Apple announces a $1B Austin campus initially for 5,000 workers, new offices in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, and expansions in several other US cities
Apple plans to build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, adding thousands of jobs, while also setting up new large offices in Seattle …
Amazon starts selling the Chromecast Ultra and third-gen Chromecast, nearly a year after it promised to sell Chromecast devices again
Amazon pulled the Chromecast from its online store in 2015, after it instated a new rule that only streaming devices that supported Prime Video could be sold.
How Amazon is trying to quell opposition to its new NYC offices by hiring well-connected lobbyists and taking to the streets to hear residents' concerns
Amazon is trying to quell rising opposition to its plan for offices in New York, hiring well-connected lobbyists to make its case …
Hands-on with the ECG feature in Apple Watch Series 4: taking an ECG is easy, but the ECG trace can only be viewed on the iPhone, not the watch itself
When Apple introduced the fourth iteration of its smartwatch, the big new selling point wasn't a feature we typically associate with a watch or any sort of smart device.
Google Maps adds Lime as a navigation option, with distance to the nearest bike or scooter, estimate for the cost and ride time, starting in 13 cities
Google Maps is always ready to help you get where you're going, and the latest addition to its list of features is a tie …
Sources: stablecoin project Basis, backed by Bain Capital, GV, and a16z, is closing due to regulatory issues and returning most of the $133M capital raised
Basis, one of the most well-known stablecoin projects, is shutting down and returning nearly all capital raised to investors.
Source: Samsung Galaxy S10 series will be unveiled Feb. 20, with UK prices starting at £669 for the S10 Lite, £799 for the 6.1-inch model, and £899 for the S10+
Listen up, Samsung fans: we've got a bumper leak about the upcoming Galaxy S10 for you.
Robinhood launches checking and savings accounts in the US with a 3% interest rate and no minimum balance or fees for overdrafts or foreign transactions
Robinhood is undercutting the big banks by forgoing brick-and-mortar branches with its new zero-fee checking and savings account features.
Tech companies should automatically turn off irrelevant ads based on info users share, such as ads for baby gear when a pregnant person has a stillborn child
Dear Tech Companies: — I know you knew I was pregnant. It's my fault, I just couldn't resist those Instagram hashtags — #30weekspregnant, #babybump.
Samsung upgrades its two-in-one Notebook 9 Pen with a new 15-inch option, updated S Pen, and a promise of 15 hours of battery life, coming in 2019
With its updated Notebook 9 Pen two-in-one laptop, Samsung is targeting creative professionals who want the flexibility of both a laptop …
Police in Chandler, AZ have documented 20+ incidents in the past two years where people vandalized Waymo's autonomous vehicles and harassed their test drivers
Police have responded to dozens of calls regarding people threatening and harassing Waymo vans. — CONNECT
Facebook says it is rolling out Watch globally on desktop and Facebook Lite and expands availability of Ad Breaks, 15-second in-stream ads, to 14 more markets
Says more than 75 million daily Watch visitors spend, on average, more than 20 minutes on the video platform.
Postmates announces Serve, an autonomous rover launching soon in LA, and says it now averages 4M deliveries per month in 550+ cities
HANGING ON THE wall of Postmates' stealth R&D laboratory, there's a framed photo of an iconic scene from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker bent down beside R2D2.
Opera releases its Android browser with a built-in Ethereum wallet, support for crypto collectibles such as CryptoKitties and ethereum-based decentralized apps
Opera has announced the public release of its “Web 3-ready” Android web browser, which notably sports a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.
The state of technology in 2018: the enterprise market is thriving, and the consumer market is stagnant, dominated by “innovations” from a few large behemoths
This article is a bit of an annual tradition: in mid-December I summarize the state of technology,1 and appropriately enough …
SEC settles with the former CEO and COO of AriseBank, which it sued in January for alleged fraud and issuing unregistered securities during an ICO, for $2.7M+
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges with two former executives of AriseBank, which was hit with a token sale fraud lawsuit in early 2018.
Intel unveils 10nm Sunny Cove architecture, built to execute more instructions in parallel with lower latency, better cryptography support, and more
Finally, a move away from just bundling more cores together. — In 2019, Intel will release Core and Xeon chips built around a new architecture …
New York's HQ2 proposal shows the types of data Amazon collected: availability of tech experts, real estate sites, outcomes from educational institutions, more
available real estate sites, incentive programs, number of graduates in certain fields, cost of food—data it can use to its advantage in planning http://www.nytimes.com/...
