2018 MacBook Pros include a longer screen cable, a part prone to fail on earlier models, requiring screen replacements, an issue Apple never acknowledged
In 2018, a number of MacBook Pro users—with models from 2016 onwards—discovered a serious design flaw that causes the screen to fail …
Apple acquired the patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI, including those related to visual authentication, late last year
Apple has recently acquired a handful of patents from Lighthouse AI, a defunct home security camera company.
Senior GOP congressional aide claims the NSA has shut down a program that collects domestic phone and text records, whose scope was revealed by Snowden in 2013
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts …
August View wireless video doorbell unveiled with 1440p recording, 24/7 live video streaming, and rechargeable battery, available for $230 from March 28
August just introduced a new device to its lineup — the $230 August View. Available in the United States beginning March 28 …
Google's 2018 pay equity analysis found that it was underpaying more men than women among software engineers, and it paid $9.7M in adjustments to 10K+ Googlers
SAN FRANCISCO — When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups …
Comedian Miel Bredouw's fight with Barstool Sports after they posted her video without credit shows how Twitter's copyright system can hurt creators
“It's insane to me that the platform is allowing them to do this.” — Earlier today, Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Miel Bredouw claims …
Russia is pushing “Sovereign Internet”, a draft law designed to create a single command post from which data flows can be managed across Russian cyberspace
When anti-government protests erupted on Russia's side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something …
The servers running social robot Jibo, which had raised ~$76M in total and shipped to the public in 2017 for $899, are being shut down forever
RIP, Jibo — The servers running Jibo, a connected home robot, are about to be shut down, and the robot has started informing its owners with a bittersweet message.
Following outcry, Coinbase says Neutrino staff members who previously worked at Hacking Team “will transition out of Coinbase”
We recently announced the acquisition of Neutrino, a blockchain analytics company. I'd like to share a bit of the back story on this acquisition, and a decision we've made going forward.
Alphabet startup Chronicle launches Backstory, a “Google Photos for network security” that makes network history easy to search and draw insights from
It's been a year since Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced a moonshot cybersecurity company called Chronicle.
Report: 40% of 2,830 AI startups in Europe do not use AI programs in their products; ~8% of EU startups were AI companies in 2018, up from ~3% in 2015
Two-fifths of Europe's artificial intelligence start-ups do not use any AI programs in their products, according to a report that highlights the hype around the technology.
On Amazon, a book pushing QAnon conspiracy theories climbs the charts, aided by Amazon's algorithmically generated recommendations
The book is currently No. 9 in all books about politics and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury's “Farhenheit 451,”
Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, says complying with new ad transparency rules required by Bill C-76 would be too challenging
Google is banning political advertising on its platforms ahead of the Canadian federal election because of new ad transparency rules …
Sources: Microsoft is prioritizing Windows Lite to run on dual-screen devices for new hardware that could launch as early as late 2019
Microsoft is making a Chrome OS-like version of Windows — Microsoft is preparing a new lightweight version of Windows for dual-screen devices and Chromebook competitors.
A look at Tim Cook's lobbying efforts with the White House and China to keep Apple from getting ensnared in US tariffs and avoid backlash from China
But Apple could face future threats if the latest trade talks fail. — President Donald Trump's trade war with China has left a trail …
T-Mobile acknowledges that its executives' patronage of Trump's Washington hotel, spending ~$195K, increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint
T-Mobile's patronage of President Trump's Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April …
Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats plan to unveil legislation to reinstate net neutrality rules that were repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress plan to unveil legislation on Wednesday to reinstate “net neutrality” …
Amazon's hard bargaining helps it squeeze as much as possible out of cities, but the NYC pullout exposed its limited experience building community relationships
SEATTLE — When Texas officials pushed Amazon to pay nearly $270 million in back sales taxes in 2010, Amazon responded by closing … Tweets: @alinaselyukh , @nickconfessore , and @ron_miller Tweets: Ali...
Chinese social network YY has acquired Singapore-based social media startup Bigo in a deal worth US$1.45B; YY was lead investor in Bigo's $272M round last June
Chinese social network YY has acquired Singapore-based social media startup Bigo in a deal worth US$1.45 billion.
The Financial Times has acquired a majority stake in Amsterdam-based tech blog and events company The Next Web
The Financial Times has bought a controlling stake in consumer publisher The Next Web, marking its first acquisition in continental Europe. — The FT didn't disclose the terms …
RackTop Systems, which provides network-attached storage products with built-in security and compliance features, raises $15M Series A
As companies get more serious about their security and make investments in protecting their networks, wouldn't it make more sense to protect data exactly where it lives and rests: the data centers?
