FaceTime bug lets a caller hear audio or view video from recipient's phone before call has been accepted or rejected; Apple says fix coming later this week
A significant bug has been discovered in FaceTime and is currently spreading virally over social media.
Apple has disabled the Group FaceTime feature on the server side and reports suggest this has fixed the security flaw for most people
Software update still due later this week — Apple has temporarily disabled its Group FaceTime feature in iOS and macOS to fix a major security flaw.
DOJ unseals Jan. 16 indictment against Huawei, CFO Meng Wanzhou, affiliated firms; charges include bank and wire fraud, IP theft, conspiring to obstruct justice
- T-Mobile accused Huawai of theft; CFO linked to sactions case — U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against Huawei Technologies Co. …
DOJ indictment details Huawei's efforts to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile and offer bonuses to staff who stole confidential information from other companies
Huawei Corporate Entities Conspired to Steal Trade Secret Technology and Offered Bonus to Workers who Stole Confidential Information from Companies Around the World
BitTorrent completed its token sale on Tuesday on the Binance Launchpad platform, netting $7.1M in under 15 minutes with the sale of 50B tokens
The BitTorrent token (BTT) sale on the Binance Launchpad platform concluded today Jan. 28, netting $7.1 million dollars with the sale of 50 billion tokens in under 15 minutes.
Study: of 3,839 movies on Netflix, 596 are “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, more than Prime, Hulu, HBO combined, despite Prime having 17,461 movies total
Amazon Prime Video may have more than 4.5x as many movies as Netflix, but quantity isn't everything.
Huawei MateBook 13 review: solid performance, comfortable keyboard, and sturdy design, but no Thunderbolt 3, lackluster battery life, and crazy-loud fans
This $1,299 laptop is stiff competition for Huawei's own $1,499 Matebook X Pro. — Despite company turmoil, Huawei continues to go after a slice of the US laptop market.
Samsung acquires Tel Aviv-based smartphone camera maker Corephotonics, which sued Apple for patent infringement of its dual aperture tech in 2017, for $155M
Calcalist first reported that Samsung was considering the acquisition earlier this month. The companies signed the deal Sunday
EU publishes first monthly reports by Facebook, Google, Firefox, and Twitter on their fight against disinformation, wants them to intensify efforts
The European Union has urged US internet giants and advertising firms to intensify the fight against disinformation campaigns before EU elections in May, or risk regulation.
Changes to Facebook's site break plugins created by ProPublica and others to track and report on exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers
Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year.
Fintech startup Petal, which offers credit cards to people without credit scores, raises $30M Series B led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures
Petal, a fintech startup that offers credit cards to people without credit scores, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding led …
Collibra, which provides data governance tech to manage and track corporate data, raises $100M Series E led by CapitalG at a $1B+ valuation
CapitalG, an investment arm of Google parent Alphabet, has led a $100 million funding round in the data technology startup Collibra.
Inside Starbreeze's financial crisis, after the game studio botched the release of Overkill's The Walking Dead and made big investments in VR and other areas
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Profile of Lyft CEO Logan Green, including how he and Lyft president John Zimmer worked together to build the company
SAN FRANCISCO — When Logan Green, chief executive of the ride-hailing service Lyft, was asked which tech leaders he admired, he pointed to three men who had built … Tweets: @collabfund , @puiwingtam ,...
Cato Networks, which makes software-defined wide-area networking tools, raises $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Bluetooth 5.1, available to developers today, includes a feature that allows devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Investing and savings startup Acorns now valued at $860M after raising $105M Series E from Comcast Ventures, NBCUniversal, Bain Capital Ventures, and others
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
PitchBook and All Raise: US female founders raised $2.88B in 2018 across 482 teams, while average deal size for women-led companies was $5.9M, vs $17.3M for men
Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune :
How Telegram groups and channels, with their free pirated content and supergroup feature, are becoming popular in India for test preparation
Nilesh Christopher / FactorDaily : Tweets: @nilchristopher , @rohanv , and @nilchristopher . Thanks: @pankajontech Tweets: Nilesh Christopher / @nilchristopher : Telegram has over 40m users in India,...
A look at computational psychiatry research at the Human Neuroimaging Lab at Virginia Tech, focused on developing AI algorithms for diagnosing mental illness
BD Zarley / The Verge :
Facebook shares draft proposal describing how its new content review board could work, suggesting it have 40 diverse members, none of whom are Facebook staff
with many open questions, a public consultation process, and an exploration of considerations. http://newsroom.fb.com/... Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain : Facebook announces next steps towards an exter...
LA partners with on-demand shuttle-based service Via for a pilot program that provides rides to and from three busy public transit stations
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Sandbox VR, which offers VR experiences at seven public locations like malls in US, Canada, and Asia, raises $68M Series A to expand to new locations
The vast ecosystem of moving pictures … Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Holodecks for real? Andreessen Horowitz bets $68M on Sandbox VR Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : 5 years after its Oculus investment, A16...
Kite raises a $17M Series A led by Trinity Ventures for its Python IDE that uses AI to suggest code snippets in real time
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Internal docs and sources describe how Facebook educates moderators about political issues and potential “PR fires” that are particular to different elections
but very slowly Emily Birnbaum / The Hill : Facebook unveils plans for preventing spread of misinformation ahead of elections worldwide Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Pretty wild: Facebook content...
Dropbox is buying San Francisco-based electronic signature startup HelloSign for $230M, in the company's largest acquisition since its founding in 2007
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Home improvement platform Houzz lays off ~180, roughly 10% of its workforce, and a source suggests more layoffs are coming, as it reportedly gears up for IPO
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Scribd says its reading service has surpassed 1M subscribers paying $8.99/month, up 40% YoY, and the number of users listening to audiobooks has doubled
Andrew Liptak / The Verge :
As “deepfake” videos become more common and convincing, the tech will give cover to those dismissing real events as fake; DARPA researches ways to detect fakes
those manipulated videos that have grown increasingly popular and difficult to spot. Here's what you need to know: http://www.cnn.com/... http://twitter.com/... Meagan Harris / @meaganmharris : This i...
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