Facebook removes 18 Facebook accounts, one Instagram account, and 52 Facebook Pages, including Burmese military officials, in response to Myanmar violence
The ethnic violence in Myanmar has been truly horrific. Earlier this month, we shared an update on the steps we're taking to prevent …
Sources: new 5.8" and 6.5" OLED iPhones, due in September, to get speed and camera improvements; 6.1-inch LCD version to have aluminum sides
- Two high-end OLED models focus on speed and camera upgrades — New iPad Pros, Apple Watches with larger screens also coming
Microsoft announces Xbox All Access with Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox One S or Xbox One X console for $22 or $35/mo on a 2 year contract in US
Microsoft today confirmed the rumors: Xbox All Access is a new subscription offering that ties a console to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass for two years.
CEO says Uber is planning a shift from cars to electric bikes and scooters for shorter trips as part of its long-term strategy, despite short-term financial hit
Uber is planning a shift in emphasis from cars to electric bicycles and scooters for shorter journeys as part of its long-term strategy …
Sources: Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire a 3%-4% stake in Paytm's parent company One97 Communications, valuing Paytm at over $10B
Softbank and Alibaba-backed Paytm may get valued at $10 billion after this funding from Berkshire Hathaway
Facebook says it was “too slow” to prevent the spread of “hate and misinformation” in Myanmar via its site
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Oculus cofounder reviews Magic Leap: less of a functional developer kit, more of a flashy hype vehicle that almost nobody can actually use in a meaningful way
The title of this review was carefully chosen, not glibly. I want what is best for VR and all other technologies on the Reality-Virtuality Continuum, Magic Leap included.
Bloomberg: Google Pixel 3 to launch on October 9th at NYC event
Thanks to a flood of recent leaks, the hype is real leading up to Google's next Pixel launch. Now, according to a new report, that launch might end up just a little bit later than we thought...
New estimate suggests blockchain networks of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero combined consume about as much electricity as The Netherlands
I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers.
Multiple fatalities reported in a mass shooting during a Madden NFL gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida; shooter had won previous Madden NFL tournaments
Tech companies are lobbying for a federal privacy law that would overrule the California law and give them wide leeway over how personal information is handled
WASHINGTON — Technology companies have taken plenty of hits on privacy this year. In May, Europe began enforcing a sweeping …
At its core Bitmain is a chip company developing chips optimized for cryptocurrency mining, and it has failed to successfully deploy a next gen chip since 2016
This is the third time that this article has been published. 2048 Capital is an offshore cryptocurrency investment fund.
Evolve Vacation Rental Network raises $80M to expand its rental properties management service, bringing total capital raised to $103M
Vacation rental management is becoming professionalized, and the gold rush is on. — The vacation rental tech sector continues to produce outsized funding rounds …
Didi suspends its Hitch carpooling service in China after a driver allegedly raped and killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018
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ThinkHR, a SaaS platform providing cloud-based HR tools, announces $67.5M funding round led by Guidepost Growth Equity, bringing its total funding to $82.5M
ThinkHR has announced it has raised $67.5 million in a funding round led by Guidepost Growth Equity.
AMD wins patent infringement case against chipmaker Sigma Designs and Vizio, which has been ordered by USITC to cease imports of some TV models
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Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster on the company's bet on 7nm instead of 10nm as Intel's chips face delays, plans to win market share in the server space, more
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Experts say students at a Defcon event didn't hack “exact clones” of state election reporting websites; event co-organizer says critics are missing the point
Lilia Chang / ProPublica : Tweets: @chiefcovfefe Tweets: BadDude.SimoHayha / @chiefcovfefe : I debunked it the day it came out. For alot of reasons including the ones in the article. http://twitter.c...
Source: the Defense Department wants to put a total of $1.7B toward the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center over the next five years
Cade Metz / New York Times : Tweets: @benioff and @stevekopack Tweets: Marc Benioff / @benioff : “In the eyes of some researchers, creating robotic vehicles and developing robotic weapons are very di...
A look at stealthy self-driving startup Ghost Locomotion, which has raised $15M and offers a dashcam Android app, likely to gather data to train its ML models
Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @jason_rowley . Thanks: @holdenthepage Tweets: Jason D. Rowley / @jason_rowley : Now up on @crunchbasenews: Stealthy Self-Driving Startup Ghost Locomotion ...
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