iFixit teardown confirms Note 7 Fan Edition is just a Note 7 with a new, smaller battery
Like a phoenix from the ashes, Samsung's ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 has emerged from the fires of its battery woes reborn as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition, a refurbished Note 7 that, hopefully, w...
Apple removing VPN-based ad blockers for third-party apps from the App Store, rejects AdBlock iOS update, says only Safari content blockers are allowed
Update: When reached for clarification, Apple said “This is not a new guideline. We have never allowed apps on the App Store …
Microsoft promises improvements after backlash over Skype's Snapchat-esque redesign on Android and iOS, to restore native sharing and the status icon
Ever since Microsoft radically redesigned Skype to look more like Snapchat, the video chatting app's rating has plummeted to an average of just 1 star in some regions.
Disney unveils Star Wars: Jedi Challenges, which combines a Lenovo-made mobile AR headset and a smartphone app to allow users to play games including holochess
Disney has teased what Star Wars fans have long been demanding: an augmented reality game that allows you to wield your own lightsaber.
Ruby Corp., Ashley Madison's parent company, says it will pay $11.2M to some US users in data-breach class action suit, won't admit wrongdoing
Ruby Corp. to pay $11.2 million to compensate losses to some U.S. customers, won't admit wrongdoing — The parent of website Ashley Madison …
BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault
Beatrice Kim is suing her former employer, BetterWorks, and its CEO Kris Duggan for allegedly assaulting her in a sexual manner during a company retreat. The lawsuit also implicates the performance m...
A conflict in the community about how to scale bitcoin, and competing software update proposals like SegWit2x and UASF, could lead to the cryptocurrency split
New proposal SegWit2x aims for compromise ahead of Aug. 1 — Failure to agree could lead to bitcoin splitting into two
Sources: dark web market AlphaBay shut down by law enforcement in US, Canada, and Thailand; one alleged operator found hanged in Thailand prison after arrest
Saturday, July 15, 2017 Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : AlphaBay dark web drugs and credit card market shut down Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : Dark web market Alpha Bay was shut down by law enfor...
Warner Music Group acquires core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including website and app, but not ticketing functions
Warner Music Group has acquired many of the core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including its website and app, along with the trademark.
Sources: Benchmark, other Uber shareholders have discussed selling some shares to SoftBank; Benchmark initiated the effort to sell stock before the CEO's ouster
Uber Technologies Inc. shareholders and its board, led by early backer Benchmark, have discussed selling some of their shares …
Tezos blockchain project raises $232M worth of bitcoin and ether in largest ICO to date
And It's Not Done Selling Oliver Wood / Ethereum World News : Tezos Breaks ICO Offering Record Climbing $232 Million Futurism : Tezos Just Finished the World's Largest ICO, Hitting More Than $200 Mill...
Deep Instinct raises $32M Series B from NVIDIA, others for its deep learning cybersecurity software that works on devices and does not require cloud connection
The Tel Aviv based startup says it is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity.
Facebook tests a built-in animated GIF creator in the camera section of its iOS app, which lets you add GIFs to your Facebook story or post them on your profile
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Source: Snap had acquisition talks with AdRoll, which is borderline profitable and on pace for $300M 2017 revenue; Snap actively looking at other ad tech firms
Snapchat is shopping for ad tech companies to help bolster its appeal to marketers, a process that led the company …
Essential's VP of marketing, Brian Wallace, and head of communications, Andy Fouché, have both left the company recently before it has launched a product
Essential, the startup helmed by Android creator Andy Rubin, has lost one of its top executives, just over a month after it announced its first major product. Tweets: @richardkerris , @dcurtis , and @...
Google Play Music's New Release Radio, previously an exclusive for Samsung users, now available to all; station is based on users' listening history
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Facebook adds Explore Feed under More menu in app, as it keeps testing a second customized feed from sources people haven't followed yet
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OpenGov, a small startup partly owned by the Kushner family through Thrive Capital, got a seat alongside tech giants at White House roundtable in June
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US tech firms censoring products in India to avoid offending socially conservative users, receiving bad PR, and controversy, but alienating some liberals
unmarried couples renting rooms, adult themes/toys. https://www.buzzfeed.com/... @pranavdixit : However, ignoring this vocal, liberal minority and placating India's conservative majority doesn't hurt ...
Home interior design AR app Hutch raises $10M Series A led by Zillow
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Chinese computer vision startup SenseTime completes multi-stage Series B after raising a total of $410M, says it is now valued at $1.47B
Nina Xiang / China Money Network :
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