Fitbit launches Inspire, its first fitness tracker available exclusively through its corporate, wellness, health plan, and health systems partners
Fitbit has recently introduced a new activity and sleep tracker. But unlike it's previous devices, this one is only available if your health plan or employer is signed up with Fitbit.
Gimlet's Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber on weighing remaining independent and being acquired, the days before the deal, and reach, data, and discoverability
Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode's Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media. — On Friday, Recode broke the news …
Spotify's bet on Gimlet and Anchor gives it a foothold into podcasting to apply its listener monetization skills without worrying about sending money to labels
Credit Spotify CEO Daniel Ek with honesty; in a blog post announcing a major move into the podcast space, Ek wrote:
Two sources say that after political and community opposition in New York City, Amazon executives have had internal discussions to explore alternatives for HQ2
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Following major tech scandals, a look at how Stanford University is reevaluating its role in shaping Silicon Valley's future employees and leaders
Stanford has established itself as the epicenter of computer science, and a farm system for the tech giants.
How chains like Cinemark and AMC are testing high-end, immersive multiplayer VR experiences in select movie theaters
ONCE UPON A time, the company with the biggest screens in the world made a big bet on virtual reality. IMAX opened seven VR centers in movie theaters around the globe … Tweets: @provenself , @wired ,...
AMD Radeon VII review: at $699, the first 7nm gaming GPU is good value when used as a high-VRAM prosumer card but for pure gamers there are better options
For AMD's Radeon Technologies Group, 2018 was a bit of a breather year. After launching the Polaris architecture in 2016 … Tweets: @ismh . Thanks: @iancutress Tweets: Stephen Hackett / @ismh : *reloa...
Amazon now has 288M sq. ft. of warehouses, offices, retail stores, and data centers; all retail adds up to less than 20M sq. ft. and all of AWS uses 10M sq. ft.
The data on the company's real-estate holdings reveal a remarkable inflection point. — Amazon's origin story is firmly embedded … Tweets: @sandeepssrin and @peiohr Tweets: Sandeep Srinivasa / @sande...
Hoffman and Yeh's “Blitzscaling” offers practical advice for startups but presents a lot of revisionist history and ignores the perils of VC-fueled hypergrowth
The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. — Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Tweets: @ulaar , @joshelman , @schulte_stef ,...
A look at how US hospitals are integrating voice assistants like Alexa into patient care and the challenges facing them
At first it was a novelty: Hospitals began using voice assistants to allow patients to order lunch, check medication regimens, and get on-demand medical advice at home. Tweets: @daniel_kraft , @harvar...
Waymo CTO talks about the early days of Google's self-driving project, its 10th anniversary, Waymo's plans to expand commercially beyond ride-hailing, more
A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google's main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur … Tweets: @maxbraun and @kirstenkorosec Tweets: Max Braun / @...
Hasty adoption of California's privacy law left many unresolved issues and privacy advocates fear industry lobbying will lead to revisions that weaken the law
SACRAMENTO — A landmark law adopted in California last year to rein in the data-collection practices of Facebook …
DoorDash says it stands behind its pay policy, which uses tips to help cover what it owes delivery drivers, similar to the policy Instacart reversed this week
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Google's policies about inclusion of small publishers in Google News, one of the biggest news platforms on the internet, are opaque and applied at random
There's been a lot of discussion about the future of publishing over the last few years, particularly as Facebook traffic began cratering … Tweets: @ow Tweets: Owen Williams / @ow : I've been trying t...
What it's like to get by without using or accessing a single product from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, blocking all five at once for one week
who track our movements, erode our privacy, monetize our data—have a monopoly on not just our digital lives, but on everything that bleeds into. just trying to untangle yourself from them is a radical...
China is taking early steps to protect consumers' privacy from tech companies, even as it intensifies government surveillance
Amazon's home security company Ring runs a crime reporting social network called Neighbors where petty crimes are heavily policed and racism is common
Caroline Haskins / Motherboard : Tweets: @carolineha_ and @vice Tweets: Caroline Haskins / @carolineha_ : I opened this article talking about a post titled “MY PACKAGE THIEF HAS BEEN ARRESTED!!!” Her...
Alex Stamos and 19 people who knew him professionally over the course of his career talk about his work at various startups, Yahoo, Facebook, and now, Stanford
@alexstamos http://finance.yahoo.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : This entirely misses the point. The CA issue is FB had a consent decree to report this and has obfuscated, covered-up decision-makin...
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