Facebook debuts video chat devices for home, the $199 Portal with a 10" screen and $349 Portal+ with a 15.6" swiveling screen; preorders today, ships November
Facebook's first hardware product combines Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant) with a countertop video chat screen that zooms to always keep you in frame.
Microsoft unveils Project xCloud, a game streaming service designed to work across consoles, PCs, and mobile devices, available for public trials in 2019
Available for public trials in 2019 — Microsoft is unveiling its game streaming service for the first time today.
Intel unveils 9th-gen Core i5, i7, and i9 chips including the i9-9900K (8-core) for gaming; preorders start today, ships October 19
Among many of Intel's announcements today, a key one for a lot of users will be the launch of Intel's 9th Generation Core desktop processors …
Why it is basically impossible to secure supply chains from attacks like the alleged Chinese embedded chip hack, and how we can mitigate the consequences
From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making …
DHS and UK's NCSC say they have “no reason to doubt” statements from Apple, Amazon, and others rejecting Bloomberg's story on China spying via microchips
DHS says no reason to doubt firms' China hack denials https://reut.rs/2ynLr0f Glenn Fleishman / @glennf : I'm baffled by this. The technical bits in the article seemed not quite right to my ear, but I...
Echo Show 2018 review: improved sound quality, bigger screen, and software easier to use, but no hardware shutter to block the camera, poor YouTube experience
New screen, same Show — After being confined to an audio-only experience for over two years, Amazon's Alexa assistant …
UK high court blocks mass legal action against Google over claims that it collected sensitive personal data from more than 4M iPhone users
Tech company faced claims it gathered personal data from more than 4m iPhone users — The high court has blocked a mass legal action against Google …
Intel unveils 28-core Xeon W-3175X CPU for workstations, with an unlocked multiplier running at up to 4.3 GHz in burst mode, coming in December
Intel on Monday officially introduced its 28-core processor for extreme workstations that it teased first back in June.
Google adds a new automated closed captions feature to Google Slides to create real-time subtitles from verbal presentations
Google is adding a new automated closed captions feature to its Google Slides presentation program, one that creates real-time subtitles from the spoken word.
Intel updates Skylake-X processors with seven new CPUs ranging from 8 to 18 cores, including the $1979 i9-9980XE with up to 15% better power efficiency
One of the interesting things about Intel's latest generation of high-end desktop parts was the jump from ten cores at the peak to eighteen …
WeChat posts the top ten rumors every month so it can debunk them, and also offers a mini program to assist in debunking rumors, used by 300,000 people/day
In China, WeChat has become a primary news source for Chinese internet users, just as Facebook in the West.
Tracing the “information terrorists” who fuel conspiracy theories and battles from Gamergate and QAnon to attacks on Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford
The network architecture built in Gamergate helped propel Trump to the presidency and fuel conspiracies like Pizzagate and QAnon. Tweets: @markhertling and @mollymckew Tweets: Mark Hertling / @markher...
Source: Tencent has agreed to invest about $200M in Brazil-based Nubank, which makes a “no-fee” credit card managed via a mobile app, valuing the startup at $4B
Chinese internet giant Tencent has agreed to invest about $200 million in Brazil's Nubank, which offers virtual credit cards … Tweets: @waynema Tweets: Wayne Ma / @waynema : Tencent's first investment...
Varjo Technologies raises $31M Series B led by Atomico for its mixed reality headset that it says is good enough for super precise industrial applications
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Foursquare raises $33M Series F, two years after its major pivot from consumer social network to location data provider and $45M Series E
Announcing Foursquare's latest … David Cohen / Adweek : Foursquare Closes $33 Million Funding Round, Aiming to ‘Refine’ Its Products Zoë Bernard / Business Insider : Here's why the world's largest pro...
After troubles in Myanmar, a look at how Facebook has evolved its approach in getting people online in Africa by working with civil society groups and more
Nitasha Tiku / Wired :
Study: Chinese VCs invested $3.9B in computer vision and AR in past 12 months; North American AR/VR investments fell from $1.5B in Q4 2017 to ~$120M in Q3 2018
Last year, 30 leading venture investors told us about a fundamental shift from early-stage North American VR investment …
The Internet Archive stores a total of 22 petabytes, adds four petabytes per year, and uses ~7K processes crawling the web to capture 1.5B items per week
Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica : Tweets: @louisgray Tweets: Louis Gray / @louisgray : The @internetarchive has 22 petabytes of archived information. With proper backups, that's 44 petabytes of data. T...
Amount of VC funding raised by US and Canadian companies is projected to rise for the fourth consecutive quarter, to $35B in Q3 2018, up 19% YoY
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News :
US DOJ and the Dutch intelligence agency MIVD detail how recently indicted GRU officers infiltrated Wi-Fi networks at hotels and offices to hack their targets
China's Chip Hack, Amazon and Apple's Denials, Google's Trust Reversal Tweets: Nicholas Thompson / @nxthompson : If you work for intelligence, or for an anti-doping agency: DO NOT USE THE HOTEL WIFI. ...
Sources say Honda reached a deal with GM to develop autonomous vehicles after its talks with Waymo fell apart due to Waymo's reluctance to share core technology
Bloomberg : Tweets: @alistairmbarr Tweets: Alistair Barr / @alistairmbarr : Inside a driverless car deal that faltered. Honda wanted more access to Waymo tech, but couldn't produce an electric vehicl...
Advances in AI and years of data gathering related to cyberattacks have made it easier for firms and governments to tie hacks to specific hacking groups
Adam Janofsky / Wall Street Journal :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.