Valve acquires Firewatch developer Campo Santo, which will be left intact as a team, weeks after CEO said Valve will return to “making and shipping games”
Dev team will continue to make its own games — Firewatch developer Campo Santo announced today that it's joining Valve.
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: 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
EarthNow comes out of stealth with backing from Bill Gates, Airbus, and SoftBank, plans to operate a satellite constellation providing real-time video of Earth
The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it's coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates …
How hate speech and misinformation spread on Facebook in developing countries like Sri Lanka, where reputable sources are scarce, leading to real-world violence
MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house …
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 …
Profile of Susan Kare, designer of the classic Macintosh suite of icons, whose influential work lives on in modern art museums
Every fifteen minutes or so, as I wrote this story, I moved my cursor northward to click on the disk in the Microsoft Word toolbar that indicates “Save.”
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 …
Uber details tech that uses GPS data and 3D maps to substantially improve the location accuracy in urban environments where traditional GPS is inaccurate
GPS can't see through tall buildings, so Uber set out to fix the problem using 3D maps, probability, and math
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
Wall Street Journal :
Pivotal closes up ~5% on its first day of trading after raising $555M in its IPO at a valuation of ~$3.8B
Joseph Tsidulko / CRN :
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
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard :
Android Go review: sub-$100 smartphones with Oreo lower the bar for cheap phones, but they don't have Google Photos, and Google Play only has 35 optimized apps
We dig through Google's stripped-down OS and several “Go” apps. — Here in the US and other developed countries … Tweets: @rdr0b11 and @ronamadeo Tweets: David Ruddock / @rdr0b11 : Analysis from @Ron...
Undercover reporter and a survey allege harrowing work conditions for Amazon warehouse workers, who may skip bathroom breaks out of fear of losing their jobs
Shannon Liao / The Verge :
Two computer-generated Instagram influencers had an orchestrated feud where one “hacked” the other's account and “revealed” she was not a real person
If you need any further proof that we're living in The Matrix, here it is. — On Tuesday, the Instagram account …
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
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
RealSelf, a Yelp-like review site for cosmetic procedures, raises $40M Series B for international expansion; RealSelf raised ~$2M in 2007-2008
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Profile of Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships; sources say she controls a $90M budget that will pay partners to make original news programs
It was another terrible day for Facebook and the company had dispatched Campbell Brown, its head of news partnerships, to do some damage control. Tweets: @jason_kint , @charliebeckett , @linamkhan , @...
A look at Facebook's month-long rollout of its fact-checking tool and its partners in Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Colombia
Daniel Funke / Poynter :
Tax forms filed by the nonprofit OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to AI specialists across the world
even at nonprofits Haley Britzky / Axios : AI researchers are in high demand, and their salaries prove it Aparajita Sharma / PiunikaWeb : AI researchers are making money like crazy, over $1 million in...
Interview with filmmaker Andrew Oleck on his spoof video “starring” Mark Zuckerberg, A World Without Facebook, which has 32M+ views and caused some confusion
Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo :
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
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
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...
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