After unease from staff, Google lays out seven principles for AI use and says it won't use AI in cases that cause “overall harm” like weapons or surveillance
- CEO releases AI principles after Project Maven employee revolt — Ethics charter forbids surveillance in some situations
A Facebook bug set sharing settings of 14M users to public from May 18-27; Facebook has now restored users' former settings and will notify them starting today
Facebook has another privacy screw-up on its hands. A bug in May accidentally changed the suggested privacy setting …
Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix appeared before UK Parliament on Wednesday, responding to questions with denials, defiance, and thinly veiled anger
The disgraced tech maven appeared before U.K. Parliament on Wednesday. It did not go well.
Yahoo will shut down Yahoo Messenger on July 17, marking the end of an era since it debuted as Yahoo Pager back in 1998
It's the end of an era for Yahoo Messenger, one of the first instant messaging apps on the market. Today, Oath (which also owns TechCrunch) announced that it would be winding …
Airbnb cancels thousands of reservations in Japan ahead of the new home-sharing law coming into effect on June 15, will create $10M fund to repay travelers
TOKYO - Rental site Airbnb said Thursday (Jun 7) it had been forced by Japanese authorities to cancel thousands of reservations ahead …
Verizon names CTO Hans Vestberg CEO effective August 1, 2018, replacing current CEO Lowell McAdam
Hans Vestberg, Executive Vice President and President of Global Networks and Chief Technology Officer, named CEO, effective August 1, 2018 — Lowell McAdam to serve as Executive Chairman …
China's Ant Financial raises $14B in latest funding round, including a US dollar tranche backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, Warburg Pincus, others
- Ant has been said valued at $150 billion in latest round — Funding includes U.S. dollar, yuan denominated tranches
Uber and Lyft have submitted applications for San Francisco's upcoming pilot program for electric scooters
Uber wants to get into the scooter business in San Francisco and is submitting an application for the city's upcoming pilot program, the company confirmed to Axios on Thursday.
Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says the agency's comment system wasn't hit by a DDoS attack in 2014 during net neutrality debate, as claimed by ex-FCC IT chief
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Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams' media production company to partner with Tencent to form a gaming company, Bad Robot Games, to make games for PC, console, and mobile
Bad Robot, the media production company headed by famed nostalgia-lord J.J. Abrams, is expanding into the games industry with help from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent.
Foxconn Industrial Internet stock rose 44% on Shanghai exchange after raising $4.26B in its IPO, now valued at $61B+
- The Hon Hai unit surges by the 44% limit for debutantes — Foxconn Industrial embodies Gou's longer term ambitions — Foxconn Industrial Internet Co. soared …
Snap to make Bitmoji's Friendmoji characters available outside of Snapchat app on iOS, letting you send stickers directly in the Messages app
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Real estate startups have not disrupted the agent model, and some depend on it, despite a sense that the internet should make selling a house easier and cheaper
Because the one thing startups can't disrupt is the real estate agent. — This article is part of Update or Die … Tweets: @ron_miller and @robertmclaws Tweets: Ron Miller / @ron_miller : It should, b...
Android phones for mobile gaming are on the rise but rampant piracy and Apple's premium segment dominance gives devs little incentive to invest in the platform
Asus' ROG Phone is riding a wave of renewed interest in building Android gaming devices — Gaming and Android have never been bigger.
Amazon buys rights to exclusively livestream 20 Premier League football matches per season for three seasons starting from 2019
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Instagram now lets Android and iOS users with public accounts instantly repost stories that they're mentioned in to their own story
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LinkedIn debuts Your Commute, which lets job-seekers who save their location preferences check the commute times to potential employers, on its mobile app
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Facebook launches fb.gg, a portal where users can browse gaming livestreams, and gives emerging streamers access to monetization tools with Level Up program
Stephanie Chan / VentureBeat :
Rakuten to acquire Curbside, a startup whose app enables purchase pick up at local retailers without exiting their car, in cash for an undisclosed amount
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JetClosing, cloud-based home closing service that digitizes the home closing process by removing the paper forms, raises $20M Series A led by T. Rowe Price
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Privacy policies are useful governance documents, but users should be protected regardless of what a tech company's policies say or how long or clear they are
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Panda, an app letting users send 10-second videos with AR effects based on spoken words, launches on iOS, has raised $850K from Social Capital and others
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Ticketing platform SeatGeek partners with Snapchat to sell tickets via Stories, making it the first ticket buying experience built into the Snapchat app
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How some Facebook groups facilitate illicit trade of animal parts like elephant ivory; a complaint to the SEC alleges Facebook profits from it via ads
and a novel legal attack—can cut off the illicit trade where it lives online. http://www.wired.com/...
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