Sources: a list of seven employees who quit Google over Dragonfly, including some engineers with up to 11 years tenure, is circulating inside Google
A list that names seven employees who say they quit their jobs at Google over a lack of corporate transparency is circulating within the company's ranks.
Mary Meeker and three partners are leaving Kleiner Perkins to form a new firm; sources describe clashes between early and late stage groups at Kleiner Perkins
Meeker is leading an exodus in a huge split at one of Silicon Valley's most famous firms. — Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins …
Sources: prototypes of Google's Dragonfly search engine for China link the search app on users' Android devices to their phone numbers
Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users' searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier …
Google adds support for fingerprint sensors on Android phones and Touch ID on Macs to Chrome 70 beta, allowing developers to use biometrics for authentication
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Investigation: North Korean operatives are evading US sanctions and earning millions by using fake identities on services like Github, Slack, and Paypal
Hiding behind social-media fake profiles, a group linked to Pyongyang solicited technology work to send hard currency back home
European website finds that a free app is exposing the exact locations of Grindr's 3.6M+ active users via unauthorized access to Grindr's private API
The gay dating app Grindr is still exposing the precise location of its more than 3.6 million active users although it has long been aware of the issue.
An in-depth review of Android 9 Pie, which comes with a lot of useful user-facing changes and, maybe, improved battery life, but the gestures remain a mess
The time has come for our annual deep dive (~19,000 words) into the latest Android release. — It's time for another big Android release …
Study: Facebook engagement for sites identified as publishing fake news dropped by 50%+ between 2016 election and July 2018, while shares on Twitter kept rising
Facebook's efforts to reduce misinformation in its news feed since the 2016 election have opened the company to all manner of criticism …
HYP3R, a location-based marketing platform, has raised $17M Series A; HYP3R says it has geofenced ~300K hotels worldwide for extremely accurate location data
Today, HYP3R announced $17M Series A funding to continue innovating location-based marketing for brands in travel, retail, and entertainment.
The FDA cleared the Apple Watch Series 4's heart monitoring abilities based on Apple-backed studies but mandated Apple label the risks of inaccurate readings
> less visibility) - it's not FDA approved, it's FDA cleared - the FDA studies only had a few hundred participants - it won't replace a hospital visit http://qz.com/1389202 Katherine Ellen Foley / @ka...
Airware, a drone startup that has raised $118M from Andreessen Horowitz, Google's GV, Kleiner Perkins, and others, is shutting down
Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors …
After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday
The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period …
How The Weather Channel and The Future Group used the Unreal Engine to create a stunning depiction of Hurricane Florence's storm surge
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families
is this better than just taxing the wealth of the richest man in the world, and making that money democratically accountable? https://twitter.com/... Laszlo Bock / @laszlobock : Bravo @JeffBezos. I wi...
Mercedes-Benz to integrate SoundHound's AI voice assistant in A-Class cars soon; the AI assistant is also coming to Kia and Hyundai cars in 2019
Matt Burns / TechCrunch :
Nasdaq to buy Cinnober, a Sweden-based exchange and real-time clearing technology provider, for ~$190M
Philip Stafford / Financial Times :
Twitch hires its first head of diversity and inclusion from Vimeo, also a new human resources chief and CFO; it now has four women in its seven-person C-suite
Lisa Marie Segarra / Fortune :
Tencent-backed content aggregator Qutoutiao closes up 128% after raising $84M in its IPO, the biggest first-day increase of a significant US IPO in 2018
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :
Anaplan, which makes cloud-based business planning software, has filed for IPO, one week after its CFO joined the company from Tesla, where he was for one month
This is an initial public offering of shares … Alex Barinka / Bloomberg : Anaplan Files for U.S. IPO With Ex-Tesla Exec as Finance Chief Becky Peterson / Business Insider : $1.4 billion Anaplan files ...
EFF and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School help eliminate “seven dirty words” restriction policy from .US domain name registrations, reinstating fucknazis.us
Lenny Bruce http://www.eff.org/... @eff : The First Amendment lets the US gov't regulate dirty words on broadcast radio and TV—but not on the Internet. http://www.eff.org/...
Profile of Procore, a cloud-based platform for the $1T US construction industry that has raised $200M+ and is thinking about IPO after barely surviving in 2008
n a quiet street in Montecito, California, a suburb of Santa Barbara, Procore CEO Craig “Tooey” Courtemanche is considering how best to break into his own house. Tweets: @forbes . Thanks: @alexrkonrad...
Licensing and approval loopholes make games like GTA, banned in China, available for download in the country via Apple's App Store and Steam store
Josh Ye / Abacus :
Google says it will shut down Fabric, the mobile app development tool it acquired in 2017 from Twitter, in mid-2019 after it migrates Fabric's users to Firebase
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
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