Instagram adds the ability to add licensed songs as background music for Stories starting today in 7 countries and says it has 400M daily Stories users
The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories.
The California Consumer Privacy Act, one of the toughest data privacy bills in the US, has been signed into law and will go into effect in 2020
California lawmakers passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the United States today, as they faced pressure from an even stronger ballot measure in the state.
Source: Xiaomi raises $4.7B after pricing IPO at the low end of the range at HK$17 each, valuing Xiaomi at about $54B, roughly half the company's initial goal
Xiaomi Corp. and some existing investors raised $4.7 billion after pricing a Hong Kong initial public offering at the low end of a marketed range …
Verizon is shutting down go90; sources say it will be discontinued by July 31 and that shows and all content rights will be returned to production partners
Verizon is finally calling it quits on its expensive mobile video bet, Go90. — The wireless communications giant is shutting …
Eddy Cue and Apple Maps team members describe how they are rebuilding the product from the ground up to eventually own the entire map stack, like Google does
The company is rolling out more detailed maps built from its own data for the first time — I'm not sure if you're aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly.
Brave ad-blocking browser releases update with Tor-powered Private Tabs in beta
Want more online privacy? Brave, the ad-blocking browser, has a new way to get it on the web. — A new version of the browser released Thursday adds technology called onion routing from the Tor Proj...
Researcher: Facebook quiz maker NameTests exposed personal info of ~120M users for years, in a data leak that was fixed after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Ever took a personality test on Facebook? For years, anyone could have accessed your private information, friends, posts and photos.
Twitter is reorganizing its teams into groups, like engineering, instead of individual products; Kayvon Beykpour, former Periscope CEO, named head of product
- Ed Ho, who has been on leave since May, explained in a series of tweets his decision was based largely on an unexpected family loss.
Report: 2,446 Android and 600 iOS apps using Google's Firebase service found to have misconfigured databases exposing 100M+ records of a wide range of user data
Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases …
Niantic Labs, which helped develop Pokémon Go, says it will open the underlying AR platform, called Real World Engine, to third-party developers
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Kroger, the US's largest supermarket chain, teams up with Nuro, a two-year-old self-driving startup, to launch driverless delivery service later this fall
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A data breach on the website of ALERRT, which provides active shooter training, has exposed personal details of thousands of law enforcement officials
Exclusive: The database contained records on police and first responders trained in active shooter events. Tweets: @zackwhittaker Tweets: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : This exposed data contains h...
Report: ICOs raised $13.7B in the first five months of 2018, up from $7B in 2017; only 30% of the 3,470 ICOs since 2013 closed successfully
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital currency sales jumped to $13.7 billion in the first five months of the year, nearly double the amount raised for the whole of 2017 …
Twitter makes its Ad Transparency Center, announced before Congressional hearings in October, available to all users
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Facebook rolls out a button users can click to see the ads a Page is running, even if not targeted to the user, across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger
Anna Hensel / VentureBeat :
Automated threat detection service JASK raises $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total raised to $39M
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Source: Uber plans to resume testing of self-driving cars by August, in Pittsburgh and possibly San Francisco
Uber plans to resume testing self-driving cars by August, in Pittsburgh and possibly San Francisco, said a person familiar with the decision, five months after an Uber car struck … Tweets: @amir and @...
JP Morgan Chase launches Finn by Chase, a mobile only bank account with an app for iOS and an Android version coming by the end of the year
David Henry / Reuters :
China's Tsinghua University to launch an AI research center in collaboration with Google, Tencent, and others; Google's AI chief Jeff Dean is an advisor
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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