Timehop says it detected a network intrusion on July 4 that led to a data breach of names, email addresses, and some phone numbers affecting ~21M users
On July 4, 2018, Timehop experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of your data. We learned of the breach …
Xiaomi closes just below the IPO price on the first day of trading in Hong Kong after pricing IPO at the bottom of the range at $2.17/share and raising $4.7B
- The company's Hong Kong offering was priced at 17 Hong Kong dollars, which was on the low end of the expected range.
Analysis: fitness tracking website Polar Flow exposed info like names and home addresses of ~6500 military, FBI, NSA, and other staffers at 200+ sensitive sites
Polar, a fitness app, is revealing the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, such as intelligence agencies …
Samsung says it is building the world's largest smartphone factory in Noida, India with the capacity of 120M units per year
- Indian PM Modi, South Korea's Moon to visit Samsung facility — India is the fastest growing smartphone major market — Samsung Electronics Co. will open …
How China's drive for a surveillance state is fueling an investment boom in surveillance firms and can instill mass obedience regardless of the tech's efficacy
ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
Oasis Labs raises $45M in an ICO pre-sale from a16zcrypto, Accel, and others to create an AWS-like blockchain-based cloud computing platform for smart contracts
A team of top security researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and MIT have come together to launch …
Tencent says it has received approval from Hong Kong stock exchange for an IPO of its Tencent Music Entertainment subsidiary in US
Chinese media giant Tencent has confirmed that Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) is set to be spun-off via a public listing in the United States.
How AMD stays within its x86 IP cross-licensing agreements with Intel yet enables Chinese firm Hygon to design and sell AMD Zen-based x86 server chips in China
Chinese-designed “Dhyana” x86 processors based on AMD's Zen microarchitecture are beginning to surface from Chinese chip producer Hygon.
Index Ventures raises $1.65B for its two newest funds: $650M for its early-stage fund and $1B for its growth fund
Make way for more money into the startup investing pool: today, Index Ventures announced that it has closed a total of $1.65 billion in new funds — $1 billion that it plans …
Algorithms increasingly replace highly-skilled white-collar workers, as seen in online fashion and retail industries and the ascendance of firms like Stitch Fix
One of the best-selling T-shirts for the Indian e-commerce site Myntra is an olive, blue and yellow colorblocked design. Tweets: @sub8u Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : How AI algorithms are arming...
Uber is investing in Lime as part of $335M round led by GV valuing the firm at $1.1B; Uber plans to promote Lime through its app, execs from the firms said
- Ride-hailing company invests as part of $335 million round — Alphabet's GV leads deal valuing Lime at $1.1 billion Tweets: @sallyshin , @backlon , @stevekovach , and @danprimack Tweets: Sally Shi...
Sources: Apple Music had ~21.5M US subscribers as of last week while Spotify had ~22.5M; Apple's service is growing faster than Spotify in UK and Canada
Spotify's lead over Apple's music-streaming service in the US is narrowing, denting the air of invincibility around the recently floated pioneer.
Analysis finds ~9K Instagram accounts are pretending to be the 10 most followed people on Instagram, highlighting a problem celebrities and social networks face
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The explosion of e-waste, estimated to cross 57M tons annually by 2021, highlights its dual role as environmental scourge and potential economic resource
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As Amazon's ad business surges, some advertisers worry they are giving it the data and market power it needs to eventually run them out of business
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Profile of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's GEOINT App Store that hosts Android, iOS, desktop, and web apps for the Department of Defense
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @lilyhnewman Tweets: Lily Hay Newman / @lilyhnewman : this DoD app store actually gets developers to share their source code in the name of security https://www.wire...
Profiles of four “crypto hunters” who use a variety of methods, from specialized software to hypnosis, to recover lost cryptocurrency and stop crypto crime
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Profile of Megvii, a Chinese AI firm which reportedly raised $460M in November for its Face++ facial recognition tech used by 300K developers in 150 countries
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