Sources: Nintendo plans to make 25M to 30M Switch consoles during the next fiscal year which begins April 2018
Nintendo plans to make 25 million to 30 million Switch game consoles next year — TOKYO— Nintendo Co. NTDOY -2.38% plans to pick up the production pace for its hit Switch …
Embodied Intelligence, which is developing tech for letting humans teach robots new skills using AI and VR, comes out of stealth with $7M in seed funding
Depending on who you ask, robotic grasping has been solved for a while now. That is, the act of physically grasping an object …
Google and UCB study: from March 2016 to March 2017, 788K credentials were stolen via keyloggers, 12M credentials via phishing, and 3.3B via 3rd-party breaches
Posted by Kurt Thomas, Anti-Abuse Research; Angelika Moscicki, Account Security — Account takeover, or ‘hijacking’ …
How Ford is working to build a Level 4 autonomous vehicle by 2021 with help from Argo AI, who is creating software for its vehicles
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IBM will make 20-qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service by end of 2017 and unveils 50-qubit quantum computing prototype
IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers.
Alibaba smashes its Singles Day record once again as sales hit $25.4B, a 39% increase over last year's sales total
Alibaba has set another Single's Day record after the e-commerce giant sold over $25 billion of product on the Chinese biggest online shopping date.
Facebook relaunches Events app as Facebook Local in the US on iOS and Android, adds restaurants, bars, and places your friends visit
Bad news for Yelp and good news for nightlife lovers. When you want to go out, it doesn't necessarily have to be to an event.
Discord launches Rich Presence SDK to let users easily jump in to play or watch games with friends
Rich Presence is live today — Discord is introducing a new tool today for developers to make it easier for players to jump into games with friends, spectate during matches and send party invites.
Uber must treat drivers as employees and not as independent contractors, UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal rules in appeal case
next stop is the Supreme Court Jamie Rigg / Engadget : Appeal tribunal rules Uber drivers are definitely workers Reuters : Uber loses UK appeal bid to overturn workers' rights decision Rob Davies / Th...
PayPal launches Money Pools feature to help you pool money for group payments
or get paid back Tweets: Ben Basche / @basche42 : That reminds me: Keep an eye on what Airbnb does with Tilt http://twitter.com/... Ingrid / @ingridlunden : This is more like Tilt than GoFundMe, PayPa...
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says strong encryption that law enforcement can't break is “unreasonable”
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Amazon expands its Influencer Program to include Twitter and Instagram, in addition to YouTube
Amazon is expanding its Influencer Program beyond YouTube to also include Twitter and Instagram, the company announced on Thursday. First launched into beta earlier this spring …
How Mimikatz, a tool coded by a French government IT manager in his spare time, became a ubiquitous password stealer for hackers globally
FIVE YEARS AGO, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy's laptop. Tweets: @dalperovitch Tweets: Dmitri Alpe...
AOL says it is shuttering its Alto email service on December 10
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Equifax says it is facing 240 consumer class-action lawsuits, 60 government investigations, and has recorded $87.7M in hack related costs in Q3
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Leaked Lyft investor document projects the service will command about a third of US ride hailing market by the end of the year, see losses of about $600M
Projections see Lyft sales rise, losses of $600 million — Fidelity, another Uber backer, may join Alphabet in new round Tweets: @ericnewcomer , @caseynewton , and @mhbergen Tweets: Eric Newcomer / @...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the site's redesign, coming in Q1 2018
At Web Summit this week in Lisbon, Portugal, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talked about the site's upcoming redesign. Reddit launched in June 2005, and its look and feel has changed little over the past d...
Electronic Arts to acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315M in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140M
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Swedish “digital contraception” app Natural Cycles raises $30M Series B led by EQT Ventures
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Razer prices its IPO near the top of its range, at $0.50, raising $529M and giving it a market cap of $4.4B; will start trading in Hong Kong on Monday
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A look at how Anki's Cozmo toy robot uses AI for responsive emotions that encourage interactivity and how children perceive smart robots
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Bandwidth, a Twilio competitor, closes up 6% on its first day of trading after raising $80M in its IPO
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