WhatsApp now allows users to control who can add them to group chats
WhatsApp's group conversations can be awfully annoying when you're dragged into them without your consent. It's finally rolled out a fix for that, in the form of a new setting that lets you choose wh...
Facebook says it will stop asking for email passwords to verify new accounts; previously, it used them to verify accounts whose email addresses didn't use OAuth
Responding to criticism, Facebook says it will stop asking users for their email passwords as a means of verifying some new accounts.
DOJ warns the group behind the Oscars that potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services could raise antitrust issues
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting …
Singapore introduces draft bill that requires sites to take down fake news raising concerns among human rights advocates over repression
HONG KONG — Singapore introduced draft legislation on Monday that it said would combat false or misleading information on the internet …
Google rolling out Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to non-Pixel devices and iOS in the US
Get ready, the ability to get your Google Assistant to call your local eateries to make reservations is now rolling out to non-Pixel devices and iOS in the United States.
Adobe's After Effects adds Content-Aware Fill for videos, which can intelligently remove and replace objects in a scene
Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIF — In 2010, Adobe introduced one of Photoshop's first true ‘smart’ features …
Sources: more than 200,000 people subscribed to Apple News+ in its first 48 hours, more than Texture had at its peak
Executives have been burned by their previous dealings with big tech companies. But Apple's promise of a billion devices worldwide was too good to pass up. Even for Rupert Murdoch.
Google will require contracting firms to give US workers health care benefits, parental leave, $15/hr min. wage, more, by 2022, following activism from Googlers
Google said on Tuesday it will require its contracted and temporary workforce to receive full benefits, including comprehensive health care …
Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts on its failed social network platform Google+
The deletion of personal accounts starts today — Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts …
Aqua Security, which helps customers launch containers securely, raises $62M Series C led by Insight Partners
Aqua Security, a startup that helps customers launch containers securely, announced a $62 million Series C investment today led by Insight Partners.
Inside the DNC's plan to replace its aging data repository Vertica with the Data Warehouse, a more powerful BigQuery-based system, before the 2020 election
IN JULY OF 2017, as Raffi Krikorian settled into his new office at the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's words were still ringing in his ears. Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wired , @saikatc...
Snapchat is testing Status, a Bitmoji on the Snap Map depicting what a user is doing, and Passport, a private compilation of Statuses, in Australia
Today's teens missed the Foursquare era, so Snapchat is giving them another shot with a new feature to aid in-person meetups.
Sources: Affirm, the online lending startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised ~$300M Series F at a post-money valuation of $2.9B
Affirm, the consumer credit startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised around $300 million in Series F funding, Axios has learned.
UK-based Wayve claims a “world first” with its car which can drive autonomously on roads it has not seen before during training, using only its AI and a SatNav
Projects like Google's Waymo, Uber, Cruise and Aurora are developing autonomous vehicles by throwing engineers at the problem …
Onfido, which verifies digital identities using AI, raises $50M co-led by SoftBank Investment (SBI) and Salesforce Ventures
Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals …
Run.AI, which is building a virtualization and acceleration platform for deep learning, comes out of stealth with a total of $13M raised
Tel Aviv's Run.AI, a startup that is building a new virtualization and acceleration platform for deep learning, is coming out of stealth today.
HR software startup Rippling, led by ex-Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad, raises $45M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, source says at a valuation of $270M
Parker Conrad's last startup Zenefits drowned in busy work. Now with Rippling, he wants to boil that ocean.
Security researcher finds massive spam operation in an unsecured server, now inactive, which sent 5M+ emails over 10 days that 160K+ people clicked through
Five million emails in ten days — For ten days in March, millions were caught in the same massive spam campaign.
Research: white and Asian women paid 3% less than white and Asian men in same tech jobs last year; Latinx and black women paid 9% and 11% less than white men
Data reveals the wage gap … Erin Carson / CNET : Equal Pay Day: Women in tech are still making less than men Tweets: Rani Molla / @ranimolla : The gender wage gap is smaller in tech, but it will hurt ...
District court in Florida orders 27 pirate sites to pay $1M in damages each to Philippine media giant ABS-CBN, which has won many legal fights in US this year
ABS-CBN, the largest media and entertainment company in the Philippines, has scored yet another legal victory in the United States.
Scribd launches Scribd Originals, a new long-form program with original content featuring notable authors such as Roxane Gay and Garrett Graff
Pieces will range between a magazine feature and a book — Reading platform Scribd is launching a new original content program called Scribd Originals today …
Microsoft closes the Microsoft Store's book category, offering full refunds on ebook purchases and a $25 credit to those who annotated their ebooks
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In wake of Christchurch shooting, YouTube still hosts neo-Nazi propaganda and podcasts; after an inquiry, it demonetized several videos but did not delete them
Ben Makuch / Motherboard :
Intel has hired Qualcomm CFO George Davis to be its new CFO, filling the vacancy left by Bob Swan after he was named Intel's CEO
Ina Fried / Axios :
Red Points, which provides a SaaS to help brands protect their products from online fakes and piracy, raises $38M Series C led by Summit Partners
Barcelona-based Red Points has closed a $38 million Series C led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Northzone, Mangrove …
Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac generally available with a new start window, more coding space, better C++ support, and smarter debugging
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Squelch raises $20M Series A for its SaaS suite that integrates and indexes data from enterprise services from the likes of Salesforce, Slack, Box, and Google
Redwood City, California-based customer experience platform provider Squelch today announced that it's raised an additional $12 million …
Intel announces its second-generation Xeon Scalable processor, Cascade Lake, new Optane memory modules, Intel-developed Agilex FPGAs, and more
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Walmart will let customers order groceries by voice through Google Assistant beginning this month, expanding the service to other platforms in the coming months
Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg :
Pagaya, which uses AI to help manage asset-backed securities, raises $25M Series C led by Oak HC/FT
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Readdle brings popular free email app Spark to Android with features aimed at power users and promises no ads or tracking
Manish Singh / VentureBeat :
Corporate catering marketplace ezCater raises $150M Series D-1 at $1.25B valuation, claims 60,000 restaurants use its service, has raised $320M in total
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
1,300+ Googlers sign a petition demanding Google remove Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, from its external AI advisory board
The latest mutiny at Google illustrates … Tristan Rayner / Android Authority : 13 things you should know in tech today Joe Fay / DEVCLASS : Google staffers rail against its AI ethics board, as privacy...
Facebook says it removed over 800 Indian and Pakistani Pages, accounts, and Groups for spreading misinformation and propaganda, ahead of India's election
and the company couldn't do anything about it. https://www.cnn.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : WhatsApp has NO WAY of removing disinformation from its platform like its parent company Facebook has...
Home-buying and selling platform Perch closes its Series B, raising $20M in equity funding and $200M in debt to fund operations and home purchasing
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch :
a16z raises new $2B fund and says the firm's 150 employees are being registered as financial advisers, so they can go deeper on riskier bets, like buying crypto
and more company is coming Lauren Feiner / CNBC : One of Silicon Valley's most famous venture capital firms says it will no longer be a venture capital firm Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk : A16z Moves to Pla...
Source: Arizona Beverages, one of the largest drink suppliers in the US, is reeling after a ransomware attack; FBI warned them beforehand of a malware infection
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Microsoft teams up with BMW on the Open Manufacturing Platform, a new initiative for collaborative IoT development in manufacturing
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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