YouTube to launch a paid version of YouTube Music next week, at $10/month; YouTube Red will be replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra
YouTube Music is launching Tuesday, and YouTube Red is going away. It's being replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra.
Hands-on with the Xbox Adaptive Controller, designed for video game players with disabilities, which will cost $99.99 and go on sale later this year
Microsoft stumbled into the accessibility market about three years ago, with the launch of the Xbox One Elite controller.
Senate narrowly votes to block Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules; the resolution now heads to the House, where it faces long odds
Senate defies “armies of lobbyists,” but House may help FCC kill net neutrality. — The US Senate today voted to reverse the Federal Communications …
Apple's Everyone Can Code curriculum for Swift is expanding to schools serving blind and deaf students in the US
Apple is teaming up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities across the US to bring accessible coding to their schools. Beginning this fall …
YouTube will use Content ID data to display full music credits and link to the official videos of artists and songs
YouTube is to begin surfacing more song and artist information for videos that are hosted on the YouTube platform. — The Google-owned video-streaming giant has long offered …
Intel's Mobileye has signed a deal to supply 8M cars with its self-driving chip tech, set to launch in 2021, to an undisclosed European automaker
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Mobileye, Intel Corp's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars …
eBay launches Interests, personalized product recommendations that cut across shopping categories, using big data and a questionnaire
eBay, says Bradford Shellhamer, the company's head of engagement, wants to be the “heavy metal-loving, yogi, OSU fan's favorite store.” It also wants to be yours.
Profile of the FCC chairman Ajit Pai, a nerdy conservative ideologue reviled by some and cast as a hero by others for orchestrating net neutrality repeal
amid stiff competition—the most hated man on the Internet https://www.wired.com/... See also Mediagazer
PluralSight, which offers software development courses, prices IPO at $15/share, raising $310M+
Pluralsight priced the shares in its IPO at $15 this afternoon, above its previously set target range of between $12 and $14, and will raise as much as $357 million ahead of its public debut tomorrow ...
Apple has quietly explored opening a campus in Northern Virginia, to accommodate 20,000 employees, as well as in North Carolina, according to multiple reports
and we just got big hints where it could end up Buster Hein / Cult of Mac : New Apple HQ might land in the South MacDailyNews : Apple quietly explores Northern Virginia for 20,000-employee campus Ben ...
Facebook announces a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world
Facebook today will announce a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world.
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie says Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns for Bannon, targeted African-Americans with “disengagement tactics”
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary committee today as part of the ongoing investigation of Cambridge Analytica …
Google declines to provide the names of hair salon and restaurant used in controversial Google Duplex demo, or say whether the calls were edited
Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations, without betraying that it isn't human.
The history of venture capital, its importance to Silicon Valley as military funding abated in the '50s, and what's fueling and challenging its global growth
Venture capital is an integral part of Silicon Valley. But how does venture actually work? Why is it so important to the tech industry … Tweets: @alexisohanian Tweets: Alexis Ohanian Sr. / @alexisoh...
Cisco reports Q3 revenue of $12.46B, vs. $12.43B est., up from $11.94B YoY, while its service business segment produced $3.16B, vs $3.23B est.
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How Intel's Mobileye, with a ~70% share of the “driver-assist” market, made safety a central part of its pitch to car manufacturers, to take on Uber and Waymo
On Sunday, March 18, a 49-year-old woman named Elaine Herzberg walked her bicycle across Mill Avenue … Tweets: @gabe_klein , @chafkin , @chafkin , @chafkin , and @chafkin Tweets: Gabe Klein / @gabe_kl...
SEC created a satirical cryptocurrency site called HoweyCoins to warn investors about ICO scams, complete with a nine-page whitepaper and an expiring 15% bonus
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A look at the history of Facebook's Internet.org project, which it says has brought 100M online, from its 2013 debut to Free Basics
Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn't go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition. Tweets: @karengeier , @w...
After passenger's murder, Didi no longer shows profile pictures or lets users rate and tag each others' appearances, removing tags like “long legs”, “beauties”
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Hands-on with OnePlus 6, coming May 22: 19:9 ratio 6.28" AMOLED display and a small notch, starting at $529 for 6GB RAM/64GB model, $629 for 8GB RAM/256GB
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Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan, who was fired last November following disclosure of Uber's 2016 data breach, is joining Cloudflare as its CSO
I love working as a Chief … Parikshit Mishra / Reuters : Former Uber cyber security chief Sullivan joining Cloudflare
Sources: two of the largest tech-focused private equity firms, Vista Equity Partners and Thoma Bravo, are each looking to raise $10B+ funds
Two of the largest technology-focused private-equity firms are competing to raise money for what would be their biggest funds Tweets: @trevornoren and @lisaabramowicz1 Tweets: Trevor Noren / @trevorno...
Analysis of building permits shows Facebook has filed $900M+ in construction permits for West Campus building projects, mostly used for office space, since 2015
Kelsey Graeber / BuildZoom :
Intel launches OpenVINO toolkit to help developers deploy AI models across a broad range of IoT devices
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Cask Data, a startup that builds solutions to run big data analytics services based on Hadoop, joins Google Cloud; terms not disclosed; Cask had raised $40M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Profile of Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer whose Swiss startup Nnaisense is working on developing an artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Jürgen Schmidhuber says he'll make machines smarter than us. His peers wish he'd just shut up. Tweets: @roydanroy , @muellerfreitag , @valleyhack , @atbwebb , and @mark_riedl Tweets: Daniel Roy / @ro...
European Parliament president says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will give evidence to the European Parliament in person as early as next week
in private — from EU regulators Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Mark Zuckerberg agrees to meeting with EU officials in Brussels Erin Carson / CNET : Mark Zuckerberg will face the European Parliament...
Hacker breaches servers of Securus, a firm enabling real-time warrantless cell location tracking for cops, and provides access to its clients' data to reporter
Joseph Cox / Motherboard :
Compound, a startup that's building a money market for crypto assets, raises $8M seed led by a16z and gets the first investment from Coinbase's new venture fund
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs to August 16, makes Account Activity API generally available, reduces free Premium Sandbox subscriptions allowed to 15
again Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog : Twitterrific: New Twitter API Cost of $2899/Month Not Financially Viable Mallory Locklear / Engadget : Twitter delays the shutdown of legacy notification APIs u...
Alexa developers get eight free voices to use in skills, courtesy of text-to-speech service Amazon Polly, launching today in English in the US
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
European startup Dashdash, which is developing a spreadsheet-like platform to help less technical people develop apps, raises $8M Series A led by Accel
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Investigation shows buying fake Facebook accounts is easy and affordable; one seller says there are always thousands in stock as marketplaces thrive
and tries to take action when it can. But my sense it's not always easy for them to enforce. Another challenge in the fight against spam/misinformation https://www.buzzfeed.com/... Charlie Warzel / @c...
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