Source: after Amazon refused to sell newer Nest products like its latest thermostat and alarm system, Nest decided to stop selling any of its products on Amazon
- Amazon decided not to sell any of the newer products from Google's smart home division Nest.
KGI: Apple to release more affordable 13-inch MacBook Air in Q2, HomePod demand ‘mediocre’ so far
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is today out with a pair of new investor notes on Apple. The analyst offers new supply chain details on the new iPhones coming this year, AirPods...
MIT researcher behind study claiming Uber and Lyft drivers earn median profit of $3.37/hour says Uber's rebuttal was “thoughtful” and he'll re-run the analysis
(Reuters) - A Massachusetts Institute of Technology research group that this week reported nearly three-quarters of Uber Technologies …
Human Rights Watch: China's Xinjiang region uses big data on everyday habits and AI for predictive policing to send people to political re-education camps
Barely seven months ago, a senior Chinese official promised that artificial intelligence could one day help authorities spot crime before it happens.
Study: in the US, 78% of 18-24 year olds use Snapchat, 71% use Instagram, 45% use Twitter; nearly 75% of US adults and 94% of 18-24 year olds use YouTube
A majority of Americans use Facebook and YouTube, but young adults are especially heavy users of Snapchat and Instagram
Researchers use speculative execution flaws to design an attack, called SgxPectre, that reads the contents of SGX secure enclaves on Intel CPUs
And no, you're not supposed to be able to do that — Vid The Spectre design flaws in modern CPUs can be exploited to punch holes through …
If SCOTUS rules for Amex in a case on antitrust exemptions it will enable tech giants to engage in anti-competitive behavior if they can claim no harm to users
Big tech platforms — Amazon, Facebook, Google — control a large and growing share of our commerce and communications …
BuzzSumo study of 100M articles posted in 2017 shows social sharing halved since 2015 and Google sites drove 2x more referrals to publishers than social media
Publishers may be getting dinged — and in some cases destroyed — by Facebook's move to decrease the amount of publisher content …
Researchers describe 10 possible attacks on LTE networks that allow eavesdropping on texts and calls, taking devices offline, and spoofing of emergency alerts
One of the ten attacks can create “artificial chaos” by sending fake emergency alerts to a large number of devices.
Coding schools and startups in Mexico's growing tech hub in Guadalajara are increasingly courting US-raised deported Mexicans and English-speaking tech workers
U.S.-raised millennials deported back to Mexico are helping to drive a growing tech sector south of the border Tweets: @davidluhnow Tweets: David Luhnow / @davidluhnow : Meet Hola Code, the Mexican co...
Google Fiber deployment has slowed due to high costs, challenges from politically-powerful incumbent ISPs, and the potential of next-gen wireless broadband
Google's ‘pause’ is driven largely by executive frustrations with fiber deployment costs and a fascination with the potential of next-generation wireless. Tweets: @hoofnagle and @counternotions Tweets...
French economy minister: EU will unveil a proposal for 2 to 6% tax on European revenues of big technology companies within weeks
The European Union will unveil a directive within weeks on taxing between 2 percent and 6 percent of big technology companies' revenue, French economy minister Bruno Le Maire …
Google expands snippets to provide multiple answers to search queries that could be interpreted in different ways
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JD.com posts a slim annual profit of $18M on $55.7B net revenues, up 40.3% YoY, for fiscal year 2017 after company posted a net loss of $139.7M for Q4
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Developers fix vulnerability in geth, an app to run Ethereum nodes, that let “any kid with a machine and a script” steal funds, according to researchers
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Google AI can now easily replace the video background in YouTube stories on mobile, available in beta to a limited number of YouTube creators
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Michael Arrington says he received SEC subpoena related to ICO investment, as did every crypto fund he talked to; source: SEC subpoenaed ~80 firms in ICOs probe
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC :
Sources: UiPath raises ~$120M Series B at $1B+ valuation for enterprise back-office automation bots; UiPath raised $30M at estimated $109M valuation in April
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Chinese anime-streaming platform Bilibili files for $400M US IPO, says its revenue increased from $80.4M in 2016 to $379.4M in 2017 and it had 72M MAUs in Q4
Nina Xiang / China Money Network :
Percentage of Chrome users who've loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day has dropped from 80% in 2014 to under 8% today, according to Google
Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com : Tweets: @davezatz . Thanks: @campuscodi Tweets: Dave Zatz / @davezatz : Uh huh, and what about IE8? http://twitter.com/... Thanks: @campuscodi
China is prosecuting a citizen who shared a critical message on WhatsApp; message was likely obtained by hacking a phone or via spy in a WhatsApp group
which is more than 700 million strong, many of whom are part of a booming middle class — offers both a tempting carrot and a blunt stick http://www.nytimes.com/... @dgtam86 : Mei Jianming, a Chinese a...
Best of MWC: Galaxy S9, demise of bezels, Vivo's Apex concept phone, Lenovo Chromebooks; worst of MWC: iPhone X notch copycats, AR Emoji, LG's rebadged “V30s”
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