Twitter says it does not block or remove controversial tweets of world leaders because it would hide important information people should see and debate
There's been a lot of discussion about political figures and world leaders on Twitter, and we want to share our stance.
Google says Assistant is available on 400M+ devices, while it sold more than one Home every second since Home Mini Oct. launch, which translates to 6M+ speakers
Google Assistant is now available on 400 million devices, including more than 6 million Home smart speakers sold since the Home Mini first became available last October.
Sources: Benchmark, GV sold ~14.5% of their Uber stakes, worth ~$900M, ~$350M respectively; Garrett Camp sold ~15% for ~$400M; Menlo sold ~46%, First Round ~38%
Google Ventures, or GV, also sold several hundred million dollars of stock in the transaction.
How infosec researcher Daniel Gruss and his team discovered the Meltdown CPU flaw and developed the KAISER tool to patch Meltdown on Windows, Mac, and Linux
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips …
New US Customs guidelines for border searches of devices still allow search of info stored locally, need “reasonable suspicion” to move info to external devices
The US Customs and Border Protection agency has updated its guidelines for electronic border searches …
What to expect at CES 2018: from energy efficient laptops, high-end TVs, and self-driving car tech to AR/VR gaming, robots, and smart home tech
It's January, which means that Las Vegas, or the bit that pretends not to be Las Vegas for tax reasons, will play host to CES.
Internet Association, representing Amazon, Facebook, Google and others, says it will join upcoming lawsuit against net neutrality repeal as an intervening party
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Experts: human damage to undersea fiber optic cables would be less severe than military warns; of ~428 cables, one is damaged every couple days, often by nature
IT MIGHT SEEM like nightmare scenario. A terrorist organization or nefarious nation state decides to derail the global internet …
Intel faces at least three class action lawsuits over Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, while additional claims may come from big cloud service providers
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Web developers and Google's own apps are increasingly diverging from open web ethos by optimizing for Google-developed standards that first ship in Chrome
Chrome-only sites are a problem — Chrome is now the most popular browser across all devices, thanks to Android's popularity … Tweets: @chartier , @tomstuart , @mattrosoff , @dhh , @vivaldibrowser , ...
As China mulls regulating power-hungry bitcoin mining, some of the biggest miners including Bitmain, BTC.Top, and ViaBTC open facilities in US, Canada, Iceland
Policy makers outlined curbs on mining this week, people say — Canada, Iceland, U.S. are among alternative destinations
Sources on how Snap's hub-and-spoke org structure, with Evan Spiegel at the center of all decision-making, has employees on edge amid major overhaul of Snapchat
This fall, employees on Snap's product team received a surprising message from CEO Evan Spiegel: stop what you're working on, they were told. Tweets: @skweird , @harrymccracken , @joshconstine , @case...
Amazon announces Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit for wearables and Alexa Premium Voice Development Kit to improve far-field voice reception in third-party hardware
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Sources: sales at Jessica Alba's Honest Company, which reached $300M in 2016, were flat in 2017; CEO says firm is culling products to focus on core categories
Sales fell flat in 2017, hurt by recalls and product changes; new CEO says startup is 'getting out of businesses we can't win in' Tweets: @wsj Tweets: The Wall Street / @wsj : After battling moldy bab...
Microsoft says it will discontinue the Cortana integration preview feature with Dynamics 365 ERP/CRM
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Visa Europe terminates card issuer WaveCrest's membership, prompting some cryptocurrency debit card providers like Bitwala and Cryptopay to suspend services
Matthew Hughes / The Next Web :
Sensor Tower: Apple's App Store revenue was $38.5B in 2017, up 34.7% YoY, while Google Play's revenue was $20.1B, up 34.2% YoY
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Report: China's tech funding rose to record $58.8B in 2017, up from $56.1B in 2016; logistics and transportation sector raised the highest at $16.8B
China's startups and tech giants pulled in a record US$58.8 billion from investors in 2017, according to the Tech in Asia database.
Spotify's Chief Content Officer Stefan Blom is leaving ahead of its IPO; the company hasn't named a successor yet
A look at China's rapid adoption of mobile payments, facilitated by Alibaba and Tencent, and the effects as payment volume reached $9T in 2016
Alyssa Abkowitz / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsj , @newley , and @dee_bosa Tweets: The Wall Street / @wsj : ‘Recommend using WeChat Pay,’ says sign held by smartphone-savvy beggar in Beijing http...
Nielsen: 54% of all US music is now streamed, surpassing all formats for the first time; on demand audio hit 400B streams in 2017, up from 252B in 2016
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Hungary-based AImotive raises $38M Series C for its autonomous driving tech, led by B Capital Group and Prime Ventures with Cisco, Samsung, Bosch participating
Fitbit invests $6M in Sano, a company that makes a coin-sized patch to track blood sugar; this is Fitbit's first startup investment
GE Appliances, a subsidiary of China's Haier, is spinning out Giddy, its Quirky-like crowdsourced hardware product development platform for businesses
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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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.