Hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One Android phone with a 5.7-inch “holographic” display, coming to Verizon and AT&T sometime this summer starting at $1,195
Come for the holograms, stay for the modules — We just got a look at the upcoming RED Hydrogen One smartphone …
McAfee report: North Korea-linked hackers posted three apps on Google Play to steal personal info from defectors; hackers made contact with targets via Facebook
Apps hosted in Google market for two months were spread over Facebook. — Researchers said a team of hackers tied …
Apple is telling developers to remove CallKit from apps listed in App Store in China after government request, likely because of CallKit's VoIP functionalities
Apple has started cracking down on yet another type of application in China. Following the earlier removal of VPN apps …
Inside Facebook's deletion center in Berlin, where 1,200 people review posts violating firm's rules or German law and decide what is free speech or hate speech
A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world's biggest social network.
German law requiring social media companies to take down hate speech within 24 hours prompts far right claims of lack of clarity, chilled speech, and censorship
The new year was just a day old when Alice Weidel, the 38-year-old co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) … Tweets: @fabiochiusi Tweets: Fabio Chiusi / @fabiochiusi : This is what ha...
Bank of America begins rolling out its AI-powered assistant, Erica, which will help its 25M mobile clients do banking tasks by voice, text, and gestures
The virtual assistant will be available to Bank of America's 25 million mobile clients — Bank of America on Friday officially introduced Erica …
Report: Snap CEO was inspired by Chinese apps for Snapchat redesign, wanted to make the app friendlier to older users, launched redesign despite staff concerns
Snap's stock price is now hovering around its lowest point ever since the company went public last year.
Interviews with experts and defectors detail North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, whose hackers are estimated to have stolen $650M+
The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea's equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world's greatest bank-robbing crews. Facebook: Patrick Winn . Tweets: @josungkim , @pritheworld , @pri , @pri...
Majority of European Parliament members are pushing for Mark Zuckerberg's testimony, due to be given in a private session on Tuesday, to be streamed live
MEPs have revolted against plans for Mark Zuckerberg to attend a closed-door grilling in the European Parliament next week …
Qualcomm says it will incorporate WPA3 into chipsets this summer for mobile devices and on all Wi-Fi networking infrastructure products
Qualcomm Technologies is getting a jump on things as it announced this week that it will be applying the industry's newest Wi-Fi security protections across its portfolio. Tweets: @davezatz Tweets: Da...
Analysis: Amazon Channels, which resells subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, and others, now accounts for 55% of à la carte direct-to-consumer video subscriptions
Amazon has quietly become a major player in the subscription video sales business: Amazon Channels, the company's platform … Tweets: @basche42 Tweets: Ben Basche / @basche42 : Amazon is new cable Netf...
Source: Google edited some Duplex calls used in demo to protect identity of businesses involved; one restaurant in the demo may have been identified by Mashable
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A history of the music industry's first efforts at creating music streaming services after Napster and why they failed given the importance of streaming now
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Google removed “Don't be evil” from the top of its code of conduct in late April or early May, Wayback Machine archives show, but kept one mention at the bottom
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Interviews with pioneers of AI and PM Justin Trudeau about the history of neural networks and how the Canadian government brought the AI researchers together
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Inside Alphabet's three-day machine learning bootcamp, started this spring, which aims to impart AI know-how to ~12 of CapitalG's portfolio companies, like Lyft
- Alphabet's CapitalG is offering a new program for its portfolio companies, including AirBnb, Lyft, and CrowdStrike
Oculus Mobile Store adds support for free and paid downloadable content in beta for Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR with Rift support coming soon
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Facebook has leased all the 43 floors of the Park Tower at Transbay in San Francisco, a week after some Instagram employees moved into nearby office space
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Data shows Tencent bought stakes in 277 tech companies between 2013 and 2017, and the value of its stakes in public companies topped $33B at the end of 2017
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Sources: Walmart has quietly launched Jetblack, members-only personal shopping and concierge service, now in beta in Manhattan
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A look at Chinese “accelerators” in Silicon Valley, 11 of which have been created since 2013, that aim to identify promising startups and bring them to China
Reuters : Tweets: @marcorubio Tweets: Marco Rubio / @marcorubio : This is a historic national security threat. In addition to stealing technology, #China is buying up start up tech companies & taking...
Adaptive Insights, a cloud-based business planning services provider headquartered in Palo Alto, files for an IPO; Adaptive Insights had previously raised $175M
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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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