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 …
Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition
Google, which already dominates India's smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children …
Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it
Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able …
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.
Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech
Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology. — An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent …
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
Here's What To Do Next Jon Fingas / Engadget : Iranian hackers stole terabytes of data from software giant Citrix Adam Westlake / SlashGear : Hackers stole 6TB of data from Citrix breach - FBI is inve...
Inside CERN's quest to build a reliable quantum computing device, as it'll need 50-100 times more computing power to process Large Hadron Collider data by 2026
Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption …
Report: after Intel reportedly offered $6B for Mellanox in January, Nvidia has now submitted a competing bid for the Israeli chip designer
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp has submitted an offer to buy Israeli chip designer Mellanox, the Calcalist financial news website said on Sunday.
Ruhnn Holding, a Chinese e-commerce platform which operates online stores for social media influencers, files for a $200M IPO on Nasdaq
Ruhnn Holding, an Alibaba-backed Chinese e-commerce platform for social media influencers, has filed for a Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO) …
AI-based emotion detection has become a $20B industry, but some experts say the foundational science behind the tech is flawed and can adversely affect society
Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. ‘Emotion detection’ has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry Tweets: @dorotheabaur and @pernillet Tweets: Dorothea B...
In a summary judgement, court dismisses Paris' lawsuit against Airbnb for allegedly posting illegal listings, which likely means its case isn't strong enough
A court in Paris has dismissed a case against Airbnb, as Le Monde reported. Last month, the City of Paris sued Airbnb for 1,010 illegal listings.
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
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A look at NIST's Facial Recognition Vendor Test program for facial recognition algorithms, which influences purchasing decisions of US agencies and business
LAST YEAR, CHINESE police arrested a man at a pop concert after he was flagged as a criminal suspect by a facial recognition system installed at the venue. Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : A testing pr...
Profile of FTC chairman Joseph Simons, who wants the agency to have more direct authority to oversee privacy practices and fine companies
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Sam Altman steps down as president of Y Combinator, will transition into a chairman role
We have a few updates about YC to share. Nick Bastone / Business Insider : Sam Altman, one of the world's most influential tech investors, has stepped down as president of Y Combinator Khari Johnson /...
The sharing economy, once touted as community-building, sustainable, and a salvation from capitalism, has in fact only ushered in a precarious economic future
‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us. Instead, it became a Trojan horse for a precarious economic future. Tweets: @tomik99 , @prosperdave , and @carnage4life Tweets: Tom Karwatka / @tomik99 : “What came...
After YouTube recategorized “Brie Larson”, star of Captain Marvel, as news in search, its algorithm surfaced videos from news publishers, pushing down trolls
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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
Maddie Stone / Gizmodo : Tweets: @corygroshek , @dlberes , @bcmerchant , @kmanies , and @themadstone Tweets: Cory Groshek / @corygroshek : Behind the Hype of Apple's Plan to End Mining: There are 118...
An overview of how advances of modern AI research can help developers build more sophisticated and immersive games
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As ride-hailing and p2p lending face govt. scrutiny in China, a number of state-backed startups have entered those sectors increasing the pressure on incumbents
Financial Times : Tweets: @benjaminqiu Tweets: Benjamin Qiu / @benjaminqiu : The very reason for the rise of tech startups in China was for that the past 20 years they were largely ignored by the reg...
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