Amazon announces Amazon 4-star, a physical store that only sells items rated four stars and above with discounts for Prime members, with the first in NYC
Peek inside our newest store, inspired by our customers. — Tomorrow, we're opening Amazon 4-star, a new physical store where everything …
Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch
Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
Unnamed Australian teenager sentenced to eight months probation for breaching Apple's systems; investigators recovered 1TB of sensitive info copied from Apple
- Youth found accessing Apple networks addictive, court hears — Customers' data wasn't compromised by the attacks, Apple says
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books
Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.
David Marcus responds to Brian Acton's interview, defending Zuckerberg and his protection of WhatsApp within Facebook, says Acton's attack was “low-class”
[Disclaimer: no one at Facebook asked me to post this. I just had to do it. And these are my personal views exclusively.]
Oculus updates Oculus Go with new visual rendering features to improve image quality, YouTube VR support, casting feature to share its content to a TV, and more
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Crypto mining company Bitmain files for Hong Kong IPO; draft filing shows $2.8B in revenue as of June 30 and $422.05M raised in funding round that ended Aug. 7
Bitmain, the Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant, has officially filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
Amazon's anti-union tactics revealed in leaked 45-minute video that it sent to team leaders at Whole Foods; Amazon says Gizmodo “cherry-picked soundbites”
Amazon, the country's second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union.
Oculus announces updates to its platform, including a revamped Home with improved avatars and more, and developer-focused Hybrid Apps for porting 2D games
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Mark Zuckerberg says all Oculus VR content will be forward-compatible with upcoming Rifts
The untethered Dead & Buried is a completely different game Oculus : ILMxLAB Announces ‘Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series,’ Launching in 2019 on Oculus Quest Tweets: Ian Sherr / @iansherr : Sean L...
Oculus chief scientist Mike Abrash is optimistic about AR/VR and shares research progress and predictions for tech like improved FOV, resolution, eye-tracking
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
SoftBank's Vision Fund has already committed $65B; Masayoshi Son says that he plans to raise a new $100B fund every two or three years and spend ~$50B per year
The Japanese dealmaker says he'll raise a new $100 billion fund every few years. Silicon Valley's disruptors are struggling to keep up.
Home-flipping startup Opendoor raises $400M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, source says at a $2B+ valuation
It's official. Two weeks ago, we reported that Opendoor — the four year-old, San Francisco-based company aiming to make it possible to buy and sell residential real estate …
TechInsights teardown: iPhone XS Max components cost an estimated $443 for the 256GB model, nearly $50 more than last year's 64GB iPhone X
The iPhone XS Max with 256GB of storage costs an estimated $443 to make, according to estimates shared by TechInsights in a teardown of the new device.
Apple's first iOS apps on Mac, via its universal framework Marzipan, are sluggish, have UI quirks, non-standard behaviors, should not be preinstalled on Mojave
I don't like marzipan. And I don't like Marzipan. — I haven't been running Mojave on my machine in the beta period. Tweets: @jerkob , @fakebaldur , @zeveisenberg , and @stroughtonsmith Tweets: Jaco...
Real estate tech company Compass raises $400M Series F, led by SoftBank's Vision Fund and the Qatar Investment Authority, at a $4.4B valuation
Compass, the New York startup that has built a tech-first platform to take on the antiquated market of real estate, is building up its own house today.
Cargo, which makes boxes of items such as gum, phone chargers, and snacks to help drivers sell goods to ride-hailing passengers, raises $22.5M Series A
In-car commerce startup Cargo has raised $22.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund …
A look at how, ten years after Google introduced Android to prevent the industry's other players from becoming dominant, its mobile OS has become just that
It's an Android world; we just live in it — Android is 10 years old now, give or take. It was revealed on September 23rd …
A look at how the Apple Watch is poised to disrupt the highly regulated healthcare industry and what diagnostics and screening apps Apple may add in the future
I don't own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone.
