Google begins rolling out a visual and security revamp of Gmail with confidential mode, snoozing, nudging for time-sensitive emails, 2FA per message, IRM, more
Snoozing, nudging, hover actions, and a new sidebar — it's a mobile app on the web! — The world's most popular email service is getting a big overhaul today.
Amazon launches a $79 Echo Dot Kids Edition with kid-friendly Alexa and one year of FreeTime Unlimited, a bundle of curated content with a Parent Dashboard
There's a new version of Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant, that's designed just for kids. The Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition …
Sources: Microsoft is working on a new edition of Windows 10, codenamed Lean, that is 2GB smaller than the normal edition, aimed at devices with 16GB storage
Windows 10 Lean is Windows 10 on a diet. Featuring a much smaller footprint, Windows 10 Lean is designed for devices with 16GB …
Source: Google Play Music will be replaced by YouTube's upcoming music streaming service, with Play Music users forced to use the new service by the end of 2018
When Google finally launches its rumored YouTube Remix platform this year, one of its other services will be put to rest.
Google debuts Tasks, a dedicated to-do app for iOS and Android that lets users add tasks from Google Calendar and Gmail
In addition to a leak late last month, the Gmail on the web revamp confirmed the existence of Google Tasks. Today, Google's new and unified to-do solution is available …
Researchers discover flaw in Vingcard's Vision locks, used in 140K hotels in 160 counties, that lets them create master key using $300 reader and old key card
IN 2003, FINNISH security researcher Tomi Tuominen was attending a security conference in Berlin when a friend's laptop …
Opera launches Touch, a mobile browser designed for one-handed use, and Flow to keep the mobile browser in sync with an updated desktop browser
Opera is releasing a new Android web browser today with a couple of clever interface choices meant to make it easier to use than other mobile browsers.
Attackers successfully rerouted DNS requests for myetherwallet.com, showing visitors an unsigned SSL cert and apparently taking $13K+ in Ethereum in two hours
At midnight ET last night, MyEtherWallet users started noticing something odd. Connecting to the service …
Twitter beats Q1 estimates with revenue of $665M, up 21% YoY, vs. $605.9M est., and says DAUs up 10% YoY; MAUs up 3% YoY to 336M vs. 334.2M est.; stock up 4%+
Revenue increases 21 percent, the biggest jump in two years — Monthly active users rise by 3 percent to 336 million
Federal appeals court upholds a 15-month prison sentence for e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren for making Windows restore disks
A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected …
Tim Cook to meet Trump at the White House Wednesday, in a meeting closed to the press, amid US-China trade tensions that could affect Apple's business in Asia
Cook attended Tuesday's state dinner for France's Macron — Apple CEO has urged China and U.S. to settle trade differences
Apple releases iOS 11.3.1 with fix for bug that caused iPhones with third-party display replacements to be unresponsive
Apple has released a new software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 11.3.1 is likely a bug fix update to the iOS 11.3 software update released last month.
Snap announces Snappables, AR single and multiplayer mini games that sit alongside Lenses, launching globally this week with new games released weekly
Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress-up. Today it launched Snappables — AR games that use your touch …
Snap confirms it's testing a redesign that puts user-generated Stories back alongside content from celebrities and others in Discover page
User Stories are headed to the Discover page as part of a new test, which raises a number of questions about Snap's recent redesign.
Twitter says changes to its API and policy enforcement resulted in suspension of 142K apps responsible for 130M “low-quality” tweets, for violating its ToS
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Webstresser, a platform that offered to stress cyber defences and has been linked to 4M+ cyberattacks, taken down after international investigation
Webstresser.org, which had 136,000 users, could be rented for £10 to launch DDoS attacks — A website linked to more than 4m cyber …
Sources: US DOJ is investigating whether Huawei violated US sanctions related to Iran, amid broader concerns about the company from the US government
Probe raises the stakes for Huawei, which faces a series of moves by Washington to diminish its already-limited business dealings in the U.S.
