Sen. Warren proposes tech regulation, including breaking up big tech and rolling back acquisitions at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, as part of her 2020 bid
Silicon Valley is unimpressed VentureBeat : Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook, and Google John Koetsier / Forbes : Why Apple Got Spared As Elizabeth Warren Targets Amazon, Facebook, G...
Citrix says it was informed by the FBI that Citrix's internal network has been breached, believes some business documents may have been accessed and downloaded
On March 6, 2019, the FBI contacted Citrix to advise they had reason to believe that international cyber criminals gained access to the internal Citrix network.
By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple's control of iOS largely irrelevant in China
The social network's “pivot to privacy” puts iOS in its crosshairs. Welcome to tech's next big rivalry.
Foursquare's Hypertrending app uses Pilgrim, its SDK used by thousands of apps on millions of phones, to show where people congregate in Austin, in real time
Where 10 Years of Foursquare Has Led Us — It's been 10 years since we launched Foursquare at SXSW in 2009.
Sam Altman steps down as president of Y Combinator, will transition into a chairman role
Sam Altman is stepping down as president of influential startup incubator Y Combinator, in order to spend more time on outside interests like the OpenAI research organization.
After YouTube recategorized “Brie Larson”, star of Captain Marvel, as news in search, its algorithm surfaced videos from news publishers, pushing down trolls
How a simple ‘news’ tag can change everything — If you searched “Brie Larson” on YouTube a couple of days ago …
Samsung Galaxy Buds review: compact and unobtrusive, with better than expected sound, but are finicky outside of the Samsung ecosystem
Getting as many things right as wrong — When I was in high school, shopping for new earphones with a single £20 note as my budget, I used to dream of earbuds without the wire.
Google is rolling out Continued Conversations, Assistant's feature to avoid saying “Hey Google” repeatedly in a conversation, to smart displays in the US
Smart Displays, like the Google Home Hub and Lenovo Smart Display, are great. They're helpful smart home gadgets …
Senator Warren's plan to curb the power of big tech, while addressing valid concerns, feels like a grandstanding populism without enough substance behind it
This isn't necessarily a big surprise, given that she's suggested this many times over the past few years, but 2020 Presidential …
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to start manufacturing its AR headset between Q4 2019 and Q2 2020; the headset will rely on iPhone for rendering and connectivity
yet Joe Rice-Jones / KnowTechie : Apple's Augmented Reality headset could arrive as early as 2020 Janko Roettgers / Variety : Apple Could Start Making AR Glasses as Early as This Year Maria Deutscher ...
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman share content plans for Quibi, their streaming service launching in April 2020, including a show on Evan Spiegel and Snapchat
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman today announced a slate of new series and projects heading to their forthcoming video streaming service, Quibi.
Researchers find unprotected database owned by an email validation company with 150 GB of plaintext marketing data, including 763M unique email addresses
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Profile of FTC chairman Joseph Simons, who wants the agency to have more direct authority to oversee privacy practices and fine companies
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has no shortage of critics who say it cannot protect Americans from the prying eyes of Big Tech.
US indicts and arrests some key persons allegedly behind the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that generated €3B+ sales revenue between Q4 2014 and Q3 2016
same old scam in a shiny new cryptocurrency wrapper http://www.theverge.com/... Thanks: @dogetoshi
Sources: Amazon teams up with the NY Yankees, Sinclair Broadcasting, and others in a bid to buy the YES sports network from majority owner 21st Century Fox
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An overview of how advances of modern AI research can help developers build more sophisticated and immersive games
The advances of modern AI research could bring unprecedented benefits to game development — The Mind Game, as it's called, is designed primarily to gauge the psychological state …
Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared
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A deep dive into Apple's plan to stop mining the earth “one day” suggests that it will not happen until Apple overhauls its business model
This week, we are writing about waste and trash, examining the junk that dominates our lives, and digging through garbage for treasure. Tweets: @corygroshek , @dlberes , @bcmerchant , @themadstone , a...
Kerauno raises $25M Series A for its cloud-based workflow communications platform which manages and analyzes inbound social media messages, emails, and calls
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Sources: House Judiciary Committee asks Facebook for docs on issues including how it has been used for voter suppression or by people who committed hate crimes
CNN : Tweets: @donie Tweets: Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : NEW from me and @jeremyherb: Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have requested documents from Facebook spanning multiple issues http:/...
As Twitter experiments with some metrics to improve the health of conversations, privacy issues have delayed partnerships with the outside researchers
Kurt Wagner / Recode : Tweets: @kurtwagner8 , @chrisdanforth , and @alessuube Tweets: Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Here's an inside look at Twitter's ambitious plan to change the way we tweet. As wit...
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