A bug in the website of LocationSmart, which sells real-time phone location data, let anyone track people's locations across North America without consent
The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone's cell phone in real time. — A company that collects the real …
Operator of malware-testing service Scan4You, which helped hackers evade antivirus software, convicted by US jury after Trend Micro gave data to the FBI
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PayPal confirms it is acquiring Swedish payments company iZettle for $2.2B in an all-cash deal, making it PayPal's biggest-ever transaction
PayPal is taking its biggest bet yet on point-of-sale transactions, small businesses, and markets outside of the US, as it looks to raise its game against Square …
Analysis of 1,450 ICOs finds 271 have red flags including plagiarized white papers, fake execs, promised returns; investors poured $1B+ into these 271 offerings
A Wall Street Journal analysis of 1,450 cryptocurrency offerings reveals rampant plagiarism, identity theft and promises of improbable returns
Apple transferred €1.5B into an escrow account set up by Irish government, the first tranche of the €13B in back taxes Apple may be liable for after EU ruling
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.18 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish government …
ASUS debuts ultra-thin Zenbook Pro 15 Windows laptops with 15.6-inch 1080p or 4K display, up to six-core Intel CPUs, and optional standalone GPU; price TBD
ASUS has introduced a new version of its ultra-thin 15.6-inch ZenBook Po 15 laptop that offers higher performance than predecessors …
Uber's chief product officer Jeff Holden, who helped to develop Uber Pool and oversaw its flying-taxi initiative, is leaving the company on Thursday
Company had hired Holden from Groupon in 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief product officer, Jeff Holden, who helped develop Uber Pool …
YouTube launching a paid version of YouTube Music next week at $10/month; YouTube Red being replaced by YouTube Premium at $12/month
Peter Kafka / Recode :
Publishers prefer YouTube because of perceived reliability, predictable success parameters, longer shelf life for evergreen content, and deeper user engagement
Sometimes, being reliable goes a long way — and for smaller publishers looking to grow sustainable video businesses, that means focusing on YouTube.
Strategy Analytics: in Q1, Amazon shipped 4M Echos globally, taking 43.6% of the market, as Google shipped 2.4M Home speakers, and Apple shipped 600K HomePods
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Baidu COO Lu Qi to step down in July, after joining Chinese search giant from Microsoft in January 2017
Baidu, the operator of China's largest online search service, said on Friday that its chief operating officer, Lu Qi, will step down to take on a new role, in the latest executive reshuffle …
Valve's PC game streaming service Steam Link is now available in beta on Android 5.0 and above, iOS release date is “pending further review”
Stefanie Fogel / Variety :
CEO Jihan Wu of Bitmain, one of the world's largest bitcoin mining equipment maker, says the company had booked $3.5B in revenues in 2017
Even by the standards of Bitcoin, things are crazy in China. As the boom in cryptocurrencies has become the biggest speculative bubble in recorded history … Tweets: @thestalwart Tweets: Joe Weisentha...
Google plans to remove the green “Secure” text for HTTPS in September in Chrome and add a red “Not secure” label to sites without HTTPS starting in October
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Special purpose acquisition company Landcadia buys food delivery startup Waitr in a $308M deal that will make Waitr a public company when the acquisition closes
- Landcadia Holdings agrees to pay $300 million for Waitr — Tilman Fertitta has been looking for deals since 2016 Facebook: Tyler Williams Facebook: Tyler Williams : Super excited for this news, an...
US federal immigration officials have abandoned pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology to help with “extreme vetting” of foreign visitors
Federal immigration officials have abandoned their pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology that was a pillar … Tweets: @brennancenter , @eff , and @eff Tweets: Brennan Center / @brennan...
Google declines to provide the names of hair salon and restaurant used in controversial Google Duplex demo, or say whether the calls were edited
Over the years, I have experienced some great demos. Chris Davies / SlashGear : Google is suspiciously quiet about its incredible Duplex AI demo Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Did Google fake its Google Du...
Parabon NanoLabs says it has loaded DNA data from ~100 crime scenes to genealogy database GEDmatch and has found matches to suspect's relatives in ~20 cases
Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @carnage4life Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Amazing that greatest unintended consequence of services like Ancestry and 23AndMe is that DNA from rape kits ...
Roadstar.ai, a China-based self-driving startup, raises $128M Series A led by Shenzhen Capital Group and Wu Capital
Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post :
Facebook to start testing ads in Stories today in the US, Mexico, and Brazil, says Stories has 150M daily users, defines a user as anyone who watches one story
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Intel's Mobileye has started testing 100 self-driving cars in Jerusalem with plans to deploy the fleet in the US and other regions in coming months
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Pluralsight, a Utah-based edtech startup, closes up 33% on its first day of trading after raising $310M in an IPO and is now valued at $2.5B+
and helps keep open a suddenly-hot software IPO window. http://www.forbes.com/...
Tech Nation report: UK tech companies raised £4.5B in 2017, almost double the previous year, despite fears over Brexit outcomes
Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg :
How tech firms are trying to make ethical AI: a few are formalizing ethics processes, Facebook has an automatic adviser to spot potential machine learning bias
Tom Simonite / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @jtasioulas Tweets: @wired : New research institutes, industry groups, and philanthropic programs have sprung up to help tech companies think through the eth...
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