British Airways cancelled all flights from London Heathrow and Gatwick on Saturday due to a major IT failure
IT outage leaves travellers unable to check in online, with some passengers stranded on a plane on the tarmac at Heathrow — British Airways has cancelled all flights from Heathrow …
Uber says that Travis Kalanick's mother has died in a boating accident; his father is in serious condition
Travis Kalanick's father Donald was seriously injured. — Bonnie Kalanick, the mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has died in a boating accident, a company spokesperson said.
AlphaGo retires from competitive Go after defeating world number one 3-0
AlphaGo is going out on top. After beating Ke Jie, the world's best player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, for the third time today at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, Google's DeepMind unit ...
Google adds “Personal” tab to search filters, which shows results from user's Gmail, Photos, more
Google now lets searchers filter their search results by “personal” results. By that, it mostly means emails, flights, anything related to that Gmail account they are logged into.
Google says it is too expensive and time-consuming to compile and hand over salary records to the US government in the gender pay case
Officials said it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to hand over salary records that the government requested in discrimination case
Spotify settles class action suit filed by a group of songwriters over mechanical rights, to set up $43.4M fund as compensation for unpaid royalties
Spotify has reached a settlement with a group of songwriters who had sued for copyright infringement, eliminating an potential complication …
As rumors about Apple's glucose tracker intensify, a look at scientific and technological challenges to non-invasive blood sugar monitoring
‘Everybody thinks they have a way to do it, and everybody, so far, has failed’ — Illustrations by James Bareham and Rosy Warren
Chetan Sharma: after 17 straight years of QoQ growth, cellular data revenues dropped in Q1 2017
We've noted for some time how T-Mobile's crazy idea to be nice to consumers (well, if you exclude their attacks on the EFF and net neutrality) has been a great thing for American consumers. Tweets: @w...
Educated guesses on who the Shadow Brokers are and how they acquired their NSA exploits
In 2013, a mysterious group of hackers that calls itself the Shadow Brokers stole a few disks full of National Security Agency secrets. Since last summer, they've been dumping these secrets on the in...
Samsung Electronics to separate semiconductor foundry business into a new unit and lays out foundry process roadmap, revealing 4nm process generation
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Sources: Delivery Hero plans to announce by mid-June a Frankfurt IPO at a valuation of about $4.5B
Online food takeaway firm Delivery Hero is set to float before the summer break in a deal valuing one of Europe's biggest start-ups at up to 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion), people close to the matter ...
HTC releases Link mobile VR headset in Japan that pairs with U11 phone; new headset is not part of Vive brand
but you can't buy it Lulu Chang / Digital Trends : HTC just released a new VR headset, and it's the first of its kind Mihai Matei / AndroidHeadlines.com : HTC Link Launches In Japan As A VR Headset Fo...
G7 leaders back Theresa May's call for internet firms including Google, Twitter, and Facebook to step up efforts against extremist content
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Source: Apple is working on Apple Neural Engine, a dedicated chip to power AI on devices
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Inside DoD's Digital Defense Service, which revamps tools and procedures lagging behind the private sector, and draws Silicon Valley talent for two-year tours
A disembodied voice sounded over a loudspeaker. “Incoming. Take cover,” it warned to anyone within earshot. Then, the sirens began to wail.
FDA to open a unit of 13 engineers including devs, experts in AI and cloud computing, to keep pace with changes to medical devices powered by machine learning
FDA's Bakul Patel envisions a new regulatory approach to digital health
How apps like De Dao, fewer entertainment options, and widespread adoption of mobile payments are fueling a paid content boom in China
For years, China was known mostly for copying U.S. innovations. Now, the copy-catting is flowing the other way. — Back in early 2016 … Tweets: @jennijenni Tweets: Jen Ryall / @jennijenni : “For yea...
Sources: Snap acquires LA-based drone maker Ctrl Me Robotics for under $1M
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Trend Micro: ransomware grew 752% in 2016 and generated $1B in revenue
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Zillow announces competition with $1M prize for person or team who most improves its Zestimate algorithm, with the final round ending Jan 2019
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How ISIS and other terrorist groups evade YouTube's censors: unlisting explicit videos from search, linking to explicit content in video descriptions, more
Rita Katz / Motherboard : Tweets: @counterjihader and @rcallimachi Tweets: @counterjihader : An article on one role of the Fursan al-Raf'a ( ) media team in IS's online propaganda apparatus. http://m...
China is investing heavily in AI and is preparing for a concerted nationwide push, while Trump proposes budget cuts that would impact AI research
New York Times : Tweets: @nraford Tweets: Noah Raford / @nraford : Say what you will about political goals, but mission-driven state sponsored innovation is rocket fuel for the future. http://twitter...
Nuzzel launches Nuzzel Pro, with no ads, keyword filtering, and dark mode, for $10/month or $100/year
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