Phil Schiller talks about the R in iPhone XR and the choices Apple made to make it more appealing to a broader audience
The iPhone XR might be the most interesting phone Apple has made in years. — Think about it: Apple just released its flagship XS and XS Max to a chorus of positive reviews …
Google Home Hub review: smart photo frame and home control panel, a capable digital assistant, photos and videos look crisp but sound quality is mediocre
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The data loss bug in Windows 10 shows Microsoft hasn't developed the processes and systems needed to sustain the two feature updates a year for Windows approach
Buggy updates point at deeper problems. — It's fair to say that the Windows 10 October 2018 Update has not been Microsoft's most successful update.
eBay launches eBay Instant Selling, a new trade-in service for smartphones
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 7 hours — eBay today launched a new service to help users unload their old smartphones on its online marketplace. With eBay Instant Selling, as the service is called …
White House to meet executives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM today urging them to make it easier for their workers to do tours of duty in government
The White House plans to convene technology giants including Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft and IBM on Monday and urge …
Netflix says it's going to raise $2B through debt securities, the sixth time in less than four years it's raising $1B+ through bonds
Netflix is again going to debt markets to fund its enormous appetite for content, announcing plans Monday to raise $2 billion in financing through debt securities.
Detecting fake news using AI will require a number of major advances far beyond today's AI, which just flags word patterns and operates at a keyword level
At least not for decades to come. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. — Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neural science.
China's internet censor releases draft rules for blockchain startups, requiring registration of users with real names, censoring posts, and storing user data
- Cyberspace Administration of China published draft regulations on Friday for public consultation until November 2
Pulumi launches its SaaS multicloud app deployment service, raises $15M in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Capital
It didn't take long for the ex-Microsoft engineers behind Pulumi to prove their software development platform for multicloud computing was worthy of additional investment.
Survey of 5,844 US college students finds 89% at least got some news from social media weekly, with 71% getting news from Facebook and 55% from Snapchat
A number of studies have shown that people turn to social media for news, and of all of the social networks out there, Facebook consistently leads the pack in this regard.
Recent news serves as a reminder that operators in startups and venture capital should work to ensure their investors are not bad actors
I got an email from the CEO of one of our portfolio companies last week. — It asked a very basic question, but one that I don't recall being asked before: Tweets: @gaberivera , @bznotes , @austinfis...
An in-depth look at how Israel became a leading exporter of tools for oppressive regimes to spy on activists' and dissidents' communications
Haaretz investigation spanning 100 sources in 15 countries reveals Israel has become a leading exporter of tools for spying on civilians. Tweets: @haaretzcom , @barrettbrown_ , @haaretzcom , and @mair...
Dutch startup ZIVVER, which has helped patients securely share their medical files, raises $12M Series A to build out its secure communication platform
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Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings
Some years ago an investor I met at a TechCrunch … Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg : McKinsey Is ‘Horrified’ That Saudi Arabia Report May Have Been Misused CNET : Twitter employee may have spied on users fo...
Research shows ISIS and al-Qaeda have shifted away from YouTube for disseminating propaganda following the platform's 2017 crackdown against extremist content
a promising development in the online fight against terrorist propaganda. http://www.wired.com/... Shereen / @shereeny : now they're just the top online recruitment venue for white supremacists! http:...
London-based fashion e-commerce startup Thread, which uses AI to help suggest clothes to buy, raises $22M and announces an equity crowdfunding campaign
British menswear suggestion and matching startup Thread has raised $22 million in a Series B funding round from Balderton Capital …
Netflix says it will spend $18.6B on content, and forecasts $3B negative cash flow for 2018 and 2019, judging that aggressive spending leads to more subscribers
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Sources: Facebook is stepping up efforts to buy a major cybersecurity firm and has approached several companies about an acquisition
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Profile of YouTuber Scotty Allen, who rose to fame last year after he built an iPhone from scratch by using parts he bought from public markets in Shenzhen
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Tiger Global raises $3.75B for its latest VC fund, which surpassed its initial target of $3B; focus to include consumer internet and industry-specific software
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Profile of Symphony, a secure messaging app for financial industry that also lets bots at different institutions talk to each other and settle trades
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SoftBank Group COO Marcelo Claure and Arm CEO Simon Segers talk about the present and future of Arm, IoT growth, while trying to dodge Saudi-related questions
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How projects like Ocean Protocol, Oasis, Enigma, and SingularityNET use blockchain for AI research hoping to curb the dominance of big tech in the field
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Google says it will open source the firmware for Titan M, the secure chip in Pixel 3 phones that handles Verified Boot and has its own isolated storage and RAM
Brian Barrett / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : The Titan M chip may be small and discreet, but its ability to protect against the most sophisticated and devastating attacks helps make the Pi...
Source: Plaid, which makes tools to let clients like Venmo and Coinbase authenticate accounts and check balances, is raising $200M at a valuation of up to $3B
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