UK's review of Huawei's telecommunications equipment finds “significant” security problems but does not call for an outright ban
LONDON — A British review of Huawei found “significant” security problems with the Chinese company's telecommunications equipment …
Apple releases watchOS 5.2 with support for the second-generation AirPods, extends ECG functionality to Hong Kong, the UK, and 18 other countries in Europe
Apple today released watchOS 5.2, the fifth update to the watchOS operating system that runs on modern Apple Watch models. watchOS 5.2 comes …
US Department of Housing and Urban Development files charges against Facebook, saying the company's ad targeting tools enable violations of Fair Housing Act
'Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,' says HUD secretary
Spotify is testing Premium Duo, a discounted subscription for two for €12.49 a month, that includes a playlist based on both users' listening habits
Includes a new playlist based on both your listening habits — Spotify is testing a new subscription called Premium Duo that offers …
Twitch launches Squad Stream, a new feature that will let up to four Twitch streamers go live simultaneously in one window, available for Partners first
A feature perfect for battle royale games — Twitch today announced a new feature designed to help creators boost the profile …
Microsoft granted US court order to take control of 99 websites the company says are linked to Iranian hacking group Phosphorus and host them on its own servers
Microsoft has won a restraining order in a U.S. court in order to take control of domains used by an Iranian hacker group.
Spotify says it will begin to personalize some of its human-curated playlists
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Office Depot and tech support vendor Support.com to pay the FTC $35M for allegedly persuading customers to buy computer repair services using fake malware scans
Office Depot and Support.com, Inc, a tech support software provided from California, will pay $35 million and $10 million respectively …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai met with President Trump to discuss contracts and other ongoing partnerships with the US government
‘Meeting ended very well,’ Trump tweeted — On Wednesday, .
Kong, the open source API management platform company previously known as Mashape, raises $43M Series C led by Index Ventures
Kong, the open core API management and lifecycle management company previously known as Mashape, today announced that it has raised a $43 million Series C round led by Index Ventures.
Analysis of GPS data finds 9,800+ GPS spoofing instances since 2016, likely to protect sensitive military and VIP travel areas in the Russian Federation
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are used in everything from cellular communication networks …
Lyft raises its IPO price range from $62-$68 per share to $70-$72 per share, targeting a valuation of up to $24.3B
Joshua Franklin, Diptendu Lahiri — (Reuters) - Lyft Inc on Wednesday raised the price range for its initial public offering, as investors looked past …
Sources: Google is secretly assessing work completed on Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China, leaving some staff concerned work on it continues
Google executives are carrying out a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China, The Intercept has learned.
Rela, a popular Chinese lesbian dating app, exposed data on 5M users, including dates of birth, height and weight, and sexual preferences, since June 2018
Rela (.), a popular dating app for gay and queer women, has exposed millions of user profiles and private data because a server wasn't protected with a password.
Xiaomi Mi 9 review: great alternative to OnePlus 6T in terms of hardware performance but has an average battery life and unreliable in-screen fingerprint sensor
I can't spend $1,000 on a smartphone. I just can't. I've walked into countless phone stores, credit card in hand, with every intention of buying the latest flagship.
Hands-on: new AirPods have markedly reduced sound latency, faster device sync, and Hey Siri, a big step up from double-tapping; sound quality is mostly the same
If you follow me on Twitter … William Gallagher / AppleInsider : Review: Apple's new AirPods are a first-class update to an already superb product Josh Smith / Gotta Be Mobile : How to Fix AirPods Bat...
Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise … Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms Reuters : Facebook bans white nationalism, w...
Microsoft expands its Azure IP Advantage program to include IoT companies and donates 500 patents to the LOT Network, to protect against patent trolls
Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls.
As market for facial recognition software heats up, concerns about how and when facial data is collected remain largely unaddressed due to lack of regulations
While you weren't looking, tech companies helped themselves to your photos to power a facial recognition boom. Here's how.
Apple's “It's show time” event was weird, with very little tech, a focus on content and star power, and Oprah basically pitching others to sign up with Apple
Some thoughts on Apple's truly bizarre “It's Showtime” event — Note: this preamble was adapted from my newsletter published yesterday. Tweets: @stevecheney Tweets: Steve Cheney / @stevecheney : This...
PayIt, a digital platform being used by US government agencies like DMV to accept payments and issue official documents, raises $100M Series B
Government services, for many, epitomize the worst of bureaucracy: they are, at their low point, large, lumbering organizations working under strained budgets … Thanks: @ingridlunden
FTC says it has shut down and settled lawsuits with four robocalling companies responsible for “billions” of US calls
Attorney, Division of Consumer and Business Education, FTC Stephanie Mlot / Geek.com : FTC Shutters Four Groups Responsible For Billions of Illegal Robocalls Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : FTC forces ...
Lightspeed Venture Partners says VC Chris Schaepe has left the firm after admitting he hired Rick Singer to aid in the college admissions process for his son
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Researcher warned ASUS of hacking risks two months ago, after finding ASUS staff published passwords to GitHub repos; some passwords were public for over a year
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The EU's Copyright Directive, with its controversial Article 11 and 13 provisions, has the potential to further fracture the open web based on location
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Court records: Harold T. Martin III, a former contractor charged with stealing NSA secrets, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday; he faces 20 counts
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Sources: Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun is seeking to sell Grindr, the popular gay dating app, after a US govt panel raised concerns about its ownership
BitTorrent says it is relaunching BitTorrent Live, its defunct Sling TV-like service, as a Snapchat-like social media app for iOS and Android, currently in beta
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Twitter's policy head Vijaya Gadde says it is experimenting with adding a “label” to notable tweets that break its standards explaining why they weren't removed
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A Kentucky startup is using AI on health records from insurers to help identify women at risk of preterm births, the leading cause of infant death in the US
Gregory Barber / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : In Kentucky, Passport Health, a nonprofit Medicaid insurer, is testing an unlikely hypothesis: Whether artificial intelligence can make sense ...
Radar, which makes RFID sensors for retailers to track inventory in real time, raises $16M from Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, and others
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FTC launches a broad inquiry into privacy practices of ISPs, orders seven ISPs including AT&T and Verizon to provide nonpublic info about handling consumer data
this case VZ, AT&T, Google Fiber and others on how they monetize consumer datahttps://t.co/ySqBJfjheX Daniel Stoller / @realdanstoller : New: @FTC launches Section 6(b) study of broadband data collect...
A profile of Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan, which has 600K delivery people serving 400M customers a year in 2,800 Chinese cities and a market value of $36B
Bloomberg : Tweets: @venkatananth , @luluyilun , and @pelstrom . Thanks: @pelstrom Tweets: Venkat Ananth / @venkatananth : China's delivery armies have made it cheaper to order in than eat out. The s...
Mailchimp acqui-hired Shopify competitor LemonStand, which said on March 5 it was shutting down, in February; Mailchimp says deal unrelated to Shopify breakup
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Did you know Mailchimp made half its revenues from e-commerce in the first half of 2018? It's not out to become a S...
Microsoft, Adobe, SAP to expand Open Data Initiative, which unifies data across their platforms, by adding partners, starting with WPP, Sprinklr, and 10 others
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