Bitcoin hit its lowest level in more than a year on Monday, falling under $5,000, with the entire cryptocurrency market cap losing roughly $40B in the past week
- The world's largest cryptocurrency is now down 22 percent in the past week, falling as much as 12 percent Monday to its lowest level in more than a year.
Valve is discontinuing its Steam Link hardware, which let users stream games from PCs to other devices like a TV
We hardly knew ye — Why am I sad that a tiny black puck which streamed games over a Wi-Fi network will soon disappear from shelves around the world?
Sources: Samsung plans to release a variant of the Galaxy S10 next spring that will have six cameras, 5G, and a 6.7" screen
The tech giant's response to sales slump is flagship phones packed with bigger screens and extra cameras — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. is planning …
In an updated statement, Tumblr says an audit found child porn images were slipping through detection tools, leading to removal from App Store
Blames an ‘industry database’ that failed to filter prohibited content — Tumblr says that child pornography was the reason for its app's sudden disappearance from the iOS App Store.
Instagram says it will use machine learning to find and remove inauthentic likes, follows, and comments from accounts using third-party apps to boost popularity
Instagram is fighting back against automated apps people use to leave spammy comments or follow then unfollow others in hopes of growing their audience.
Sources: US DOJ probe into cryptocurrency manipulation has homed in on Bitcoin, Tether, and Bitfinex, and whether traders artificially inflated Bitcoin's price
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Sources: Snap is planning to release new Spectacles with two cameras and an aluminum frame for $350 by the year's end
Snap Inc. is planning to release a new version of its Spectacles glasses with two cameras and a higher price point of $350 by the end of the year, Cheddar has learned.
Zuckerberg should give up his dual role as Facebook CEO and chairman, stepping down as chairman and appointing an independent director to oversee the board
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once set out a bit of digital-world wisdom that became his company's informal motto: “Move fast and break things.”
After a man was spotted last month wearing an Apple Maps backpack with LiDAR equipment, Apple confirms it will be collecting pedestrian data in six CA counties
Last month, a person wearing an Apple Maps backpack with LiDAR equipment was spotted at the intersection of Stockton and Sutter streets …
Sources: this June, Zuckerberg told ~50 execs that Facebook was at war and he'd act more decisively, leading to reorgs, key departures, tension with Sandberg
including those who “run” it. http://www.wsj.com/... Venkat Ananth / @venkatananth : “Ms. Sandberg later confided in friends that the exchange rattled her, and she wondered if she should be worried ab...
SoftBank invests $2B in South Korean e-commerce company Coupang, source says at a ~$9B valuation
SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund is investing $2 billion in South Korea's top e-commerce firm Coupang, the retailer said on Tuesday, as the loss-making startup girds for battle against rivals backed ...
Survey: in the past year there's been a 15% spike in the number of US adults who fear big tech won't be regulated sufficiently with 55% now sharing this concern
Data: SurveyMonkey poll conducted Nov. 9 to 13 among 3,622 U.S. adults with a modeled error estimate of ±2.5 percent; Survey methodology.
Microsoft acquires Atlanta-based app provisioning and virtualization startup FSLogix, to improve Office 365 performance in “multi-user virtual environments”
Another day, another profitable exit for a well-regarded startup. Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Atlanta …
The stocks of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Netflix have all declined 20% or more in recent months, pushing them into bear market territory
Tech investors resumed their selloff of the large-cap FAANG stocks, with the five tech giants all sustaining declines of 20% or more, enough to push them into bear-market territory.
Sources: Evan Spiegel spends most board meetings looking at his phone and messaging on Snapchat, seemingly dismissive of some members' “short term” concerns
not to worry about short term stock price fluctuations http://www.theinformation.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : “Mr. Spiegel, who spends most board meetings looking at h...
As AI-building frameworks get open-sourced, DIY tinkerers use them for tasks like identifying plant diseases, automating dry-cleaning, making art, and more
IN LATE WINTER of 1975, a scrap of paper started appearing on bulletin boards around the San Francisco Peninsula. Tweets: @agbioworld , @hkanji , and @stanfordailab Tweets: C. S. Prakash / @agbioworld...
From 2011 to 2016, the FCC released an annual report comparing advertised broadband speeds with actual speeds but has not released one in two years
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Airbnb deactivates ~200 listings in Israeli settlements in West Bank ahead of a Human Rights Watch report; Israel reportedly moves to restrict Airbnb operations
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News :
Sources: Apple reduced production orders for all new iPhone models in recent weeks; iPhone XR production was slashed by up to one third of the initial 70M
Wall Street Journal :
Microsoft says Azure users globally were unable to log in using MFA on Monday due to the weight of login requests, is still working on fix for Office 365 logins
Shaun Nichols / The Register :
By pushing the “link tax” in the EU, publishers are shooting themselves in the foot because better options exist by working with Google to drive traffic
Within Google, some call into question the validity of helping the media industry. By lobbying the EU on the “link tax”, publishers are waging a rearguard battle. Tweets: @badams and @martinsteiger T...
Google says Chromecasts can now sync audio with Google Home speakers and similar integrations are planned for Google Home Hub and LG Xboom WK9 in coming weeks
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
Tim Cook says some government regulation of Silicon Valley is inevitable, defends deal to make Google Apple's default search engine despite privacy concerns
Why It's Not So Easy to Squeeze More Money Out of Facebook and Google Ina Fried / Axios : Apple's expanding health lab Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Apple CEO on Why Google Is the Default iPhone Sear...
The ruling party in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh is giving out smartphones preloaded with two campaign apps to voters as “gifts” but also to target them
New York Times :
Grab launches travel services in Singapore after partnering with Indonesia's tourism ministry, will train drivers in Indonesia on tourism, events, and festivals
Raini Hamdi / Skift :
Snap launches Lens Creative Partners, a certification program for AR lens makers to craft branded lenses, in US, UK, Canada, and Australia
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Ping An, one of China's biggest financial conglomerates, takes its first step into the EU, leading a €41.5M round for Finleap, a Berlin-based fintech incubator
Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC :
Nuance to spin off its automotive unit, which generated $279M in 2018, into a publicly traded company called Nuance Auto with a focus on conversational AI
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Two British men sentenced to twelve and eight months in jail for the 2015 hack of TalkTalk, which affected 1.6M accounts
Palantir to set up a joint venture called Syntropy with German lab supplies company Merck KGaA to offer cancer data analytics tools to research centers
Reuters : Tweets: @dangillmor and @evgenymorozov Tweets: Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor : Data-mongering Palantir is a supremely creepy company, and it's getting into health care. It will have to work har...
Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: sources describe infighting, “perverse” incentives, and questionable decisions
Julie Bort / Business Insider : Tweets: @nichcarlson Tweets: Nicholas Carlson / @nichcarlson : “Sources say engineers were pressured to “tune” the self-driving car for a smoother ride in preparation ...
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