About six months after joining, Uber president Jeff Jones quits, says his “beliefs and approach to leadership” were inconsistent with what he saw at Uber
He is leaving after apparently deciding the current controversies are too much to handle
Intel launches its first product with 3D XPoint technology: the $1520, 375GB Optane SSD DC P4800X, a solid state drive for data centers
The NVMe DC P4800X marks Intel's 3D XPoint-powered Optane SSD debut—but it's aimed directly at the enterprise market.
Samsung unveils its context-aware ‘Bixby’ AI assistant ahead of Galaxy S8 launch
We're barely a week away from the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and among the phone's unique hardware features, Samsung is also looking to introduce some new software tricks, spearheaded by the Bixb...
LBRY uses blockchain and p2p data network to host 20K college lectures Berkeley was forced to remove from YouTube to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act
Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel.
IBM launches IBM Blockchain service, based on Linux Foundation-backed Hyperledger's Fabric code, and details its two commercial deployments
Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it's calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger's open-source Fabric codebase.
By pricing AirPods at $159 and Watch Series 1 at $269, below similar rival products, Apple is going after the entire wearables market, not just the premium part
As Apple pushes deeper into luxury brand territory, the company is making its products more accessible through lower pricing.
How Techmeme continues to set the agenda for influential tech readers, without chasing scale or adopting the trappings of most media firms
Gabe Rivera was halfway through his lamb gyro when it became clear he'd been spotted. It was the middle of the lunch rush at a bustling upscale food court …
How AGCO, an agricultural equipment manufacturer, is using Google Glass on its factory floor to improve speed of quality checks, train new employees, and more
Audio will be available later today. — Remember Google Glass? — They're the headsets that look like regular glasses …
Sources: Facebook's Building 8 experimental consumer hardware group working on at least 4 projects, one involving cameras and AR; group to have a key role at F8
- A top secret division within Facebook called Building 8 is working on at least four unannounced consumer hardware products.
Y Combinator will offer its first “vertical” track exclusively for AI startups and encourages startups building “robot factory” tech to apply
Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross today announced that the accelerator-turned-venture-fund will offer its first “vertical” track exclusively for AI startups.
Hackers at Pwn2Own competition exploit combination of bugs in Microsoft Edge, Windows 10, and VMware Workstation to escape virtual machine and compromise host
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Tencent-backed Netmarble Games, South Korea's largest maker of mobile games, files to raise up to $2.4B in an IPO
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Sources: China's central bank is circulating draft guidelines that would require Bitcoin exchanges to verify clients' identity, adhere to banking regulations
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Sources: SoftBank has scrapped a planned $100M investment in Andy Rubin's Essential Products smartphone startup, which would have valued it at $1B
Masayoshi Son's decision to scrap deal with creator of Android software reflects unpredictable style — SoftBank Group Corp. scrapped …
Apple pledges to build two additional research and development centers in China, spend at least $507M on research institutions in the country
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Makeblock, an education-focused maker of robot-building kits, raises $30M Series B led by Evolution Media China and Shenzhen Capital Group
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Profile of Duan Yongping, co-founder of China's #1 and #3 smartphone makers Oppo and Vivo, who lives in US and has most of his non-China wealth tied up in Apple
Duan Yongping co-founded top Chinese brands Oppo and Vivo — “China's Buffett” still regards Apple as a great investment Tweets: @vijayshekhar , @technology , and @rajatagr . Thanks: @pelstrom Tweets...
How Facebook's language around the fake news issue has evolved, and why it will never say it is a media company or has a responsibility for user-shared content
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Wireless communications lobby group CTIA says web browsing and app usage history isn't “sensitive information” in filing against FCC's broadband privacy rules
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @beanjammin , @malwarejake , and @marsroverdriver Tweets: Ben Holt / @beanjammin : Consider all the safeguards libraries put in place to protect book borrowers' p...
Behind Shopify, which powers ~400K online stores for individuals and brands where more than 100M people shopped in 2016
Stephen M. Baldwin / Fortune : Tweets: @annie_lee Tweets: Annie Lee / @annie_lee : “The secret,” @tobi says, “was be exceptionally good at what you do, and everything else will fall into place.” http...
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