TSMC says a virus infected its fabrication tools on Friday night and shut down several factories, some of which won't restart at least until Sunday
- Some factories back to normal, rest in another day, TSMC says — Virus that struck Friday night ‘was not caused by hacker’
Venezuelan officials: drones carrying explosives went off as President Maduro was giving a live televised speech; he's unharmed, but seven soldiers were injured
Venezuelan officials say explosive drones went off as President Nicolás Maduro was giving a live televised speech in Caracas, but he is unharmed.
Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros sue Cox Communications accusing the ISP of profiting from piracy by not disabling accounts of known and persistent infringers
For more than a decade, copyright holders have been sending takedown notices to ISPs to alert them that their subscribers are sharing copyrighted material.
Facebook says it is testing its dating product internally; sign-up screenshots show the feature calls for a separate profile as described at F8 in May
Let the poking begin — Two months after announcing the product at its F8 developer conference, Facebook is testing its dating app internally with employees.
Investigation finds some Amazon warehouse staff across the US feel mistreated by the company after workplace accidents left them unable to work
Vickie Shannon Allen, 49, started working at Amazon as a counter in a fulfillment warehouse at Haslet, Texas, in May 2017.
Argo, a startup that rents cryptocurrency mining capacity to users, raises £25M in its London IPO
While the domestic technology sector has its eyes on Arlo's IPO today, another offering with a similar name is generating excitement in the blockchain sector.
Former employees reflect on the rise and fall of General Magic, which spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team to build a PDA-like device
Chances are that you've never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend. Tweets: @dburkes Tweets: Danny Burkes / @dburkes : I'm glad that General Magic isn't com...
Facebook's increased scrutiny of ads targeting ethnic groups is delaying the approval of political ads for Hispanics and Spanish-speaking audiences
Political strategists say recent moves by Facebook to secure its powerful advertising engine are hampering their ability to communicate … Tweets: @carnage4life , @michaelscherer , @philiprucker , and ...
JD.com opens a cashier-free retail store in Indonesia called JD.ID X-Mart, it's first Amazon Go-like store outside China
Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com Inc has opened its first cashier-free retail store overseas in Indonesia. The JD.ID X-Mart, newly opened in Jakarta …
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney about why the Android version of Fortnite will be available exclusively on fortnite.com, bypassing the Google Play Store
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How Securus' JPay makes millions via monopoly granted by prisons to charge inmates and their family and friends exorbitant per-message fees for email services
For companies like JPay, the business model is simple: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their families will find a way to pay it. Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wired , and @fittsofalexis...
By taking six weeks to ban pages very similar to Twitter accounts publicly linked to IRA, Facebook shows it still struggles to deal with bad actors effectively
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Arlo, Netgear's connected home security camera spinoff, closes up 38% on its first day of trading after raising $163M in its IPO at about $1.16B valuation
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How Doppler Labs, a failed startup that demoed an in-ear computer in 2016, may have influenced development of similar technologies at Amazon, Apple, and Google
In October 2016, an impressive group of tech industry royalty took the time to get a demonstration of a product from a startup called Doppler Labs. Tweets: @peteerickson and @jwt_worldwide Tweets: Pet...
HERE simplifies its maps API access plans, with free plan now offering 250K instead of 15K transactions/month and access to most APIs and premium mobile SDKs
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A look at DingTalk, Alibaba's chat app for companies, used by over 100M users in 7M companies in China that many say fuels an unhealthy work culture
Their installation in the hallowed flat where Ma got his start in the eastern city of Hangzhou reflects DingTalk's place in the pecking order … Tweets: @janchip Tweets: Jan Chipchase / @janchip : How ...
Like the first wave of VCs, Bessemer and Venrock, the ultrawealthy are again moving into VC and enticing startups with their networks outside of Silicon Valley
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Sources: Awesomeness' value plunge was caused by the loss of $150M-$180M in Go90 revenue and an ownership structure that made unilateral decisions difficult
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