NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
WhatsApp launches a new group setting that allows only administrators to send messages to a group
WhatsApp today announced a new control for group administrators to limit activity so that they are the only member of the group who can send messages. WhatsApp groups can include up to 256 participan...
Match says Tinder swipes and images sent between its app and servers are now encrypted and swipe data is now the same size, fixing flaws disclosed in January
Your digital dating life is a lot less vulnerable to hackers as a result of security updates from Tinder.
Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email, has appealed a federal judge's decision that dismissed his libel suit against Techdirt in 2017
Tech news site says Shiva Ayyadurai is a “fake,” he says it “disregarded” the truth. — Lawyers representing the Massachusetts man … Tweets: @grady_booch and @adamsteinbaugh Tweets: Grady Booch / @gr...
DARPA to invest $100M over the next four years to create the equivalent of a silicon compiler aimed at significantly lowering the barriers to design chips
Two programs aim to craft ‘silicon compiler’ — SAN JOSE, Calif. — The U.S. will pour $100 million into two research programs …
Blue light, prevalent in modern UIs, is aesthetically pleasing, but poses health risks; designers should switch to deep red/orange as the military did long ago
The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems. Thanks: @johnctownsend
Sources: alongside GV, Alphabet will invest directly in Lime, as part of the $300M round the on-demand scooter startup is raising at $1.1B post-money valuation
Alphabet is joining a $300m funding round for electric scooter start-up Lime, adding to an increasingly complex web of deals in transport and … Tweets: @jimwaterson Tweets: Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson...
How huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM curriculum, and gadgets everywhere failed to overhaul systemic problems in a San Francisco public middle school
Huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM-packed curriculum, gadgets everywhere: Willie Brown Middle School was supposed to set the bar. Tweets: @ilyasu , @mims , @samfr , @kimmaicutler , @jonsteinb...
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
updated Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : Apple Maps Is Reportedly Getting a Complete Overhaul Christian de Looper / Digital Trends : Apple is completely rebuilding Apple Maps — and it will start rolling out...
Data analytics firm Domo closes up 30% on its first day of trading, raising $193M in its IPO at a $524M post-money valuation; Domo was valued at $2.1B in 2017
insiders tell us that CEO Josh James apologized to the entire company … CNBC : Domo CEO: We are focusing on our customers Sara Salinas / CNBC : Domo pops in shaky opening day Art Raymond / Deseret New...
Opponents wonder if WHO's bid to add gaming addiction as a disorder, while not mentioning internet or smartphone addiction, was made under political pressure
The World Health Organization has proposed a behavioral addiction pathology for excessive video-game playing. Tweets: @theatlantic , @ibogost , and @ibogost Tweets: @theatlantic : From “gaming disorde...
Cedar, a service that uses data analysis to help health organizations personalize the billing experience for patients, raises $36M Series B led by Kinnevik
Understanding bills should be simple and straightforward but unfortunately, that is not always the case, especially when dealing with medical bills.
A look at the efforts of podcast platforms like Stitcher and Castbox to supplement their free ad supported offerings with premium content
Your favorite free podcast probably won't charge you anytime soon. But CastBox's premium-content platform is among the new ways podcasters are getting paid.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 described in leaked hands-on impressions in Russia with Note8-like design, horizontal dual cameras, S Pen with Bluetooth, 4000 mAh battery
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Experts say that due to the vagueness of GDPR, many publishers may be breaking the law by trying to get around the requirement to obtain explicit user consent
The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation a month ago led to a flurry of activity, clogging email inboxes and flooding people with tracking consent notices. Tweets: @katebevan Tweets: Kate...
Google stops taking local and state election ads in Maryland due to new law requiring disclosure of who paid for ads within 48 hours; Facebook says it'll comply
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Chinese social commerce startup Pinduoduo files for $1B US IPO; Pinduoduo's revenues tripled to $278M in 2017 while losses grew 55% to $79.5M
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
Source: Uber plans to resume testing of self-driving cars by August, in Pittsburgh and possibly San Francisco
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A profile of Alastair MacTaggart, a semi-retired real estate developer who spent $3M on the ballot measure that led to California's tough data privacy bill
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @eliotwb Tweets: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : the RE developer who wasn't very politically active, isn't into tech, yet forced one of the most sweeping data privacy laws in ...
The UK's NHS says it will anonymize data given to Google's DeepMind that is used to analyze blood test results and detect risk of serious medical problems
Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget :
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman takes controlling interest in SimpliSafe, a home security hardware and services startup, sources say at a ~$1B valuation
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Dataminr, a NY-based startup that analyzes public data in real time, raises $392M at a valuation of $1.6B, more than the double the $680M valuation from 2015
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :
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