Sources: Justice Department opens criminal probe into Uber's use of Greyball software to evade regulators
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc's use of a software tool that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators, two sources familia...
Microsoft announces a new event on May 23 in Shanghai, confirms new hardware is coming
Microsoft is holding an event this month, the company announced tonight, at which it says it will “show the world what's next.” The event will take place in Shanghai on May 23rd …
Facebook says it is closing Oculus VR film studio, canceling all on-going projects, will invest in VR content produced by outside partners
Oculus Story Studio, the award-winning studio behind virtual reality (VR) short films like “Dear Angelica” and “Henry,” is being shut down, Facebook announced Thursday afternoon.
Sources: Amazon and Apple close to an agreement to launch Amazon video app on Apple TV; Amazon employees expect the app in Q3
Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook bury the hatchet. — Amazon and Apple may have reached a truce. — The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers' time …
YouTube producing a half-dozen original series this year; source says it will spend $100M+ for 40+ ad-supported original shows and movies next year
Online service sees opportunity to lure big national sponsors — Paid Red service gets budgets matching HBO, Showtime programs
Google details how it uses deep learning, Street View imagery to update Maps; open sources TensorFlow model for image text extraction
Posted by Julian Ibarz, Staff Software Engineer, Google Brain Team and Sujoy Banerjee, Product Manager, Ground Truth Team
CDC says 50.8% of US households use only cellphones, overtaking landlines as main service for the first time
It's official: For the first time, a majority of American homes have only wireless telephones. — The trend to drop landlines has been growing over the last decade alongside …
G Data report: 350 new malware instances are discovered on Android every hour, 750K+ found in Q1; most of the malware is discovered in third-party app stores
Security company G Data says that a new piece of Android malware is discovered every 10 seconds.
State Department wants ~0.5% of visa applicants to supply five years' worth of social media handles, seeks public comment and approval by OMB May 18
The U.S. Department of State has proposed tougher questioning of visa applicants who it believes warrant extra scrutiny …
App Annie report: smartphone owners launch an average of 9 apps per day, 30 per month; iPhone owners use more apps, but Android users play 30% more games
Smartphone users are spending more time in apps than in years past, and now access over 30 apps on a monthly basis, according to a new reportfrom App Annie out this week.
Google releases DIY open source Raspberry Pi voice kit hardware, will be included for free with the next issue of MagPi Magazine
Google has long been focused on artificial intelligence. Its Google Now and voice assistance projects have used AI to better the lives of users.
Analysis shows that US election-style misinformation and alt-right-inspired memes, many backing Le Pen, aren't being shared widely during the French election
Mark Scott / New York Times :
SpaceX details plans to launch first of 4,425 high-speed internet satellites in 2019, following two years of tests starting in 2017
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Hackers exploited SS7, a protocol used by cellphone providers, to intercept two-factor codes sent to online banking customers, letting them empty bank accounts
Iain Thomson / The Register :
Whirlpool Corporation acquires recipe search engine and aggregator Yummly, which was valued at $100M in 2015 having raised $23M
Consumer electronics company Whirlpool (WHR) … Michael Wolf / The Spoon : Whirlpool Buys Yummly In Effort To Bolster Smart Kitchen Strategy Yahoo! Finance : Blog Coverage: Whirlpool to Acquire Food Ce...
E-commerce fraud protection firm Signifyd raises $56M Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures bringing its total funding to $95M
Katie Roof / TechCrunch :
Tim Cook says Apple will start $1B fund to promote advanced manufacturing jobs in US, with the first investment coming later this month
Elizabeth Gurdus / CNBC :
Several life insurance firms testing tech that estimates life expectancy with analysis of selfie pictures
Barbara Marquand / USA Today :
Interview with Jimmy Wales on the progress of Wikitribune, its business model and budget, and topics: politics to start, then Bitcoin and maybe dog breeding
“Political news, I think, is of the most interest right now, and so I think that that's where we'll focus at first." Tweets: @mathewi See also Mediagazer Tweets: Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : Jimmy Wales...
Heap raises $27M Series B led by Menlo Ventures and NEA to help businesses with data analytics
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Amazon plans to open new 60K sq. ft. R&D center in Cambridge, UK and will triple R&D team size to 550
Sarah Butler / The Guardian :
Cloudflare shares personal information of those who complain about hosted sites like Daily Stormer; Cloudflare GC says policy lets users “face their accusers”
Ken Schwencke / ProPublica :
Crew, a Slack-like service for restaurant and retail workers officially launched today, raised $25M in previously unannounced rounds led by Sequoia and Greylock
Miguel Helft / Forbes : Tweets: @mhelft . Thanks: @helenaspopkin Tweets: Miguel Helft / @mhelft : 24 out of 25 top restaurant chains use Crew in at least 5 locations; 46 of top 50 retailers use it in...
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