Microsoft to stop offering the lightweight Windows 10 S as a separate SKU, will offer “S Mode” in all Windows 10 versions instead
When Microsoft announced Windows 10 S, it was immediately clear that this SKU didn't fit well into Microsoft's lineup.
Researchers detail Smominru, a Monero cryptocurrency mining botnet using NSA's EternalBlue exploit to enslave 500K+ computers, mostly targeting Windows servers
The Smominru miner has infected at least half a million machines — mostly consisting of Windows servers — and spreads using the EternalBlue exploit.
Apple launches repair program for small percentage of iPhone 7 devices affected by a bug that shows no available cell service even when cell coverage available
Apple today launched a repair program for iPhone 7 devices that are impacted by an ongoing bug that causes them to have no available service …
Zero-day vulnerability in the current version of Flash is being actively exploited in the wild; Adobe plans to patch it next week
Adobe plans to have a fix for the critical flaw next week. — An increasingly sophisticated hacking group is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability …
Dozens of people, rich from blockchain startups and cryptocurrency, try to build “Sol”, a Puerto Rican city where money is virtual and contracts are public
SAN JUAN, P.R. — They call what they are building Puertopia. But then someone told them, apparently in all seriousness …
Mammoth Media, the company behind chat fiction app Yarn and polling app Wishbone, raises $13M Series A led by Greylock
Mammoth Media has raised a $13 million Series A funding to create what it calls “entertainment experiences for the mobile-first generation.”
Report: warehouse and storage jobs increase 30% two years after a county hosts an Amazon fulfillment center, but overall jobs see no increase; Amazon disagrees
How great an effect a tech company has when it moves into a new town comes down to one thing: jobs.
How Amazon may prevent Alexa ads from activating Echo devices: acoustic fingerprint comparison and inaudible sound signals
Amazon.com Inc. is advertising its Alexa-powered speakers in the big game on Sunday. It's an amusing 90 seconds that features celebrities like Gordon Ramsay …
Amazon's warehouse expansion around San Bernardino, CA brought jobs but data shows Amazon's warehouse staff earn less than similar US workers employed elsewhere
Destroying good jobs and treating people like the machines it will eventually replace them with. Ben Tarnoff / @bentarnoff : Pair this with the recent @EconomicPolicy report showing that Amazon wareho...
Amazon could disrupt US healthcare by converting a standardized healthcare interface for its employees into a marketplace for individuals and other employers
It's pretty rare for the same company to feature in two consecutive Weekly Articles; yesterday's announcement … Tweets: @steve_e , @trishak42 , @mikesparr , @jhoff , @freakonometrics , @carlajdouglas ...
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup halting credit card transactions with cryptocurrency exchanges; Bank of America debit card purchases not affected
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Sources: in the US, Apple Music subs are growing ~5% a month, may overtake Spotify this summer, which is growing at ~2% a month; Apple says Music has 36M subs
Apple's U.S. subscriber-account base has been growing about 5% a month, versus No. 1 Spotify's 2% clip Tweets: @mgsiegler and @jasonlk Tweets: M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : The power of pre-install show...
Alibaba and Tencent, who have tested online medical advice and drug tracking systems, are now experimenting with AI to fix China's broken healthcare system
BEIJING — Amazon and two other American titans are trying to shake up health care by experimenting with their own employees' coverage.
Owl raises $18M Series A, unveils dashcam with break-in and accident detection, voice control, and smartphone integration, for $349 with 1 year of LTE included
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How sexist undercurrents, from a widely-used Playboy image to personality tests favoring men, turned Silicon Valley into a brotopia despite early women pioneers
Lena Söderberg started out as just another Playboy centerfold. The 21-year-old Swedish model left her native Stockholm … Tweets: @triketora and @mims Tweets: Tracy Chou / @triketora : the most iconic...
How YouTube's recommendation algorithm can promote divisive clips and conspiracy videos and may have spread disinformation during the 2016 election
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Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar, an Indian streaming service, are outcompeting Netflix in India through aggressive pricing and strong content libraries
How YouTube's clean-up is helping India's streaming sites Tweets: @gaurav_keswani : Not surprising! Netflix charges 500 INR per month while Amazon charged 500 INR per year to start with. India is a su...
Users in India shed light on the dynamics of family WhatsApp groups, which have become an integral extension of the families themselves
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @sunnysingh_n6 , @anushkapatil , @secondofhername , @pranavdixit , @pranavdixit , @pranavdixit , and @pranavdixit Tweets: Sunny Singh / @sunnysingh_n6 : My mum told ...
Former employee of Ripcord, a paper record digitization service, says she was fired after reporting harassment, asserts CEO made lewd comments about her
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Foxconn to invest at least $342M in AI in 5 years to recruit top talent, deploy manufacturing applications, says it is partnering with Andrew Ng's Landing.AI
Drivers discover that Uber limits tipping; company says the limit is 200% of the total, up to $100 to safeguard against mistakes; Lyft's limit is $50 or 200%
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Germany's antitrust regulator opening probe into online advertising industry as concerns arise over dominance of Google and Facebook and use of consumer data
Reuters : Tweets: @vijayshekhar Tweets: Vijay Shekhar / @vijayshekhar : Surprisingly India will have far more dominating numbers of these two, and someday this antitrust probe too. http://twitter.com...
Facebook, Amazon stifle public debate on tax incentives they receive by demanding prior notice before state and local govt. officials respond to FOIA requests
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