Lenovo Mirage Solo review: a great wireless, standalone VR experience with Daydream WorldSense tech and 110° FoV but less content and 2x as pricey as Oculus Go
For a while now, there have been limitations on what you could do in virtual reality. You could walk around the room, but you were tethered to a PC.
Sources: Flipkart board approved in-principle to engaging Walmart on ~$15B bid with Alphabet investing too; Amazon bid unlikely to win due to competitive issues
MUMBAI/BENGALURU/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart's board is yet to finalize a deal to sell a controlling stake …
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann postpones Vine successor v2 indefinitely, citing need for funding, logistical issues conflicting with early-stage startup he runs
Citing funding and logistical issues — Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann announced today that his planned sequel to the popular …
Office of the Director of National Intelligence report: NSA collected 534M metadata records from US communications providers in 2017, up more than 3x from 2016
The National Security Agency revealed a huge increase in the amount of call metadata collected, from about 151 million call records …
Apple shutting down Texture's magazine app on Windows after acquisition, will continue support for other platforms; Windows app was neglected before acquisition
Texture, the magazine subscription service that Apple purchased back in March, plans to shut down its Windows app at the end of June.
A look at universities' struggles to retain AI researchers as Facebook opens new AI labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh after New York, Paris, and Montreal
SAN FRANCISCO — At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would …
Lyft partner Aptiv adds 30 self-driving cars with human safety drivers to Lyft's network in Las Vegas, with riders required to opt-in, expanding on its pilot
Aptiv has announced the launch of 30 self-driving cars in Las Vegas, all of them operating under the Lyft ridesharing network.
UK's ICO orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over data it has on a US voter who brought a complaint, including how the data was obtained and what it was used for
In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner's Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll's request
Former Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard has raised $30M+ over the last 18 months from a16z, pro sports teams, others for his new ticketing startup Rival
His startup, Rival, has raised more than $30 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures and several pro sports teams.
Analysis: 345M smartphones shipped in Q1 2018, down 2.4% YoY; iPhone X was world's best-selling smartphone with 16M units shipped this quarter
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Facebook says its facial recognition technology, the company's solution to spot fake accounts, looks for impostors only within a user's limited social circle
Katie Greenman's Facebook profile mirrors all the things the 21-year-old Texas college student loves: cute animals …
GoDaddy takes down Richard Spencer's website altright.com, says it has “encouraged and promoted violence in a direct and threatening manner”
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed :
Apple paid BuzzFeed for first-window rights for a documentary series and gave a cut of ad revenue, in a push to make Apple News a high-quality video distributor
Apple has become so serious about competing with Facebook, Google/YouTube and Twitter as a distribution outlet for news publishers …
Starting July 10, Google will require people buying ads related to candidates in US federal elections to be US citizens or lawful permanent residents
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How filmmakers could use machine learning, trained on data from prior box office hits, to predict a movie's success by understanding what motivates moviegoers
Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend …
Ahead of annual shareholders meeting, Berkshire Hathaway reveals it bought 75M shares of Apple, adding to the 165.3M shares it already owned at the end of 2017
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Xerox reverses course, says its CEO and majority of the board are staying, after agreement with shareholders opposing a buyout by Fujifilm expired on Thursday
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A look at Tesla Autopilot's safety tech as NHTSA distances itself from its own finding, often cited by Tesla, that Autopilot reduces crash rates by up to 40%
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
UBTECH, a Shenzhen-based intelligent humanoid robots maker, raises $820M Series C led by Tencent, bringing the startup's valuation to about $5B
Nicole Jao / TechNode :
Cybersecurity company Carbon Black closes up 26% on its first day of trading after raising $152M in its IPO and is now valued at $2B
Dan Primack / Axios : Tweets: @danprimack Tweets: Dan Primack / @danprimack : Carbon Black is now worth $2 billion. At one point it was based in a lousy mall and its young employees included @drewhou...
Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Huobi and social networking platform Tianya are setting up $1B fund to invest in domestic blockchain-related startups
Yingzhi Yang / South China Morning Post :
Sources: Snap has ended its licensing fee agreement with publishers who chose it in 2016; all publishers will rely on ad revenue from Snapchat Discover
Sahil Patel / Digiday :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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