San Jose-based Energous, which is developing wireless charging tech that works from three feet away, says the FCC has approved its product, set for debut at CES
Charging your mobile device wirelessly is certainly less of a hassle than plugging it in, but still requires the device …
44% of global smartphone and tablet activations from December 19-25 were iOS devices, the same as last year, while 26% were Samsung devices, up 5% YoY
2017 was another marquee year for smartphone sales and innovation with the introduction and evolution of manufacturers' flagship devices …
Sources: Nintendo has told Switch developers it's delaying release of 64GB game cards from second half of 2018 to 2019, potentially limiting top-tier games
The company had expected to make the cards available in the second half of next year — TOKYO—Nintendo Co. told outside game developers …
CIRP: iPhone X accounted for ~30% of US iPhone sales during the first 30 days of availability while iPhone 8 and 8 Plus made up ~40% of sales in the same period
While Apple has yet to breakdown just how many iPhone X units it has sold so far, that hasn't stopped analysts from taking a stab at it.
Source: Snap is developing a “Stories Everywhere” product, led by former Storyful CEO, to make Stories available outside Snapchat, possibly through a web player
Snapchat is developing a new product called “Stories Everywhere” with a goal of making Snapchat Stories available outside …
Instagram begins rolling out a Recommended For You section that highlights 3-5 posts liked by followed accounts
Instagram's feed will now show users recommended posts - a change that earlier this month was spotted while in testing, and has since quietly gone live.
Twitter blocked Impostor Buster, a bot that exposed trolls that posted racist messages impersonating Jews, other minorities, after trolls reported harassment
Like many Jewish journalists who reported on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, I spent the 2016 election being harassed …
Sources: Apple and Amazon are in discussions to establish a presence in Saudia Arabia through new investments; Apple in talks for licensed Apple Stores in 2019
RIYADH (Reuters) - Apple and Amazon are in licensing discussions with Riyadh on investing in Saudi Arabia, two sources told Reuters …
During record-breaking holiday, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were #1 and #2 top sellers with “tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices” sold
And what that might mean for Apple's HomePod Alex Cranz / Gizmodo : Google's mixed 2017 hardware launches, from the stellar Pixelbook to the average Pixel 2 and awful Pixel Buds, highlight why it's lo...
LG and HERE announce partnership to create a telematics product aimed at autonomous vehicles
LG is looking at the rise of autonomous vehicle technologies as an opportunity to expand its electronics business, and it's now working with mapping provider HERE to put together a telematics product ...
As Facebook expands content moderation, contract workers describe the job of vetting porn, racism, and violence: high turnover, $13-$28/hour in Bay Area, more
Social-media giants hire legions of contractors to hunt for pornography, racism and violence amid a torrent of posts and videos
CB Insights: ten largest tech companies in US were involved in $2.7B worth of health care equity deals in 2017, up from $277M in 2012
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How restaurants are using the internet and social platforms to research guests and customize their dining experience
Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, December 2000 — Fine dining in the digital age is a wonderful, and oftentimes overwhelming, experience for diners.
US Library of Congress will no longer archive the text of every tweet, will instead archive tweets on a “very selective basis”; the archive has yet to go online
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How Helios and Matheson Analytics, which raised $60M to grow MoviePass, plans to make $9.95/mo service profitable using data from its rapidly growing user base
LOS ANGELES — As streaming services like Netflix and Hulu surge in popularity, movie theaters have been trying to compete … Tweets: @nytmedia , @ennisnyt , @nytimesbusiness , @mdudas , @eshmu , @nytim...
Pilot program in Guangzhou, one of China's largest cities, allows residents to link their national ID cards to Tencent's WeChat, may roll out nationwide in Jan.
and can't—do with your WeChat account in China Rob Thubron / TechSpot : China turns to WeChat for virtual state IDs Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget : WeChat accounts could double as state IDs in China P...
Experts say Bitcoin's boom is a boon for extremist groups and some far-right leaders, with Bitcoin adoption gaining new urgency after Charlottesville rally
this seems as brave-new-world as almost any brave-new-world thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Agent Smith / @anonycraig : “The alt-right likes bitcoin the same way criminals and people on the...
Chinese bike-sharing company Hellobike announces ~$153M in new funding, bringing Series D total to over $500M
Hello Bike just won RMB 1 billion financing Tweets: Himanshu Gupta / @halfrebel : Even as few players are dying, new players are getting funded. Consolidation in bike-sharing in China still seems some...
Apple's platform unification push should center on making it easier for devs to share code between Mac and iOS apps, not on getting iOS apps to run on the Mac
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Privacy advocates say Congress is debating FISA's Section 702 reform without key info from intel agencies about how the warrantless surveillance program works
Louise Matsakis / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @matthew_j_kahn Tweets: @wired : “It's a massive experiment with no checks, no scientific methodology. We have no idea if this is causing more harm than g...
Mark Zuckerberg's US tour was part of a political campaign to help bolster the company's reputation as anti-tech sentiment grows, not a presidential run
it's fighting spam and clickbait. This is a significant and highly substantive differentiation. https://www.axios.com/... Jim VandeHei / @jimvandehei : Turns out that Zuckerberg, with his high-profile...
In 2017, India's IT industry saw tens of thousands of layoffs amid slowdown in revenue, increasing automation, which is making many entry-level IT jobs obsolete
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