White House: draft EO ordering probes into practices of Facebook and Google is not an official document; sources: Yelp sent email with the draft EO to WH aides
The White House sought to distance itself Saturday from reports that President Trump is considering an executive order …
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 …
Sources: Apple delayed launch of a streaming video service twice, most recently until March, and spiked a Dr. Dre series as it seeks less edgy content
The tech giant wants to make scripted shows for streaming, only without violence, politics and risqué story lines
Bitcoin Core client, patched earlier this week, contained a second vulnerability that let attackers create new bitcoins above the 21M hard cap
This week's major bitcoin bug was even worse than developers initially let on. — The bug originally rocked the bitcoin world when it was reported …
Starting with Chrome 69 on desktop, users logging in to a Google site or service are automatically logged in to Chrome, which is a new mandatory login behavior
Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google Site is tied to logging into Chrome. — This is typically the topic where things …
A look at SASS, which provides anonymous online counseling on abortion pills and helps women avoid prosecution in states where self-managed abortion is illegal
For many people, the phrase “illegal abortion” calls to mind images of back alley clinics, medical providers with questionable credentials …
How cryptocurrency lobbying evolved from startup employees educating local officials on basics of blockchain to well funded PACs for electing crypto champions
John Collins will not say who asked him about the Antichrist. — It was an elected official of one of these 50 states …
The Swiss Bankers Association unveils new guidelines for banks that could make it easier for cryptocurrency/blockchain companies to open corporate bank accounts
Faced with an exodus of cryptocurrency projects from the country due to falling access to the banking sector, the Swiss Bankers Association …
Sources shed light on how Qualcomm's nascent server chip unit withered amid Broadcom takeover saga that resulted in cost cuts and key executive departures
- Nascent server chip unit whithered amid dealmaking, cost cuts — SoftBank-backed management buyout is said to have fizzled
Amazon increasingly looks like a traditional retailer, with Prime as a loyalty program, Basics as its house brand, and product placements via Amazon search ads
The narrative of Amazon's total disruption of traditional retail and ultimate dominance is well-known.
Museums around the world, including the Smithsonian, are increasingly using augmented reality technology to engage visitors at the exhibits
MAE JEMISON, THE first black woman to go into space, stood in the center of the room and prepared to become digital. Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : Museums have long relied on technology to give cont...
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
but probably not Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land : Twitter: A bug may have sent some direct messages to business account developers Timi Cantisano / Neowin : For over a year, a Twitter bug has been expo...
Latvian hacker sentenced to 14 years in prison for creating and running Scan4You service that allowed malware authors to check the detection rates of their code
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Doctors and scientists at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center strongly object to its for-profit deal with AI startup PAIGE for exclusive rights to patient data
An artificial intelligence start-up founded by three insiders at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center debuted with great fanfare in February …
In internal email after WSJ report, Google CEO Pichai denied efforts to politically bias search results, reaffirmed Google should remain politically neutral
Ina Fried / Axios :
NextVR now supports Oculus Rift and Oculus Go for its live sports and entertainment broadcasts
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
As it gets ready to launch its first commercial robot, Boston Dynamics is still struggling to articulate what the big application for its robots is
New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @brishenrogers , @caseynewton , and @dkthomp Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : The robot was called SpotMini. It was designed by Boston Dynamics, a company widely...
Q&A: Amazon Prime Video India head Vijay Subramaniam on Indian content for worldwide audiences, sparking conversation, and passing on film production for now
Nyay Bhushan / Hollywood Reporter :
Lately, the @Twitter account has interacted more playfully with users; Twitter says it's part of an effort to promote healthy conversations on the platform
Casey Newton / The Interface :
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