Hard Questions: What Effect Does Social Media Have on Democracy?
Around the world, social media is making it easier for people to have a voice in government — to discuss issues, organize around causes, and hold leaders accountable. As recently as 2011, when social...
Microsoft reveals new Windows 10 laptops for schools starting at $189 to challenge Chromebooks, announces chemistry-focused Minecraft: Education Edition update
When it comes to the lucrative education market, Microsoft doesn't want to be left behind — especially when that Google's Chromebooks are increasingly popular with schools.
Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers
How disruptive will it be? Chris Johnston / BBC : Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts Daniel Cooper / Engadget : Amazon's convenience store of the future makes me nervous Ms. Smith / CSO : Am...
Facebook to spend €10M expanding its French AI center, doubling Paris-based team to 60, and will also open digital training centers in Spain, Poland, and Italy
Facebook will double the number of scientists working on artificial intelligence (AI) research at its Paris base to 60, the company has announced.
The rise of cryptocurrency mining has created a global shortage of high-end graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, driving up prices for retail gamers/buyers
“Cryptocurrency can't crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes. — The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear.
Instead of limiting time children spend on devices, some researchers argue for increasing it, provided children use the time for learning and creative play
New guidance on children and technology makes the distinction between passive exposure and active play and learning with screens
A look at VRChat, a free app for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with over 1.5M installs on Steam, which lets users create and explore virtual worlds with other people
It was in the depths of the Mickey Mouse dungeon, the music of the Mouse's rap album coursing through my headphones, that I decided VRChat was brilliant.
Facebook should explain how it will design surveys ranking trust in news sources, whether media can contest rank, whether user ideologies will be a factor, more
But Soars in China Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Facebook asks users to determine trustworthy news sources Matthew Sheffield / Salon : Facebook promises to clean up its toxic news feed: Is that even possib...
Sources: YouTube Live has ~300,000 subs, and Hulu's Live TV service has ~450,000; both services trail DirecTV Now and Dish Sling, which have millions of subs
- Hulu and YouTube both launched live TV services last year, in an effort to take on cable channels.
Uber Eats acquires New York-based Ando, the food delivery startup from David Chang that makes its own food
As food delivery hopefuls like Deliveroo and Amazon get more involved in the making of food themselves, Uber's food delivery branch Uber Eats has made an acquisition that could see the company …
How the developers of the Lightning Network plan to make Bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper using private payment channels
IN 2014, JOSEPH Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were bitcoin-obsessed engineers hanging out at pizza-fueled meetups in San Francisco.
How scammers are getting rich using social media, scam news sites, and private pump and dump group chats to spread false information about cryptocurrencies
In the largely unregulated world of bitcoin and cryptocurrency, fraudsters are getting rich by deliberately spreading false information … Tweets: @rmac18 and @rmac18 Tweets: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : If yo...
Cabify owner Maxi Mobility raises $160M from investors, including SoftBank's Japanese rival Rakuten, valuing the business at $1.4B
Aliya Ram in London and Andres Schipani in São Paulo — Maxi Mobility has raised $160m from investors including SoftBank's Japanese rival Rakuten …
Two of Microsoft's official distributors in Russia have imposed restrictions on sales of Microsoft software to 200+ Russian firms, to comply with US sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two of Microsoft's official distributors in Russia have imposed restrictions on sales of Microsoft software …
Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio reports first quarterly profit of ~$79M in FY Q3, 15 months after starting commercial operations, had 160M+ users as of Dec.
Profile of Yondr, maker of the lockable smartphone pouches used at concerts, shows, courtrooms, churches, and more to restrict smartphone use
LATE LAST FALL, in the gleaming white lobby of Madison Square Garden, uniformed attendants were posted at security stations to make thousands of smartphones stupid.
NYSE owner ICE partners with Blockstream to launch feed with price data from 15+ cryptocurrency exchanges by March, to be delivered via ICE's network to traders
Why the Top 0.001% Is So Happy JP Buntinx / NewsBTC : ICE Taps Blockstream to Create Real-time Cryptocurrency Data Feed Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk : NYSE Parent Company Launches Cryptocurrency Data Feed ...
A look at Ticketmaster's $110M settlement of a lawsuit by Songkick, after Songkick was acquired by Warner Music Group, according to SEC filing
Songkick may have prevailed in its two-year legal battle against Ticketmaster, but it came at a significant cost.
Study of 372+ ICOs shows that ~$400M of the total $3.7B funds raised to date have been stolen, with phishing as the most widely used hacking technique
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Sources: Twitter COO Anthony Noto, who has led Twitter's push into live video, is in talks to become SoFi's new CEO, following Mike Cagney's departure
Sphero, maker of robotic toys, lays off 45 employees after disappointing holiday season and says it's now focusing on its efforts in education
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
On gaming chat service Discord, some users swap revenge porn and rape videos on dedicated servers
WeChat says it now has 980M monthly active users, claims 170M daily active users for its Mini Program app platform, which now has 580,000 apps
Profile of Megan Squire, the activist and CS professor who created a database for tracking far-right extremists to feed info to organizations such as the SPLC
Doug Bock Clark / Wired :
Asian selfie app Snow, formerly a Snapchat clone, has removed its user-to-user communication features and raised $50M from SoftBank and Sequoia China
if it was not everyone will be trying to copy it. It is just not well executed as a “publicly traded” company. Here is another clone getting another slug of cash. http://techcrunch.com/...
Slack launches in beta on Linux as a Snap, an application package that's available across a range of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu
Instagram tests new text-only Stories format called “Type” and Story screenshot alerts
Tile, maker of Bluetooth trackers for physical objects, lays off 30 after holiday sales disappoint
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Schneider Electric researchers share more details about “Triton” malware, which exploited a firmware flaw in company's Triconex Tricon industrial safety systems
A look at the Change My View subreddit, where people share opinions for commenters to challenge in civil debate
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