Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, plans to integrate the social network's messaging services …
YouTube says it will no longer suggest videos with “borderline content” or those that “misinform users in a harmful way” even if they don't violate guidelines
SAN FRANCISCO — Whether it is a video claiming the earth is flat or the moon landing was faked …
Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money
Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars …
DeepMind introduces AlphaStar AI, which won 10-1 in a series of StarCraft II matches against professional players
Humans tend to think we're adept at the games we create, but computers have proven time and time again that we're just not fast enough to stay on top.
Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database
Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday with the acquisition of Citus Data.
Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft
In new tests, Amazon's system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.
HMD says it will soon sell its Nokia smartphones through Verizon and Cricket Wireless in US and Rogers in Canada
Nokia's parent company, HMD Global, chose to put its US ambitions in the back burner to focus on markets where the brand has been enjoying a resurgence these past few years.
Robinhood says it will roll out its cryptocurrency trading product in New York in the coming months after NY regulators grant the firm a BitLicense
Stock trading startup Robinhood and bitcoin ATM provider LibertyX have become the latest companies to be granted New York's BitLicense.
YouTube's “Up Next” still suggests conspiracy videos, hate group videos, and pirated videos after news searches; YouTube says it's still working to improve
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Coinbase partners with TurboTax, will allow its customers to upload their transactions, gains, and losses in 2018 to TurboTax Premier to help file crypto taxes
Coinbase customers who need to file taxes in the U.S. this year can get a boost from TurboTax, the tax-filing software offered by Intuit Consumer Tax Group.
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped an estimated 34.2M iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7M in 2017, and was the number five smartphone vendor in the country
Apple shipped an estimated 34.2 million iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7 million in 2017, according to new data shared today by Strategy Analytics.
Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile carrier outside China, says it is temporarily halting purchases of Huawei equipment for the core of its new 5G networks
Vodafone said it would pause the purchase of Huawei gear for use in the core of new 5G networks — LONDON—The world's biggest …
HP Spectre Folio review: the unique hinge design and the leather finish are nice but the 16:9 screen feels cramped and the trackpad is horrible
The Folio is one of the most unique laptops in years, but it isn't perfect — There's nothing really quite like HP's new Spectre Folio.
Microsoft makes the Office suite available via the Mac App Store, with users needing an Office 365 subscription
6 Apps in This Bundle — Screenshots Jonny Evans / Computerworld : The IT admin guide to Office 365 at the Mac App Store Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : Microsoft Office launch on Mac App Store imminent, subscr...
Facebook says it will shut down its private photo-sharing app Moments on Feb. 25; users can export photos until May
time to save your pictures! Stephanie Mlot / Geek.com : Facebook to Discontinue Moments Photo-Sharing App Hagop Kavafian / Android Police : Facebook is retiring Moments, but you can still save your ph...
Intel Q4: revenue of $18.7B, up 9% YoY, vs. $19.01B est., Client Computing Group revenue of $9.82B, up 10% YoY, vs. $10.01B est.; stock down 7%+ after hours
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
As the number of US students studying computer science doubled to over 106,000 from 2013 to 2017, the supply of professors is struggling to keep up
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CIRP: iPhone XR accounted for 39% of US iPhone sales last quarter, making it the best selling iPhone model, while XS and XS Max combined accounted for 26%
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FOIA inquiry: Google urged US Labor Board to drop an Obama-era protection for staff organizing over work email; Google says doing so was part of a legal defense
It turns out moving fast and breaking things might … Russell Brandom / The Verge : Google's legal stance could threaten walkout organizers, activists say Levi Sumagaysay / Mercury News : Google, other...
Source: T-Mobile to launch a free, ad-supported mobile video streaming service through the Layer3 division it acquired last year and using licensed Xumo tech
T-Mobile will join the streaming wars in the next few weeks with a free, ad-supported mobile video service, according to a source familiar with the matter. Thanks: @alexeheath
Bing appears to be accessible in China again, as sources say the earlier block was due to a technical error rather than censorship
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Google Express quietly removes Walmart as a retail partner, leaving Target as the only major partner for the beleaguered delivery service
Corbin Davenport / Android Police :
Verizon's Visible, which offers unlimited text, voice, and data for $40/month, announces Android compatibility and starts selling Galaxy S9, S9+, and iPhones
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Amazon joins the board of the Zigbee Alliance, which oversees implementation of the Zigbee wireless protocol commonly used in smart home devices
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Jack Dorsey's recent media tour is largely performative, substituting talking for doing, masking Twitter's slow response to many of its issues
Casey Newton / The Verge :
AWS launches Neo-AI, an open source project for ML training models that can be run across multiple operating environments, under the Apache Software License
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
Research firms: Facebook ad spend growth rate in UK may slow to 23.5% in 2019 to £3.47B, down from 27.9% in 2018; TV ad revenues may grow 1%, to £4.4B in 2019
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Source: US pressed Chinese tech companies to show their autonomy by giving an example of resisting a data request from the Chinese government, but they couldn't
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Snowden documents shed light on how states can compromise hardware supply chains, a practice undertaken by the US, France, Germany, China, and others
The Intercept : Tweets: @kimzetter and @bobmcmillan Tweets: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : While Bloomberg's story about China hacking motherboards may well be completely (or partly) wrong, the danger of ...
Netherlands-based Geophy raises $33M Series B for its AI-based commercial real estate appraisal platform, to expand in the US and Europe
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