Apple announces media event at a Chicago high school at 10am CT on March 27, focused on “creative new ideas for teachers and students”
Apple today invited the media to an event on Tuesday, March 27 at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago.
Google Lens starts rolling out on iOS with Google Photos app 3.15 update
Last month, Google announced that Lens — its set of visual search and analysis tools — is coming to iOS. First introduced at last year's Google I/O developer conference, it will be rolling out over t...
Microsoft unveils cloud gaming division led by Microsoft vet Kareem Choudhry who says the company wants content available across all devices, hints at streaming
Cloud services seen as the future of games — Microsoft shipped its first video game in 1981, appropriately named Microsoft Adventure.
Plattsburgh, New York, imposes an 18-month moratorium on bitcoin mining for new commercial operations, after residents complained of increased electricity bills
Plattsburgh, New York has imposed an 18-month moratorium on Bitcoin mining to prevent miners from using all the city's cheap electricity.
SwiftKey 7.0, in the first major update from Microsoft after acquisition, introduces toolbar with GIFs and stickers; location and calendar features coming soon
Microsoft is unveiling its first major update to the SwiftKey keyboard it acquired back in 2016.
Trump administration announces new Russia sanctions on 5 entities, including IRA, and 19 individuals, in response to US election interference and cyberattacks
Sources: stock-trading app Robinhood is raising around $350M led by DST Global at a $5.6B valuation, a fourfold increase in one year
Russian firm DST Global is leading the $350 million investment in the stock-trading app — Robinhood Financial LLC is set to be valued at about $5.6 billion …
Google says no statistically significant pay gap exists related to gender or race for 89% of its 70,000+ employees; disclosure omits some, like SVPs and above
Highest-paid jobs, majority held by men, excluded from report — Shareholder calls analysis ‘incomplete,’ presses for more
Lightning Labs raises $2.5M from Jack Dorsey, Charlie Lee, David Sacks, and more, launches beta of software that allows Bitcoin Lightning Network payments
A version of bitcoin's much-anticipated Lightning Network is finally ready for real users. — Announced today, California startup Lightning Labs …
Adobe beats with Q1 revenue of $2.08B, up 24% YoY, boosted by subscription revenue of $1.79B; stock has surged 25% so far this year after jumping 70% last year
Customers are buying multiple applications from the company — Adobe to raise prices on popular software, like Photoshop
Crypto wallet startup Abra increases cryptocurrencies it supports from two to 20, to include Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Golem, Ethereum Classic, Dogecoin, more
Crypto wallet startup Abra is expanding the number of cryptocurrencies it supports to 20 from just two - bitcoin and ethereum - currently.
Google Maps rolls out “wheelchair accessible” route options in London, New York, Tokyo, Mexico City, Boston, and Sydney
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In a first, US publicly accuses Russia for cyberattack campaign dating back to at least March 2016 targeting the US power grid and other critical infrastructure
with the sanctions announced today—his administration largely followed Mueller's lead. https://twitter.com/... Dan Rather / @danrather : President Trump admitted that he just made stuff up in a meetin...
Sources: Paul Jacobs, former Qualcomm executive chairman and son of the founder, informed the company board that he is considering bid to take Qualcomm private
James Fontanella-Khan in New Orleans, Tom Braithwaite in San Francisco and Arash Massoudi in Helsinki March 15, 2018
Lenovo's Mirage Solo Daydream VR headset and VR camera available for pre-order, company says they will ship May 11, headset will cost $400 and the camera $300
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Snap apologizes for approving third-party ad with “would you rather” options for slapping Rihanna and punching Chris Brown; Rihanna rejects apology
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Cloud security startup Zscaler opens at $27.50, a pop of 72% on Nasdaq, raising $192M in its IPO
The first big tech IPO of the year has opened with a bang. Zscaler, a security startup that confidentially filed for an IPO last year, started trading this morning as ZS on Nasdaq at a price of $27.5...
Microsoft launches bounty program for speculative execution CPU bugs, offering to pay up to $250K for new flaws through December 31
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A former Walmart director of business development sues company, claims it issued misleading e-commerce results, mislabeled products, failed to process returns
Spotify May Show the Way for ‘Unicorn’ Tech IPOs TWICE : Lawsuit Says Walmart Overstated Web Sales, And Fired Exec For Saying So Zac Estrada / The Verge : Former Walmart employee says company lied abo...
Cloudability study: among AWS users, container adoption grew 246% and serverless adoption grew 667% in Q4 2017 due to upticks in AI and ML applications
Analysis of Amazon Web Services customers finds serverless computing and containers becoming the norm; hints at impending tsunami …
New Orleans says it won't renew its contract with Palantir, which has been testing its crime prediction technology in the city since 2012
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Android Wear rebranded as Wear OS to reflect the fact that it works with both Android and iOS smartphones
Intel says upcoming 8th-gen Xeon and Core CPUs have been redesigned to provide hardware protection against Spectre variant 2 and Meltdown vulnerabilities
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Airbnb adds 21 accessibility filters to help people find lodgings that have step-free entry to rooms, entryways that can accommodate a wheelchair, and more
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Facebook launches an Android app for its Express Wi-Fi service to help users in five developing countries buy data packs and find nearby hotspots
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Facebook brings data-saving Facebook Lite beyond developing markets to the Play Store in US, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand, France, Germany, and Ireland
John Chen to remain BlackBerry's CEO through at least November 2023 as the company credits him with turnaround
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Chrome Enterprise updated with new management capabilities including automatic forced re-enrollment, per-permission extension blacklisting, and more
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Sources: Alibaba looks to list on a stock exchange in mainland China, more than three years after its $25B NYSE listing, pending a change to China's regulations
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Japanese Fair Trade Commission raids Amazon's Tokyo offices after antitrust allegations that it demanded fees from suppliers for discounting products
Nest debuts $39 Temperature Sensor that integrates with its thermostats, shipping April; $229 Nest Hello video doorbell and $249 Nest x Yale lock now shipping
Experian acquires UK-based ClearScore, which gives users a credit score and matches them to financial products, for £275M plus an unspecified earnout
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