OnePlus 5T review: outstanding combination of specs and design for $500, Oxygen OS is good, but no water resistance and no MicroSD card support
OnePlus' $500 wonder makes us question why we'd ever pay $800 for a smartphone. — After launching the OnePlus 5 earlier this year …
Uber to buy 24K SUVs from Volvo equipped with autonomous technology in a non-exclusive deal from 2019 to 2021; Uber will add its own self-driving technology
STOCKHOLM/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber plans to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, marking the transition of the U.S. firm …
Uber adds live location sharing with drivers, expands its Beacon program to New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, and adds in-app Uber credit gifting
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Marvell Technology has agreed to acquire Cavium for about $6B, as it seeks to expand in the networking equipment sector
(Reuters) - Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd (MRVL.O) has agreed to acquire smaller peer Cavium Inc (CAVM.O) for around $6 billion, as it seeks to expand …
Though Steve Jurvetson hasn't faced public harassment allegations, he was asked to leave DFJ after firm caught him lying about personal misconduct, says source
Jurvetson was asked to leave because DFJ caught him lying about what it considered serious allegations, a source said.
iMac Pro to feature A10 Fusion coprocessor, which could be used for always-on “Hey Siri”, BridgeOS 2.0 code from Apple shows
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A look at PLATO, a 1960s-era networked platform of computers for education, a precursor to modern Internet concepts including forums and instant messaging
How the PLATO system, a pre-internet online platform that first came to life at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s … Tweets: @anildash and @engineeringatil Tweets: Anil Dash / @a...
Health IQ, which uses an online quiz to screen customers with healthy lifestyles and offer them lower life insurance rates, raises $34.6M Series C led by a16z
Health IQ, a startup that collects data to let health-conscious people save an average of $1,238 a year on their life insurance premiums …
After a bug bounty hunter shared evidence with DJI that it had left customer data exposed online, the company called him a hacker and threatened him with CFAA
A bug bounty hunter shared evidence; DJI called him a hacker and threatened with CFAA. — DJI, the Chinese company that manufactures …
Norwegian hacker Einar Otto Stangvik on how he exposed Childs Play, a dark web pedophile forum that was hosted by Australian Police as part of a sting operation
ByDaniel Mützeltranslated byDaniel Stächelin — Einar Otto Stangvik talks with us about online child pornography … Tweets: @yashalevine and @troyhunt Tweets: Yasha Levine / @yashalevine : Think about...
Alibaba invests ~$2.9B for a 36% stake in Sun Art, which operates 446 hypermarkets across 224 cities in mainland China
this time buying 36% of hypermarket operator Sun Art for $2.88B as part of its years-long strategy to unite online and offline retail experiences http://techcrunch.com/...
How The Washington Post built Arc, its suite of digital publishing tools, and started offering the software to other newsrooms as a paid service
The newspaper created a platform to tackle its own challenges. Then, with Amazon-like spirit, it realized there was a business in helping other publishers do the same. Facebook: Serm Teck Choon . Twe...
Bangkok-based aCommerce, an e-commerce enabler that works with brands across a range of services, raises $65M Series B led by KKR-backed Emerald Media
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Xiaomi says it will invest up to $1B in 100 Indian startups over the next five years to create an ecosystem of apps around its smartphone brand
Xiaomi will invest $1 billion in 100 Indian startups over the next 5 years to create an ecosystem of apps around its smartphone brand, says CEO Lei Jun
Bloomberg's new Twitter network will launch Dec 18; sources say it has already secured eight-figures in ad revenue for its first year
Bloomberg's new Twitter network will launch on Dec. 18 with six founding partners: Goldman Sachs, Infiniti, TD Ameritrade, CA Technologies, AT&T and CME Group — and more are in the works. Tweets: @dan...
Media startup Cheddar launches its streaming TV channel in Europe with French startup Molotov, which won't be charged a licensing fee
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LinkedIn's China rival Maimai announces $75M Series C; iResearch says Maimai had 30M users as of April, while LinkedIn China claimed 32M users around that time
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Chinese certificate authority StartCom, which was blacklisted in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Edge for bad practices, to shut down and revoke all certs by 2020
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FCC approves ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard, dubbed “Next Gen TV”, with interactive features, UHD support, and geotargeted emergency alerts and advertisements
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How Topix pivoted to pay platforms for traffic to its slideshows, quizzes, and other evergreen content, earning $5M on $36M in revenues in '16 with 29 employees
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How local Detroit non-profits are building infrastructure, mixing fiber and wireless, to deliver the Internet to underserved communities
Kaleigh Rogers / Motherboard : Tweets: @motherboard Tweets: @motherboard : 40% of Detroit is without internet and ignored by telecoms, so this group is bringing the internet to the people http://moth...
How Apple is redesigning the Genius Bar as “Genius Grove” to ease strain on Geniuses, serve customers faster, and alleviate overcrowding in its stores
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A look at Online Performers Group, a talent-management company for professional video-game streamers on Twitch, many of whom earn over a million dollars a year
> “Twitch claims to reach half of the millennial males in the United States” http://www.newyorker.com/... Mark Ghuneim / @markghuneim : STAT: Each month, a hundred million visitors watch their favorit...
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