Report prepared for Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, more
The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee
Colin Kroll, a co-founder of Vine and the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia, has died at 34; police source says a drug overdose is suspected
Colin Kroll, the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia, has died of an apparent drug overdose ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
In a major real-estate expansion in New York City, Google says it will invest $1B+ in a new 1.7M square foot campus in Hudson Square in Manhattan
Search giant joins Amazon, Apple in growing outside the West Coast; addition of 7,000 jobs a ‘conservative estimate’
French economy minister says the country will introduce its own digital tax, dubbed “GAFA tax”, on large internet and technology companies from January 1
In early December, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said France would give the EU until March to come up with a deal on taxing US internet giants.
Senate report: Instagram dwarfs all social networks, including Facebook, in Russia's IRA posts and engagements, yet FB execs have not been upfront about this
- Document prepared for Senate Intelligence evaluates posts — Instagram tops Facebook in IRA posts and unique engagements
Facebook Messenger adds native support for looping Boomerang videos, a Selfie mode with automatic background blur, and AR stickers for photos and videos
Stickers are also getting AR support — Facebook today announced a host of new camera features for its Messenger app.
Profile of Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, a Bible of its field with more than one million copies in print
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.” Tweets: @nytscience Tweets: @nytscience : Donald Knuth has argued that some compute...
Apple hires another Tesla employee, Andrew Kim, the designer famous for re-imagining Microsoft's brand and who worked on Hololens and Windows 10 UI
The hire renews speculation of an Apple-designed car — Andrew Kim, the designer who first rose to prominence with a fan-made reimagining …
RightHand Robotics raises $23M Series B for its warehouse automation tech that uses a combination of AI, cameras, and a robotic arm to pick up objects
Startup is among companies developing tools for gripping and lifting a variety of objects at distribution centers
North, a NY-based company that makes $999 Focals AR glasses, acquires the IP and tech behind Intel's cancelled Vaunt AR glasses
The Focals AR glasses should ship ‘very shortly’ — North, the company behind the Focals AR glasses, has acquired the “technology portfolio” …
Survey about audience use of devices finds 45% of people watched TV while simultaneously using digital devices “very often” or “always”
How Calm has overtaken Headspace, which dominated the meditation app category, after winning the App Store's 2017 iPhone App of the Year award
A pair of apps preach relaxation to millions of customers—but still badly want to beat each other — The two smartphone apps taking meditation …
Test shows that Android phones like LG G7 ThinQ, OnePlus 6, and Samsung Galaxy S9 and Note 8 can be unlocked via facial recognition using 3D-printed head models
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Inside Grab's efforts to map roads in 100 cities across Southeast Asia by next year; Grab's mapping team has grown to 250, of which 100 are based in India
In 2017, many months before its merger with Uber made it Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing app, Grab realized it had a “rendezvous” problem.
AI Index Report for 2018 shows global growth of the field, a sharp rise in papers published from China, and an increase in VC funding of AI startups
fastest of all from authors in China. Europe still produces the most AI papers of any region. 1/4 http://twitter.com/... Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : This might be telling a story: AI papers by s...
To increase profits in its retail business, Amazon is asking brands with cheap but heavy or bulky items to change packaging and ship from their own warehouses
eliminat ing some items and pressing manufactur ers to change their packaging to better sell online Via @laurastevens @sharonterlep @anniegasparro http://www.wsj.com/... @wsj : Amazon is h...
Researchers detail a phishing campaign by Iran-linked hackers targeting US government officials that bypassed SMS-based 2FA protections in Gmail and Yahoo Mail
eg so you don't have to use the key every time you log on from the same computer at a known IP address. But if anything's unusual you do. Sensible thread http://twitter.com/... Elad Strohmayer / @elad...
S. Korea's finance watchdog FSS: damages from voice phishing grew ~73% YoY to $159M, and it will partner with SK Telecom to develop AI to prevent such attacks
Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet :
Datacamp, which offers customizable online data science courses to 3.3M+ users in 190+ countries and business customers like Uber and HSBC, raises $25M Series B
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
With EU governments increasingly concerned about Huawei, telecoms including UK's BT, France's Orange, and Deutsche Telekom are reconsidering the use of its gear
on which it is on course to spend hefty $16bn, or 15 per cent of sales, this year, according to Vincent Peng, president of Huawei in western Europe.” Elliott Zaagman / @elliottzaagman : Meanwhile, in ...
Sensor Tower: five out of ten top grossing Apple App Store apps in 2018 are from China, but Netflix holds the top spot with $790M in revenues as of November 30
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A secured lender is selling off assets, including AR/VR patent portfolio, of Osterhout Design Group, the maker of R-9 and other smartglasses
Ian Hamilton / UploadVR : Tweets: @jbullock85 , @mattj_di , @jank0 , and @charliefink Tweets: Jake Bullock / @jbullock85 : Another AR company goes down as the industry slides into the Trough of Disil...
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