Intel demos Foverus, a new way to build 3D chips by stacking logic chips atop one another, with a new power delivery process, without sacrificing performance
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Google launches Shopping in India and Style Search in Google Lens, introduces a new Shopping tab on Google Search, and makes Merchant Center available in Hindi
Online shopping has enabled a world of convenience — whether you're looking for a new pair of shoes or car accessories …
How recommendation sites like the Strategist and Wirecutter maintain readers' trust while earning revenue through affiliate links
Sites like the Strategist, Wirecutter, and BuzzFeed Reviews want to help you find the best of the best. … Say you want to buy a travel mug. Tweets: @voxdotcom , @columbiajourn , @nishachittal , and @m...
How making products easier to use can steer users toward unhealthy behaviors, like viewing overly extreme content that autoplays, or lead to security breaches
Seven years ago, a younger and more carefree Mark Zuckerberg went onstage at Facebook's annual developer conference and announced …
Finalcad, a mobile platform that allows the construction industry to digitize its processes, raises $40M Series C led by London-based Draper Esprit
Finalcad, a mobile platform that enables the construction industry to digitize much of its processes, has closed $40 million in Series C funding.
Ookla report on US broadband: mean download speeds rose 35.8% and upload speeds rose 22.0% from last year; Xfinity and Verizon were fastest broadband providers
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Epic Games, which makes Fortnite, unveils a free SDK, rolling out in 2019, to help developers build cross-platform games that include login and social elements
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica :
LG unveils two Gram laptops ahead of CES: 17" 2.9lb clamshell with claimed 19.5 hour battery for $1,699+, and a 14" 2-in-1 with a Wacom stylus, price TBA
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Online design marketplace Minted, which sells stationary, art, and home decor, raises $208M Series E led by Permira, bringing total raised to $300M
Minted, a company we've been covering on this site for a decade-plus, plans to double down on its wholesale and licensing business …
Oracle files suit in federal court against US government over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, arguing that awarding it to one vendor is unfair and illegal
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
FCC passes controversial rules classifying text messages as an information service, boosting carriers' power to curb spam
The FCC has given mobile operators … Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : FCC Votes to Classify Text Messages as Information Service, Gives Carriers More Power David Shepardson / Reuters : FCC affirms that w...
Chorus.ai, which uses AI to analyze sales calls, raises $33M Series B led by Georgian Partners, bringing its total raised to $55.3M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Google begins letting Android users donate to select US nonprofits through the Play Store, with 100% of donations going to the organization
Nick Statt / The Verge :
McAfee: a coordinated cyber espionage campaign focused on defense organizations sent malware via targeted phishing messages to at least 87 firms in 24 countries
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
DuckDuckGo says Google has transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo, following its complaint from July about how Duck.com redirected to Google
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Nvidia's stock has dropped 48.8% since Oct. 1 due to growing chip competition, flat sales, less chip demand for crypto applications, and China trade uncertainty
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
Accenture Interactive to acquire adtech company Adaptly, which helps marketers buy targeted ads across online platforms including Amazon, Google, and Facebook
Purchase gives Accenture Interactive access to targeted-ad technology that plugs into platforms including Google, Amazon and Facebook Tweets: @simonjharris and @jasonwstein Tweets: @simonjharris : Big...
Microsoft launches Clarity, a new web analytics product in beta, to compete with A/B testing tools like Google Optimize
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Facebook updates its Life Events feature for profiles, letting users add animated photos or videos
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Tigera, which offers security and compliance for Kubernetes containers, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Venture Partners
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Southeast Asian ride hailing service Grab raises $150M from Yamaha Motor as part of its ongoing Series H round, which is targeted at $3B
Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Tweets: @jonrussell Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Grabs adds Yamaha Motor ($150M) to a list of strategy Series H backers that includes Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Microsoft...
ZeniMax and Facebook agree to settle dispute over Oculus tech, after ZeniMax was awarded $250M in June 2018; terms of the settlement were not disclosed
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Sundar Pichai's appearance before Congress was another in a long line of pointless hearings, where lawmakers display limited knowledge and execs are evasive
everybody's happy, even if little is accomplished.” http://www.buzzfeed.com/... Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshlobster : Lawmakers are playing to the cameras and their constituents. This ends the same way it...
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