Sources: Amazon close to making a decision on HQ2, with Crystal City in Northern Virginia and Austin as frontrunners, but new HQ may be split between them
- Amazon is in the advanced stages of placing its second headquarters in Northern Virginia, The Washington Post reported on Saturday
Source: Apple will launch an iPhone with Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in 2020; Intel will likely be the sole modem supplier for that year's iPhones
Apple's 5G iPhone will come to market in 2020, a source with knowledge of Apple's plans says. — Apple plans to use Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in its 2020 phones.
New research from OpenAI shows how an AI agent with a sense of curiosity outperformed its predecessors playing the classic 1984 Atari game Montezuma's Revenge
This question is perhaps too broad to yield a single answer, but if you had to sum up why you accept that next quest …
How companies use customer lifetime value scores to differentiate prices, services offered; unlike FICO scores, CLVs aren't regulated or accessible to consumers
Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term—and how well to treat them
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 …
Facebook reorganized AR and VR team from a divisional structure focused around products to a functional structure focused around technology areas of expertise
Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream.
Pixel 3 review: fastest Android device with impressive computational photography features, but the phone's build quality and gaming performance lag competition
The Pixel 3 is Google's third generation in-house design, meant to showcase the company's own view of what an Android device should be … Thanks: @iancutress
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 :
Interview with three renowned women in infosec on how they got started, some of their most memorable finds, and how to encourage more women to join their field
This post is part of Mashable's ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech … Tweets: @k8em0 and @infosecsherpa Tweets: Katie Moussouris / @k8em0 : “a hu...
Current and former senior US officials say the Pentagon has outlined an offensive cyberattack against Russia if it electronically interferes with the midterms
Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Center for Public Integrity :
After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users
the same myth the alleged shooter believed in http://theintercept.com/... http://twitter.com/... Damian Collins / @damiancollins : Again, this is appalling and irresponsible - Facebook allowed adverti...
Profile of TIC, a community-run low-cost cellular service operating in underserved areas across Oaxaca in Mexico, as it gears up to launch in four more states
Talea de Castro is a four-hour drive through winding mountain roads from the capital of Oaxaca, Mexico. Tweets: @psskow , @grahamstarr , and @rsukumar Tweets: Martha Pskowski / @psskow : I wrote for @...
How Facebook and Twitter fight online voter suppression for the midterms with algorithm changes and partnerships with organizations that report disinformation
and they're already seeing fake accounts, ppl sharing wrong election dates, false reports of ICE agents at polling places and more http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @wired : Misinformation now spread...
Programming on Facebook Watch has evolved as it focuses on sports, news, and high-profile stars/creators and funding for shows by digital publishers dries up
Facebook says it wants Facebook Watch programming that's unique to its platform — with big names and built-in distribution, if possible. Tweets: @maxwillens , @billsimmons , and @mattnavarra See also ...
Inside Uber's deal with Saudi Arabia, from David Plouffe's first meetings with local officials to the 10%+ stake that, sources say, the kingdom now owns
Even as Uber's lawyers finalized the details of the deal, they still couldn't quite believe it would really happen. Tweets: @natashakhanhk , @khanoisseur , @markmilian , and @dignitydriver Tweets: Nat...
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 :
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...
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
Jonah Engel Bromwich / 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 :
Current and former employees on Google's ongoing struggle balancing user privacy with business interests
OVER TWO DAYS during the summer of 2009, experts from inside and outside Google met to forge a roadmap for how the company would approach user privacy. Tweets: @privacymatters , @wired , and @jason_ki...
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