Snap makes Shoppable Snap ads available via its self-serve ad-buying platform, lets advertisers import product catalogs, adds advanced pixel targeting features
Shoppable Snap ads are rolling out, and advertisers can now import catalogs to automatically create product ads.
Jen Fitzpatrick, head of Google Maps and once-intern of 1999, on the consistency of Google's culture, ongoing opportunities for Maps, possibilities with AR
Jen Fitzpatrick started out in Google's first class of interns in 1999. She now runs one of the company's most important businesses. Tweets: @harrymccracken Tweets: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken ...
UK-based Darktrace, a cybersecurity startup that uses machine learning to detect and stop malicious network behavior, raises $50M Series E at a $1.65B valuation
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Google says it will now include creator and credit metadata in photos it displays on Google Images and will add copyright notice metadata in the coming weeks
Google hasn't always had the best of relationships with photographers, but today it announced a small measure that should go some way toward appeasing image rightsholders. Tweets: @samharrelson Tweets...
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
Leaders from the cryptocurrency industry, Wall Street, and venture capital firms ask Congress for clearer regulations amid fears of innovation heading overseas
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
Circle launches USD Coin (USDC), its dollar-backed stablecoin first announced four months ago, initially available to partner institutions
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Profile of Coraline Ada Ehmke, author of Contributor Covenant, a code of conduct encouraging inclusive language use and now adopted by 40K+ open source projects
Klint Finley / Wired : Tweets: @jahnaberry , @coralineada , @dhh , and @wired Tweets: Jahna Berry / @jahnaberry : A crazy statistic: 95 percent of open source developers are men. @klintron profiles @...
Breakdown of the topics covered during Wednesday's US Senate hearing on privacy: big tech prefers federal legislation, Google evades questions on China, more
Apple and Twitter have described privacy as either a “fundamental right” or a “fundamental human right.” One company, AT&T, referred to “consumer privacy rights” in the abstract, but did not go as far...
How software used to process people at the US border played a role in stopping family reunification even after courts ordered the ICE agents to reunify them
if not by software changes, then by some sort of hack, had someone with the right skills been allowed to help — is maddening.” Sound familiar? @cate_long http://www.vox.com/... Thanks: @amynw
Sources: Lyft's revenue more than doubled in the first half of 2018 to $909M but its net loss grew 46% to $373M
Amir Efrati / The Information :
Iowa's attorney general says Uber will pay $148M to settle claims from all 50 states related to its 2016 data breach that exposed info of 25M+ US users
Austin Carr / Bloomberg :
IBM study: ~60% of 5K polled execs say they're concerned with explaining, in order to meet regulatory standards, how AI is using data, up from 29% in 2016
Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @ibmnews Tweets: @ibmnews : IBM's new cloud-based AI tools can show users which major factors led to an AI-based recommendation. The tools can also an...
Sources: late 2017 probe of Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, found troubling behavior like sexually charged comments; he was censured, then promoted
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal :
Cloudflare enlists Microsoft, Google, Automattic, Backblaze, and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
Veem, which uses bitcoin in connecting customers' bank accounts with clients and suppliers, raises $25M led by Goldman with GV, Kleiner Perkins among investors
Michael del Castillo / Forbes :
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says the company has raised $245M at a $20B valuation, up from $9B in November 2016
What Apple Pay Head Jennifer Bailey Learned at Netscape Piruze Sabuncu / Stripe Blog : Singapore engineering hub Holden Page / Crunchbase News : Stripe's Valuation Reaches $20B On $245M Raise Dan Prim...
Study shows 3,695 of Alexa's top 100,000 sites in mobile browsers access motion and light sensor data without asking user permission
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @lilyhnewman and @chumunculus Tweets: Lily Hay Newman / @lilyhnewman : there's no uniform system for requiring web apps to ask permission before accessing a slew of ...
Forter, which uses machine learning to detect and prevent fraud in online retail transactions, raises $50M Series D, bringing total raised to $100M
Sarah Hansen / Forbes :
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