iMac Pro teardown: RAM, dual SSDs, CPU are modular, but GPU is soldered in place and many key components aren't accessible, earning a 3/10 repairability score
Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — We dropped $4,999 to get our hands on the hot new space gray Magic Mouse …
Security issues arising from design flaw in Intel CPUs will need OS fix that will slow down Windows, Linux, macOS machines; Intel to provide more details soon
Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom — A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced …
An excerpt from Emily Chang's upcoming book Brotopia, on Silicon Valley's drug-fueled sex parties attended by powerful investors and well-known entrepreneurs
Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe …
Spotify faces new copyright lawsuit from Wixen Music that suggests up to 21% of Spotify songs are unlicensed; plaintiff seeks $1.6B+ in damages
Wixen Music Publishing files a new lawsuit that also covers music from Rage Against the Machine, The Doors, Steely Dan and many others.
Logan Paul debacle highlights YouTube's content moderation problem, as experts say Paul's video isn't something AI moderation could catch on its own
Logan Paul attends The Thinning Meet & Greet during the 2016 New York Comic Con. — YouTube has a content crisis — again.
Sources: Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December; indications are the company wants to list in Q1
Music streaming giant Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
Ripple, NEM, Ardor, Stellar, and Dash topped the list of best-performing cryptoassets in 2017; Bitcoin's value rose 1,318% during 2017 vs. 36,018% for Ripple
Bitcoin's value grew by more than 1,000% in 2017, but that wasn't enough to even place it among the 10 best-performing cryptoassets of the year.
US blocks sale of money transfer service MoneyGram to Alibaba's Ant Financial; Ant Financial will pay a $30M termination fee for the deal breakup
- The U.S. government failed to approve a multimillion-dollar merger between MoneyGram and Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba.
Microsoft acquires Pittsburgh-based Avere Systems, a file storage vendor for Windows and Linux, will integrate its technology with Azure cloud
Microsoft plans to integrate Avere's file system and caching technologies for Windows and Linux clients with its Azure cloud.
Apple buys buddybuild, an app development service with about 40 employees based in Vancouver, and will roll its product into Xcode
Apple continues to ramp up its efforts to court developers by making it easier to create and iterate their apps for its platforms.
Roku launches licensing program for manufacturing partners to use its voice assistant with smart speakers, smart soundbars, and other home audio systems
Roku, which sells the most popular brand of streaming media players in the U.S., is now aiming to carve out a niche for itself as the voice control platform for home entertainment.
Report: China will spend $2.1B on building a 548.7K square meter technology park dedicated to developing AI in Mentougou, western Beijing
- China is planning to build a 13.8 billion yuan ($2.1 billion) technology park for the development of artificial intelligence
Sources: Thiel's Founders Fund bought $15-$20M in bitcoin, now worth hundreds of millions, spread across multiple funds, one of which began investing in mid-'17
Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal :
Reports: China's Didi is in talks to buy Brazil's ride-hailing service 99 in deal that values it at $1B
A year ago, Didi made a big move into Brazil when it laid down over $100 million to take a stake in 99, a local competitor to Uber in the app-based ride hailing market.
Federal judge in Los Angeles rules for Airbnb in suit brought by Aimco, one of largest landlords in US, which had claimed Airbnb enabled tenants to break leases
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg :
Details emerge on Intel's Indian website about its first “Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics” processor: Core i7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W target TDP
Ian Cutress / AnandTech :
A look at Secure Elections Act bill, proposed by a bipartisan group of US senators, which aims to eliminate paperless voting machines and promote routine audits
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After Equifax breach compromised the identities of 145M Americans, there was anger in Congress, but the hearings and proposals have led to no real change
Martin Matishak / Politico :
Q&A with CEO of Zipline, the Sequoia and a16z-backed startup delivering 20% of national blood supply via drones in Rwanda, as it expands operations to Tanzania
Alice Lloyd George / TechCrunch :
Microsoft and Amazon miss integration deadline for Cortana and Alexa; Amazon says they expect to roll it out “soon”
Brad Sams / Thurrott.com :
Report: after years of trying, Amazon and Salesforce have made “significant progress” in move away from Oracle tech by building their own and using open-source
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC :
Report: new hacking group linked to North Korea hijacked computers to mine Monero cryptocurrency worth ~$25K
Filings: Google moved $19.2B to Bermuda shell company in 2016, up 7% YoY, to save $3.7B+ in taxes; money moved between Irish firms and Dutch firm with no staff
'Black Mirror' and Why Tech Should Be Feared Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Google moved $19.2B into Bermuda shell company in 2016, new filings show Nick Statt / The Verge : Google s...
Amazon says it shipped 5B+ items with Prime in 2017 and that more new members joined Prime worldwide in 2017 than any other year
Sources: Amazon in talks with Clorox, Procter & Gamble, others about product promotion on Echo; some discussions focus on sponsorship options within skills
Report: China's mobile games industry 2017 revenue hits ~$17.6B, more than 2x $7.4B 2015 revenue; avg. monthly revenue/paying user is $26.5, 9% higher than US
Jacky Wong / Wall Street Journal :
Google and Facebook's dominance in digital ads and Netflix and Amazon's massive programming budgets are forcing big media mergers and streaming ventures
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety :
A look at Emirati billionaire Mohamed Alabbar's $1B ecommerce venture Noon, a competitor to Amazon's Souq in the Middle East, founded in 2016
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