Facebook VP Kevin Martin replaces Erin Egan as the company's head of policy in the US on an interim basis; Erin Egan will remain as chief privacy officer
WASHINGTON — Facebook on Tuesday replaced its head of policy in the United States, Erin Egan, as the social network scrambles to respond …
MobileCoin, from Signal's Marlinspike, raises $30M in BTC and ether in round led by Binance Labs, to make a cryptocurrency for resource-constrained environments
A new privacy-centric cryptocurrency project with some big names on board just raised a round worth noting.
Texas-based BigCommerce, which develops a platform to help customers with e-commerce, raises $64M led by Goldman Sachs, bringing total funding to $200M+
Austin, Texas-based BigCommerce has completed a big round of funding. — The growth stage startup, which powers e-commerce sites for Sony …
Xiaomi says it will limit profit margin from its hardware business, including smartphones, to no more than 5% “forever”, ahead of widely expected IPO
Company to restrict hardware margin to 5 percent or less — Lei Jun envisions Xiaomi's profit model as IPO filing nears
Atlanta spent ~$2.6M on recovery efforts after the ransomware attack against city's systems, though it isn't clear if the city tried to pay the ~$50,000 ransom
no, Atlanta didn't pay the ransom. http://www.techmeme.com/... http://www.zdnet.com/...
Amazon partners with GM and Volvo to launch in-car package delivery service for Prime subscribers in 37 cities in the US
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Google is changing its pistol emoji into a squirt gun in Android P, following Apple, Twitter, and Samsung
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police :
USCIS tells Senate of its plans to stop letting spouses of H-1B visa holders apply for work permits and is working to rescind “International Entrepreneur Rule”
Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire :
Sources: SoftBank to move $20B+ of investments in ride-hailing services like Uber, Ola, Grab, and Didi Chuxing into the Vision Fund within months
Japan's SoftBank is planning to swap more than $20bn of investments in some of the world's largest ride hailing groups including Uber, Ola …
Some YouTube thumbnails depicted bestiality, now pulled; YouTube says monitoring tech missed because bestiality thumbnails may lack signals of typical porn
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed :
Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers merge to form ~$14.5B company that controls 163,000 towers used by Airtel and Vodafone, two of India's largest mobile operators
Simon Mundy / Financial Times :
Chinese student activist's letter about faculty intimidation was attached to an ether transaction and posted to the blockchain to evade #MeToo movement censors
Bloomberg :
Counterpoint: In Q1 2018, India's feature phone market doubled, smartphone market remained flat YoY; Xiaomi led smartphone market, Jio led feature phone market
Anshika Jain / Counterpoint Research :
Facebook's WhatsApp announces it will update privacy policy, raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 in Europe, and provide a data download tool ahead of GDPR
Paul Sandle / Reuters :
Instagram begins rolling out a data download tool, similar to Facebook's Download Your Information feature, ahead of new GDPR privacy law rollout next month
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Oath, which owns Yahoo and AOL, is changing its terms of service to force users to give up their class action lawsuit rights in the US
Verizon's Oath unit, which includes Yahoo, AOL and other media properties, is making a change that requires users to give up their right to be part of class action lawsuits. Tweets: @inafried and @ina...
Verizon added ~359,000 subs last quarter who use watches, wearables, and other devices, helping offset the loss of ~24,000 phone and ~75,000 tablet customers
Scott Moritz / Bloomberg :
To better protect user data, Facebook and Instagram announce they will shut down or make changes to several APIs, with some going into effect today
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
China's Sinovation Ventures, co-founded by Google, Microsoft veteran Lee Kai-Fu, raises $500M to invest in Chinese AI startups as prices become more “rational”
Bloomberg :
Atlassian updates Trello with a personalized newsfeed, which highlights activity from teams and includes an Up Next section, and improved notifications
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Bose acquires Andrew Mason's walking tour startup, Detour, as the Groupon founder focuses now on Descript, a startup offering tools to edit and transcribe audio
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Tweets: @techcrunch Tweets: @techcrunch : Bose is now “actively looking for a partner to host the Detour content” http://techcrunch.com/...
FTC settlements that allow tech giants to choose third parties for privacy assessments spare the agency resources but may lead to conflicts of interest
Tony Romm / Washington Post :
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