Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus review: great design, display, and speed, has headphone jack, but average battery life, gimmicks galore, and Bixby is a failure
The Galaxy S9 is all of the good and all of the bad we've come to expect from Samsung — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales; Video by Becca Farsace and Tom Connors
Amazon updates Alexa to end random laughter, says laugh was triggered when Alexa mistakenly heard “Alexa, laugh”, will change phrase to “Alexa, can you laugh?”
Is Alexa laughing at you? — In the past few days, some users of Echo home speakers running Amazon …
Travis Kalanick unveils 10100 fund with a theme of “large-scale job creation”, focusing on emerging innovation in China and India, real estate, and e-commerce
The ride-hailing co-founder is shifting his focus away from Uber and toward new ideas
Oculus releases software fix to revive Rift headsets that stopped working because of an expired certificate
Oculus Rift owners discovered that their headsets had stopped working yesterday, thanks to an expired certificate. It appears Oculus forgot to renew its security certificate …
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Apple says it audited 756 suppliers for its annual Supplier Responsibility Report, finds 44 “core violations” of labor rules in 2017, double the previous year
(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Wednesday that it had found violations of its labor and environmental policies for suppliers …
Android P preview: multi-camera API for dual cameras, runtime speed improvements, tightened API policies, idle apps can't access sensors such as camera and mic
Preview the next major version of Android with the Android P Developer Preview. — In what is quickly becoming an annual March tradition …
Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus review: dual aperture and 960fps slow-motion video is nice, rear camera is great in low light, but still not better than Pixel 2's camera
When Samsung announced the Galaxy S9, “that's it?” wasn't exactly an uncommon refrain. The Galaxy S9 is, frankly, kind of boring.
Square's Cash app on iOS now supports direct deposit for receiving paychecks without a bank
If you're already immersed in the Square Cash ecosystem, Square is adding support for yet another new feature to the app. In a tweet today, the company announced that the Cash app on iOS …
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated operating system and will become a “mode” of Windows 10 in 2019
Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated version next year — Microsoft says its plans to move Windows 10 S from a dedicated operating system to a special …
Sources: Grab is close to acquiring certain markets of Uber's Southeast Asia business, may sign a deal this week or next; Uber will take ~15-20% stake in Grab
Grab, the dominant ride-hailing service in Southeast Asia, is close to finalizing a deal to acquire Uber Technologies Inc.'s business …
Japan punishes seven cryptocurrency exchanges and suspends trading at two of them for one month following $530M Coincheck hack
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday punished seven cryptocurrency exchanges, ordering two of them to suspend business, in an effort to shore up consumer protection …
Microsoft announces new AI platform for Windows 10 developers ahead of Build, including ability to import different learning models, available in Visual Studio
To be part of the discussion or ask … Chris Merriman / Inquirer : Microsoft is bringing more AI to Windows 10 with Window ML for developers Ken Manbert Salcedo / International Business Times : Microso...
Berlin-based banking platform solarisBank raises €56.6M Series B from BBVA, Visa, Lakestar, and others
SolarisBank, the Berlin-based “banking platform” co-founded by fintech company builder Finleap, appears to be on quite a roll. — The company, which now claims nearly 60 corporate clients …
Autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics raises $16.5M Series A led by Shasta Ventures, says it completed a 7-mile drive in FL without a human in the cab
San Francisco-based Starsky Robotics announced today a new round of investment and a significant milestone toward realizing an autonomous trucking future.
McAfee acquires Canada-based VPN provider TunnelBear, is likely to integrate it into its Safe Connect VPN service
McAfee announced that it has acquired Canada-based virtual private network (VPN) company TunnelBear. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sources: Fantasy sports site FanDuel in talks to go public, likely through a reverse merger with Platinum Eagle Acquisition Corp.
FanDuel is in advanced talks to go public, but not via an IPO. — The plan: Multiple sources tell Axios that the fantasy sports site is likely to participate …
Filings show Amazon has committed to ~$22B in future food purchases, mostly from Whole Foods supplier United Natural Foods, until 2025
- Amazon is now on the hook for an additional $22 billion in future purchase obligations following the Whole Foods acquisition, filings show.
The Vatican is hosting a 36-hour hackathon Thursday for 120 students to find tech solutions for social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, refugee and migrant help
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SEC issues strongly worded warning on unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges, saying “many” appear SEC-approved when they aren't; Bitcoin is down 8%+
Divisions of Enforcement and Trading and Markets Jack Morse / Mashable : Bitcoin drops below $10K following SEC warning and Binance hack rumors Graham Rapier / Business Insider : Binance cryptocurrenc...
Changelog: MoviePass updates iOS app to “remove unused location capabilities” following privacy concerns
Uber, Lyft, Walmart, and Amazon Are Coming to Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2018 Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch : MoviePass update removes ‘unused’ location requests from iOS app Richard Lawler / Engadget : Mo...
Baidu drops its intellectual property theft suit against autonomous driving startup JingChi after it joined Baidu's autonomous driving platform Apollo
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Sources: Snap plans layoffs to its engineering department, the largest layoffs to date; source says about 100 people, less than 10% of the unit, are affected
Alex Heath / Cheddar :
Khronos Group announces Vulkan 1.1, the first big update to its cross platform GPU API, with multi-GPU support, better DirectX compatibility, and more
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Senator Lindsey Graham says he wants to hold a hearing to question social media companies about how threats of gun violence spread online
David McCabe / Axios : Tweets: @dmccabe Tweets: David McCabe / @dmccabe : He says it doesn't have to be CEOs. But Kennedy wants those executives to come up the Hill. https://www.axios.com/...
Study of Shadow Brokers documents: in 2013 the NSA was tracking 45+ different nation state operations by detecting other hackers on machines it had infected
Sig 1, Sig 2, etc—and mapped them to known groups, such as Turla https://theintercept.com/... pic.twitter.com/2AZTEtwCF4 Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Naturally, NSA isn't just looking for adversary mal...
Researchers find bug in Exim message transfer tool that allows remote code execution, affecting up to 400K servers
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
DHS watchdog report says many agency computers run outdated operating systems and haven't had security patches in years; fixes coming by late September
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Sources: Uber is seeking $1.25B for its second leveraged loan and has been approaching loan investors directly instead of going through banks
Lisa Lee / Bloomberg :
Netflix's Chief Product Officer Greg Peters says the platform's 117M members streamed to 450M individual devices in the last month
Joan E. Solsman / CNET :
YouTube is rolling out YouTube Studio for all creators, adding a dashboard and new metrics, including impressions when a viewer sees a video thumbnail
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
A consortium of 61 Japanese banks plans to use Ripple's blockchain technology for a consumer payments app, starting with a trial in three banks in autumn 2018
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk :
Microsoft updates Azure services for SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat :
Early data from AdStage suggests Facebook's News Feed changes have driven ad prices up by decreasing the amount of time users spend on the social network
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