USB Implementers Forum announces USB 4, which offers a maximum speed of 40 Gbps, double that of USB 3.2, and support for Thunderbolt 3
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Eight years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, a look at the disaster recovery tech used there, from an array of robots to 3D glasses for remote control
My nose itches. I instinctively reach up, but my fingers, wrapped in three gloves — one made of cloth, two of latex … Tweets: @cnet . Thanks: @rogerwcheng Tweets: @cnet : The Japanese government says...
US mobile bank Chime raises $200M Series D led by DST Global, valuing its business at $1.5B
San Francisco-based mobile banking startup Chime announced this morning it has raised an additional $200 million in Series D financing led by DST Global, valuing its business at $1.5 billion.
SurveyMonkey acquires Amsterdam-based website and app survey company Usabilla for $80M in cash and stock
SurveyMonkey announced today that it has acquired Usabilla, an Amsterdam-based website and app survey company, for $80 million in cash and stock. — Zander Lurie, CEO at SurveyMonkey …
W3C approves WebAuthn as the official web standard for password-free logins; WebAuthn is supported by Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, and is in Safari preview
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Roblox tries to make the kid's game safer through a digital civility initiative, moderators, more, after a character was virtually sexually assaulted last year
Roblox has more than 80 million monthly players on its Lego-like virtual world platform for teens, and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin the fun.
Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry
and you can't opt-out. http://techcrunch.com/... Anil Dash / @anildash : Well put. It's doubly devastating when a major platform betrays user trust, because they not only victimize their own users, th...
Google and Facebook, a major presence at CPAC last year, were nowhere to be seen this year amid claims of anti-conservative bias on their platforms
OXON HILL, Md. — A year ago, attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual jamboree of the political right … Tweets: @grynbaum Tweets: Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum : Google ...
Tether partners with the Tron Foundation on a dollar-pegged USDT stablecoin on the Tron blockchain, expected to launch in the next quarter
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Messenger is the first Facebook app to get dark mode, now available on iOS and Android
Saqib Shah / Engadget :
Google announces Chromebook App Hub, an online resource for educators and administrators to learn about Chromebook apps for schools
your resource to discover and share apps and classroom ideas from fellow teachers—coming later this year. Learn more → http://blog.google/... #SXSWEDU http://twitter.com/...
Google employees believe the company is still working on Dragonfly, after finding recent code changes associated with the censored search engine and more
& took matters into their own hands. They began to investigate. Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : Hundreds of changes have continued to be made this year to code associated with the Dragonfly platform,...
Ride-hailing company Go-Jek raises $100M from Indonesian conglomerate Astra as part of its Series F; Go-Jek has raised more than half of its Series F $2B goal
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Sources: Kleiner Perkins is expected to lead a $30M round for HR software startup Rippling, led by ex-Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad, valuing it between $200M-$300M
Zoë Bernard / The Information :
Alibaba, Office Depot partner to leverage each others' strengths across supplier, delivery, sales networks, debuting a co-branded e-commerce site for US SMBs
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Researcher finds a server exposed online with 364M Chinese chat logs, including identity card numbers, addresses, and social media profiles
Yuan Yang / Financial Times :
Facebook is looking to launch enterprise editions of its Oculus Go and Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets this year, according to a job listing
every version of Oculus, Hololens, Magic Leap, Microsoft Mixed Reality, Google DayDream, Vive, PS VR—and the kids have given up. It's as bad as 3D TV. Pointlessly gimmicky @cnetnews : The social netwo...
Q&A with the assistant secretary of the US Air Force on signing contracts for new tech within a day of a startup's pitch, Project Maven, AI use in combat, more
How Ford CEO Jim Hackett Impressed Designers, But Not Investors Tweets: Tom Simonite / @tsimonite : “What is the credit limit on the Air Force's credit card?” @nxthompson asks the key questions about ...
As China sees weaker demand for iPhones, Foxconn factory workers are having salaries slashed, benefits taken, and many are resigning
Cissy Zhou / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @forwardwflynn . Thanks: @chuakongho Tweets: Matt Flynn / @forwardwflynn : iPhone orders are drying up, and Foxconn is slashing even the meager wages i...
Moka raises $27M Series B for its data-driven talent acquisition platform for China-based companies, says it has over 500 enterprise customers including Xiaomi
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Source: Bezos' security chief is preparing a 90-page investigative report alleging The National Enquirer published exposé to curry favor with Saudi investors
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair : Tweets: @gabrielsherman and @vanityfair See also Mediagazer Tweets: Gabriel Sherman / @gabrielsherman : Jeff Bezos is still dating Lauren Sanchez. My latest:http://www...
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