Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says firm has stopped protecting Daily Stormer from DDoS attacks, explains his discomfort with policy reversal in email to staff
Internet companies typically take a hands-off approach to offensive content on their networks, erring on the side of maintaining an open internet.
Apple Pay and PayPal disable support for several sites that promote or sell items glorifying white supremacy
A screenshot of some the product offerings from vinlandclothing.com, which was banned from using Apple Pay and PayPal for selling Nazi apparel. — Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed News / Via vinlandclothi...
Tim Cook says Apple will make two separate $1M donations, to Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, in an email to staff about Charlottesville
On Wednesday evening Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to all global employees condemning racism and bigotry as well as President Trump's response …
Trump disbands the Strategic and Policy Forum and American Manufacturing Council amid loss of support from member CEOs after Charlottesville comments
away from Trump Rhett Jones / Gizmodo : The 'Dude You're Getting a Dell' Guy Condemns Trump's Excuses for Nazis Mike Allen / Axios : Top Trump business group to disband amid Charlottesville tumult Kif...
Prompted by Charlottesville reactions, Spotify says it has begun to remove white supremacist music flagged as “hate bands”
Spotify says it has removed an array of white-supremacist acts from its streaming service that had been flagged as racist “hate bands” by the Southern Poverty Law Center three years ago.
Sprint opens Essential Phone pre-orders with a $260 discount, only offers black versions, and says units will ship by August 28
Sprint is now taking preorders for the Essential Phone, and it's offering subscribers a pretty good perk to jump on it early: a discount of about $260.
After missing initial June ship date, Essential says Essential Phone models with black finish will begin shipping within 7 days, but white models are weeks away
backed by Amazon and designed by Android's creator—will reportedly start shipping next week Dominik Bosnjak / AndroidHeadlines.com : Essential Confirms The PH-1 Starts Shipping Within A Week Justin Di...
Renderings of alleged LG V30 show off handset from multiple angles, feature dual-camera setup and fingerprint sensor that doubles as a sleep/wake button
We're less than a week away from the official announcement of the V30, but that hasn't stopped leaked images of the handset from emerging.
Google acquires AIMatter, a startup that has built a neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images on mobile devices
Computer vision — the branch of artificial intelligence that lets computers “see” and process images like humans do (and, actually, often better than us) …
Alibaba's Q1 beats estimates as revenue rose 56% to $7.4B, with revenue rising 58% in core ecommerce, almost 50% in cloud, and 30% in media
Results beat projections on both the top and bottom lines — Cloud revenue doubles but media climbed just 30 percent
Google adds Q&A section to Maps on Android and mobile search, letting businesses answer questions
Google is launching a new feature for Google Maps for Android and mobile search today: question and answers. I'm sure it won't come as a surprise when I tell you that this feature allows …
Facebook starts offering in-stream-only video ad units that will play as users watch videos on Facebook
Advertisers can buy video ads from Facebook that will only be served when people are viewing a video, increasing the likelihood that people will watch them.
James Damore's memo made giant, unfounded logical leaps and ignored important evidence that didn't support his conclusion
Last week this newspaper said Alphabet's boss should write a “detailed, ringing rebuttal” of a viral anti-diversity memo sent at Google. Here is how we imagine it Tweets: @eudaimonisty , @adamconover...
Ripcord raises $40M Series B after raising $9.5M Series A in March for its end-to-end paper record digitization service
Bay Area startup Ripcord just scored a $40 million Series B, following its successful launch earlier this year. By all accounts, the company has apparently hit …
HMD Global debuts Nokia 8, a $705 Android device with 5.3" display, Snapdragon 835, 4GB RAM, 64GB of storage, Zeiss optics, available early September in Europe
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Google to roll out voice calling feature to Google Home users in US and Canada soon, but it will lack caller ID except for Google Voice or Project Fi users
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Cisco narrowly beats Q4 estimates with $12.1B revenue, vs. $12.06B est., down 4% YoY, as service revenue rose 1% YoY to $3.1B
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Microsoft debuts Azure Event Grid, an event routing service that complements Microsoft's existing “serverless” offerings Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps
Build apps faster with a serverless architecture Richard Seroter / InfoQ : Microsoft Ships Azure Event Grid for Unified Event Processing Kurt Marko / diginomica : Microsoft Azure Event Grid - first to...
China issues warning to Alibaba's Taobao.com, other e-commerce marketplaces to remove VPN tools selling on their platforms
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Shipping giant Maersk says the NotPetya cyberattack will likely cause $200M-$300M in lost Q3 revenue
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SEC filing shows Andrew Ng, Google Brain founder and former Baidu chief scientist, is raising a $150M AI fund
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Facebook will limit the spread of stories in News Feed that feature either fake video play buttons or videos of only a static image
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Fiat Chrysler says it has joined BMW's autonomous car partnership with Intel and Mobileye
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Amazon expands cash rewards for high-performing Alexa apps beyond games to lifestyle, productivity, education apps, and more
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Alibaba leads $1.1B investment in Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Tokopedia
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