Sources: Amazon held advanced talks about opening HQ2 in Crystal City, Northern Virginia and some officials discussed how to make announcement after midterms
Amazon.com has held advanced discussions about the possibility of opening its highly sought-after second headquarters in Crystal City …
Google walkout organizers say 20,000+ participated and that Sundar Pichai will meet with his leadership team on Monday to review a plan to address their demands
For Immediate Release: — Google employees and contractors participate in global “walkout for real change”
How Facebook and Twitter fight online voter suppression for the midterms with algorithm changes and partnerships with organizations that report disinformation
Facebook and Twitter aren't just trying to drive people to the polls — they're racing to fight back bad actors who seek to deter their users from voting.
After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users
Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race …
Twitter has removed some bot accounts, sources say more than 10,000, that posed as Democrats and posted tweets discouraging people from voting in the midterms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting …
A history of the ongoing quest to build a viable 2-in-1 tablet-laptop hybrid and why they are so hard to design
In a recent barrage of new products, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Lenovo, and HP have all shown off computers that are trying to tackle one of the industry's most vexing problems …
US Department of Commerce to lift price freeze on .com domains from December 2020 after extending contract with Verisign to run the internet registry until 2024
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire :
Sensor Tower: ByteDance's short video app TikTok's monthly US App Store installs in October were higher than those of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube
Beijing-based ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off.
Current and former senior US officials say the Pentagon has outlined an offensive cyberattack against Russia if it electronically interferes with the midterms
U.S. military hackers have been given the go-ahead to gain access to Russian cyber systems as part of potential retaliation for any meddling in America's elections
Profile of Thasos, which leases trillions of anonymized GPS coordinates from ~1,000 smartphone apps and sells insights from the data to Wall Street traders
The phone in your pocket is dishing info on where you spend your time and, likely, money — When Tesla Inc. TSLA .62% Chief Executive Elon Musk …
A look at how deepfakes, with recent software advances that easily create AI-generated fake audio and video, could be misused to undermine elections
PLENTY OF PEOPLE are following the final days of the midterm election campaigns. Yale law researcher Rebecca Crootof has a special interest—a small wager. Tweets: @nxthompson and @wired Tweets: Nicho...
Blockchain-powered network Civil's token sale failed because people buy into blockchain to make money and don't necessarily want to use it to “fix” journalism
Hype around the technology has led to incomprehensible applications of it. — Civil Media Company was introduced earlier …
In a wide-ranging interview, Elon Musk discusses his tweeting habits, Tesla's past year, its Navigate on Autopilot feature, full autonomous driving, and more
@elonmusk https://itunes.apple.com/... Michael Sheetz / @thesheetztweetz : .@elonmusk talks @SpaceX with @karaswisher, starting with a discussion of how he might die on Mars: “Hopefully me dying on im...
How US-based Truepic and UK-based Serelay discern true images from fakes by using proprietary algorithms to automatically verify photos the moment they're made
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review :
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts and claim to have details from up to 120M accounts for sale; FB blames 3rd-party browser extensions
Andrei Zakharov / BBC :
Profile of cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns who says he has spent $300M to build an experimental community based on blockchain in Nevada
Nathaniel Popper / New York Times :
Freedom House moves the US down a spot in its global internet freedom rankings citing net neutrality repeal, surveillance law renewal, disinformation, and more
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Sources: in 2011, Iranians used Google search to identify a string of websites the CIA used to communicate with its agents, compromising the CIA's wider network
and could see who was visiting it and from where — compromising CIA assets. A major scoop by @JennaMC_Laugh and @zachsdorfman. http://www.yahoo.com/... Jenna McLaughlin / @jennamc_laugh : Technology i...
HPE's Spaceborne Computer, the first commercial off-the-shelf computer launched into orbit to run a teraflop in zero gravity, now available for scientific use
even though nearly half of its hard disks failed after getting fried by solar radiation. http://www.wired.com/...
Tencent unveils Spectacles-like Weishi smart glasses, available in China from November 11 and named after its own short video sharing app Weishi
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
View, a startup that makes smart windows with internet-connected frames that can regulate the tinting of the glass, raises $1.1B from SoftBank's Vision Fund
Despite the recent assassination of a journalist by Saudi Arabian agents and an ensuing global controversy, Masayoshi Son … Tweets: @business and @markmilian Tweets: @business : Masayoshi Son and his ...
Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers' local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue
BuzzFeed News :
Uber details new safety measures for its autonomous vehicle program in report, says it's applying to resume testing of vehicles in autonomous mode in Pittsburgh
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal :
Toronto-based Setter, whose platform lets homeowners chat with home maintenance experts and get a quote, raises $10M Series A co-led by Sequoia and NFX
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Serverless search and analytics startup Rockset comes out of stealth, says it has raised $3M in seed funding and $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia and Greylock
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
TraceMe, NFL star Russell Wilson's celebrity app, has laid off staff, closed LA office, pivoted to a sports prediction game; TraceMe to shutter in coming weeks
Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Thanks: @toddbishop
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