Google now lets users review and delete their recent search activity and provides easier access to privacy controls, on desktop today, on mobile apps later
We're always working on making it easier for you to understand and control your data so you can make privacy choices that are right for you.
Interviews with dozens of employees detail Rockstar Games' culture of “crunch”, after a studio co-founder's 100-hour weeks remark triggered industry discussion
In the final year of development on Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming Western game, the top directors decided …
Tim Cook attacks the “data industrial complex” and calls for comprehensive US privacy laws in speech at conference on data protection and privacy in Brussels
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized again people and societies …
Motorola and iFixit partner on DIY battery and screen repair kits that include official parts and cost $40 to $200; faulty repair of a phone may void warranty
Phone companies usually want to stop you from repairing your own devices, or even going to a third-party repair shop.
Amazon pitched its facial recognition surveillance tech to ICE and continued its dialogue with the US immigration agency in the midst of critical media coverage
Amazon employees are up in arms about possible collaborations with law enforcement. That hasn't stopped Amazon reps from pitching ICE on its face-scanning tech.
Sources: Apple plans to offer TV subscription service in 100+ countries, debuting in US in first half of next year, will offer free shows to Apple device owners
Apple is planning to launch its upcoming TV subscription service in more than 100 countries, three people familiar with the company's plans told The Information.
Coinbase adds its first stablecoin, a Circle-issued coin called USDC tied to the US dollar, which US customers outside NY state can buy and sell
Crypto exchange Coinbase announced support for the Circle-issued stablecoin Tuesday. — In a blog post, the exchange said U.S. customers outside …
FireEye says it has linked Triton malware that inadvertently shut down a Saudi petrochemical plant in 2017 to a Russian government-owned research institute
Cybersecurity firm FireEye points the finger at the Russian government and a government-linked facility for creating a destructive malware.
Facebook rolls out a redesigned Messenger app with a focus on simplicity, using more white space and fewer tabs, and plans to add a dark mode in coming months
A powerful utility goes back to basics — Facebook is releasing a redesigned version of Messenger today that attempts to put the focus back on your chats.
Italian anti-trust watchdog fines Apple and Samsung €5M over phone throttling complaints and Apple an additional €5M over lack of info on battery replacement
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-trust watchdog said on Wednesday it was fining Apple Inc. (AAPL.O) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd …
Facebook says its AI tools helped moderators remove 8.7M user-posted images of child nudity during the last quarter
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday that company moderators during the last quarter removed 8.7 million user images of child nudity with the help …
Japan's finance regulator grants legal status to cryptocurrency exchange association as a self-regulatory industry body
The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan's finance regulator, has formally approved a cryptocurrency exchange association as a self-regulatory industry body.
Huawei Mate 20 Pro review: amazing battery, performance, and display, but it isn't available in the US, software has some bugs, and camera isn't top notch
Huge battery, slick design, and a superb processor, constrained by bad software and international relations
Algorand, the blockchain startup founded by MIT professor and Turing Award winner Silvio Micali, raises $62M and hires new exec team from Fuze and LogMeIn
The blockchain and cryptocurrency industry has produced a lot of hype, but it is still working to deliver practical applications that are widely used by businesses.
AT&T reports a surprise net addition of 69,000 phone subscribers in Q3, but misses expectations with net income of $4.7B on revenue of $45.74B; stock down 6%+
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc posted a surprise gain in U.S. wireless subscribers on Wednesday but quarterly profit rose less than expected …
A look at two features Twitter is testing: “presence indicators”, which say what users are doing while they tweet, and “ice breakers” to start conversations
Executives say they want to enhance conversations on the platform — Twitter is testing new features designed …
Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital has raised $1B for its sixth flagship fund, with $600M allocated for late-stage deals and $400M for early-stage startups
Kate Clark @kateclarktweets / 7 hours — It's a good week to be Josh Kushner, venture capitalist, founder of the health insurance unicorn Oscar …
Spotify makes its playlist submissions feature, in beta since the summer, available to all artists, letting them contact Spotify's playlist editors
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 8 hours — Spotify is taking its playlist submission feature for all artists out of beta, starting today.
Court filing: Verizon and Altaba agree to pay $50M in damages and up to $37.5M in legal fees to settle with Yahoo users affected by the 2013 breach
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million in damages and provide two years of free credit-monitoring services …
Google plans to reach five million schoolchildren with a digital citizenship education program, but critics say it should be disqualified from doing so
The tech giant is positioning itself in schools as a trusted authority on digital citizenship at a moment when the company's data-handling practices are under growing scrutiny. Tweets: @samueljscott ,...
