UK govt, Guardian, Sainsbury, others pull ads from YouTube as Times of London investigation finds ads appearing with extremist videos; Google promises changes
Guardian newspaper also halts ads, citing ‘hate-filled videos’ — YouTube owner Google says it's ‘committed to doing better’
As MuleSoft closes up 45%+ on its first day of trading, valued at about $3B+, CEO Greg Schott talks about IPO timing, potential acquisitions, more
MuleSoft, a San Francisco-based SaaS integration company, last night priced the year's first big enterprise software IPO, raising $221 million.
Minnesota judge orders Google to divulge information on anybody who searched for variations of financial fraud victim's name
Order seeks data for “any/all user or subscriber information” related to the searches. — Police in a small suburban town of 50,000 people just outside Minneapolis …
Internal docs: Uber's 43 self-driving cars drove 20,365 miles last week with human intervention every 0.8 miles and “critical interventions” every 200 miles
A first look at Uber's progress. — Some of Uber's self-driving cars aren't driving as smoothly as the company hoped they would.
Google open-sources new JPEG encoder that reduces file sizes by around 35%, and is compatible with existing browsers, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard
New algorithm is based on human psychovisual system. Images look better, too. — Google has developed and open-sourced …
FBI arrests person who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald
An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge to...
Chance the Rapper says Apple paid him $500K “plus a commercial” to exclusively stream his album Coloring Book on Apple Music for two weeks
After some criticism about the artist's integrity and independence, Chance the Rapper made a series of tweets and revealed …
EU tells Facebook, Twitter, and Google to update their ToS and gives companies one month to propose measures to better protect consumers from scams
Navigating your way around the internet may seem intuitive if you've grown up with access to it most of your life — but for those who are just beginning …
Netflix to replace star ratings with thumbs up and thumbs down in coming weeks after A/B testing showed thumbs got 200% more ratings
Get ready to say good-bye to star ratings on Netflix: The company is getting ready to replace stars with Pandora-like thumbs-ups and thumbs-downs in the coming weeks.
Microsoft says newest processors, including Intel's Kaby Lake and AMD's Ryzen, will require latest Windows version for support
It looks like a policy announced a year ago is going to kick in. — A recently published Knowledge Base article suggests that Microsoft is going to block Windows Updates …
Sources: Nintendo to double planned production of Switch consoles from the initial 8M to 16M in the fiscal year starting April 1
Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal :
YouTube to discontinue video annotations editor May 2, encourages creators to use mobile-friendly End Screens and Cards features instead
To be replaced by Cards and End Screens — YouTube today announced that it will be replacing its annotations engine with what it calls End Screen and Cards …
Sources: WikiLeaks asks tech firms to agree to conditions before receiving details of CIA zero-days
Last week, WikiLeaks promised it would share the technical details and code of the hacking tools that the CIA has allegedly developed against Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies.
Some users report Google Home playing a promo for “Beauty and the Beast”; Google says it “wasn't intended” to be an ad, will keep experimenting
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Sensor Tower: iMessage App Store has 5K apps six months after launch, with games topping category list at 25.9%, but dev interest is waning
Buffer — One of the new additions to iOS 10 … Parmy Olson / Forbes : People Aren't Building Apps For Apple's iMessage Like They Used To Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : iMessage App Store...
Snapdragon processors rebranded as “Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platform”; lower-end Snapdragon 200 series SoCs will now just be “Qualcomm Mobile Platform”
now it's a ‘platform’ Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Qualcomm: Snapdragon is no longer a processor Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : Qualcomm would like you to stop calling Snapdragon processors “processo...
Gmail now lets desktop users stream video attachments rather than downloading them
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Amazon debuts “Outfit Compare” feature in iOS app, helping Prime members decide between outfits after they upload two photos of themselves in different outfits
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Hands-on: TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 smartwatch can swap smart and mechanical watch heads; touchscreen head has an Intel chip, 4GB RAM, Android Wear 2.0
Matt Burgess / WIRED UK :
Judge approves $27 million driver settlement in Lyft lawsuit
Heather Somerville / Reuters :
Report: Spotify is negotiating with music labels to decrease royalty fees ahead of future IPO, possibly by limiting some releases to paid users for a period
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac :
Swatch CEO Nick Hayek says the firm is developing a smartwatch operating system focused on battery life, to compete with iOS and Android, debuting in late 2018
Corinne Gretler / Bloomberg :
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