Samsung teases foldable phone that acts as a phone when closed and a tablet when opened, says mass production will begin within months
Our foldable future is here — Samsung has been teasing its foldable smartphone for weeks, and now the company has unveiled it for the first time today.
Samsung debuts One UI, a redesign for its Android skin that has a more minimalist aesthetic, rolling out next year
Your hands will be thankful — Today at its developer conference, Samsung showcased what it calls One UI and kicked off a new approach to the user experience on Samsung smartphones.
Portal doesn't listen to or view video calls, which are encrypted, runs camera and sound AI locally, and processes usage info like any device with FB apps
We know there are some questions around Portal privacy and ads, so we'd like to provide more details on these topics. — Privacy and Security
Facebook Portal and Portal Plus video chat devices go on sale on Thursday on Portal online store, Amazon, and Best Buy
Facebook on Wednesday announced retail availability for its Portal Plus and Portal smart displays on the Portal online store, Amazon and Best Buy.
Samsung says it will open its Bixby assistant to third-party developers through an SDK and roll out support for five new languages
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Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more
Editor's note: Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we're making to better support them.
Tesla names board member and Telstra CFO Robyn Denholm as Chairman of the Board, replacing Elon Musk; Denholm to leave Telstra to work as Tesla chair full-time
- Tesla delivered its largest quarterly profit in the company's history in the third quarter of 2018, reporting about $6.8 billion …
Sources: Google is planning an expansion of its NYC real estate, which currently houses ~7,000 employees, to add space for an additional 12,000+
Nears office property deal in Manhattan's West Village for enough space to multiply city workforce — Google is gearing up for an expansion …
Portal and Portal Plus review: work great for video calls using Facebook Messenger, but as general purpose smart displays they lag behind the competition
Facebook's video calling device demands lots of trust for little return — It's not often that a new gadget gets announced and I don't immediately want to get my hands on it.
Google renames its popular Android storage management app Files Go to Files by Google and says it is now used by over 30M people each month
Google is renaming Files Go, its lightweight files app for phones with limited storage, to “Files by Google” to reflect that the app works no matter …
Amazon makes the Alexa app, previously available on select laptops, available to all Windows 10 users via Microsoft Store
Available in the Microsoft Store — Amazon is releasing its Alexa app for Windows 10 today. While the app has been available on select Windows 10 laptops recently …
Sundar Pichai on the walkout, company culture, and how, China aside, Google already operates in countries with censorship laws like “right to be forgotten”
Growing up in India, he slept on the floor of a house without a refrigerator. Today, the chief executive …
Dutch police say they decrypted 258,000+ messages sent using IronChat, which claims to have end-to-end encryption, as part of a money laundering probe
Weakness allowed cops to monitor encrypted messages for some time. — Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted …
Eric Schmidt on growing up in Italy, years at Bell Labs, PARC, and Sun, scaling Google, polarization on social platforms, how tech will shape the future, more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / SoundCloud / RSS — The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father's profession …
China's Xinhua News Agency launches “composite anchors”, which combine images and voices of human anchors with text via AI tech from internet company Sogou
- AI anchors have the ability to work 24 hours a day provided human editors keep inputting text into the system
Some experts say Facebook performed well for the midterms, but disinformation and false news still spread fast, requiring outsiders' monitoring and prodding
After an Election Day largely free of viral social media misinformation, and with little trace of the kind of Russian troll stampede …
Microsoft says it is working on a fix after a problem with its activation server causes some Windows 10 Pro PCs to deactivate their licenses
Some Windows 10 users are having problems with their Pro licenses today, as users on the company's Community Forums and Reddit are reporting …
Facebook expands Facebook Dating, which launched as a test in Colombia in September, to Canada and Thailand
Facebook's quest to help singletons find love continues. After launching its Dating feature in Colombia in September, it's now rolling the service out to Canada and Thailand.
Google announces tools for Android devs: new Kotlin language release, more ways to get users to update apps quickly, and Android Studio IDE headed to Chrome OS
At its Android Dev Summit, Google today announced a number of new tools and features for developers that write apps for its mobile operating system.
Source says Ford is buying electric scooter startup Spin and “the total consideration in the deal was close to $100M”
Ford is buying electric scooter startup Spin, Axios reports. The deal, according to a source close to the matter, “the total consideration in the deal was close to $100m.”
