Photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug acquires Flickr from Oath, promises to revitalize and maintain Flickr as a standalone service
SAN FRANCISCO — Flickr has been snapped up by Silicon Valley photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug, USA TODAY has learned.
Sources: Apple's efforts to lessen its reliance on Samsung as the sole OLED display supplier for iPhones in peril due to manufacturing problems at LG Display
Manufacturing problems at South Korea's LG Display could force Apple to rely solely on its competitor for high-end and costly smartphone screens
Sources: DOJ has sent subpoenas to the top 4 US mobile carriers and GSMA association over alleged collusion to impede eSIM features for easier carrier switching
AT&T, Verizon at center of probe into whether major carriers are making it harder for subscribers to switch providers
At antitrust trial, AT&T CEO announced AT&T Watch, a $15/month streaming TV bundle without sports; service is free for cellular customers, will debut in weeks
CEO unveils ‘skinny bundle’ service in testimony during antitrust case — AT&T Inc. T 0.13% plans to launch a …
Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its network, pointing to DHS' September notice of vendor's ties to Russian intelligence services
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has been banned from advertising on Twitter due to its allegedly close and active ties between …
Pivotal closes up ~5% on its first day of trading after raising $555M in its IPO at a valuation of ~$3.8B
Pivotal Software, the spin-out of EMC and VMware that's the leading force behind the Cloud Foundry project, became a publicly traded company Friday with its listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
A look at the current state of AI, what “AI” refers to, and how focusing on the “human-imitative” aspects of AI ignores opportunities in other research areas
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the mantra of the current era. The phrase is intoned by technologists …
Tax forms filed by the nonprofit OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to AI specialists across the world
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command.
UK judge sentences Kane Gamble, a teen who hacked online accounts of the director of CIA and other prominent US government employees, to two years in prison
A judge in London sentenced a British teenager who was part of the hacking group Crackas With Attitude, which targeted prominent US government employees.
Rare Bits, a crypto-collectible trading site, raises $6M Series A led by Spark Capital with First Round, Craft Ventures, SV Angel, and Justin Kan participating
Rare Bits wants to be eBay for the blockchain, where you buy, sell and trade non-fungible crypto-goods.
Interview with filmmaker Andrew Oleck on his spoof video “starring” Mark Zuckerberg, A World Without Facebook, which has 32M+ views and caused some confusion
A couple years ago, Andrew Oleck wondered if he could make a viral video. The Los Angeles-based filmmaker …
Alibaba is developing its own neural network chip, the Ali-NPU, and has acquired Chinese IoT chip designer C-SKY Microsystems
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A look at Facebook's month-long rollout of its fact-checking tool and its partners in Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Colombia
What started as a pilot project 16 months ago is now one of Facebook's primary weapons against fake news. — During his testimony to Congress last week …
RealSelf, a Yelp-like review site for cosmetic procedures, raises $40M Series B for international expansion; RealSelf raised ~$2M in 2007-2008
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BT to shutdown its traditional PSTN phone network and shift customers to VoIP by 2025 with public consultations about the closure starting next month
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German Supreme Court rules that ad blockers are legal, in favor of Adblock Plus, and throws out a case brought by Axel Springer
As FOSTA became a law, Cloudflare kicked Switter, a community for sex workers, from its network, forcing the service to move to another CDN
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ZTE says US ban on sales to the company is unfair and threatens its survival, vows to safeguard its interests through all legal means
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Apple open sources FoundationDB core, three years after acquiring the database company
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Companies are scaling back and simplifying their ToS to comply with GDPR because users' consent would be legally invalid if they don't understand the agreement
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A look at the different methods and technologies that Waymo and Tesla use to collect data from the billions of miles their self-driving vehicles have driven
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A look at surveillance companies like Area SpA, IPS, and Terrogence, which covertly infiltrate and manipulate social media
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @lorenzofb Tweets: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : Italian spyware company AREA Spa was caught and fined for shipping surveillance gear to Syria. N...
Profile of Mark Zuckerberg as told by those who knew him growing up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and those who met him on his 2017 tour of the US
Richard Nieva / CNET : Tweets: @richardjnieva and @richardjnieva . Thanks: @benfoxrubin Tweets: Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva : One tidbit from my profile of Zuck: One of the leaders of his advance ...
How Iceland, which offers plentiful energy and cooling, is reckoning with a tech boom driven by data centers that cause power usage to surge
and most of the Nordics. Not everyone is happy. New piece: https://www.wsj.com/... Rani Molla / @ranimolla : Not the way I would have put it but:"'When you give cheap power to wasteful industries i...
Filings show gaming chat app Discord has raised ~$50M, bringing total funding to ~$152M, at a valuation of ~$1.65B; Discord says it had 90M users as of January
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