Google releases ARCore Developer Preview 2 and says it is ending support for Project Tango
Augmented reality is a powerful way to bring the physical and digital worlds together. AR places digital objects and useful information into the real world around us, which creates a huge opportunity...
Unsealed letter by attorney of former Uber security employee Richard Jacobs, released in Uber-Waymo trial, claims Uber spied on competitors and employees
The letter has been submitted as evidence in Alphabet's lawsuit against Uber. — A 37-page letter that details allegations …
Google Maps for Android gets a new public transit navigation feature that sends users notifications when they need to get off the bus or train
Traveling on a bus or train is the time for you to do your best music-listening, news-reading, and social-media scrolling ... as long as you don't miss your stop.
Apple says iTunes won't be available in the Microsoft Store by the end of 2017, as originally planned; new timeline for release is unclear
Sorry, Windows 10 S users. Apple confirms that iTunes won't make it into the Microsoft Store this year, as Microsoft and Apple originally promised.
Anonymous early bitcoiner “Pine” creates $86M Pineapple Fund for charity, has already donated $6M+ to non-profits like EFF, The Water Project, BitGive, OpenBSD
Yesterday, one post set the Bitcoin subreddit on fire: An anonymous Bitcoiner who goes by the name of “Pine” …
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will use the Congressional Review Act to force a vote on FCC's net neutrality rules repeal
(D-N.Y.) said Friday that he intends to force a vote on a bill that would preserve Obama-era net neutrality rules, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to repeal this week.
Jacobs' letter alleges corporate espionage, unlawful surveillance, wiretapping, bribery, and illicit hacking by Uber; Jacobs walked back some claims under oath
The judge in the $1.9 billion civil suit between Alphabet's self-driving car unit Waymo and Uber released the letter …
Responses from nine ISPs show few firm commitments to not block, throttle, or prioritize certain data after FCC repeals net neutrality rules
Comcast is committed to an Open Internet. Michael J. Coren / Quartz : Comcast changed its website and net neutrality fans may not like it Tweets: Karl Bode / @karlbode : “Firm” lol. PR promises mean a...
A look at how Estonia is building a digital society, with projects such as e-Estonia that move bureaucratic processes online for its 1.3M citizens
Its government is virtual, borderless, blockchained, and secure. Has this tiny post-Soviet nation found the way of the future?
Online broker TD Ameritrade says it will begin allowing trading of Cboe's Bitcoin futures on Monday
TD Ameritrade on Friday said it would open trading for the recently launched bitcoin futures contract on Cboe Group Inc., following what it said was “standard protocol” for granting access to any futu...
Facebook, citing academic research, says people “passively consuming” social media feel worse afterwards while active interaction improves well-being
and perhaps even more so than offline, since people's posts are often more curated and flattering.” http://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : This is just an absolutely remarkable corporate...
Some viewers use Twitch as an outlet for suicidal thoughts and streamers say Twitch can do more to help than just point them to a mental health support page
A few weeks ago, a Twitch stream moderator and health professional who goes by “Badxan” posted on the Twitch subreddit … Tweets: @dacidbro , @wishfuiiytv , and @chrsmxwll Tweets: David Broweleit / @da...
How women, who helped shape computing's early years when it was considered “women's work”, were systemically pushed out of the field in the US and UK
In computing's early years, when it was considered women's work, all six programmers of America's first digital computer, ENIAC, were women Tweets: @un_women , @mims , @histoftech , and @skupor Tweets...
Textio analyzed phrases in 25K job descriptions from 10 tech companies, including Amazon and Google, to give insight into company cultural values vs company PR
What hiring language from 25,000 recent job descriptions tells us about corporate cultural norms
Online retailer Rakuten plans to apply for 4G license, invest $1.76B in infrastructure with a goal to become Japan's 4th mobile carrier with 15M subscribers
Eileen Yu / ZDNet :
Voicebot analysis shows Amazon Alexa has 25K skills in the US, up from 15K in July and 10K in March, as growth slows
Bret Kinsella / Voicebot :
BlackBerry says it will shutter its World app store on Dec. 31, 2019 and Playbook video calling in March 2018; BB10 gets 2+ years of additional support
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Vevo CEO Erik Huggers is stepping down; CFO Alan Price will be interim CEO while the company is looking for new leadership
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Sources: Huawei and Xiaomi are in talks with US carriers, including AT&T and Verizon, to start selling smartphones in the US as soon as next year
Bloomberg :
Spotlite, a two-month-old video live streaming app with monetization options for singers raises $10M from Sequoia Capital China and BlueRun Ventures
Described to me as “American Idol meets musical.ly,” startup Spotlite recently raised more than $10 million from Sequoia Capital China and BlueRun Ventures.
UK-based Loot, which offers a digital current account aimed at students and millennials, raises £2.2M Series A and says it has 50K users
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
YouTube debuts 360-degree YouTube VR app on Steam in early access for HTC Vive, but users of the beta are reporting several problems from bugs to crashes
Steve Dent / Engadget :
EU agrees on rules to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing using cryptocurrencies by banning anonymous pre-paid card transactions on platforms, more
Francesco Guarascio / Reuters :
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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.