London Metropolitan Police's head of digital forensics says it will use AI to scan for child abuse images on suspects' devices within two or three years
Artificial intelligence will take on the gruelling task of scanning for images of child abuse on suspects' phones and computers …
Facebook launches tool that shows if you followed or Liked Russia-linked US election related accounts on Facebook and Instagram between Jan. 2015 and Aug. 2017
Not all users who saw that content, however, can take advantage of a new tool out today. — Facebook has rolled out its new hub …
CNN ends its daily Snapchat news show, The Update, launched just four months ago, saying it couldn't make enough money from advertising
CNN is ending its daily Snapchat news show, “The Update,” launched just four months ago — after concluding, at least for now, that it couldn't make money …
SingularityNET raises $36M in 60 seconds in an ICO to build out its decentralized blockchain-based marketplace for AI algorithms
SingularityNET, is an ambitions project to create a decentralized marketplace for AI, has raised a lot of money in its token sale.
As residential neighborhoods near highways struggle with the traffic sent by navigation apps like Waze, Leonia, NJ is closing 60 of its streets to outsiders
LEONIA, N.J. — It is bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see, the kind of soul-sucking traffic jam that afflicts highways the way bad food afflicts rest stops. Tweets: @nytimes , @scholarlykitchn ,...
Google unveils proposal for 1M+ square feet of new offices in Sunnyvale, which the company says could accommodate 4,500 employees by 2021 at the earliest
SUNNYVALE — Google on Wednesday unveiled its plans for a striking new development in Sunnyvale's Moffett Park, where thousands …
Baidu is suing its former autonomous driving chief Wang Jing and his startup JingChi for alleged intellectual property theft
China's largest search engine provider suing JingChi, led by former executive Wang Jing, demanding the start-up cease using purportedly stolen technology
At least three lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed against Apple for slowing down iPhones with old batteries
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Wireless security camera startup Blink says it has been acquired by Amazon and will continue to operate; Blink raised ~$1M in a 2014 crowdfunding campaign
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Bitcoin plunged below $11K for a while, down 40%+ from record high of ~$19.8K at the start of the week, amid a crash in all major cryptocurrencies
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Passport, provider of backend management software for public transport systems, raises $43M Series C from Bain Capital Ventures
Passport, company that's managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami and Los Angeles, has just raised $43 million.
South Korea indicts over two dozen people for their involvement in an alleged $250M+ cryptocurrency mining pyramid scheme run by US registered firm Mining Max
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Uber's new COO Barney Hartford talks about his plans to make Uber more efficient by reigning-in promotions and discounts, reducing ride drop rates
Uber's newly appointed chief operating officer, Barney Harford, is planning to reduce costs and “bring a dose of financial discipline” … Tweets: @financialtimes and @lesliehook Tweets: @financialtimes...
Pixel 2 XL beats iPhone X, Galaxy Note8, HTC U11, and LG V30 as best camera, but iPhone X takes better selfies, and Note8 is most versatile for video
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Court sanctions Apple over failure to produce documents in FTC's lawsuit against Qualcomm, orders fine of $25K/day starting Dec. 16 until it turns over the docs
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An informal band of researchers is working over Christmas to prevent hackers from disrupting online services, following PlayStation and Xbox incidents in 2014
Merry band of security buffs spend holidays on alert to make sure cyber-Grinches don't spoil the fun Tweets: @csoandy and @julieiskow Tweets: Andy Ellis / @csoandy : “To my wife's dismay, I'm going to...
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable
One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies. Tweets: @rfflores , @stevesi , @benedictevans , @benedict...
Experts question dire current and future Bitcoin energy use projections, most of which are based on a single source, Digiconomist, whose methodology is suspect
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The infosec community has undergone a post-Weinstein cultural shift, as evidenced by the soul-searching following allegations against Morgan Marquis-Boire
In 2015 I noticed something odd on Twitter — without context or explanation, Andrea Shepard, a Tor developer, had posted a string of random letters and numbers. Tweets: @comzeradd , @evacide , @fox , ...
A look at why WhatsApp has become the de facto social network for older users in India, where the app has more than 200M users
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @skweird , @mgsiegler , @namitabhandare , @buzzfeednews , @codeblue87 , @memeghnad , and @pranavdixit Tweets: Osarumen Osamuyi / @skweird : If you replaced “India” i...
How Eric Schmidt, whose departure was planned for months according to a source, successfully worked alongside Google's founders for 16 years
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