UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from a company suing Facebook
- Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K. — Internal emails at Facebook Inc. …
A test ride in Waymo One, the first commercial self-driving taxi service launching next week in Phoenix for members of its Early Rider program
Going on a coffee run with Waymo One — It is late afternoon in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, and I'm getting jittery waiting …
Qualcomm announces 3D Sonic Sensor, a new under-display fingerprint sensor for smartphones that uses sound waves to map fingerprints
After years of prototypes and fine-tuning, Qualcomm on Tuesday finally announced a fingerprint reader that uses sound to unlock your phone.
Internal Facebook docs show how Facebook worked out data sharing agreements with companies and how Zuckerberg personally approved shutting off access for Vine
The UK Parliament today released a 250-page cache of previously sealed Facebook documents, revealing internal deliberations …
Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update
A dark mode is coming in a future update — Microsoft is launching a new version of its Outlook mobile app for iOS today.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, which supports “multi-gigabit 5G” and promises up to 3X better AI performance than last gen
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Facebook's ranking drops from No. 1 to No. 7 in Glassdoor's 2019 list of best places to work in the US chosen by employees; Google is 8th and Microsoft is 34th
Career website Glassdoor today released its 11th annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to work for in the coming year.
US Secret Service to test facial recognition in and around the White House according to a document released by DHS last week
In yet another step toward the normalization of facial recognition as a blanket security measure, last week the Department of Homeland Security published details …
Microsoft study of US internet usage shows 162.8M people don't use the internet at broadband speeds, while the FCC says broadband is not available to 24.7M
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Ming-Chi Kuo: Google and Amazon will launch AirPods competitors in H2 2019; Apple could add health sensors to AirPods and integrate them with the Apple Watch
There are already a number of AirPods alternatives on the market - but noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes we're about to get more.
Microsoft expands its US rural broadband initiative, aiming to operate in 25 states by the end of 2019 and reach 3M customers by July 2022
will reach 25 states by next year Tweets: Alex Howard / @digiphile : The @FCC relied on simple surveys of ISPs that inherently overstate coverage. @Microsoft looked at the actual speeds of the people ...
Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019
Samsung announced yesterday that it's set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise.
Microsoft open sources its most popular Windows UX frameworks and says the first preview of .NET Core 3.0 is now available
Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.
NYC approves measures to set the US' first minimum pay rate for rideshare drivers of $26.51/hour gross, or an estimated $17.22/hour after expenses
Today, New York's City's Taxi and Limousine Commission approved measures to enact minimum pay requirements for app-based for-hire vehicles (FHV) like Uber, Lyft, and Juno.
Sources and chat logs show Facebook's internal tensions are reaching a boiling point, as one ex-employee says staff are “hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment”
“It's the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They're getting tired, getting cranky … Tweets: @nachristakis , @buzzfeednews , @markdistef , @craigsilverman , @mark...
Acast, a Swedish podcast platform that helps podcasters make money through advertisements, raises $35M Series C from a group of European investors
Podcasting has grown tremendously in recent years, and a Stockholm-based company called Acast is looking to help all those podcasters make money.
Microsoft debuts public preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac, with a new window layout, more space for coding, a new search experience, and more
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Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019
Wing, the drone delivery X project that “graduated” into full company status under the Alphabet umbrella this past July, is taking flight in Europe.
Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda raises €25M Series A from Highland Europe to fund international expansion across US, Europe, and Asia
Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda has raised its first funding round of €25 million from Highland Europe.
Behind EyeDetect, a controversial eye-scanning lie detector powered by a proprietary algorithm that its makers claim has 86% accuracy, higher than the polygraph
SITTING IN FRONT of a Converus EyeDetect station, it's impossible not to think of Blade Runner. Tweets: @wired , @jaycstanley , @marion_infolaw , and @andreawiggins Tweets: @wired : EyeDetect is pitch...
Fivetran, which builds automated data pipelines between repositories, cloud data warehouses, and analytics tools, raises $15M Series A led by Matrix Partners
Fivetran, a startup that builds automated data pipelines between data repositories and cloud data warehouses and analytics tools …
Facebook says it will let developers build competitors to its features on its platform, reversing an earlier policy
Facebook will now freely allow developers to build competitors to its features upon its own platform. Today Facebook announced it will drop Platform Policy section 4.1 which stipulates …
A new crop of productivity and collaboration apps like Quip and Airtable aim to reinvent Office with quick sharing and simple interfaces within a single window
Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it.
New York police say they have acquired 14 drones and have trained 29 officers to fly them but will not use them for everyday police patrol or surveillance
but refused to regularly disclose how often they use the drones and why. http://twitter.com/...
Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available
A flaw has been detected in kubernetes … Mitch Wagner / Light Reading : Kubernetes Security Flaw Is a ‘Really Big Deal’ Patch Now James Orme / The Stack : Kubernetes security flaw allows hackers to in...
DuckDuckGo study finds that Google personalizes search results even when logged out or using the private browsing incognito mode
even when signed out and in so-called “incognito” mode? The results of our new study might surprise you, or maybe not: http://spreadprivacy.com/...
UK High Court dismisses union's claim for judicial review in case against Deliveroo for collective bargaining rights for gig economy riders
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Sources: Netflix paid $100M to license Friends in the US from AT&T's WarnerMedia through 2019, up from $30M/year, ahead of AT&T's 2019 streaming service launch
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Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Bose announces Frames, its AR glasses that use sound to relay information, available to preorder now for $199, shipping in January
A Revolutionary New Wearable Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Bose launches augmented reality glasses that use audio to deliver services Sutrishna Ghosh / Yourstory.com : Come January, listen to music wi...
Salesforce announces Field Service Lightning, a new component designed to deliver automated IoT data to service technicians in the field on mobile
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Online pharmacy Alto, which offers same-day deliveries and medication management apps, raises $50M Series C from Greenoaks Capital and others
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Google launches Flutter 1.0, its cross-platform UI toolkit and SDK for building Android and iOS apps, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments
its fast, powerful cross-platform app UI toolkit Guido Rosso / 2Dimensions : Flare Launch — We're excited to announce the launch of Flare … Deven Joshi / The Startup : Flutter 1.0 : An Introduction ...
China has invested millions of dollars in quantum encryption, which could be tougher to crack than today's security methods; the US is trying to catch up
Data Sheet for 12/5 Tweets: Elsa B. Kania / @ebkania : It is hard to say that the U.S. or China is ‘leading’ in quantum computing or cryptography. In quantum computing, it's too soon to say. In quantu...
Pindrop, which provides voice-fraud prevention tech to devices that work with voice commands, raises $90M Series D led by London's Vitruvian Partners
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Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU
Joseph Menn / Reuters :
In a leaked email, Uber's India lead told company executives that Uber India reached an annualized bookings rate of $1.64B in Q3
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Shanghai-based Keking, a cloud-based logistics services provider, says it has completed a ~$144M Series C led by Alibaba's Ant Financial and Centurium Capital
Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc / DealStreetAsia :
Conflux says it's raised $35M from Chinese web giants and Sequoia China for a blockchain protocol that solves scalability issues hobbling projects like Bitcoin
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