Apple says it will let developers making apps for Watch Series 3 track ski and snowboard activities through APIs in watchOS 4.2
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Leaked images and sources detail Fitbit's next smartwatch, set for spring launch, that will appeal to female market, have 50M water resistance, no GPS, more
Exclusive: A better design than the Ionic, but lacks GPS — On its latest investors call, Fitbit teased a brand new smartwatch …
WatchKit is a buggy, “baby” UI framework that does not unlock the true potential of third-party apps on the Apple Watch and needs to be discontinued or replaced
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet.
Amazon acquires Ring, maker of video doorbells and other smart home devices; reports put the price tag at $1B+
Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based maker of video cameras, doorbells and other smart home technologies, GeekWire has learned.
Sources: Palantir has been secretly testing predictive policing technology in New Orleans since 2012 that identifies individuals at risk of committing crime
Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about — Illustrations by Garret Beard and Alex Castro
Study: top 3% of most-viewed YouTube channels receive ~85% of all views, attract 1.4M+ views/month, but could bring only ~$17K/year each in advertising revenue
You can have a million views a month and still not be able to make rent — Do your children dream of YouTube stardom?
Cloudflare says it's spotted massive DDoS amplification attacks that abuse Memcached servers and the UDP protocol, has mitigated attacks of up to 260Gbps
Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211.
Google brings Hangouts Chat, its Slack competitor, out of beta and adds it to G Suite with deeper integration with other Google and third-party tools
Hangouts Chat, Google's take on modern workplace communication, is now generally available and is becoming a core part of G Suite.
Facebook is rolling out job ads to 40 more countries; businesses can post job openings to a Jobs tab on their Page, Facebook Marketplace, and the News Feed
LinkedIn wasn't built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 …
Duo Security reports SAML vulnerability affecting single sign-on systems, allows attackers with authenticated access to log in as other users without a password
A validation bug in how some single sign-on products implemented an open authentication standard could have allowed an attacker …
Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $90M Series A, with participation from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures
Self-driving car startup Aurora has raised $90 million in a Series A round, with participation from both Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.
Ford chooses Miami to test autonomous ride-hail and delivery businesses, including pilot with Postmates and Domino's, and is setting up fleet-management center
The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride-hail service and setting up a fleet-management center.
Inside the informal coalition of tech companies, experts, industry groups, and more who meet weekly in Washington to discuss protecting net neutrality rules
Every week, a motley crew of tech wonks and legal experts meet in Washington to discuss the problem they've been grappling …
Microsoft announces four new services aimed at healthcare professionals, including Microsoft Genomics for genetic analyses and AI-based Empower MD platform
Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth as a mother describes …
AT&T describes post-net neutrality plans for paid prioritization, to “enable innovative new technologies” like autonomous cars, remote surgery, and VR services
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
eBay to acquire Japanese ecommerce platform Qoo10.jp, an arm of Singapore-based Giosis, report says for ~$700M
eBay has confirmed that it's buying the Japanese arm of Giosis, a Singapore-based business that operates the Qoo10 ecommerce platform across a number of Asian markets …
UK-based Kindred Capital, a VC firm that shares 20% of the fund's profits with the founders of startups it invests in, closes its first fund at $112M
What do you do if you're a venture capital (VC) firm looking to make a name for yourself in a crowded space?
Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi files for US IPO with $1.5B placeholder target; reports suggest it's aiming for a public market valuation of ~$10B
IQiyi is working with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BofA — Chinese IPOs expected for 2018 include Xiaomi, Tencent Music
Asus announces 6.2" Zenfone 5 and $499+ flagship 5Z with iPhone X-like design and notch, Snapdragon 636 and 845 respectively; 5 available in April, 5Z in June
Vlad Savov / The Verge :
Square reports Q4 revenue of $283M, up 47% YoY, versus estimates of $266.3M, and 2017 subscription and services-based revenue of $253M, up 95% from 2016
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Square says that in December 7M customers used the Cash app and that Cash customers spent more than $90M using virtual and physical Cash cards
That's... pretty big? — Since Square's founding in 2009, CEO Jack Dorsey has been determined to build a consumer hit that complements the company's core payment-processing business.
Entertainment Software Rating Board says “in the near future” all physical, boxed games that contain in-game purchases will include a label notifying purchasers
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica :
US House votes 388-25 on a bill that aims to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking
Tom Jackman / Washington Post :
Amazon Music launches in India as a free service for Prime members, available on Android, iOS, and the web
Akhil Arora / NDTV Gadgets 360 :
T-Mobile and Sprint announce the 30 and six cities respectively they plan to build out 5G for, including Dallas and LA, which will be available next year
but don't get too excited just yet DSLreports : T-Mobile: Our 5G Hype is the Only 5G Hype You Should Listen To Phil Britt / Telecompetitor : Sprint customers will have access to 5G ‘like’ capabilities...
Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports
in a way. See update. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : I'm told this data is only counting paid reach, not organic. So the ads could have spread further (and by that meas...
India-based music streaming service Gaana raises $115M led by Tencent for creating more personalized services and features for listeners using AI
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Poll of 3,574 US adults shows 55% are in favor of the government regulating big tech companies, up from only 40% in November last year
A majority of Americans are now concerned that the government won't do enough to regulate how U.S technology companies operate, according to an Axios-SurveyMonkey poll. Tweets: @mikedelmoro , @matthew...
Etsy quarterly gross merchandising sales hit $1B for the first time, up 17.8% YoY, and Q4 revenue was $136.3M, vs. $132.5M estimated; stock up 20%+
Michelle Castillo / CNBC :
Uber's SVP of leadership and strategy, Frances Frei, departs after joining the company in June 2017 to run program aimed at leadership development
So Many Self-Driving Car Startups, So Little Time Dara Kerr / CNET : Uber's corporate culture fixer is now leaving Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine : The Woman Brought in to Fix Uber Is Leav...
Ashwin Ram, who served as senior manager and lead for Alexa AI at Amazon, joins Google Cloud as Technical Director of AI
Dave Gershgorn / Quartz :
Venmo reaches FTC settlement over bad security and transaction practices, with FTC Chairwoman Maureen K. Ohlhausen noting “consumers suffered real harm”
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Inside Amazon's $1M Alexa Prize competition, which challenged students to build socialbots that could chat coherently with Alexa users in the US for 20 minutes
James Vlahos / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @jamesvlahos , @nxthompson , and @ashwinram Tweets: @wired : The Alexa Prize was a stroke of genius that allowed Amazon to not only to pick the brains of the s...
Princeton researchers show some analytics firms are still accidentally collecting user passwords, including Mixpanel, which issued fixes after earlier findings
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Rakuten Coin
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
US-Israeli firm CyberX, which develops security products for IoT and industrial systems, raises $18M Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners
Tova Cohen / Reuters :
Facebook is notifying more users about facial recognition, which it says refers to feature announced last December that scans photos for faces of untagged users
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
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