Amazon announces a record-breaking holiday season with the number of voice-activated shopping orders placed using Alexa rising 3X YoY
Shoppers are increasingly using their voices to buy products online. — Amazon on Wednesday said that the number of voice-activated orders placed via …
Snapchat adds lenses specifically for dogs, after launching lenses for cats last month, available now
Now your dog can up his or her social clout, too — Snapchat first made users fall in love by creating lenses that could turn them into dogs. Now, the company is going full circle, and adding lenses...
Despite challenges in penetrating the US market, Huawei says it has shipped over 200M smartphones in 2018 globally, up from last year's 153M units
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Crypto mining startup Bitmain confirms layoffs, which, source says, may affect half of its total headcount, with some departments being laid off entirely
Months after it filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain …
Google says Android TV has now been deployed by 100+ pay TV operators worldwide and is used by “tens of millions” of customers, mostly in Europe and Asia
Google's open video operating system proliferates as AT&T readies deployment of set-top powered by platform in the U.S.
Crypto efforts of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and others are in limbo after bitcoin's months-long fall and weak demand from institutional clients
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and many more built it. But they didn't come. — Limbo—that's where to find Wall Street when it comes to cryptocurrencies.
As Huawei comes under government scrutiny worldwide, a look at the company's aggressive culture that encouraged employees to bend the rules, up to a point
SHENZHEN, China — Earthquakes, terrorist attacks and low oxygen levels on Mount Everest could not hold them back.
How indie bookstores are thriving by using Instagram to build communities, and creating “Instagram walls” that often lead to viral photos and free marketing
Stores like Books Are Magic and the Last Bookstore are benefiting from love on #bookstagram. — The internet is killing independent bookstores. Tweets: @voxdotcom , @penamerican , and @michelleobama ...
Analysis: SEC and state regulators brought 90+ crypto-related cases in the past two years, recovering just ~$36M; cases increased as the market crashed
SEC and state regulators have brought more than 90 crypto cases over the past two years, but tracing funds is hard because of the elusive nature of the currency
Chinese startup Yuanfudao, which provides a homework help app, live courses, and a database of exam problems, raises $300M led by Tencent at a $3B+ valuation
Academic exams are a big deal in China as they determine the kind of universities, high schools and elementary schools that students …
As some prominent creators leave in protest after Patreon bans anti-feminist for hate speech, a look at its approach to policing speech with human moderators
Sam Harris, the polemical atheist neuroscientist known for his popular podcast “Waking Up,” was making tens of thousands of dollars …
Sources describe DOD's plan to win “hearts and minds” in Silicon Valley, amid frustration and anger inside the Pentagon after Google pulled out of Project Maven
THE AMERICAN MILITARY is desperately trying to get a leg up in the field of artificial intelligence …
Israel will give Intel a $185M grant for a planned $5B expansion of its production operations in the country, expects the company to hire 250 new employees
How efforts by independent investigators and NGOs to document human rights violations in war zones are hampered by proactive content removals by social networks
Investigators depend on photos and videos posted online from war zones. But takedowns by Facebook and YouTube are putting … Tweets: @tobiaschneider , @miriamelder , @meghara , @saliltripathi , and @b...
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%
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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
including the Snap-like ephemeral feature and an increased focus on media https://techcrunch.com/...
A content analysis of mobile news alerts in 2018 shows their number and length rose since 2017; companion case study confirms shift from just breaking news
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — In 2017, we did a deep dive into mobile push alerts, publishing a report in collaboration … Tweets: @pushthepush , @cjr , @towcenter , and @cjr Tweets: @pushthepush : Very intere...
Rakuten: Amazon's share of US online sales can dip to ~20% around Thanksgiving only to soar to ~50% before Christmas, as users trust Amazon to deliver on time
Amazon operates at scale. Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Amazon's share of online shopping jumps from 20% to 50% after Black Friday because users trust them to deliver. Wife experienced this ...
A history of Google's relationship with China from its first foray in 2006 to Project Dragonfly, and how Google hopes to reenter China in the era of AI
this time the Chinese government will make the decisions' https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... @greatfirechina : “The giants of Silicon Valley have already ceased their public criticism of Chinese in...
Cloud Imperium, the developer of a yet-to-be fully launched space sim Star Citizen, raises $46M at a $460M valuation after crowdfunding $211M over six years
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The First Step Act, which seeks to reform the federal criminal justice system, risks perpetuating racial and class disparities due to its reliance on algorithms
Bärí a. Williams / Fast Company : Tweets: @nrookie Tweets: Noliwe / @nrookie : The widespread use of tech in policing and immigration is about to spread. This is scary stuff.The prison-reforming Firs...
Chinese tech companies have thrived thanks to government incentives that allowed them to grow, but government ties can also prove problematic as they go global
and more interesting. My piece for @techreview's China issue https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Meghna Bal / @megbal2712 : Some important lessons for those calling for the emulation of China's digi...
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
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @bradfordcross and @bgurley Tweets: Bradford Cross / @bradfordcross : An important starting point for lay people looking into AI is understanding that we do not h...
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