That was the Mobile World Congress that was. — Autoplay: ON Autoplay: OFF — That's a wrap for another Mobile World Congress.
As Facebook begins adding “disputed” labels, a look at how Facebook took a full week to label one made-up story from a fake news site as “disputed”
Coming to your feed: A “disputed” label for bogus stories. — That bogus story about Donald Trump your uncle posted on Facebook?
UK's mobile-only Atom Bank for millennials raises $102M at a $320M valuation led by the Spanish BBVA bank, which also led its previous $128M round in Nov 2015
Atom Bank, a startup out of the U.K. that has built a mobile-only bank targeting consumers between the ages of 18 and 34 …
Identity management firm Okta acquihires Stormpath, which provides identity and user management services to developers, acquires license to use Stormpath's tech
Okta, the $1.2 billion identity management startup for enterprises that some tip for an IPO this year, has made an acquisition …
Y Combinator opens registrations for its free ten-week Startup School online course featuring guest lectures, group office hours, and a Slack community
We're excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org …
How an image of Chuck Schumer and Putin made it from Reddit to Trump's Twitter account in less than 24 hours
Twenty hours. That's about how long it took for a picture to make its way from the depths of Reddit to the Twitter account of the president of the United States. See also Mediagazer
Sprint wins $139.8M verdict against Time Warner Cable for willfully infringing VoIP patents
Can Sprint's patent lawyers force competitors to pay up for VoIP? — Sprint has been filing patent lawsuits over VoIP for more than a decade now, and the company may have just scored its biggest payo...
Facebook testing emoji reactions, including a thumbs-down button, on messages in Messenger
for Messenger only? Gordon Hunt / Silicon Republic : Facebook trialling new batch of reactions in Messenger Gizmodo India : Facebook Messenger could soon get a Thumbs-down button Gabriela Vatu / Softp...
USCIS says it's temporarily suspending expedited processing of H-1B visas, an option often used by tech companies, for up to six months, beginning April 3
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AI predictions: bots go bust, fewer machine learning acquihires, AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs, MLaaS dies again, full stack vertical AI startups actually work
With AI in a full-fledged mania, 2017 will be the year of reckoning. Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them. Tweets: @stevesi Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi :...
Microsoft sheds more light on how “Game Mode” in the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will improve gaming performance
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Klook raises $30M Series B led by Sequoia China to help Asia-to-Asia travelers find trip activities
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Profile of Koko, a chat service that uses AI and crowdsourcing to provide basic cognitive therapy
Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet? — Illustrations by Peter Steineck — In January 2016, police in Blacksburg, Virginia … Tweets: @fraser...
Kensho, an AI-powered platform for traders, raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation led by S&P Global, with Wall Street's six biggest banks participating
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How iPhone users clicking on a malicious Twitter link forced their phones to dial 911, overwhelming 911 call centers in atleast a dozen US states last October
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Amazon Games VP Mike Frazzini on how Twitch helps game developers sell more, integration with AWS, AWS' Lumberyard platform, and why Amazon built its own game
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider : Tweets: @businessinsider . Thanks: @ravichandrans25 Tweets: @businessinsider : Amazon's gaming boss explains where its $970 million Twitch purchase fits into the ...
Interview with Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on his early career at Citysearch, post-merger AOL, becoming a VC, investment in Snap, and next big tech opportunities
Recode : Tweets: @clemenswasner and @recode Tweets: Clemens Wasner / @clemenswasner : VC Jeremy Liew, Snap's first outside investor, on AI potential to become the successor of “ambient TV”: http://ww...
Synaps Labs to test image recognition tech in US this summer that lets digital billboard owners target ads based on the car you drive, after trial in Moscow
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