Sources: Apple has considered the name “iPhone Xs Max” for the 6.5-inch model; both Xs and Xs Max will have 4GB RAM, up from 3GB, and dual SIM options
Last week 9to5Mac exclusively shared the first look at the new iPhone Xs models due to be officially announced by Apple on September 12.
A recap of Facebook and Twitter hearings: Republican claims of bias, Democratic claims of political manipulation, and appearances by Alex Jones and Laura Loomer
A capsule review of tech's visit to Washington: The Senate seemed serious, the House did not, and Republicans aren't done complaining about bias.
Overview of the Senate hearing on foreign influence in social media, which heard testimony from Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey
Facebook and Twitter Finally Face the Music Matt Binder / Mashable : Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweets opening testimony during congressional hearing Don Reisinger / Fortune : Watch Here: Twitter and Fac...
Information found in the latest watchOS 5 beta suggests 42mm Apple Watch Series 4 will have a 384x480 resolution, up from 312x390 used in current models
Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac :
DOJ to announce hacking charges against a North Korean government spy, linked to the Lazarus Group, in connection with the 2014 Sony hack
The Justice Department will announce computer hacking charges Thursday against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2014 attack …
Microsoft begins testing Cortana and Alexa support for the Xbox One, letting users power the console on and off and start games and apps
Microsoft's Xbox One is getting a whole lot easier to use. The company today announced a new Xbox Skill for Cortana and Amazon Alexa …
In House committee hearing, Dorsey said Twitter intends to share an abuse transparency report this year, agrees to have the company undergo a civil rights audit
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
DOJ says AG Jeff Sessions will meet with state AGs to discuss a “growing concern” that social media giants are “hurting competition” and stifling free speech
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Google's decision not to appear before the Senate was an unforced error, drawing criticism and robbing it of a chance to defend itself
Bloomberg :
AMD announces a range of new chips to compete with Intel's lower-end lineup, including the dual-core Athlon 200GE for $55
Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out its latest processors based on the Zen architecture that will attack the low end of rival Intel's product line.
Jack Dorsey testified that, before fix, Twitter algorithms unfairly filtered 600K accounts, including some members of Congress, from certain search results
Kris Holt / Engadget : Tweets: @jack , @jack , @jack , @jack , @jack , @jack , @jack , and @jack Tweets: @jack : In the spirit of accountability and transparency: recently we failed our intended impa...
Lyft launches a fleet of around 350 electric scooters in Denver, its first market, available for $1+ from 6AM to 8PM daily
The company is playing catch-up in a flush market, but it believes it can win by playing nice with cities — Lyft is the latest company to jump on the shared-scooter bandwagon …
Facebook says it will invest more than $1B to build its first Asian data center in Singapore, slated to open in 2022
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022.
Uber partners with Japanese taxi company Fuji Taxi Group to let users hail cabs using the Uber app in Nagoya
- Users can hail cabs through Uber app in Nagoya from Thursday — Deal covers about 5% of taxis in Japan's third largest city — Uber Technologies Inc. has finally found …
Uber announces new safety features for drivers and riders, such as checking in on idle cars and anonymous pick up addresses, rolling out in the coming months
Bloomberg :
Interviews and documents show IBM used NYPD surveillance footage in 2012 to develop object identification tech that could search by skin color and more
In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch.
Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will launch its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, in Paris on Thursday; Taxify says it has 10M users in 25 countries
Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will compete with Bird and Lime in Europe with its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, launching in Paris on Thursday.
Dell reports revenue of $22.9B, up 18% YoY, and projects $92B in adjusted revenue for 2019 as it weighs a plan to go public again
Dell Technologies Inc., the world's largest closely held technology company, reported growing sales, and increased its outlook for the year …
Insight Venture Partners buys content management platform Episerver for $1.1B from the private equity firm Accel-KKR
Episerver, the Irvine, California-based company which provides services for marketers to manage content, was bought by Insight Venture Partners for a cool $1.1 billion from the private equity firm Acc...
