Telltale Games, which makes games based on franchises such as Jurassic Park and Batman, lays off most of its staff, keeps 25 to begin “majority studio closure”
Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman …
Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip
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In internal email after WSJ report, Google CEO Pichai denied efforts to politically bias search results, reaffirmed Google should remain politically neutral
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a company-wide email Friday, which Axios obtained, denying any effort to politically bias …
Twitter says it fixed a bug that sent some users' direct messages from their interactions with business accounts to third-party developers, since May 2017
Twitter said that a “bug” sent user's private direct messages to third-party developers “who were not authorized to receive them.”
PayPal says it has banned all Infowars-related sites for promoting hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions
PayPal will no longer do business with Infowars, according to a post on the conspiracy theory site this morning.
Luxury clothing marketplace Farfetch closes up 42% on its first day of trading, after raising $885M in its IPO; Farfetch is now valued at $8.2B
- Shares rise as investors bet on $8,287 coats, $980 sneakers — CEO Neves seeks to further customize site for regional tastes
NYT sues FCC for records that NYT alleges may reveal Russian government interference in FCC's comment period before rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules
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Ethereum-based decentralized exchange Bancor to launch BancorX, an extension of its protocol to EOS blockchain that will allow cross-blockchain conversions
In a bid to extend the reach of its services, Bancor is opening up shop on another blockchain. — The decentralized exchange protocol …
Sources: Google made staff delete memo that said Dragonfly required logins to search, tracked location, and gave Chinese partner unilateral access to data
Google bosses have forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details …
Profile of Marc Randazza, a free speech advocate and lawyer who tries to limit social media platforms' ability to act against hateful and abusive content
The new speech wars are a push and pull between individuals, governments, and platforms. At the center of this is attorney Marc Randazza …
IPO prospectus of Meituan-Dianping, which owns Mobike, said that the Chinese bike-sharing service had 48.1M active bike users, 7.1M active bikes as of April 30
The prospectus paints a much different picture. — A year ago the world was beset by a bicycle rental craze that resulted …
Google announces new experimental Daydream VR features for developers: support for all Android apps, new 6DoF controllers, and a see-through mode
Jonathan Huang / Google Developers Blog :
Q&A: Amazon Prime Video India head Vijay Subramaniam on Indian content for worldwide audiences, sparking conversation, and passing on film production for now
Led by Vijay Subramaniam, the service has been aggressively ramping up its slate with a mix of fiction and unscripted shows …
In letter to Congress, Google confirms it continues to allow third-party apps to scan and share data from Gmail accounts, though Google itself stopped doing so
Wall Street Journal :
Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton accused of rushing legislation through parliament that tech companies say would weaken encryption
Josh Taylor / BuzzFeed :
A roundup of all the major announcements from Amazon on Thursday, from a new microwave to a subwoofer to new Alexa skills and developer tools
and that may say more about us than about them Geek News Central : Amazon Made it Rain Alexa Corbin Davenport / Android Police : Lenovo is working on more tablets with Alexa integration Kieren McCarth...
Sources: Instagram was testing a way for users to reshare posts from other accounts to their own feeds; company says it's not building or testing such a feature
and maybe exclusively — to verified business accounts. Imagine an influencer resharing a post from the shop where you can buy their merchandiseI expect Instagram will be slow + careful, whatever it do...
UK-based Cleo, an AI chatbot that gives users insights into spending across multiple accounts and credit cards, raises $10M Series A led by Balderton Capital
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Twitch website is currently not accessible in China and its app has disappeared from the App Store, indicating that Twitch may have been blocked in the country
RIAA: revenues from streaming up 28% YoY to $3.4B in H1 2018, accounting for 75% of recorded music revenue; 75% of streaming revenue comes from subscriptions
Patricia Hernandez / The Verge :
How counterfeit Apple products, such as adapters and chargers, take circuitous shipment routes via multiple companies to reach the US consumer market
Kevin McCoy / USA Today : Tweets: @jguynn Tweets: Jessica Guynn / @jguynn : Counterfeit electronics that reach consumers often come with safety risks."You might think it's harmless to buy a $3 or $4 ...
Microsoft says Skype is coming to Amazon Alexa devices later this year, letting Alexa users make outgoing voice and video calls, accept incoming calls, and more
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya appears unconcerned about the string of exits from the firm and says it will no longer raise outside capital
@chamath http://medium.com/... Anna Hensel / @ahhensel : It's quotes like these that make me never want to leave tech reporting: “I would rather spend time with the people that are 100% aligned with w...
Pinterest makes Shop The Look Pins, a free product-tagging tool previously available only to big businesses, available to all businesses and influencers
Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land :
A look at how tech products aimed at civic engagement made by technologists from Silicon Valley have mostly failed to have any long term impact
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg : Tweets: @profmichelson , @bradstone , and @shiraovide Tweets: Dr. Melissa R Michelson / @profmichelson : As a local, I often have Silicon Valley startup folks come ask m...
Wearables startup Thalmic is about to launch smart glasses under the new brand North, sources and ads around NYC and Toronto show
People wonder why I'm so bullish on smart glasses. Tweets: Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : My analysis of @thalmic's new smart glasses: http://www.facebook.com/... A big wave of new products are coming ...
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