OpenSignal: AT&T's “5G E” phones get average speeds of 28.8Mbps, compared to T-Mobile's 29.4Mbps and Verizon's 29.9Mbps which use similar 4G LTE-Advanced tech
AT&T's so-called “5G E” lost to Verizon and T-Mobile 4G in new speed tests. — AT&T's “5G E” service … Source: Opensignal blogs .
DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic implantable defibrillators worldwide, which could allow hackers to take control of devices
Alert from Medtronic, Homeland Security says 750K defibrillators are at risk. — As many as 750,000 heart devices …
Since the Christchurch shootings, Reddit's r/CringeAnarchy and r/The_Donald continue to host anti-Muslim hate speech justifying it and violence against Muslims
And the platform doesn't seem to care. — Days after the tragic shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand …
Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline
Company confirms suspicions of separate incident following Washington DC attorney general court filing
Sources: Apple's new TV service to be unveiled Monday will be a storefront for other streaming services, with Apple hosting and serving the streams
The 30% cut debate as Apple enters the Services Era Yoni Heisler / BGR : A preview of everything Apple may announce at its upcoming March 25th event Sahil Patel / Digiday : A new frenemy: Apple is goi...
Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products
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Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially
Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter …
Facebook admits it inadvertently stored some user passwords in plain text, searchable by employees; source says it may have been between 200M and 600M passwords
in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.” http://krebsonsecurity.com/... Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart : This just knocked $FB shares a bit http://twitter.com/...
Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%; media time spent on mobile in US rose from 21% to 24% YoY
Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.
Facebook says it will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook users and thousands of Instagram users after it found passwords were stored in a readable format
As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.
Hands-on with Nintendo's fourth Labo kit, which allows users to build their own VR games with six Toy-Con creations and will be available April 12 for $79.99
Nintendo's latest Labo kit lets you code your own VR games — Nearly one year after the launch of Labo, Nintendo's DIY cardboard accessory line …
Report: Apple acquires Italian startup Stamplay, which specializes in backend automation, for about €5M
Apple has acquired Italian startup Stamplay, which offered an API-based back-end development platform, according to Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The report claims Apple paid around five million e...
Sources: Pinterest has sped up the timing of its IPO, plans to make its filing public as early as Friday and list its shares on the NYSE in mid-April
Pinterest Inc. has sped up the timing of its initial public offering as the image-search company looks to tap into a red-hot market for new issues …
Sources: Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt is being valued at around $740M following its $182.5M Series A
Bakkt, ICE's yet-to-launch crypto exchange, is being valued at around $740 million following a recent Series A round of funding, sources close to the project tell The Block.
Instagram, which has largely escaped scrutiny, is teeming with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and extremist memes, boosted by its recommendation algorithm
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic :
Trump to nominate Michael Kratsios to be his first US CTO; Kratsios is currently US deputy CTO and was formerly chief of staff at Thiel Capital
For the first time in two years—and for the first time under President Trump—the U.S. is set to have a chief technology officer.
An ad fraud scheme that runs video ads behind banner images targeted popular Android apps, including many using Twitter's MoPub ad platform
Julien is an independent developer who built and maintains one of the most popular audio apps in the Google Play store.
With the global market for AI data preparation expected to reach $1.2B by the end of 2023, India is emerging as a hub for data labelling and annotation work
Kumaramputhur is a tiny village some 45 km northwest of Palakkad in Kerala, home to some 3,500 families and probably not much bigger than an average Bengaluru suburb. Tweets: @kris_sg and @pankajontec...
Sources: Tencent has partnered with three Indian banks to enter the country's payments market with WeChat Pay, to be launched by the end of May or June
Ever since its launch in April 2016, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) has been growing quickly and reached a milestone of Rs 1 trillion worth monthly transactions in December 2018.
Source: Uber picks the NYSE for its upcoming IPO; Lyft will start trading next week on Nasdaq
- Listing is likely to be the biggest public offering this year — Company expected to officially file for its IPO in April — Uber Technologies Inc. has selected the New York Stock Exchange …
Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $27.5M Series B, says its app now reaches 475,000+ families in 50+ countries
When Jeff Immelt was running GE, he noticed that the company, like many, struggled with attrition. Tweets: @forbeswomen Tweets: @forbeswomen : Parenting benefits company Cleo just raised a $27.5 milli...
A look at some of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort who secured funding before Demo Day due to early interest from those connected to the YC network
Meet the startups that raised venture capital, or got acquired, before Demo Day — Hundreds gathered this week at San Francisco's Pier 48 …
Sources: Bitmain plans to deploy ~$80M of mining equipment in China to take advantage of excess hydropower and low electricity costs in the summer rainy season
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk :
Valve announces a Steam game library redesign and Steam Events, which developers can use to communicate in-game events, entering open beta in the coming months
Michael McWhertor / Polygon :
Comcast's Xfinity Flex, a $5/month service for its broadband customers, comes with a 4K set-top box and access to paid and free, ad-supported streaming services
Richard Lawler / Engadget :
Q&A with Vishal Shah, Instagram's head of product who previously ran Instagram's business products, on e-commerce as a revenue driver, IGTV, and more
Instagram's new product chief talks about the app's push into e-commerce, life after the departure of Instagram's two cofounders … Tweets: @mosseri , @ow , @thekenyeung , @ohmdee , @skuranda , @dhof ,...
Apple iPad mini (2019) review: same specs as larger iPad Air, headphone jack, and solid performance, but has huge bezels and a Lightning port instead of USB-C
I've been a fan of the iPad Mini form … Karen S Freeman / iMore : Protect your iPad mini 5 when you hit the road Michael Simon / Macworld : Bent iPad Pros may develop logic board issues, but good luck...
Four European Wikipedia sites are blocking access and directing users to contact their EU representatives on March 21 to protest the copyright directive
German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak—have decided to black out the sites on 21 March in opposition to the current version of the proposed EU #Copyright Directive. http://wikimediafoundation.org/ ... @ast...
Jared Kushner's lawyer told the House Oversight Committee late last year that Kushner uses WhatsApp for official WH business, including with foreign contacts
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times :
Hacker groups are creating backdoor admin accounts and redirecting users to tech support scams using a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Rent the Runway raises $125M, led by Franklin Templeton Investments and Bain Capital, at a $1B valuation as it expands its subscription clothing business
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times :
Tesla files two lawsuits against multiple former employees and the self-driving car startup Zoox alleging misappropriation of the company's trade secrets
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
MPAA: streaming video subscriptions surpassed those for cable TV for the first time in 2018 globally, rising 131.2M or 27% YoY to 613.3M, as cable fell to 556M
Andrew Liptak / The Verge :
Sources: UiPath, a process automation platform targeting IT businesses, is raising $400M+ at a $7B+ valuation; it closed a $265M Series C in November
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Microsoft launches Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview and Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS in limited preview
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Report: for the first time, music streaming accounted for more than half, at 54%, of UK record label income as it hit £468M in 2018, up 35% YoY
Mark Sweney / The Guardian : Tweets: @edvaizey Tweets: Ed Vaizey / @edvaizey : Brilliant to see another year of overall growth for recorded music in the UK - and a huge shift to streaming, jumping by...
Houseparty promotes co-founder and COO Sima Sistani to CEO; co-founder and CEO Ben Rubin will move to the company's board and continue to advise product teams
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Delaware filing: payment card services startup Marqeta is raising $250M Series E at a valuation of $1.9B
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the “bitcoin/crypto ecosystem”
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
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