Sources: Samsung is developing a voice-activated smart speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, internally code-named Vega
Samsung is developing a voice-activated speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, joining a proliferating arms race in tabletop devices against the likes of Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft...
KGI's iPhone predictions: OLED iPhone won't have fingerprint recognition, supports 3D sensing for facial recognition, all models have 64GB, 256GB options, more
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Dave McClure resigns as a general partner of 500 Startups, following admission of inappropriate behavior toward women; he had already stepped down from CEO role
Dave McClure has resigned as a general partner of funds managed by 500 Startups, the seed investment group he founded in 2010, Axios has learned.
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore says Windows 10 Timeline feature will be delayed until after Fall Creators Update
Microsoft revealed its new Timeline feature of Windows 10 earlier this year, noting it would arrive in the upcoming Fall Creators Update. Timeline is designed to allow Windows 10 users …
Sources: Apple is testing using facial recognition powered by a new 3D sensor to unlock OLED iPhone and make payments; source: eye scanning also being tested
Company said to plan 3-D sensor for logins, approving payments — Technology being tested as replacement for fingerprint scanner
Multiple accusations of unwanted physical advances by Dave McClure surface, as 500 Startups partner Elizabeth Yin resigns over lack of internal transparency
An email circulated to 500 Startups staffers by its Mountain View accelerator lead and partner Elizabeth Yin makes several claims …
US privacy suit alleging Facebook tracked logged out users is dismissed; judge ruled users failed to show economic harm or a reasonable expectation of privacy
A U.S. judge has dismissed nationwide litigation accusing Facebook Inc (FB.O) of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.
Microsoft reorganizes global sales group to focus on cloud services, according to internal email; source says the move will lead to layoffs in the thousands
Microsoft Corp. MSFT -1.10% reorganized its global sales group Monday to focus on cloud services, and a person familiar with the plans …
UK's data protection watchdog rules that Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS failed to comply with data protection law
The UK's data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal between DeepMind and an NHS trust “failed to comply with data protection law.”
China's Tencent to impose play time and spending limits for kids on a top-grossing game Honour of Kings, after receiving complaints about game's addictiveness
Tencent Holdings, China's biggest gaming and social media firm by revenue, said it will limit play time for some young users of …
Adviser to top EU court rules against Uber in French case, says Uber should be treated as a taxi service; Uber says it will await final ruling later this year
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US lifts laptop ban at Abu Dhabi International Airport, one of the 10 Middle East airports where DHS banned laptops in cabins of US-bound planes in March
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Profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who has helped the company return to revenue growth by reducing the company's dependence on PC sales
From the wide windows of her fourth-floor office, Lisa Su can look across the Austin campus of Advanced Micro Devices and see the laboratory building where the company's new chips get tested.
Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman launch Win the Future to rethink the Democratic Party; project's site will put political topics up for a vote, crowdsource proposals
It's called Win the Future, and Pincus is even courting potential WTF candidates like the frontman of '90s rock band Third Eye Blind. Tweets: @saksappeal and @josheidelson Tweets: Jim Saksa / @saksapp...
Study: TechCrunch Disrupt videos show VCs focus more on potential gains when interviewing male founders, more on losses in interviews with female entrepreneurs
Facebook is challenging a gag order from a DC court, which prevented it from notifying users about search warrants for their accounts
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Trump voter-fraud panel's data request made to all states is a gold mine for hackers, say infosec experts; 20+ states refuse, including Mississippi and Virginia
Inside Yelp's six-year campaign to get antitrust regulators to sanction Google for displaying info from its own properties above competitors in search results
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Tumblr's uncertain future demonstrates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture, as do the fortunes of Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube
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Profile of Tencent and its President Martin Lau as it plans to expand outside China, where it dominates user attention on smartphones by offering many services
Bloomberg : Tweets: @wohlfarthmiriam , @davidramli , @luluyilun , and @saulsinger Tweets: Miriam Wohlfarth / @wohlfarthmiriam : Amazing #Tencent story -# WeChat now has 937.8 million active users-nex...
How Code.org, which has raised $60M from Google and others, is influencing education, with help from a broader push by firms like Apple and Microsoft
Natasha Singer / New York Times : Tweets: @anthemos Tweets: Anthemos Georgiades / @anthemos : Silicon Valley has become @radiohead lyrics and its all very sad and weird https://twitter.com/...
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