T-Mobile ends unlimited LTE roaming in Canada and Mexico, will limit to 5GB per month starting November 12
One of T-Mobile's big “uncarrier” moves was to offer international roaming data to most customers for free. However, Canada and Mexico were special cases where you'd get full-speed LTE data on most p...
The dream of USB-C being one port and cable to replace all others is mired in confusion because of Alternate Modes and inconsistent backwards compatibility
I love the idea of USB-C: one port and one cable that can replace all other ports and cables. It sounds so simple, straightforward, and unified.
Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites
Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to have hosted code that secretly hijacks visitors' CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Driven by a boom in cryptocoin value and a lack of prot...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promises to crack down on hate, violence, and harassment with “more aggressive” rules
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to...Twitter today to promise a “more aggressive” stance in its rules and how it enforces them. The tweet storm was based in a response …
After outcry over excessive data collection, OnePlus says it will add a usage analytics opt-out to the OxygenOS setup process
OnePlus once again found itself in hot water earlier this week after an eagle-eyed developer, Chris Moore, discovered that his OnePlus smartphone was uploading a raft of information back to the compan...
Inside Alphabet's moonshot division, X, which wants to build the next Google by nurturing invention and innovation, finding radical but feasible solutions
I. The Question — A snake-robot designer, a balloon scientist, a liquid-crystals technologist, an extradimensional physicist …
Apple's VP of diversity apologises to staff in email over comments she made about being “a little bit frustrated” that “diversity is tagged to” minority groups
Apple's Denise Young Smith sent an apology to team members at Apple today over comments …
Study: patent suit filings in East Texas dropped 60%+ in 90 days after SCOTUS limited “venue shopping” by patent trolls, compared to 90 days before the ruling
Can Delaware handle the incoming caseload? — New lawsuits are down—way down—in the mostly rural district …
IGN acquires Humble Bundle, the company known for selling video game bundles to raise money for charity
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How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and used them to access the internet, the prison's internal network, and commit fraud
How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned the prison upside down — In the summer of 2015, Stan Transkiy was 16 years into a life sentence …
How Spotify's Discover Weekly makes recommendations: a mix of collaborative filtering, natural language processing, and analyzing raw audio tracks
The science behind personalized music recommendations — This Monday—just like every Monday— over 100 million Spotify users found a fresh new playlist waiting for them.
How Google's meandering, secretive, non-committal robotics efforts since 2013 slowed progress in the field
Its scattered, ambiguous, frequently abandoned objectives for its string of big acquisitions have hurt the whole field. — In 1982, Blade Runner introduced the world to replicants … Tweets: @manukuma...
Uber appeals the London ban to UK court hours before the looming shutdown deadline, promises to continue “constructive discussions” with regulators
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An in-depth look at Facebook's role in eroding the informational underpinnings of democracy during the 2016 election, and why it was so hard to see it coming
In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after.
BlackBerry signs patent licensing deal with low-end Android handset maker BLU and ends its litigation against the company
More people are using Uber in New York City than taxis, with 289K vs. 277K average trips/day in July; half of all Uber rides now starting outside Manhattan
Yet Danielle Muoio / Business Insider : New Yorkers now use Uber more often than taxis Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : Uber now doing more rides daily than NYC taxis. 289K per day. Rough guess of $15/r...
Sources: Twitter deleted tweets and user data potentially valuable for Russia probe in keeping with its privacy policy
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Morgan Marquis-Boire no longer involved with EFF, First Look, Citizen Lab, others after sexual assault allegations
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Fandango to acquire MovieTickets.com for an undisclosed amount, gaining access to UK, Canada, and significantly expanding in Latin America
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Profile of Mapper, which aims to help autonomous cars navigate by crowdsourcing mapping data from dashboard-based devices installed in everyday vehicles
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CastBox, iOS and Android podcast player that raised a total of $16M, launches audio search that uses natural language processing in its app
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.