Monese, which provides a mobile-only current account targeting customers with a thin credit file, raises $60M Series B led by Kinnevik
The large amounts of cash that is being invested in challenger banks in the U.K., whether that be startups with a fully fledged banking license or those using …
Iceland-based CCP Games, which makes EVE Online, is acquired by South Korean game maker Pearl Abyss for $425M
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Location marketing startup Uberall raises $25M led by HPE Growth Capital, adding to the $25M Series B raised earlier this year, and acquires competitor Navads
Berlin-based location marketing startup Uberall has raised a further $25 million in funding — adding to a $25 million Series B raised earlier …
Upwork, a marketplace for freelance developers, writers, and others, files for an IPO on Nasdaq and says it had $228M in revenue from June 2017-2018
Another tech IPO is coming around the corner in what has been a strong year for startups taking the plunge and going public.
Survey of US adults: 42% took a break from Facebook for several weeks or more, 26% deleted app from their phone, 54% adjusted privacy settings in past 12 months
or breaking up with — Facebook Rachel Kaser / The Next Web : It turns out lots of people actually did #DeleteFacebook Aaron Smith / Pew Research Center : Many Facebook users don't understand how the s...
Bernie Sanders debuts the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act that would tax big firms equal to the welfare received by low wage staff
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo :
A year after the Equifax breach became public, Congress has failed to advance any legislation and the Trump administration has halted a CFPB investigation
The Equifax data breach was supposed to change everything about cybersecurity regulation on Capitol Hill. One year later, it's not clear it changed much of anything. Tweets: @bobjherman Tweets: Bob H...
Report: Goldman Sachs ditches plans for a cryptocurrency trading desk in the foreseeable future as regulatory framework remains unclear; cryptocurrencies slide
Diptendu Lahiri / Reuters :
Google unveils Dataset Search, a search engine that will cover datasets from environmental and social sciences, government, and ProPublica-style news orgs
covers a variety of public and commercial domains, e.g. “police shootings” results include Kaggle, city portals, @datadotworld, and ICPSR: http://toolbox.google.com/... http://twitter.com/... Paul Ked...
How 30+ popular tech companies, from social networks to dating apps, responded to requests for personal data; how they interpret that data remains opaque
Here's what they gave us — and what they didn't. — The average American, one study tell us, touches their phone 2,600 times per day.
Hong Kong startup Crypto.com plans to ship Asia's first cryptocurrency Visa debit cards to 100K customers over the next two months, starting with Singapore
Georgina Lee / South China Morning Post :
Chinese social network Bullet Message hits 5M users after Aug. 20 debut, ranks above WeChat in Apple Store downloads but is no threat to WeChat with 1B+ users
Bloomberg :
A look at the potential antitrust cases against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook and what they might look like if they lost
Antitrust crusaders have built up serious momentum in Washington, but so far, it's all been theory and talk. Groups like Open Markets have made a strong case that big companies …
Snap launches new styles of Spectacles 2 with polarized lenses that look more like traditional sunglasses, available today for $199
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Chinese fresh produce e-commerce platform MissFresh raises $450M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Tencent
Goldman Sachs Investment Partners and Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Limited lead a US$450 million financing round in Chinese fresh produce e-commerce platform MissFresh.
Chicago-based ShipBob, which helps small e-commerce businesses streamline fulfillment and manage inventory, raises $40M Series C led by Menlo Ventures
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Global VR headset shipments dropped 33.7% YoY in Q2, with screenless viewers shrinking from 1M in 2Q'17 to 409,000 in 2Q'18, but the market outlook is positive
Roblox, an MMO game popular with kids, raises $150M Series F, source says at a $2.5B+ valuation, bringing total raised to $185M
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Nielsen acquires games market intelligence company SuperData Research, which estimates digital game sales by looking at the behavior of 160M people
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat :
Interview with Facebook's Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher, an ex-DOJ prosecutor, who focuses on shutting down foreign interference on Facebook
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney : Tweets: @ericgoldman Tweets: Eric Goldman / @ericgoldman : It was a huge failure that Facebook & other social media services didn't anticipate Russian election hacking. ...
SEC filing shows Groq, a startup developing a tensor processing unit, has raised $52.3M of a $60M round
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
ThinCI, a California-based semiconductor startup that focuses on making chips for AI, raises $65M Series C led by Denso Corp.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Location data platform Factual, which provides data to Google, Facebook, Apple, and others, raises $42M, bringing total raised to $104M
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
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