Malware attack on Tribune Publishing's network disrupts the printing and distribution of Saturday editions of LA Times, WSJ, NYT, and other papers
A cyberattack that appears to have originated from outside the United States caused major printing and delivery disruptions at several newspapers across …
Sources: Amazon is planning to build and expand Whole Foods stores across the US to put more customers within range of its Prime Now two-hour delivery service
Expansion would widen tech giant's delivery reach — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 1.12% is planning to build and expand Whole Foods stores across …
Lawrence Roberts, who helped design the Arpanet and oversaw its implementation in 1969, dies at 81
In late 1966, a 29-year-old computer scientist drew a series of abstract figures on tracing paper and a quadrille pad. Some resembled a game of cat's cradle; others looked like heavenly constellation...
Privacy International: popular Android apps like TripAdvisor, Kayak, Indeed, MyFitnessPal share data with Facebook without user consent, possibly violating GDPR
Some of the most popular apps for Android smartphones, including Skyscanner, TripAdvisor and MyFitnessPal …
How deepfakes, AI-generated videos that graft a person's face onto another's body, have been weaponized to harass and humiliate their subjects, mostly women
“Deepfake” creators are making disturbingly realistic, computer-generated videos with photos taken from the Web, and ordinary women are suffering the damage.
Inside digital music piracy and sharing in the 2000s via P2P networks like Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella, as well as IRC and internet music service Audiogalaxy
A couple of decades ago - well before a $10 monthly fee would unlock access to virtually every song ever recorded through streaming services …
In a formerly undisclosed memo from March, a top FTC enforcement official said Facebook wasn't at fault for Cambridge Analytica's abuses; FTC says probe ongoing
Last spring, soon after Facebook acknowledged that the data of tens of millions of its users had improperly been obtained … Tweets: @nickconfessore , @justinhendrix , @jake_bernstein , @nytimes , @the...
European Commission to start offering bug bounties in January on 14 Free Software projects like Notepad++ and VLC that the EU institutions rely on
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Beijing plans to adopt facial recognition-enabled smart locks in its public housing projects involving 120K tenants in 2019 to crack down on illegal subletting
- The smart lock is one of the latest hi-tech tools authorities are using to keep an eye on its citizens
How Facebook engineers keep Messenger from crashing on New Year's Eve, when more messages are sent than on any other day, through “graceful degradation”
Messenger's 1.3 billion users send more messages on New Year's Eve than on any other day of the year Tweets: @ieeespectrum and @ieeespectrum Tweets: IEEE Spectrum / @ieeespectrum : When you've built a...
China-owned spacecraft maker CASIC launches first of 156 satellites intended to provide internet service by 2022 to rural China and then to developing countries
Over the weekend, China launched a satellite into low-earth orbit, the first step of a plan to provide global satellite internet …
How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptors, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities
The retailer is targeting hundreds of millions of new online shoppers in India's countryside by adding Hindi and videos … Tweets: @bethblackshire , @wsj , @oraunak , @wsj , @ericbellmanwsj , and @saji...
Der Spiegel: Volkswagen is planning to write off over $300M it invested in Gett, as the Israeli startup struggles to compete with Uber, Lyft, Didi, and others
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Bangladesh orders mobile operators to shut down high-speed mobile internet services to “prevent rumours and propaganda” ahead of national elections on Sunday
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Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress
Big companies struggled but small ones moved forward. — As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high:
China approves the release of 80 video games, none of which are from Tencent, a week after lifting a nine-month freeze on approvals
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In an year of breaches, data leaks, and reports of starvation deaths due to faulty implementation, India's Aadhaar had its constitutional status upheld in 2018
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RBC Capital Markets: 41% of US consumers now own a smart speaker, compared to 21.5% in 2017; the growth was mostly driven by Alexa and Google Home devices
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AI image processing for computer vision, facial recognition, image generation, and other applications saw marked improvements in 2018
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Inside Uber's serious incident team for US where ~130 investigators deal with reports of crashes, physical altercations, sexual misconduct, theft, and stalking
continuing to improve in this area is essential for @Uber. Learn more about what our SRT does and our preparations for a transparency report in 2019 in @financialtimes http://www.ft.com/...
As Alphabet tests Wing drone deliveries in a suburb of Canberra, some enjoy the convenience of orders arriving in minutes while others complain about noise
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How Booking Holdings, formerly Priceline, is betting on China's online travel market with partnerships and more than $2B in investments in Chinese companies
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The biggest challenges for US tech firms in 2019: GDPR-like privacy protections, large security breaches becoming routine, and anti-government employee protests
Susan Fowler / New York Times : Tweets: @susanthesquark , @moiragweigel , @nytopinion , @mer__edith , @nytopinion , @wslack , @bradfordcross , and @alexstamos Tweets: Susan Fowler / @susanthesquark :...
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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.