Congress passes the Open Government Data Act, which requires public information to be open to the public by default in a machine readable format
On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017 …
A look at Joel Kaplan's growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller partnership
Joel Kaplan has emerged as the social-media site's protector against allegations of political bias
As Snap hits an all-time low, sources describe Evan Spiegel's instinctual and imperious management style that can stifle dissent and led to the redesign debacle
Snap, once seen as a viable competitor to Facebook, is struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular
How a US shutdown affects its cybersecurity workforce: NIST among worst-hit agencies with 85% staff furloughed, DNI's analysis and operations staff cut by 60%
America's federal cybersecurity workforce will see sharp reductions if Congress fails to pass a spending bill to keep the government open …
HQ Trivia launches HQ Words, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that's been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO
HQ's expansion beyond trivia is emerging from beta, but the question is whether it's different and accessible enough to revive the startup's growth.
WeChat adds a Snapchat-like Stories feature called Time Capsule that lets users upload videos of up to 15 seconds that disappear after 24 hours
WeChat, the Chinese messaging giant with over 1 billion monthly active users around the world, just added a Snap-like ephemeral video feature as part of its biggest overhaul since 2014.
Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia, as an inspiring and talented visionary who built products that made millions happy
Kerry Flynn / Digiday : Tweets: @digiday , @digiday , @jaykapoornyc , @scottrogowsky , and @kerrymflynn Tweets: @digiday : “The interesting thing about Colin is everything he ever did had never been ...
Although the functionality of digital books has largely remained the same for 10 years, technology has improved everything that goes into publishing a book
THE FUTURE BOOK was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. Tweets: @craigmod , @stevesi , @kevin2kelly , and @mijustin...
How Alexa has used machine learning to get smarter over the last year, with a 25% error rate reduction, carrying over context from one query to the next, more
IT'S FAIR TO say that when Amazon introduced the first Echo speaker in the fall of 2014, most people weren't quite sure what to make of it.
Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and plan
Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos.
France, Germany, Italy, and UK secure EU approval to grant €1.75B in state aid to a joint microelectronics project, expecting €6B more from private investors
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
Temi, a startup that plans to officially launch its telepresence robot in January, raises a $21M Series B led by Alibaba's ex-CTO, bringing total raised to $83M
Temi, a robotics startup headquartered in New York, is betting big on its eponymous Temi telepresence product — and it's taking new investors along for the ride.
A look at the state of crypto at the end of 2018 and a list of questions to consider as the ecosystem evolves in 2019 and beyond
As 2018 comes to a close, we've been thinking about some of the big questions that crypto still needs to answer. — Although there is some clarity …
Sources: Uber has offered to pay 11 cents for every mile driven for Uber to drivers who have been in individual arbitration over their employment classification
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Fourth Paradigm, a Chinese provider of AI-driven data analysis software founded by Huawei veterans, raises $150M at a ~$1.2B valuation
- Fourth Paradigm snags $150 million at a $1.2 billion valuation — The startup is joining ranks of Chinese firms making AI chips Tweets: @mhbergen Tweets: Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : Some news for Ch...
Inside the bitter fight over a $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, which Amazon seems set to win: a 33-page anti-Amazon dossier and shady social media campaign
Amazon operates at scale.
Crew, a chat app targeting businesses that employ shift workers like multi-store retailers and fast-food chains, raises $35M Series C
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hang out where you go to talk to friends
if it's where their friends are, then (like social media) cutting them off risks isolating them in other way http://twitter.com/...
An overview of the new global and regional satellite navigation systems being built by China, Japan, India, and the EU
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amitranjan Tweets: Amit Ranjan / @amitranjan : The data localization global wars are on - its first battleground is GPS! 7 countries - China, Japan, India, UK, ...
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients
@nytimes http://www.nytimes.com/... Joyce Novacek Ragard / @joycenovacek : I worked at Epic for 3.5 yrs & I think the way Epic treats its (thousands of) employees deserves more attention. The turnover...
How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from making just hardware to making sophisticated products that combine hardware with software and AI
MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @techreview , @tanayj , and @yangyang_cheng Tweets: @techreview : Shenzhen could become something that Silicon Valley has never quite been: a technology hub with produ...
Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon's rules against each other
one that is secretive, volatile, and often terrifying."Most people have an expectation of due process... when it comes to interacting with megatech companies, that is far from the norm. http://www.the...
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.