EU fines Facebook $122.4M for providing misleading information during acquisition that it could not automatically match user accounts on WhatsApp and Facebook
European Union antitrust regulators on Thursday said they would fine Facebook 110 million euros ($122.4 million) …
Google makes Kotlin a first-class language for writing Android apps
Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin's primary sponsor is Jet...
Twitter lets you see which advertisers are targeting you, opt out from individual interest categories, and will remove support for Do Not Track on June 18
As it begins to store people's off-Twitter browsing data for longer, the company adds new data controls and ends Do Not Track support.
Google brings Assistant to the iPhone as a standalone app, available first in the US, and support for more languages is coming later this year
At its I/O 2017 developer conference today, Google announced Google Assistant is coming to iOS today as a standalone app, rolling out to the U.S. first.
Google releases the first beta of Android O
It's already been available for a few months as a developer preview, but now the rest of us can finally get our hands on an upcoming version of Android. Android O Beta starts shipping today, if you p...
Google Lens, an in-photo search feature driven by computer vision, is coming to Google Photos and Google Assistant
Google Lens is a super-powered version … Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Google has an indoor positioning tech in the works, called VPS Mike Murphy / Quartz : Everything Google announced at its 2017 I/O ...
Google Photos adds suggested sharing based on who's pictured, printed photo books service, and shared libraries that let friends see shots taken in real time
Google announced today that there are now over … Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo : The Best and Worst of Google I/O 2017 (So Far...) Anil Sabharwal / Google : 500 million people using Google Photos, and th...
Google VP Clay Bavor and Tango engineering director Johnny Lee talk about firm's approach to immersive computing, including AR and VR, standalone VR headset
Clay Bavor knows immersive computing is a long-term project. Here's what he's doing to make it happen faster.
Google says it's bringing Smart Reply to Gmail for all iOS and Android English-speaking users, with Spanish support arriving “in the coming weeks”
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Cisco reports Q3 revenue of $11.9B, down 1% YoY, profits of $2.52B, forecasts disappointing Q4, and says it will cut 1100 more jobs; shares open down 7%+
Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) forecast current-quarter revenue that widely missed analysts' estimates and said it would cut 1,100 more jobs …
Google makes Android Studio 3.0 preview available for download; 20+ new features include performance profiling tools, Instant Apps, Java 8, and Kotlin
At its I/O 2017 developer conference, Google today unveiled Android Studio 3.0, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE).
Facebook says it's now limiting News Feed distribution of posts that withhold or exaggerate information at the individual post level, to combat clickbait
Facebook's leverage over news publishers can be worrisome, but today it's putting its muscle to good use.
Uber officially launches Uber Freight, its app for pairing truck drivers with companies that need cargo shipped across the US
Available on iOS and Android — After getting a peek from Travis Kalanick earlier this month, Uber today officially launched Uber Freight …
How Google plans to make Assistant ubiquitous in order to challenge Siri and Alexa, both of which have their own strong incumbent advantages
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Indian digital payments firm Paytm raises $1.4B from SoftBank, to launch the Paytm Payments Bank and other financial services products
Paytm is now SoftBank's biggest investment in the Indian start-up ecosystem — New Delhi: Paytm, run by One97 Communications Ltd …
Google debuts 2nd-generation machine learning TPU chips, says they can deliver up to 180 teraflops of performance, available on Google Compute Engine platform
The TPU V2 could be a huge boon to Google's cloud computing platform — Google today is unveiling its second generation Tensor Processor Unit …
Google expands Daydream VR to a new platform for untethered, standalone VR headsets with positional tracking; first products coming this year from Lenovo, HTC
no phone required Brad Bourque / Digital Trends : Google's new Visual Positioning System takes learning, navigation to new levels
Dubai-based logistics startup Fetchr raises $41M Series B led by NEA to tackle delivery challenges in Arab countries, where streets often lack a formal address
Fetchr announced today it raised $41 million in a series B round, led by returning investor New Enterprise Associates …
Tencent reports Q1 revenues of $7.2B, up 55% YoY, while profits rise 58% to $2B+; WeChat grows to 937M users
Sales at China's largest social network operator jumped 55 per cent in the first quarter on mobile games and online advertising. — Chinese internet giant Tencent …
China will require owners to register drones that weigh more than 250 grams starting in June
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Security inspections of 4 Trump properties including Mar-a-Lago found vulnerable servers, wireless printers without passwords, unencrypted database login pages
Thursday, May 1, 2017 — A couple years ago … Eric Lieberman / The Daily Caller : Report: Trump's Mar-a-Lago Is Highly Vulnerable To Hacking John Johnson / Newser : Hackers Could Have a Field Day at ...
Google debuts the TensorFlow Research Cloud, making 1,000 Cloud TPUs available free of charge to researchers
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Washington DC to replace taxi meters with Square's payments platform and third party apps by end of Aug., making it easier to compete with ride-hailing services
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Qualcomm sues iPhone manufacturers Compal, Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron for failing to pay royalties, broadening its legal battle with Apple
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Sources: IDG, which owns Macworld and other magazines, has laid off more than 90 people in its flagship tech-industry publishing division
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Google announces Google for Jobs, which adds job listings to search results, coming soon in the US
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Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus to gain Google Daydream support this summer
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