Microsoft unveils 13.5-inch Surface Laptop running Windows 10 S, with 4 color options, USB 3, mini DisplayPort, 14.5-hour battery life, ships June 15 from $999
Microsoft has announced a brand new Windows-powered notebook called the Surface Laptop. — At an event in New York City today …
Microsoft unveils Windows 10 S, a streamlined version for education that only runs apps from Windows Store, launching this summer
At its education event in New York City today, Microsoft announced a new edition of its latest operating system: Windows 10 S. Available on first-party …
Intel patches remote exploit that affects chips from 2008-2017 with Active Management Technology option enabled
Nehalem through Kaby all remotely and locally hackable — Every Intel platform from Nehalem to Kaby Lake has a remotely exploitable security hole.
Microsoft announces Code Builder extension for Minecraft: Education Edition, which introduces the Agent, a sidekick who helps kids execute coding instructions
Microsoft today announced Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition. This new extension will teach kids how to code …
Report: Facebook document shared with advertiser shows company's ability to detect feelings of teens, but Facebook denies serving targeted ads based on emotions
Leaked document reveals Facebook knows when teens feel ‘useless,’ but the company denies serving targeted ads based on emotions
Twitter unveils 16 streaming partners for its live video service, including BuzzFeed, The Verge, Viacom, WNBA, MLBAM, PGA, Bloomberg, and Live Nation
Last year: NFL. This year: Bloomberg, the WNBA, Live Nation and our friends at The Verge. — Yesterday, Twitter announced it was building …
Windows 10 S laptops, starting at $189, to ship this summer with free Office 365 and a one-year subscription of Minecraft Education Edition
Microsoft's answer to Chrome OS is called Windows 10 S. This new operating system is a streamlined and secured version of Windows 10.
Microsoft updates Teams with education-focused tools, including a dashboard for student's work with access to learning materials, available this summer
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Docker appoints former SAP exec Steve Singh as CEO to replace Ben Golub
Docker was tagged with a $1 billion valuation in the heady days of 2015, when the term “unicorn” was still in vogue and venture capitalists spoke frequently of FOMO (fear of missing out).
IAC to buy Angie's List in $500M+ deal; Angie's List will be combined with HomeAdvisor to form new publicly traded company called ANGI homeservices Inc.
IAC/InteractiveCorp agreed to buy consumer-recommendation website Angie's List Inc., intending to combine the business …
Microsoft says it's bringing the full Win32 version of Office to the Windows Store
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Facebook builds new Express Backbone network, to split the cross-data center server-to-server traffic from regular Internet-facing user traffic
Facebook has multiple data centers in the U.S and Europe. For the past ten years, they were connected by a single wide-area (WAN) backbone network known as the classic backbone or CBB.
Google Maps, Amazon, and eBay have pulled support for Apple Watch from their iOS apps
and no one noticed Sam Shead / Business Insider : Google, Amazon, and eBay have quietly killed their Apple Watch apps Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Google Maps For Apple Watch Will Return ‘In The Future’ Ch...
After 18 years, About.com is rebranding as Dotdash and will launch a travel-focused vertical later this month
On Tuesday, About.com is going to change its name. The digital publisher is expected to announce at the Collision Conference that it will henceforth be known as Dotdash (pronounced “dot-DASH").
Chinese gov't recruits 20K people to author online encyclopedia with 300K+ entries, dubbed by an official as the “Great Wall of culture”, to go live in 2018
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Cisco says it will acquire Viptela, a software-defined networking startup founded by former executives, for $610M in cash and stock
Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal :
AMD reports server chip business revenue up 5% YoY to $391M, vs $442M estimated, as net loss narrowed to $73M from $109M last year; stock drops 9%+ after hours
Narottam Medhora / Reuters :
7invensun, a Chinese HTC Vive accelerator startup, plans to launch a $220 eye tracking peripheral called aGlass next month
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UberEATS, Uber's on-demand food delivery app, launches in India, initially in Mumbai, with plans to reach six cities by year's end
starting out in Mumbai with plans to be in 6 cities by the end of 2017 http://techcrunch.com/...
Sources: SoftBank in talks to invest about $1.4B in One97, owner of India's largest digital payments provider Paytm, valuing the company at about $7B
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Scott Belsky, Behance founder and venture partner at Benchmark, launches Prefer, an app for on-demand “relationship-based” services
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider :
Facebook rolls out Instant Games on Messenger to all users, currently with up to 50 games including Words with Friends
Facebook is announcing today that it is rolling out Instant Games on Messenger more broadly to the 1.2 billion people who use the messaging system every month.
Rendering leaks of Fitbit's first smartwatch, coming fall; sources: it will have 1K-nit display, GPS, heart-rate tracking, touchless payments, Pandora streaming
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UK parliamentary committee suggests fines for social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook, that fail to remove illegal or extremist content
Owen Bowcott / The Guardian :
Airbnb and HomeAway settle lawsuit with San Francisco over short-term rental law, will both roll out host registries in San Francisco over next eight months
big changes are afoot S.F. City Attorney's / City Attorney of San Francisco : Herrera repels legal challenge to short-term rental law, secures settlement with Airbnb and HomeAway Megan Rose Dickey / T...
Alex Hardiman, formerly of the NYT, has been promoted internally to become Facebook's head of news products
Friends … Fidji Simo : I couldn't be more excited to share that Alex Hardiman is joining … Tweets: Alex Hardiman / @alex_hardiman : Really excited to share that I'm returning to my media roots to lead...
SiriusXM acquires connected car company Automatic for over $100M
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As US courts continue using proprietary 3rd-party recidivism algorithms to contribute to decisions of sentencing, bail, and guilt, justices ponder consequences
Adam Liptak / New York Times : Tweets: @mims , @aheineike , @davidmanheim , @orinkerr , and @nytimes Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : This is an extraordinarily bad idea and should be illegal: Sent...
Facebook tests “Facebook Rewards” QR codes that appear in app and can be scanned at stores for discounts
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