The Chinese freeze on approving new games since March, which is expected to stretch into next year, is estimated to have cost game companies ~$1.4B in revenue
The halt, in place since March, is said to have cost companies such as Tencent and NetEase roughly $1.4 billion in lost revenue
Sources: Facebook and Twitter have so far not found evidence of Chinese meddling in the 2018 US elections, undermining President Trump's claims
- Cybersecurity firms also don't detect Chinese interference — Social media giants have detected activity by Russia and Iran
iPhone XR review: competitive price for Apple's latest processor and cameras with a great battery life, but comes in only one size and the display is not great
There's got to be a catch. Jesse Hollington / iLounge : Report: Apple adjusting Smart HDR algorithms in iOS 12.1 to address ‘BeautyGate’ complaints Tweets: Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : If yo...
Conflicting goals, mutual suspicion, and a view that AI and other advanced tech are a winner-take-all game are pushing the tech sectors of US and China apart
IN THE SPRING of 2016, an artificial intelligence system called AlphaGo defeated a world champion Go player in a match at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul.
Leaked internal survey of Snap's ~3,000-person workforce shows 40% don't plan to stay, up 11% since Q1 2018, as Snap stock has tumbled in recent months
Snapchat employees are looking to jump ship in growing numbers after a botched app redesign and drop in stock price soured many on the company's future … Tweets: @alexeheath Tweets: Alex Heath / @alex...
Snapchat says it helped more than 400K US users register to vote during a recent two-week period, following an in-app push to encourage registration
in my book, Taylor Swift > Snapchat, forever. @nytimestech : Many of the new voter registrations were in key battleground states like Texas, Florida and Georgia, Snapchat said. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Facebook spent $12M+ on ads related to its election integrity efforts and getting out the vote, issues report on US groups that paid for political ads since May
Arti Kulkarni / Facebook :
Coinbase gets approval from NY regulators to create the Coinbase Custody Trust Company, which will offer custody services for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and more
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Finn AI, which develops customer service chatbots for financial institutions, raises ~$11M Series A led by Yaletown Partners and Flying Fish Partners
Jessica Galang / BetaKit :
Israel-based EyeSight, which tracks gaze, eye openness, head position and uses AI to detect driver distraction, raises $15M round, bringing total raised to $50M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Snap says it hired Jeremi Gorman, most recently Amazon's head of ads sales, as its chief business officer and Jared Grusd as its chief strategy officer
Michelle Castillo / CNBC :
Dutch research institute QuTech aims to build a secure quantum network connecting four cities by 2020, which would be impervious to hacking and surveillance
photons of light, for this purpose—in a single quantum state, so that even if they travel off in opposite directions, they retain a quantum connection. http://twitter.com/... @techreview : The race to...
A look at the unregulated practice of undercover cops friending people on social media as part of dragnet surveillance operations
Kashmir Hill / The Root : Tweets: @manhack and @kashhill Tweets: Jean Marc Manach / @manhack : “Fifteen years for posting a photo on Facebook... What exactly was the crime? People are being caught in...
Google says it will roll out a software update in the coming weeks to fix the Pixel 3's photo-saving issue
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Researchers: Germany-based spyware firm Wolf Intelligence left 20GB of data on an unprotected server and a public Google Drive folder, including customer info
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : Tweets: @lorenzofb and @josephfcox Tweets: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : New: Government spyware vendor Wolf Intelligence left a treasure ...
Amazon adds new Business Prime benefits, including a credit card, extended payment terms via invoice, and free same-day or one-day shipping on select orders
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Investigation reveals a network of 125+ Android apps and websites that are part of a massive ad fraud scheme; the apps were installed an estimated 115M+ times
straight up stolen by crooks! My latest investigation, and a thread: http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Maria Chong / @mariachong : Wow. “... a single mobile app could generate $75 million a year in sto...
Patreon partners with Reddit to promote creators' Patreon accounts by making them more visible, adding special flair tags for supporters, and more
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Amazon spent $3.63M on lobbying in Q3, up from $3.47M in Q2, as it seeks a big Pentagon contract; Google spent $5.46M, up 30%+ YoY, while Facebook spent $2.82M
Ben Brody / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Amazon's spending on lobbying to influence U.S. lawmakers reaches a company record http://www.bloomberg.com/...
AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story
Makena Kelly / The Verge : Tweets: @ajassy , @stevekopack , and @kimzetter Tweets: Andy Jassy / @ajassy : @tim_cook is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too. They offered no proof, story ...
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