NVIDIA unveils Turing GPU architecture, says it includes AI-based capabilities and real-time ray tracing, and announces Quadro RTX GPUs that will ship Q4 2018
Moments ago at NVIDIA's SIGGRAPH 2018 keynote presentation, company CEO Jensen Huang formally unveiled the company's much awaited (and much rumored) Turing GPU architecture.
Trump signs defense bill that includes banning the use of some components from Huawei, ZTE, and other Chinese companies by the US government and its contractors
Huawei and ZTE technology will largely be banned from use by the US government and government contractors.
Sources: Apple invited 30+ app devs to an April 2017 meeting to recommend they move from selling apps at a low upfront cost to a subscription-based SaaS model
- But there are concerns that the competitiveness of the marketplace may make it difficult to maintain high-quality utility apps.
Square announces it now lets customers buy and sell Bitcoin via its Cash App in all 50 US states
Mobile payments firm Square now lets customers buy and sell bitcoins via its Cash App in all 50 U.S. states. — The company - which was co-founded by Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey …
Banks and retailers are using behavioral biometrics to build millions of user profiles by tracking how users type, swipe, and tap when using websites and apps
When you're browsing a website and the mouse cursor disappears, it might be a computer glitch — or it might be a deliberate test to find out who you are.
US appeals court has blocked the FCC's attempt to pull a broadband subsidy for low income households in tribal areas, staying the FCC decision pending appeal
FCC trying to kill $25 subsidy in urban areas and limit subsidy in rural areas. — A US appeals court has blocked …
Tinder co-founders and eight former and current execs sue parent firm IAC, alleging they are owed billions because the startup's valuation had been depressed
Co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the popular dating app are suing the service's current owners …
Facebook acquires the seven-person team and tech from startup Vidpresso to make its video more interactive
Zombie-like passive comsumption of static video is both unhealthy for viewers and undifferentiated for the tech giants that power it. That's set Facebook on a mission to make video interactive …
Q&A with Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser on how health care data can transform the industry as Alphabet invests $375M in the provider, following Capital G and Verily
IN THE LATE 1990s, two graduate students named in Stanford's computer science department set out to organize the world's information.
Comcast's Xfinity X1 partnership with Netflix and Amazon presages a future of streaming bundles, which would be similar to the cable TV subscription model
As Xfinity's distribution deals expand, disruptors are taking up the same models as past cable companies See also Mediagazer
How Quanergy Systems, which makes lidar for autonomous cars, has failed to deliver after raising $160M and hitting a peak valuation of over $1.6B
Quanergy Systems Inc. found itself in the center of a sudden frenzy over self-driving cars in 2014. It makes lidar, which bounces lasers off objects …
Researcher and ex-NSA staffer Patrick Wardle shows how malware could use AppleScript and a macOS feature called “mouse keys” to bypass security prompts on macOS
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Despite complaints from a Sandy Hook parent, Automattic has not taken down content from conspiracy theorists, citing Wordpress.com's content policy
Leonard Pozner says he spends hours every day trying to erase online conspiracy theories that the death of his 6-year-old son Noah at the Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. Tweets: @kludt , @sal...
According to release notes for iOS 12's latest developer beta, Group FaceTime has been removed from initial release of iOS 12 and will ship later in the fall
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All current regulations about online privacy are flawed because they view privacy as a thing that needs protecting, rather than a trade-off for benefits
It's been an interesting year for those of us who support strong privacy for the public — in part because we've seen lots of movement on attempts to regulate privacy. Tweets: @chris_heine and @mmasnic...
Samsung launches SmartThings WiFi mesh router with Adaptive WiFi tech from Plume, a $70 SmartThings Hub, smart button, and upgrades smart outlet and sensors
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Uber appoints Matt Olsen, former general counsel for the NSA, as its CSO, replacing Joe Sullivan, who left last year amid controversial handling of data breach
Last November, Uber's new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, penned an apologetic note to riders and drivers explaining … Tweets: @dkhos Tweets: Dara Khosrowshahi / @dkhos : Thrilled to have Matt Ols...
Dashcam maker Owl raises $10M Series A1, led by Canvas Ventures, bringing total funding from Series A round to $28M
Owl, the two-way dash cam founded by a team of ex-Apple and Dropcam executives, has secured a $10 million Series A1 round led by Canvas Ventures. This brings Owl's total funding to $28 million.
Ubiquity6, which is building tools to make AR more user-friendly, raises $27M Series B led by Benchmark and Index Ventures
While nearly every tech giant has publicly proclaimed augmented reality the next frontier to conquer, product movement has been relatively slow as the companies' aim …
Both Chrome and Firefox support TLS 1.3, which IETF released the final version of last week, improving both security and speed
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Sources: Sequoia Capital China is partnering with a state-owned VC fund and JD.com to raise up to ~$6B for a new investment firm focusing on late-stage tech
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sequoia Capital China is teaming up with a state-owned venture capital (VC) fund and e-commerce powerhouse JD.com …
Twitter Lite adds push notifications and rolls out to 21 more countries including India, Ukraine, Argentina, and Zimbabwe, bringing the total to 45
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Lenovo unveils ultra-thin ThinkPad P1 with a 15.6-inch 4K display, Intel 8th Gen/Xeon CPUs, up to 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD in a carbon fiber chassis starting at $1,949
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Saudi Arabian regulators issue statement clarifying that cryptocurrency trading is illegal in the country
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk :
Sources: a16z launches a new fund of ~$15M for black celebrity investors to try to boost diversity in tech, with Kevin Durant and Will Smith among its LPs
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Sources: YouTube is signing stars to new contracts that pay them to use new features like paid chats and prohibit them from posting first on competitors' sites
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-core and 2950X 16-core review: cheaper offering toasts competition on a narrow set of workloads, while 2990WX is “out of this world”
Ian Cutress / AnandTech :
Researcher details vulnerabilities in police body cams, like possibility for outsiders to track individual cams, alter video footage, plant malware, and more
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
Report finds 18 Android tracking apps have flaws allowing account access; Korean app Couple Vow left 1.7M users' plain text passwords and data exposed on server
and some nudes
DEXON Foundation, a startup developing a high-speed blockchain protocol, announces it has closed a $20M private funding round led by IDG Capital
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Report: Facebook's Campbell Brown told The Australian that Zuckerberg doesn't care about publishers, Facebook not interested in discussing traffic and referrals
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab :
Netflix says its CFO David Wells, who led the service's international expansion to 190 countries, is leaving the company after 14 years
Steve Kovach / CNBC :
Tencent-backed Weimob, which offers integrated marketing services to 2.5M+ merchants through WeChat, files for Hong Kong IPO
Celia Chen / South China Morning Post :
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