Canada has arrested Huawei's global CFO, who now faces extradition to the US on the warrant from NY state claiming she violated US trade sanctions against Iran
Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States …
Google says it will stop working on Allo and instead focus on Messages; Allo will stop working March 2019
Google has officially announced that it's shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn't entirely unsurprising …
Facebook responds to UK Parliament document dump, giving an explanation for API whitelisting, scraping Android call and SMS records, how it uses Onavo, and more
As we've said many times, Six4Three — creators of the Pikinis app — cherrypicked these documents from years ago as part …
Lyft says it has filed with the SEC for an IPO, hasn't specified the number of shares it is selling or their price range; sources say IPO is slated for H1 2019
(Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc on Thursday filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering …
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG feature goes live in the US as part of the watchOS 5.1.2 update, letting users detect irregular heart rhythms
Apple Watch users can now take a reading of their heart's electrical signal by holding a finger on the crown of the device.
Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption bill giving police power to implant malware and insert backdoors, despite opposition from experts, tech companies
Australia's controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political giants struck …
UK Parliament publishes 250+ redacted pages of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from founder of Six4Three, a company suing Facebook
- Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K.
AT&T says it now supports eSIM on the latest iPhones with the iOS 12.1.1 update, making it the first major US carrier to support Dual SIM on iPhones
Apple today officially released iOS 12.1.1 to the public, teasing in the update's release notes that it includes “eSIM …
Millions of users on O2 in UK are unable to use mobile data due to a software problem in Ericsson's equipment; SoftBank in Japan was affected for several hours
Millions of mobile phone users around the world have been unable to use their smartphones after a software issue in systems provided by Ericsson caused major disruption.
Qualcomm gives details on Snapdragon 855, its smartphone chipset: X24 modem, which isn't 5G compatible, 7 nanometer for 20% better graphics, and AI improvements
Qualcomm calls it an AI powerhouse — Qualcomm officially took the wraps off the Snapdragon 855, its next generation processor, yesterday at the SnapDragon Tech Summit.
Microsoft says Edge is coming to Windows 7, Windows 8, and macOS, as the company embraces Google's open source Chromium project
A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its Edge browser today.
Months after Facebook was shown to surreptitiously collect Android call and SMS records, emails show Facebook's growth team added the feature amid “PR” fears
it took someone pouring through their Facebook data dump to unwind the mystery that Facebook was logging their texts and calls, so Android app was at fault. Unbelievable shadiness from Facebook from d...
Amazon says it is beta testing Amazon Answers, an invite-only program for users to help answer questions that Alexa doesn't know, starting today
Smartphones settle a lot of dinner table debates nowadays. We argue about this or that, until somebody finally pops out a phone and Googles it.
Business intelligence and big data analytics platform Looker raises $103M Series E at a valuation of $1.6B; CEO says revenue run rate has crossed $100M
Looker has been helping customers visualize and understand their data for seven years now and today it got a big reward …
Apple releases iOS 12.1.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.2, and tvOS 12.1.1 with some FaceTime enhancements, bug fixes, and improvements to security
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says ~500K of the 22M comments submitted during the net neutrality debate were linked to Russian email addresses
Marguerite Reardon / CNET :
Sources: as Uber prepares to resume testing cars in autonomous mode in Pittsburgh, the cars still face issues, raising safety concerns
sometimes at night — at speeds as high as 55 miles an hour. Now, they won't operate at night or in wet weather, and they won't exceed 25 m.p.h., Uber said. http://www.nytimes.com/... Eric Boerer / @er...
Kik begins rolling out tipping using its Kin cryptocurrency, letting users send tips to admins and mods, available only in group chats initially
Mix / The Next Web :
Apple's Safari Technology Preview 71 supports the WebAuthn protocol, which lets websites authenticate identity with a hardware security key in a USB port
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
LeanIX, a SaaS that lets enterprises map out their software architecture, raises $30M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Lime to launch its dockless electric bikes in London tomorrow, starting with 1,000 bikes in two boroughs, a week after launching in the UK
AT&T is the first major US carrier to support eSIM on iPhone — Tell us about your experiences with the Pixel 3 and 3 XL! — A. Bouman
A look at Ninebot, a Chinese company that makes an estimated four out of five electric scooters in use worldwide, which a source says is valued at $1.5B
Bloomberg :
FCC shares broadband speed test data for the first time in two years in appendices of another report, finds some DSL still doesn't get promised “up-to” speeds
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Apple updates its Chinese website, confirming HomePod will arrive in China and Hong Kong in early 2019
Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac :
Austin-based Aceable, which offers online training courses in driver's ed, real estate, and more, raises $47M Series B, bringing total raised to $55.7M
Brent Wistrom / AustinInno :
Highlights from five years of Facebook AI Research: open sourcing Torch deep learning modules and Caffe2, scalable text classification, and translation research
Oliver Libaw / Facebook Code :
Facebook's board says it was “entirely appropriate” for Sheryl Sandberg to investigate if George Soros shorted Facebook after he made negative comments
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal :
Impressions from a test ride in Waymo One, the first commercial self-driving taxi service, launching next week in Phoenix for Waymo's Early Rider members
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
In an open letter, a group of Google employees demands more equitable conditions for part-time and contract workers, after last month's changes for full-timers
>http://slate.com/ ... Amir Efrati / @amir : Whoa this is big. Googlers ask for more equitable treatment of the thousands upon thousands of contractors who work for the company. Tons are at Waymo and ...
Amazon and Comcast partner to bring Prime Video to Comcast Xfinity X1 set-top boxes, rolling out over the next week
Cable companies installing web streaming apps on their cable boxes. I'm curious if anybody is seeing any meaningful impact from these relationships. http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
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”
BuzzFeed News :
Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update
Tom Warren / The Verge :
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