AT&T says it has restored service to 60% of Puerto Rico's population, launches limited LTE connectivity in remote areas in partnership with Project Loon
About a month after Hurricane Maria's devastating landfall on Puerto Rico, and a couple of weeks after the FCC gave clearance …
Zain Jaffer, CEO of video ad startup Vungle, put on indefinite leave after charges for attempted murder, lewd act on a child, and more; Vungle has raised $25.5M
Zain Jaffer, who founded mobile ad firm Vungle and was its CEO until this week, was arrested on Tuesday for attempted murder …
Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset review: easy setup, broad compatibility, but apps and games are lacking, and it costs as much as the more capable Oculus Rift
Just when you were getting used to virtual and augmented reality, here comes Microsoft to muddy up the waters with its new mixed-reality headsets.
Bitcoin price passes $6,000 as its total market value hits $100B+ for the first time
The world's most prominent digital currency was on track to mark a fresh milestone on Friday, with bitcoin rallying and putting the cyber currency in position to hit a total market value of around $10...
Amazon Echo (2017) review: better-looking than the original and less expensive at $99, with comparable sound quality; addition of an aux output is handy
Review Sections — Review — CNET - Appliances - Smart Home - Amazon Echo (2017) — Three years after the debut of the original …
Federal judge unseals source code for disputed DNA analysis software developed by New York City's crime lab after motion by ProPublica
A federal judge this week unsealed the source code for a software program developed by New York City's crime lab, exposing to public scrutiny a disputed technique for analyzing complex DNA evidence.
Vine's founders are back with HQ, a live trivia game show app
“It's a way to give people a chance to have fun, maybe win, maybe learn something new.” That's how former Vine co-founder Rus Yusupov describes his new trivia game show app HQ, which feels like Who W...
Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018
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Susan Fowler reflects on the impact of her essay that ignited harassment revelations, says she's working with a talent agency on a movie about her experiences
In her first interview since the essay that started a wave of sexual-harassment revelations, Susan Fowler tells her life story and looks to the future.
Inside Amazon, diversity concerns flare up over Amazon's handling of harassment accusations against former Amazon Studios chief Roy Price
SEATTLE — Amazon on Friday tried to quell concerns among employees about sexual harassment accusations against an executive, sending an email …
Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober
After decades … Matt Bell : I know Quinn and trust her narration of reality. Tweets: Hadi Partovi / @hadip : This article implicitly suggests sexual harassment is excusable if it was 2 years ago, unde...
How Russian hackers could have used Kaspersky's “silent signatures” method for detecting and analyzing malware to steal NSA docs without Kaspersky's knowledge
Kaspersky Lab has come under intense scrutiny after its antivirus software was linked to the breach … Tweets: @erratarob , @emptywheel , and @lorenzofb Tweets: Pumpkin Spice Graham / @erratarob : This...
Profile of David Hall, CEO and founder of Velodyne, who designed the rotating LIDAR system now used by 13 automakers and at least 22 big tech firms
No matter what it took, David Hall was going to kill that clown. He maneuvered Drillzilla for another ramming run.
Profile of Judge William H. Alsup of Oracle v. Google and Waymo v. Uber, who ruled against API copyright and taught himself to program in QuickBASIC
On May 18th, 2012, attorneys for Oracle and Google were battling over nine lines of code in a hearing before Judge William H. Alsup of the northern district of California.
Some doctors are wary of applying security update to St. Jude pacemakers, which are now owned by Abbott Labs, due to malfunction risk, thus hampering adoption
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Spoke, a help desk automation AI chatbot for businesses, says it has raised a total of $28M from Accel, Greylock, and others since being founded last year
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Southeast Asian gaming and ecommerce firm Sea Limited, formerly Garena, closes up 8.4% on its first day trading on the NYSE, after raising $884M in IPO
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Computer vision startup Veo Robotics raises $12M Series A from Lux, GV, Siemens' Next47
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Flexible car ownership marketplace Fair.com raises up to $1B in venture and debt financing from BMW's iVentures, Penske Automotive Group, Sherpa Capital, others
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Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control
They are victims. Now, no one else can make it better—like SPAM, malware, viruses. http://www.buzzfeed.com/... via @cwarzel http://twitter.com/... Kim-Mai Cutler / @kimmaicutler : Facebook is a junk i...
Profile of former Apple exec and Nest co-founder Tony Fadell, as he announces launch of his investment fund Future Shape
Adam Fisher / Wired : Tweets: @reveal Tweets: @reveal : 1/ Many of Silicon Valley's tech giants are touting diversity, but refusing to release raw numbers. https://www.revealnews.org/...
Atlas Informatics, a search engine for your digital footprint, says it is shutting down; Atlas raised $20M+ last November
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