Some Facebook ex-staffers think Twitter-inspired '13 shift to display more news was a failed experiment, as time spent on FB has been declining for past 2 years
Getty Images / John Paczkowski, BuzzFeed News — When news broke on Thursday evening of Facebook's dramatic overhaul of its News Feed …
How Jeff Bezos and Amazon's participation in the public sphere grew alongside the company, Bezos' other investments, and his personal wealth
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Jeff Bezos says he and his wife will give $33M in scholarship money to DACA students
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The stature of Apple's ecosystem at CES fades as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant emerge as platforms of choice for third-party hardware makers
I want to make an observation, which I feel is an important one. However, I don't want it to be taken the wrong way. For the record, Apple is not doomed.
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is back online after 2+ days of downtime during a scheduled infrastructure upgrade, which was supposed to last 2 hours
The Kraken cryptocurrency exchange has come back online today, Jan. 13 at 11:30 UTC, after a more than 48-hour delay.
Microsoft's Andrew Shuman says firm is playing the long game with Cortana after Amazon and Google overshadowed Cortana smart home and SDK announcements at CES
LAS VEGAS — Lost in the shuffle of Amazon and Google's digital assistant showdown this week at CES is another tech giant's virtual brain: Microsoft's Cortana.
Intel and Micron to end NAND flash partnership after the introduction of 3rd gen 3D NAND in late 2018/early 2019, will continue 3D XPoint memory collaboration
LAS VEGAS, NV — The long-running partnership between Intel and Micron for the development and manufacturing of NAND flash memory will soon come to an end.
After mislabeling some black people as “gorillas” in 2015, Google Photos says it still blocks similar search terms due to limitations of computer vision tech
IN 2015, A black software developer embarrassed Google by tweeting that the company's Photos service had labeled photos of him with a black friend as “gorillas.”
How Scripto, the collaborative writing app for TV production that Stephen Colbert helped build, has become a hit with news-comedy shows
Two months ago, a group of reporters and comedy writers crowded into a conference room in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to begin work on a new HBO show hosted … Tweets: @newyorker Tweets: The New Yorker / @n...
NPR and Edison Research survey: 16% of Americans own a smart speaker today, up 128% YoY; 30% of owners say smart speakers are replacing time spent with TV
One in six Americans now own a smart speaker, according to new research out this week from NPR and Edison Research - a figure that's up 128 percent from January, 2017.
Despite growing support for Alexa and Prime Video from TV makers, TVs running Amazon Fire TV OS were absent at CES amid TVs with OSes from Roku and Google
Roku TVs and even Android TV are enjoying more momentum in Las Vegas. — A year ago in Las Vegas, Amazon and some budget TV …
House passes Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure Reporting Act, which would require DHS to tell Congress about how the government deals with vulnerability disclosure
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Disney cites conflicts of interest with Facebook, Twitter as reason for Sandberg, Dorsey not seeking board re-election; Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz joining Feb. 1
SAN FRANCISCO — The Walt Disney Company on Friday … Lisa Richwine / Reuters : Facebook's Sandberg, Twitter's Dorsey to leave Disney board Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Sandberg and Dorsey leaving Disney ...
More Chinese-born tech workers now return home from the US for faster salary growth, no “bamboo ceiling”, and chance to work with high volumes of intimate data
An exodus triggered by abundant capital, growing innovation and flourishing career opportunities Tweets: @davidramli , @tanayj , and @davidramli Tweets: David Ramli / @davidramli : One issue is the “B...
How the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities stayed secret for 7 months but were eventually revealed after rumors and suspicious Linux kernel patches surfaced
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Shenzen judge rules Samsung infringed on one of Huawei's wireless communications patents and must stop selling products using infringing technology in China
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Phones can accurately pinpoint user's location via Wi-Fi hotspots but carriers are slow to adopt the tech for 911 calls due to lack of pressure from regulators
Accurate location data is on smartphones, so why don't more wireless carriers use it to locate emergency callers?
The fallout from Uber's disclosure of its $100K payment to a hacker who stole consumer data exposes legal ambiguity with tech companies' bug bounty programs
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SCOTUS to review 1992 Quill decision that states can collect sales tax only if retailer has physical presence in the state; Quill is used in taxing online sales
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Apple says email to users with Apple IDs outside of China informing them that their iCloud data would be moved to a Chinese company's servers was sent in error
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Paytm, Google, others see India's low rate of digital payments as an opportunity after the value of digital wallet transactions rose 64% from Dec. '16-Dec. '17
New York Times : Tweets: @stevelohr , @hitoishichakma , @vindugoel , @vindugoel , and @nytimestech Tweets: Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Why India still clings to cash. Trust matters more than technology...
Sources: Chinese e-commerce startup Meicai, which helps farmers sell vegetables to restaurants, has raised $450M Series E at $2.8B valuation
In an email to users, Google says it is deprecating Chrome Supervised Users, its parental controls feature for Chrome, starting this week
Facebook signs licensing deals with Global Music Rights, HFA/Rumblefish, and Kobalt, allowing users post music and music videos on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus
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