West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting in the midterm elections via Voatz's blockchain-based platform, mainly for troops serving abroad
Why voting in the US is so hard — West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app …
Facebook bans Infowars and 3 other pages run by Alex Jones for “repeated violations of Community Standards”; Spotify removes all episodes of The Alex Jones Show
It's About the Incoherence of ‘Hate Speech’ Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Tech firms clamp down on Alex Jones and Infowars Kerry Flynn / Digiday : Platforms quickly pile on Infowars ban, but Alex ...
Instapaper returns to EU users after being unavailable since May 24 for GDPR compliance and relaunches Instapaper Premium subscription for $2.99/month
This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we've been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond.
Ahead of OIG report expected to reveal no evidence of a DDoS attack on FCC comment system in May 2017, Ajit Pai says former CIO gave him inaccurate information
The FCC has come clean on the fact that a purported hack of its comment system last year never actually took place …
Sources: Amazon's sold ~50M Alexa devices, and only 2% of those owners have used Alexa to make a purchase in 2018; source: 90% of those haven't tried again
Amazon and Google both tout voice shopping—the ability to make purchases and check on the status of orders with verbal commands …
As young Chinese grow up without access to free speech platforms, many seem uninterested in spotting online censorship, accepting Beijing's narrative
HONG KONG — Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies.
Video streaming startup NewTV, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, raises $1B round with Disney, Alibaba, NBCUniversal, Viacom, and others participating
Backers include Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCU, Viacom, WarnerMedia, Alibaba, Liberty Global, Madrone Capital
Twitter says accounts for Alex Jones and Infowars do not violate its policies, and it will leave them live for now
- Apple, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube removed videos, pages and podcasts posted by the controversial radio host. — Jones took to Twitter and its wholly owned …
Android 9, called Pie, is coming to Google Pixel phones today, but some key features won't officially ship until fall, like “slices” app search functionality
Google today revealed Android P stands for Android Pie, succeeding Android Oreo, and pushed the latest source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund plans to lead an investment of $3B-$5B in Alibaba's food delivery service Ele.me
- Masayoshi Son's fund is said to be heading up investor talks — The round marks a much-needed boost in a costly subsidies war — SoftBank Group Corp.'s monster Vision Fund plans …
Fossil announces two Wear OS smartwatches, Q Venture HR and Q Explorist HR, ranging in price from $255-$275 with Google Play, heart-rate tracking, and GPS
But these brand-new Wear OS watches are still powered by a chip that's two years old — Fossil's smartwatches have always eschewed features for simplicity and affordability.
Indian ride-hailing service Ola plans to launch in the UK, beginning with South Wales in the next month, and expanding across the country by end of 2018
Months after launching operations in Australia, homegrown cab-hailing platform Ola is now eyeing the UK market.
While Apple's decision to remove five of Alex Jones' podcasts has caused many platforms to follow suit, Infowars' app is still available in the App Store
hint: It's a fudge Karissa Bell / Mashable : The InfoWars app is still alive and well in the App Store and Google Play Aja Romano / Vox : Apple banned Alex Jones's Infowars. Then the dominoes started ...
Profile of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on how his character has been central to the company's evolution and his plan to get the music industry dependent on Spotify
Daniel Ek [Photo: Tim Richardson; Set designer: Lauren Bahr at Kate Ryan Inc,; groomer: Alex LaMarsh]
Airbnb for Work says 700,000 companies are now using the program, up from 250,000 it reported in April of last year
Business travelers are increasingly ditching hotels and flocking to Airbnb, according to data revealed today by the home-sharing platform.
Klook, a Hong Kong-based online activity booking platform for travelers, raises $200M Series D from Sequoia China, TCV, and others
Klook, a Hong Kong-based online activity booking platform for travelers, has raised a chunky $200 million in a series D round of funding from Sequoia China …
Google says it will add ARCore support to its education-focused Chromebook Tab 10 tablet alongside other improvements to its Classroom software
Google today announced a bunch of updates are now rolling out to its Google for Education suite. Some of these upgrades were first unveiled …
Pentagon updates policy, says DoD personnel must disable geolocation features on devices and in apps when deployed in locations designated as operational areas
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After pushback from users, Microsoft says it will not end support for “classic” Skype 7.0 in Sept. but does not provide a new timeline for phasing it out
Brad Sams / Thurrott.com :
Overview of how AI has continued its fundraising tear in 2018, led by SenseTime Group's ~$620M funding and UiPath's $153M Series B
In late May, Chinese facial recognition technology developer SenseTime Group announced it had raised $620 million in a second round of funding.
DOJ says in its appeal of AT&T/Time Warner merger that court's ruling showed “fundamental errors of economic logic” like ignoring risk of rising consumer prices
Roger Cheng / CNET :
Amazon is rolling out an Alexa feature called Answer Update that will notify users when Alexa learns the answer to a question it didn't know when first asked
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Fintech startup Even Financial, which offers Twilio-style APIs for services like real-time pricing and credit pre-approval, raises $18.8M Series A
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Twilio reports Q2 total revenue of $147.8M, up 54% YoY, vs $131M est., with better-than-expected guidance of $585.5M-$589.5M in full year revenue; stock up 14%+
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Facebook calls WSJ report incorrect, says it's not asking banks for CC transaction data nor making a dedicated banking feature but is aiming to improve chatbots
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Sources: White House officials held a meeting last week with representatives of big tech companies to soothe worries over Trump-led US-China trade war
White House officials sought to reassure tech industry representatives at a private meeting last week that the Trump administration's … Tweets: @morganlbrennan and @dmccabe Tweets: Morgan Brennan / @m...
Zillow has acquired Kansas-based Mortgage Lenders of America for an undisclosed sum
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
China-based AI startup Tianrang, which provides data analysis for enterprises to help them make better marketing decisions, raises ~$26M Series A
Yimian Wu / China Money Network :
How some of Bitcoin's earliest adopters, like main proprietor of bitcoin.org, Cobra, often spout rhetoric unpopular with new supporters, leading to infighting
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg : Tweets: @cobrabitcoin Tweets: Cbra / @cobrabitcoin : So angry and disappointed when I read this piece of fake news. Really don't like how they made me seem like a crazy pers...
Network equipment maker Arista will pay $400M to settle Cisco's IP infringement lawsuits and will drop its own antitrust countersuit
Jan Wolfe / Reuters :
Microsoft says its Movies & TV app on both Xbox and Windows 10 will support Disney's Movies Anywhere service starting this week
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Getty Images launches Panels, an AI tool that uses natural language processing to analyze stories and suggest photos
Marty Swant / Adweek : See also Mediagazer
Google acquires GraphicsFuzz, a GPU testing and benchmarking toolmaker, to bolster Google's Android Graphics Team
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Facebook redesigns business Pages as their feed reach declines, to emphasize utility related to the particular company and will begin suggesting “related pages”
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Verizon's new Safe Wi-Fi VPN service says it protects privacy and blocks ad-tracking, but its current privacy policy is a placeholder saying the exact opposite
Karl Bode / Motherboard :
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