Apple debuts new 10.5" iPad Air, from $499, and 7.9" iPad mini, from $399, both with retina display, A12 Bionic chip, and support for the first-gen Apple Pencil
10.5-Inch iPad Air Offers High-End Features and Performance at a Breakthrough Price — 7.9-Inch iPad mini Brings Apple Pencil Support …
Facebook says it removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
Report: Myspace has lost all the photos, videos, and music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 due to data corruption during a server migration project
It's been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it …
Inside YouTube's efforts to shut down uploads, coming as quickly as 1 per second, of the Christchurch shooting as uploaders managed to evade its detection tools
SAN FRANCISCO — As a grisly video recorded by the alleged perpetrator of Friday's bloody massacres at two New Zealand mosques played …
Filing: Lyft is seeking to raise as much as $2.1B at a valuation of up to $18.5B in its IPO, offering 30.8M shares at $62-$68 each
Lyft Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $2.1 billion in its initial public offering, valuing the firm at up to $18.5 billion.
Fidelity National has agreed to acquire Worldpay for ~$34B in cash and stock, in the biggest deal ever in the booming international payments sector
Fidelity National Information Services Inc. agreed to combine with Worldpay Inc. for about $43 billion including debt …
An overview of Apple's big spending plan to challenge streaming incumbents like Netflix, ahead of its March 25 “It's show time” event
Apple is coming to Hollywood. — Delete that. — Hollywood is going to Apple. — On March 25, a delegation of producers …
Social media took effective action when faced with a deluge of ISIS content years ago; big tech should take equally-large, public steps against white supremacy
New York (CNN Business)Among the many tragedies of the massacre at two New Zealand mosques on Friday is a bitter irony …
Aleksandr Kogan, an academic who shared Facebook user data his quiz app collected with Cambridge Analytica, sues Facebook for defamation
WASHINGTON — The academic who helped Cambridge Analytica vacuum up private information from tens of millions of Facebook profiles sued the social media giant …
Israeli ride-hailing service Gett, which anticipates becoming profitable later this year, is planning an IPO on either the London Stock Exchange or in Israel
Financial Times :
Juno is reportedly looking for a buyer at a nominal price as its CEO says ridership in February fell 30% from January due to NYC's new ride-hailing regulations
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Profile of reclusive infosec expert Fabian Wosar, who has devoted himself, at huge personal cost, to helping victims of ransomware around the world
The perilous life of the computer virus cracker making powerful enemies online — Fabian is world renowned for destroying ransomware …
OneWeb, which recently launched its first constellation of micro-satellites to provide global internet access, raises $1.25B to begin mass producing satellites
OneWeb, a space startup that recently launched its first “constellation” of micro-satellites to deliver broadband access across the globe …
Slack launches Enterprise Key Management, a tool that enables customers in regulated industries to control their encryption keys and revoke them if required
Slack announced today that it is launching Enterprise Key Management (EKM) for Slack, a new tool that enables customers to control …
NIST's benchmark test for facial recognition systems uses images of immigrants, US visa applicants, abused children, and dead people, without consent
If you thought IBM using “quietly scraped” Flickr images to train facial recognition systems was bad, it gets worse. Tweets: @rajit_h and @profwernimont Tweets: Rajit Hewagama / @rajit_h : The very gr...
A look at BNB, a coin from Binance, the world's largest digital-asset exchange by trading volume, which has more than tripled in value in the last three months
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Stanford is launching the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence to put humans and ethics at the center of AI and aims to raise $1B+
PALO ALTO, Calif. — A Stanford University scientist coined the term artificial intelligence. Others at the university created …
Apple's Heart Study, announced with Stanford in Nov. 2017, finds ~0.5% of 400K+ participants using Apple Watch up to Series 3 received irregular pulse alerts
Chris Welch / The Verge :
As GarageBand turns 15, artists discuss how they have used the app as it has evolved, and Apple shows off its studio where the pre-installed sounds are made
we re-recorded [Thnks Fr Th Mmrs] intro section with strings and horns, but we ended up using a lot of my Garageband stuff”. http://www.rollingstone.com/ ... via @RollingStone @appleedu : Check out th...
Creative Commons says copyright can't protect photos from being used for facial recognition, like IBM did, and that public policy should address privacy issues
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Nokia 9 PureView review: the five-camera array produces great images but is very slow, often losing photos and the in-display fingerprint sensor is atrocious
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police : Tweets: @rdrv3 and @rdrv3 Tweets: David Ruddock / @rdrv3 : Nokia also says the fingerprint scanner isn't as horribly broken as it is on these review units on newer bat...
The Internet Archive and the ArchiveTeam say they are working to preserve public Google+ posts before the platform shuts down in April
Andrew Liptak / The Verge :
UKCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure for the public sector, raises £25M from Digital Alpha
Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu :
Latin American carrier America Movil to acquire Nextel in Brazil for $905M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Pour (another) one out for push-to-talk pioneer Nextel. http://twitter.com/...
Lightbits Labs comes out of stealth, says it has raised $50M led by Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron, and others for its datacenter software with “hardware acceleration”
Lilach Baumer / CTech - 24/7 :
Survey of 500 IT executives finds 58% of enterprises deploy a new build daily, and 26% at least hourly, but only about one-third support continuous testing
Joe McKendrick / ZDNet :
Facebook board member Marc Andreessen denies Guardian's report about Cambridge Analytica meeting in 2016, says he never met Wylie in his life
Shona Ghosh / Business Insider :
Trends in seed and early-stage funding in the US over the past decade: number of <$1M rounds are down, $1M-$5M rounds are flattening, but $10-$20M rounds are up
TechCrunch :
A look at how AI is being used in science, from probing the evolution of galaxies and calculating quantum wave functions to discovering new chemical compounds
Dan Falk / Quanta Magazine : Tweets: @royalsociety , @quantamagazine , @techticee , and @stevenstrogatz Tweets: @royalsociety : “The Square Kilometer Array, a radio telescope slated to switch on in t...
Why Cosmos, designed as a hub to connect other blockchains to one another, may become one of the most important blockchains, if it works as intended
Jon Evans / TechCrunch : Tweets: @mdudas Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : “It may seem to investors and speculators that we remain in the grip of a seemingly endless crypto winter; but to engineers, th...
Q&A with James Evans, a computational scientist, and Misha Teplitskiy, a post-doc fellow at Harvard, on filter bubbles and political diversity on Wikipedia
Brian Gallagher / Nautilus : Facebook: Santa Fe Institute See also Mediagazer Facebook: Santa Fe Institute : “In their new Nature Human Behaviour paper, Evans and Teplitskiy … See also Mediagazer
Pagantis, which uses AI to analyze fraud and credit risk, will offer credit services to e-commerce sites in Italy, France, and Portugal, and raises €65 Series B
Henry Vilar / FinTech Futures :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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