Hands-on with AR navigation on Google Maps that the company is testing with Local Guides, a group of power users helping Google improve its Maps experience
The coming Google Maps augmented-reality navigation feature will look through your phone's camera to figure out where you are and show you where you are going.
Trump to sign American AI Initiative executive order that will prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for AI researchers, establish standards, more
Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the United States, but other nations, including China, Canada, and France …
Apple says it has partnered with the US Department of Veterans and will soon let veterans access their digital health records through iPhone's Health app
Apple has announced that it will soon support accessing digital health records for veterans through the Health app on iPhone.
IDC: Apple's Q4 smartphone shipments in China fell 19.9% YoY and Xiaomi fell 34.9% but Huawei shipments grew 23.3%
Huawei racks up 23 per cent gain in shipments in fourth quarter against 9.7 per cent slump in industry shipments.
Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro says it has raised $940M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, valuing the company at $2.7B
(Reuters) - Autonomous technology startup Nuro said on Monday it raised $940 million from SoftBank Group Corp, which valued the Silicon Valley-based company at $2.7 billion.
While tech companies' mission statements claim their work has a higher purpose, CEOs also keep them vague so employees can't use them to make concrete demands
Tech workers are using company mission statements to hold their CEOs accountable. — Companies in Silicon Valley are wonderfully fond …
Report finds evidence of 90+ cases of child sex offenses via dating services like Tinder, as UK considers expanding age verification checks to dating apps
The UK government has said it could legislate to require age verification checks on users of dating apps, following an investigation …
Indian parliamentary panel summons Twitter CEO to appear before it on February 25 to discuss data privacy and misuse of social media ahead of national elections
HIGHLIGHTS — The committee meeting was scheduled for February 7 but was later postponed to February 11 to allow the Twitter CEO …
Current and former contractors employed by Apex Systems to work at an Apple “black site” talk about living in fear of terminations, inadequate facilities, more
Apple's new campus in Cupertino, California, is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer …
US Army starts deploying FLIR's Black Hornet nano-drones that measure 6.6" across, weigh less than 33 grams, and provide HD photos and live video for soldiers
Black Hornets are nano-drones able to perform reconnaissance during combat operations. — The US Army aims to give almost …
Paris sues Airbnb for allegedly posting 1,000 illegal rental listings; a French law, passed in 2018, allows fines of up to €12,500 per illegal posting
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Preview of an MMORPG called New World, slated to be Amazon's first game, five years after it said it wanted to start making them
hands-on in a massive sandbox MMO Rachel Watts / PCGamesN : New World is an MMO where lore isn't given to you - it's buried deep Fraser Brown / PC Gamer : Amazon's MMO New World shows off fortress con...
MGM's pay TV channel Epix launches Epix Now, a $5.99/month streaming service, available on iOS, Apple TV and Android, says it is coming to Roku and Fire TV soon
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IBM and SUNY Polytechnic Institute announce agreement to create AI Hardware Center, part of a larger commitment by IBM to invest $2B in NY state over 5 years
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Reddit raises $300M Series D at a $3B valuation, with Tencent, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity among investors, says it has 330M MAUs, half between the age of 18 and 24
- CEO Steve Huffman says the company will use the investment to improve Reddit's website and work to take digital ad market share away from Facebook and Google. Tweets: @stevekovach . Thanks: @mattros...
Automatic license plate readers, once limited to law enforcement, are now being used by private citizens, raising fears of abuse and new legal, ethical issues
The surveillance state is no longer limited to the state. — For years, police departments have been tracking people's cars … Tweets: @joegiacalone and @talkpoverty Tweets: Joseph Giacalone / @joegia...
A look at the challenges of online grocery shopping in US, where 22% of apparel sales and 30% of electronics sales happen online versus just 3% of grocery sales
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic : Tweets: @alexhern Tweets: Alex Hern / @alexhern : My own theory about why US online grocery shopping sucks is that US *offline* grocery shopping sucks in ways that have...
Personal data harvested at scale and exploited via microtargeting threatens people's autonomy, a point missing from most mainstream discussions on privacy
the abstract portrait of who you are, & more importantly, of who you are compared to other ppl — is your real vulnerability [...] Not because it will compromise your personal ID. But because it will c...
Milan-based automotive e-commerce startup brumbrum, which uses AI to source and price vehicles, raises €20M led by Accel to expand across Europe
Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu :
PerimeterX, which protects websites from bot attacks, raises $43M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Zynga's CEO on the once-beleaguered game company's turnaround, as key acquisitions and the shift to mobile overcome declining Facebook and web games
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Overview of how Facebook's open-source projects, including Cassandra, GraphQL, the Open Compute initiative, PyTorch, and React, have changed computing
Klint Finley / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : From Netflix to Uber to Walmart's website, many of the apps and services we use every day are built with technologies that Facebook developed an...
VCs raised $55B in 2018, similar to what was raised in 1999, but most of the increased funding went into growth rounds, which are effectively private IPOs
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table : Tweets: @trengriffin , @eliefinegold , @sgblank , @msuster , and @adamnash Tweets: Tren Griffin / @trengriffin : “The traditional VC market has only grown 14% ...
How chains like Cinemark and AMC are testing high-end, immersive multiplayer VR experiences in select movie theaters
Peter Rubin / Wired : Tweets: @provenself , @wired , and @wired Tweets: Peter Rubin / @provenself : IMAX made a big bet on VR, then reconsidered. Bad for them, good for the movie-theater chains that ...
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