Australia bans Huawei and ZTE from providing 5G equipment to support the country's new telecom networks, citing risks of foreign interference and hacking
BEIJING — The fog of cyberespionage concerns surrounding Huawei has for years kept the Chinese technology giant largely out of the United States.
Apple pulls Facebook's Onavo VPN app from the App Store, says that apps should not collect information about other installed apps for the purposes of analytics
- Facebook acquired Israeli security app developer Onavo in 2013 and has used it to offer consumers access to a virtual private network.
Facebook says it has suspended 400+ apps since launching investigation into app data use, including myPersonality, which may have misused data of 4M+ users
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Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO, says 2016 failures still weigh on him, warns US elections risk becoming “World Cup of information war” without better security
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Sources: Microsoft to unveil “Xbox All Access”, a contract-based US monthly subscription offering an Xbox One, Xbox Live, and Xbox Game Pass, later this month
We've heard Microsoft is soon planning to debut a new contract-based monthly subscription service dubbed “Xbox All Access …
DJI launches $1,449 Mavic 2 Pro drone with an embedded Hasselblad camera and $1,249 Mavic 2 Zoom with 2x optical zoom, available today
DJI's bringing the Mavic Pro back, and it has a friend. — The Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, accidentally revealed in July, are now official.
Sony says it will bring its new dog-like robot Aibo to the US in September for $2,899, includes accessories and a 3-year subscription to Sony's AI Cloud
We got a brief glimpse at Sony's sixth-generation Aibo back at CES — but we couldn't touch it, no matter how adorable it looked …
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WHEN MICHAEL BENNETT played for the Seattle Seahawks, he celebrated wins with a victory dance in the team locker room.
Source: autonomous driving startup Zoox, valued at $3.2B, dismisses CEO and co-founder Tim Kentley-Klay, names co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson president
- Co-founder Jesse Levinson will become company president — Zoox just raised $500 million, at a $3.2 billion valuation
A look at the Russia-linked NotPetya cyberattack, which caused an estimated $10B+ in damages worldwide after initially targeting Ukrainian companies
Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world. Tweets: @ericgeller , @wired , and @wired Tweets: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Truly...
Encrypted messaging app Wickr partners with circumvention service Psiphon to dodge internet blocks and evade censorship
As encrypted chat apps grow more popular, they're also becoming more popular targets for state-level blocks. Whether it's brief interruptions in Brazil and Egypt …
Mobile data-driven car insurance startup Root Insurance raises $100M Series D led by Tiger Global Management, at a $1B valuation
Root Insurance, an Ohio-based car insurance startup with a tech twist, said Wednesday it has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led of Tiger Global Management …
SEC rejects nine bitcoin-backed ETF proposals from ProShares, Direxion, and GraniteShares, weeks after rejecting a proposal from the Winklevoss twins
Alibaba's Q1 revenue beats estimates, rises 61% YoY to ~$12.2B, but net income falls 41% YoY to ~$1.27B
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Walmart partners with Rakuten Kobo to launch Walmart eBooks, with a catalog of 6M+ titles and a $9.99/month Audible-like subscription service for audiobooks
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Dan Rose, Facebook's VP of partnerships who led deals such as its Instagram buy, leaving in Feb.; sources: Facebook has likely identified replacement internally
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Nokia says its licensing fee for 5G standard essential patents will be a flat rate of €3 per device, lower than those announced by rivals Qualcomm and Ericsson
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Seventh Circuit rules 3-0 that energy-consumption data collected by smart meters is covered by the 4th Amendment
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Binance launches an incubator program to develop early stage blockchain startups, will take on around 8-10 companies per batch for a 10-week period
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Interview with Microsoft's Executive VP of Gaming Phil Spencer on the potential of Xbox, the need to invest in first-party studios, streaming, and Satya Nadella
Ian Sherr / CNET : Tweets: @doccupcake84 , @cnet , and @cnet Tweets: @doccupcake84 : Powerful! “For many kids, their first experience with technology could be with Minecraft. What is our social respo...
Filing: Alibaba raised $3B from investors, including SoftBank, for a new local services business that combines its own Koubei with food delivery service Ele.me
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Thailand's central bank says it has partnered with R3 and eight other financial institutions for a proof-of-concept trial of a central bank digital currency
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk : Tweets: @mattocko Tweets: Matthew Ocko / @mattocko : Whoah But makes sense - non-anonymous blockchain-$ is in fact more trackable than fiat, so it addresses rampant tax evasi...
Facebook says it's piloting in Tanzania a new framework for large-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks with 50+ access points, as part of its Express Wi-Fi initiative
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Latch, an NYC-based startup that makes keyless lock systems for apartments, raises $70M Series B led by Brookfield Ventures
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Report looks at financial impact on Google and Apple of falling app store commission rates, amid pushback from devs like Valve, Netflix and regulatory scrutiny
Bloomberg : Tweets: @laurengoode , @bsindia , and @mhbergen Tweets: Lauren Goode / @laurengoode : Seems like there's a real opportunity here for someone to create a reliable, intuitive, secure distri...
Data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon, which was suspended from Facebook after allegations of using user data for surveillance, says it's regained firehose access
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