Samsung begins mass production of 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 chips for smartphones, with speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s
Samsung's future phones, including the Galaxy Fold, will have read and write speeds comparable with snappy ultra-fast laptops.
Google and DeepMind are using AI to predict the power output of wind farms 36 hours ahead of actual generation, boosting economic value of wind energy by ~20%
Carbon-free technologies like renewable energy help combat climate change, but many of them have not reached their full potential.
Russian court hands former Russian cybersecurity chief and a Kaspersky Lab executive lengthy prison sentences after being convicted on treason charges
A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information …
FTC settles with supplement maker in first case involving allegedly fake paid Amazon reviews to gain a five-star rating, will suspend most of $12.8M judgment
Commission also alleges weight-loss supplement claims were deceptive — The Federal Trade Commission today announced …
Twitter has permanently suspended Jacob Wohl for creating and operating fake accounts, after he shared plans to make deceptive accounts before the 2020 election
Twitter announced that it is permanently suspending Jacob Wohl, a 21-year-old Internet hoaxer and supporter of President Donald Trump …
Spotify launches in India with monthly premium tier starting at 119 rupees or ~$1.67, says free tier users in India can stream any song on demand on mobile
A year after Spotify publicly expressed its intention to launch in India, the music streaming company has finally delivered.
Sensor Tower: TikTok passed 1B downloads on Android and iOS, excluding Android installs in China; 663M downloads came in 2018, beating Instagram's 444M
- Chinese short-form video app TikTok has been downloaded 1 billion times across Android and iOS, according to Sensor Tower figures.
IBM apologizes after some US online job application forms asked for the ethnicity of applicants and used racial slurs, says the questions have been removed
Tech giants under fire? Hold my beer, says Big Blue as it spins up race slur recruitment websites
Nivaura, which aims to use blockchains to automate the lifecycle for the issuance of financial instruments, raises $20M led by the London Stock Exchange
Capital markets blockchain startup Nivaura has raised a total of $20 million with the closing of its second seed extension round led by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).
An in-depth analysis of social media platforms through the lens of social capital theory and why we should think of them as “Status as a Service” businesses
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FedEx begins trialling SameDay Bot, an autonomous robot that can travel at 10 MPH, for same-day deliveries in Memphis, with plans to expand elsewhere
Trials of the robot, which has a top speed of 10 mph, will begin later this year — Startups do it. Amazon does it.
UK-based Tessian, which applies machine learning to enterprise email security to eliminate threats, raises $42M Series B led by Sequoia Capital
The US-based VC firm Sequoia Capital has led a $42 million funding round in Tessian, a cybersecurity startup headquartered in London; Latitude …
DC appeals court rejects DOJ's bid to overturn the ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner; DOJ says it will not seek further review
again Marguerite Reardon / CNET : Justice Department won't appeal AT&T-Time Warner decision Marcy Gordon / Associated Press : US appeals court clears AT&T's $81B merger with Time Warner Sean Burch / T...
FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers
Trump Turns on China Hawks as Huawei Doubles Down Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Critics Are Wary of the FTC's New Tech Antitrust Task Force Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast : Lina Khan, a Top Antitrust Thi...
D-Wave announces its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 qubits in its current system, planned to come to market in mid-2020
D-Wave, the well-funded quantum computing company, today announced its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 in the company's current system.
Documents show that Peter Thiel's Founders Fund has returns that are at least 3X better than the industry average, despite significant turnover in leadership
Silicon Valley investment firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, looks to rebuild team with a high-profile hire
Researchers find that weaknesses in Supermicro hardware would let an attacker leave a persistent and hidden backdoor on IBM's cloud “bare-metal” servers
IBM rated the severity “low”, while Eclypsium assigned a 9.3 “critical” CVE 3. Solid work by @ABazhaniuk and team. http://eclypsium.com/... Kenn White / @kennwhite : Researchers at @eclypsium demonstr...
Google says its AI-powered grammar checker, announced last July, will now be available on Google Docs for all G Suite users
Nick Statt / The Verge :
UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for repeatedly breaking policies on hate speech
The Guardian :
HTC's blockchain-focused Exodus 1 phone adds ~20 decentralized blockchain apps, integrates with Opera for crypto micropayments, will be sold for $699 in March
Shannon Liao / The Verge :
Threads, which aims to create a user-friendly asynchronous chat platform for coworkers, comes out of stealth with $10.5M Series A from Sequoia
The rapid rise of Slack has ushered in a new wave of apps, all aiming to solve one challenge: creating a user-friendly platform where coworkers can have productive conversations.
China-based AI chip designer Horizon Robotics raises a $600M round at a valuation of $3B from South Korea's SK Group, memory chip manufacturer SK Hynix, others
Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post :
Report: Microsoft and VMware are working on software to ease porting apps built on VMware's virtualization tech to Azure as part of a broader partnership
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
SoFi says it will launch cryptocurrency trading in partnership with Coinbase in Q2 and also has plans for zero-fee SoFi-branded ETFs and a credit card in 2019
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
Boston-based job-seeking platform Jobcase raises $100M in growth equity funding led by Providence Strategic Growth, bringing total raised to $118.9M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries, claiming it's never handed over its SSL keys or customers' SSL keys, as many firms abandon their canaries
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Pandora launches Stories, a new marketing tool allowing artists to build music playlists combined with voice tracks, available for all users to stream
10 Principles for Modernizing … Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : Pandora's new Stories format combines music and storytelling Simon Cohen / Digital Trends : Pandora Stories let artists take fans on a ...
Facebook policy doc shows it wants up to a 30% cut of Fan Subscriptions, vs Patreon's 5%, and to reserve right to offer free trials with no creator compensation
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Google launches Flutter v1.2, its cross-platform UI framework, with support for Android App Bundles, better tools for in-app payments, and web-based dev tools
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Kryon Systems, which uses software to study business workflows and discover ways to automate repetitive tasks, raises $40M Series C led by OAK HC/FT
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
YieldStreet, which provides a platform for making alternative investments in areas like real estate and shipping, raises $62M Series B led by Edison Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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