Google Maps for Android and iOS get 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.
After slipping an unexplained promotional plugin for the TV show Mr. Robot into Firefox and angering users, Mozilla will move the extension to its add-on store
This week, Mozilla slipped a browser extension that promoted Mr. Robot into Firefox. The goal was to give Firefox users access …
Gemalto, which makes SIM and smart cards and provides IT security, agrees to ~$5.4B buyout by French conglomerate Thales, a 57% premium over 12/8 closing price
Digital security solutions provider Gemalto has agreed to a €51 per share acquisition offer from French aerospace …
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 Home Max review: the best-sounding smart speaker yet, but it's too expensive for mass appeal at $399
Review Sections — Review — Prices — CNET - Audio - Speakers - Google Home Max — The Google Home Max is not the first smart speaker to aim for better audio quality …
Eve V review: a more affordable, surprisingly worthy Surface Pro competitor designed by its forum community
If you've never heard of Eve, I like to think of it as the OnePlus of computers: By ditching middlemen, this 11-person startup found a way to build and sell premium computers at a significant discount...
In 2017, big tech platforms began accepting some responsibility for negatively affecting the real world, but questions remain about companies' next steps
This was a terrible year for the tech industry. — That's an odd thing to say at a time of record growth and profits.
Jacobs' letter alleges corporate espionage, unlawful surveillance, wiretapping, bribery, and illicit hacking by Uber; Jacobs walked back some claims under oath
ing blockbuster bonkers criminal allegations against Uber. This is like reading a spy flick script: http://thein.fo/... http://twitter.com/... Will Strafach / @chronic : the phony attorney-client “tri...
Email intelligence firm OMC says 19% of “conversational” email, sent by people like friends, spouses, and business partners, is subject to email open tracking
“I JUST CAME across this email," began the message, a long overdue reply. But I knew the sender was lying. Tweets: @marklittlenews , @kenanmalik , @tuxtina , @jackdamn , and @pardesoteric Tweets: Mar...
Journalist documents her frustrating quest to fix an error in the Knowledge Graph panel appearing on Google searches for her name, which claimed she was dead
I'm not dead yet. — But try telling that to Google. — For much of the last week, I have been trying to persuade the world's … See also Mediagazer
Online broker TD Ameritrade says it will begin allowing trading of Cboe's Bitcoin futures on Monday
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will use the Congressional Review Act to force a vote on FCC's net neutrality rules repeal
what happens next? Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge : Responses from nine ISPs show few firm commitments to not block, throttle, or prioritize certain data after FCC repeals net neutrality rules David Sh...
Holographic capture startup 8i, maker of Holo AR app for iOS and Android, says it is laying off up to half of its 70 full-time employees
New Zealand- and Los Angeles-based holographic capture startup 8i is having significant layoffs that could impact more than 30 staffers.
The meteoric rise of bitcoin and difficulty in tracing ownership make disclosures from journalists and the experts they quote even more important
2018 will be the year of inadequate bitcoin disclosures. — In April 2013, Farhad Manjoo (then at Slate, now at The New York Times) … Tweets: @econoscribe and @brianchoffman Tweets: Ludwig Siegele / ...
Male-dominated cryptocurrency industry is slowly starting to open up to women; four out of 30 largest ICOs this year through October had female co-founders
Two largest ICOs yet are by companies co-founded by women — ‘Very welcoming to anyone who drinks the Kool-Aid:’ Morales Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Two of the largest ICOs yet are by compa...
Profile of US investment firm Voleon, which has $1.8B under management and has been using machine learning to pick stocks since 2007 with mixed success
Voleon is among investors deploying machine learning, a technology in which computers develop trading strategies. It's harder than it sounds. Tweets: @wsjmarkets , @wsj , @charlesforelle , @bradleyho...
Anonymous early bitcoiner “Pine” creates $86M Pineapple Fund for charity, has already donated $6M+ to non-profits like EFF, The Water Project, BitGive, OpenBSD
Giulio Prisco / Bitcoin Magazine :
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
Nathan Grayson / Kotaku : Tweets: @dacidbro , @wishfuiiytv , and @chrsmxwll Tweets: David Broweleit / @dacidbro : Apparently someone actually programmed the “Report self harm” button on Twitch to sim...
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
Nathan Heller / New Yorker : Tweets: @newyorker , @opdeatheatersus , @newyorker , @imran , @nathanheller , @erictopol , @jdennelind , @nathanheller , @nagrikta , @nathanheller , @gquaggiotto , @abdih...
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
was a crash course in itself. But check out her book for more. http://twitter.com/... Mar Hicks / @histoftech : “Sexism in the tech industry is as old as the tech industry itself.” Christopher @mims w...
Spotlite, a two-month-old video live streaming app with monetization options for singers raises $10M from Sequoia Capital China and BlueRun Ventures
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
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
and that's the first step” - Kieran Snider http://textio.ai/... Dcsil / @uoft_dcsil : 1000 different people, the same words: What hiring language from 25,000 recent job descriptions tells us about cor...
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