Sources: US officials tweeted from @NSAGov to prove to Russians that US government was indeed behind secret negotiations to buy stolen NSA documents
The United States intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents …
Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail says it lost 17M tokens of Nano/XRB cryptocurrency, worth about $170M, suspends withdrawals for all cryptocurrencies
BitGrail says it lost about 17 million tokens of Nano — An Italian cryptocurrency exchange called BitGrail said on Friday …
Inside the prerecorded drone light show at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, which used 1,218 Intel drones; medal ceremonies to feature live 300-drone acts
THE OPENING CEREMONY of any Olympics provides pageantry at a global scale, a celebration that, at its best …
APK teardown suggests Google may be preparing to launch an Android Messages web interface, enabling texting from the desktop
There's a new version of Android Messages rolling out to our phones. So far, we haven't seen any significant changes to the UI, but huge things are happening under the surface.
Chinese police deploy mobile facial-recognition units mounted on eyeglasses for surveilling crowds
Police are donning the devices as hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday — BEIJING—As hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar …
Alibaba is investing about $865M for 15% stake in Beijing Easyhome Furnishing Chain Store Group Co., which operates 223 home improvement stores across China
Yang Ge / Caixin Global :
Alibaba is investing $486M for 38% stake in Beijing Shiji Retail Information Technology Co., a big data firm focused on hotels and retailers such as Starbucks
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest $486 million for a stake …
Study: facial recognition systems of Microsoft, IBM, and China's Megvii had 21%-35% error rate for dark-skinned women versus below 1% for light-skinned men
Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell if a person in a photograph is male or female 99 percent of the time. Tweets: @fivefifths , @nyti...
Profile of Google's SVP of hardware Rick Osterloh, who restructured its hardware organization and is tasked with integrating Google Assistant into devices
IT'S EARLY IN the morning on October 4, 2016, and in a few seconds, Rick Osterloh will present Google's latest gadget portfolio to the world. Tweets: @kevinctofel and @nxthompson Tweets: Kevin C. Tofe...
Exiled Cambodian politician sues Facebook, seeking information to prove the prime minister of Cambodia bought millions of Likes in order to appear popular
Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian :
Co-founder forks MyEtherWallet ERC20 token wallet generation tool, changes @myetherwallet Twitter account to @mycrypto, and announces rival MyCrypto service
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Hon Hai's Foxconn Industrial Internet files for an IPO in China, says it will spend $4.3B on next generation projects like cloud computing, IoT, AI, and 5G tech
Smart manufacturing, data centers, AI among areas for growth — Hon Hai unit Foxconn Industrial Internet plans IPO in China
YouTube says creators posting videos harmful to users may lose their monetization options and eligibility to be recommended on the platform
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Advertisers can promote Tweets that aren't linked to any Twitter profile, allowing fake organizations to run policy ads while obscuring their bankrollers
A few weeks ago, Bloomberg published a damning piece about how the DCI Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm, creates phony echo chambers to help push its clients' interests. Tweets: @thesixler , @profc...
The rise of subscription streaming services shows Apple's video strategy should focus more on developing original content than building premium TV products
Pavan Rajam / the rajam report :
US government controls access to sensitive satellite imagery by regulating sales and buying exclusive imagery rights, driving business to other countries
DURING THE COLD War, on the vast, barren flatland around Area 51's dried-up Groom Lake, the military developed a stealth spy plane code-named Project Oxcart. Tweets: @digitalglobe Tweets: @digitalglob...
Qualcomm last announced a new smartwatch chip two years ago, allowing the Android Wear ecosystem to stagnate
This weekend will mark two years since Qualcomm's last smartwatch chip was announced. — Ars Technica would like to wish a very special second birthday to the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC. Tweet...
History of estimated Uber valuations, including the latest $1.25B financing round from SoftBank in January; sources: Uber was valued at $72B in Waymo settlement
Theodore Schleifer / Recode :
Profile of Chinese wearable device maker Huami, which is now valued at $600M+ after Thursday's NYSE IPO
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
UK-based Android smartphone maker Wileyfox, an early Cyanogen adopter, confirms it's gone into administration; at least 20 employees laid off
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Periscope's users dwindle and future seems uncertain as Twitter fails to invest in the app, communicate clearly, or handle the ongoing child pornography issue
Kerry Flynn / Mashable : Tweets: @alexpettitt See also Mediagazer Tweets: Alex Pettitt / @alexpettitt : Interesting read from @kerrymflynn about the state of Periscope. Agree with a lot of what's bee...
Getty Images signs an image licensing deal with Google, signaling a truce after filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the EU in April 2016
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Profile of Tencent's Palo Alto-based “chief exploration officer” David Wallerstein, responsible for finding moonshot investments such as air-taxi company Lilium
Alyssa Abkowitz / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jrichlive Tweets: Jeff Richards / @jrichlive : Burying the lede - @dwallerstein led the greatest venture investment in history ($32M -> $180B ), also ...
Sources: Walmart in advanced talks to acquire up to 20% stake in India's Flipkart at a valuation of as much as $20B, making it Flipkart's largest shareholder
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
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