Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies
Topsy-turvy day — April 1st — a day colloquially known as “April Fools' Day” or “the worst holiday ever” — isn't even until tomorrow, but because the month of April starts on a Saturday this year, a...
Samsung's Galaxy S8 facial recognition feature can be fooled with a photo; Samsung suggests using fingerprint or iris scanning for more security
Samsung's newest security feature can easily be fooled. — The Samsung Galaxy S8, which launches April 21, has a new facial recognition feature …
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they don't sell customers' personal web browsing history, in response to cancellation of new FCC privacy rules
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon published blog posts this morning responding to the backlash they've been receiving since Congress voted to revoke …
Memory standards organization JEDEC says DDR5 DRAM specification will be finalized next year and be twice as fast as DDR4
More DDR memory is on the way, despite many predictions that its time would soon be up. — Development of specifications for the new DDR5 DRAM has started …
AI in medicine: how deep learning algorithms can be used to augment doctors in diagnosis
In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts. — One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University'...
Sources say Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy is sidelined and understaffed as office's director and other key leadership postions remain unfilled
As he cuts federal research and targets immigration, Trump has neglected and marginalized the White House's own team of experts.
Netflix unveils HERMES, an online test for vetting professional subtitlers; each Netflix subtitler will be required to have a HERMES test score by summer
Since Netflix launched globally, the scale of our localization efforts has increased dramatically. It's hard to believe that just 5 years ago …
Microsoft is shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software, on December 15 due to the dominance of GitHub
Microsoft today announced that it's shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software.
Founder Andy Baio relaunches his events site Upcoming.org four years after Yahoo shut it down
Before events were posted on Facebook, the place to find social activities on the internet (back in the early 2000s) was Upcoming.org. Founded by Andy Baio, the site combined an event calendar …
New invite-only Amazon Influencer Program lets influencers with “large followings” earn affiliate revenue through their own curated selections on Amazon's site
Social media influencers - like Instagram stars or YouTube celebs - often promote products they like …
Ford hiring 400 engineers from BlackBerry to double its mobile-connectivity team and will invest $375M into a new R&D center in Ottawa
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Gaming hardware and peripheral company Mad Catz shuts down and files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after months of financial woes
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Why chatbots on services like Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, and how developers are trying to reverse their downward trend
Chatbots in apps like Facebook's Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, but that might actually help them succeed. Tweets: @mgsiegler , @joshconstine , and @caseynewton Tweets: M.G. ...
Foxconn sees 30% rise in quarterly profit YOY, despite its first revenue decline in its 26 years as a public company
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Huawei P10 review: a fantastic phone due to great build quality, camera, ergonomics, and fingerprint sensor, but screen is too dim outdoors, UI skin has issues
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BlackRock, the largest fund company in the world, shifts away from actively managed mutual funds and starts relying more on algorithms and models to pick stocks
Score one for the machines. — From the moment Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, created the largest fund company … Tweets: @aaronklein Tweets: Aaron Klein / @aaronklein : Programma...
YouTube announces that creators can now use Community Contributions, once for subtitles only, to let viewers translate titles and descriptions
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Snapchat starts rolling out search for public Stories to users in select US cities; public Stories from all users could stay visible for up to several months
Since we launched Stories in October 2013 … Todd Spangler / Variety : Snapchat starts rolling out search for public Stories, starting in select US cities Rachel Kaser / The Next Web : Snapchat launche...
Verizon restructures into three units, hires former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg to lead network and technology group
Verizon ‘fights to retain share,’ but wireline … Ina Fried / Axios : Former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg joining Verizon Rick Whiting / CRN : Verizon Creates New Corporate Operating Structure, Hires For...
BlackBerry reports better-than-expected adjusted earnings for the sixth straight quarter amid shift from hardware to higher-margin software business
Cloudera files to raise $200M in IPO; the company lost $187M on $261M in revenue for the year ending January 31
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JoyRun, which lets consumers order food and drink through people already heading out, raises $8.5M Series A, bringing total raised to $9.8M
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Sources: Robinhood zero-fee stock trading app is completing a round of funding led by DST Global at $1.3B valuation
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