Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says that 500M NEM cryptocurrency tokens, worth ~$400M, have been “illicitly” transferred out of the exchange
Coincheck Inc., one of Japan's biggest digital exchanges, said that about $400 million of the NEM cryptocurrency was lost after it was sent …
AI advances are now making automated analysis of live surveillance video possible, presaging useful applications while raising serious questions about privacy
What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? — We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes …
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment
FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
Google's AI-powered Clips camera is now available in the US Google Store for $249, with first deliveries expected in March
Three months ago Google announced the Google Clips, a tiny clip-on camera powered by some impressive machine learning technology. The idea behind it was that rather …
YouTube served ads containing Coinhive's cryptocurrency-mining, CPU-draining JavaScript, likely via Google's DoubleClick ad server; Google says ads now blocked
Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos. — YouTube was recently caught displaying ads …
Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak, both look similar to their S8 predecessors
EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise …
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, investor in companies including Twitter and Lyft, is released after November arrest amid corruption crackdown
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabia's most prominent and flamboyant investor, has been released from detention …
Google details human-centered UX approach for its Clips camera, says AI for capturing memorable moments was trained with the help of professional photographers
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Facebook will allow fans of game streamers to tip creators a minimum of $3 as part of its new gaming creator pilot program
Facebook Live is launching monetization for video gameplay streamers, allowing users to tip creators a minimum of $3 via the desktop site.
Sources: VCs with long Bitcoin experience like a16z, USV, are passing on Telegram's ICO; VCs newer to cryptocurrencies like KPCB, Sequoia, Benchmark, investing
The investors are not who you'd expect. — Some of the most prominent investors in cryptocurrency are passing …
CIRP: Amazon has 69% of smart speaker market in US with 31M units, Google has 31% with 14M; Google gained share this holiday season with 40% of units sold
According to new survey-based data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), Google Home has gained some ground on Amazon's Alexa device universe.
A deep look at the evolution of visual surveillance technology, where it is headed, and what its continuing rise will mean for security, transparency, privacy
London authorities were early adopters of widespread closed-circuit television (CCTV) — surveillance after the city was targeted … Tweets: @model_the_world , @stevecase , @natgeomaps , @natgeomaps ,...
Google is testing Bulletin, an app letting users report and publish local news stories about their communities, as a limited pilot in Nashville, TN, Oakland, CA
Will Oremus / Slate :
How governments and the nuclear energy industry are preparing for future cybersecurity threats using hands-on exercises and training laboratories
Sean Lyngaas / The Verge :
Twitter now lets advertisers sponsor Moments from select publishers
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
China's smartphone market suffered first ever annual decline in 2017 as shipments fell 4% YoY to 459M and 14% QoQ in Q4, but Huawei grew shipments 9% QoQ
Research: 16M dockless bikes are used 3X/day on average in China; 500K bike-share bikes replaced ~10% private car travel, 13% of petrol consumption in Shenzhen
Carlton Reid / BikeBiz : Tweets: @bikeakl and @martinmignot Tweets: Bike Auckland / @bikeakl : “Before the advent of dockless bike-sharing in Chinese cities cycling accounted for 5.5% of transport mi...
Maersk says NonPetya ransomware attack required an almost complete infrastructure overhaul, reinstallation of 4,000 servers, 45,000 PCs, and 2,500 applications
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
CEO says Intel plans to release chips that have built-in Meltdown and Spectre protections later this year
Troy Wolverton / Business Insider :
Coinbase partners with Trading Technologies, a trading software provider, enabling financial institutions to trade on Coinbase's GDAX cryptocurrency exchange
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
Mobius, which is building a Stripe-like payments platform for cryptocurrencies, raises $39M in its ICO, uses Stellar blockchain instead of Ethereum
Brady Dale / CoinDesk :
Lyft investigating whether staff abused access to customer data after online post claims workers tracked ex-partners, pulled info of celebs including Zuckerberg
Amir Efrati / The Information :
Mail.ru acquires Russian e-sports firm ESforce, which had 116M users in 2017, for $100M
Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu :
Bloomberg says its Twitter video channel, TicToc, now has 750K daily viewers, 1M daily views, and 119K followers, with half of the audience outside the US
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