Facebook, others made demonstrable progress in combating misinformation during the midterms but the problem is not going away due to engagement-based algorithms
but only within the bounds of a core product and business model that inherently lend themselves to manipulation. http://slate.com/... http://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : A big question ...
Seagate will use IBM Blockchain Platform to block counterfeit drives from being distributed to users, starting with the drives intended for IBM servers
Global tech giant IBM is partnering with hardware manufacturer Seagate to ensure that computer hard drives are authentic using blockchain tech.
Lime launches in Australia, starting with a pilot e-scooter project at Monash University in Melbourne and several hundred dockless e-bikes in Sydney
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Some chip makers are building processors with multiple small pieces of silicon, or “chiplets”, hoping to better keep up with Moore's Law
IN 2016, THE chip industry's clock ran out. — For 50 years, the number of transistors that could be squeezed onto a piece of silicon … Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : Think of ‘chiplets’ like high-t...
Telecom equipment maker CommScope to acquire Arris International, a modem and set-top box maker for ISPs and cable operators, for $7.4B, including debt
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RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, raises $25M Series A led by Accel, with Altair Capital participating
RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, has raised $25 million in a series A round of funding led by Accel …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27
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Check Point: DJI's website and apps had a vulnerability that would have given hackers unfettered access to a drone owner's account, including live video footage
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Turvo, a collaborative logistics startup, raises $60M Series B led by Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala Investment
Erica E. Phillips / Wall Street Journal :
Pew: of 4,500 US adults, 34% regularly let their child watch YouTube, with 47% saying they do occasionally; 61% say their kids encountered unsuitable videos
Why Elon Musk's Visionary Leadership Falls Short Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : The vast majority of YouTube users hit the site for how-to videos James Loke Hale / Tubefilter : YouTube's Recommendatio...
Zopa, a UK-based peer-to-peer lending platform, closes £60M round as it prepares to launch a “next generation bank”
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Netflix CCO announces plans to produce 17 original productions in Asia including shows in Chinese and Thai as it looks abroad for growth
Jonathan Weber, Aradhana Aravindan — * Firm seeing quicker subscriber growth outside U.S. — * To make 17 more original productions in Asia
Square reports Q3 adjusted revenue of $431M, up 68% YoY, as gross payment volume rises 29% YoY to $22.5B; stock down 5% after hours
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz with Lightspeed, Zeev, and SGVC participating
Biz Carson / Forbes :
Sources: Comcast aims to ship a home hub with a voice-enabled remote next year for broadband-only subs that aggregates streaming apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime
Comcast is developing a box for broadband-only subscribers that will aggregate certain streaming apps & be a command center for smart devices in the home: http://www.cnbc.com/... http://twitter.com/.....
New Congress could align around imposing privacy rules on US tech giants, and directing new funds to improve internet service in rural parts of the country
Cristiano Lima / Politico :
Roku reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $173.4M, streaming hours up 63% YoY to 6.2B; over 25% of smart TVs sold in US were Roku TVs; stock down 12%+ after hours
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
European Court of Justice rules Hungary's monopoly over its national mobile payment services is illegal, requiring its state-owned firm to end exclusive control
Francesco Guarascio / Reuters :
Development of digital-accessibility maps for disabled people is being spurred by new apps but many challenges remain as most maps depend on visual/textual data
Aimi Hamraie / The Atlantic : Tweets: @ibogost and @sesmith Tweets: Ian Bogost / @ibogost : New mapping apps can make things better for disabled people negotiating the built environment. They can als...
Twilio reports Q3 revenue of $168.9M, up 68% YoY, vs $150M est., and strong Q4 guidance of $183M-$185M in revenue, vs $161.4M est.; stock closes up 35%
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Sources: Alibaba's newly formed on-demand online services unit is valued at $30B after raising $4B, with $3B coming from Alibaba and SoftBank's Vision Fund
Computerization, which simplified tasks in many industries, has largely failed to achieve the same result in healthcare, causing many doctors to hate their PCs
Atul Gawande / New Yorker : Tweets: @stevesi , @atul_gawande , @muddywatersre , @jayparkinson , @jbraunmd , and @radiomorillo Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Why Doctors Hate Their Computers htt...
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