Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, working with the military, expanding Google Cloud's sales teams, and more
New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. — The company that basically invented the concept of hyperscale distributed computing …
Sources: the next major version of macOS will include standalone Music, Podcasts, and TV apps alongside a redesigned Books app
During the “It's show time” event in late March, Apple announced that the TV app would be coming to the Mac soon. This naturally sparked discussions …
Google Cloud partners with seven open-source projects, including Elastic, Redis Labs, and MongoDB, to offer fully managed services on GCP in the coming months
@elastic, @DataStax, @MongoDB, @RedisLabs and many others. http://cloud.google.com/... @gcloudpartners : We're strengthening our commitment to grow open-source communities with partnerships offering m...
Google debuts Cloud Run for open and portable serverless computing, letting devs run stateless HTTP-driven containers in fully managed serverless environments
Here are the questions we're asking Mark Albertson / SiliconANGLE : Google Cloud unveils Anthos amid questions on enterprise strategy and acquisitions Mitch Wagner / Light Reading : Google Extends Sup...
Leaked recording: Amazon's senior VP of physical stores says Go will start accepting “additional payment mechanisms”, including cash, in the future
- Amazon's Steve Kessel, who runs physical stores, said last month that the company plans to add “additional payment mechanisms” to its Go stores.
Sources: Uber to sell ~$10B worth of stock at $90B-$100B valuation in IPO, will make S-1 public Thursday, begin roadshow late April, and start trading early May
(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has decided it will seek to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in its initial public offering …
Oppo announces Reno flagship with Snapdragon 855, 6.6-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, pop-up camera, three rear-cameras with 10x hybrid zoom, starting at ~$600
If you thought the leak from two weeks ago had given the game away for Oppo's new Reno smartphone series, don't worry, as the real deal has more to offer.
FireEye uncovers second critical infrastructure site affected with dangerous Triton malware, which is linked to a Russian government-backed research institute
Use of game-changing Triton malware to target safety systems isn't an isolated incident. — Sixteen months ago …
Bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Mark Warner and Deb Fischer bans “dark pattern” tricks to collect user data, addictive products for kids under 13, more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senators Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Deb Fischer, a Republican, are introducing a bill …
Sources: Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is planning deep cuts to its workforce, cutting some teams by half; report suggests layoffs will cut workforce by 8%
- It's said to be considering slashing some teams by up to half — E-commerce giant is said to be reneging on some contracts
Google announces AI Platform, an end-to-end service for building, testing, and deploying models aimed at developers and data scientists, currently in beta
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Amazon Kindle (2019) review: the cheapest Kindle now has backlight but is not waterproof, has a low-resolution display, and a recessed screen
Just buy a Paperwhite — In a vacuum, Amazon's latest entry-level Kindle is a solid update: there's finally a built-in light …
Regulators should stop blindly regulating “the internet” and realize that every part of the stack is different, and only one part is suffering market failure
This week, when the U.K.'s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Secretary of State …
Pirates are using Facebook's Watch Party group video-streaming feature to host movie marathons and TV watch parties, sometimes for thousands of viewers
- Facebook's new group-video-watching feature, Watch Party, is proving wildly popular with pirates. It's designed to let Facebook users watch …
Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items
Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon.
LG G8 ThinQ review: has bigger battery, more RAM, and feels nice to hold, but it might not receive timely OS updates and some features like Hand ID are gimmicky
It checks a lot of boxes, except the ones that really matter — If you're looking for a new phone in 2019 that has a bunch of features …
Kaspersky researcher identifies sophisticated new spyware, dubbed TajMahal, that went undetected for five years and is from an as-yet unknown source
IT'S NOT EVERY day that security researchers discover a new state-sponsored hacking group. Even rarer is the emergence of one whose spyware … Tweets: @dcuthbert , @dcuthbert , @dcuthbert , and @a_gre...
Movo, which provides last-mile mobility via rentable electric scooters, raises €20M Series A led by insurance firm Mutua Madrileña and Seaya Ventures
Madrid-based micromobility startup Movo has closed a €20 million (~$22.5M) Series A funding round to accelerate international expansion.
eMarketer predicts Snapchat's monthly US users will decline by 2.8% to 77.5M in 2019, capturing 37.9% of US social media users, down from nearly 40% in 2018
Instagram will benefit, adding nearly 19 million users by 2023 — Following its unpopular redesign, Snapchat has been struggling to gain users in the US.
Book excerpt: a brief history of internet porn, which developed many early innovations in internet marketing, such as pop-up ads and subscriptions
“Almighty God, Lord of all life, we praise You for the advancements in computerized communications that we enjoy in our time.
Huawei P30 Pro review: best low-light camera with the best zoom, fast performance, and a really long-lasting battery, but has buggy and unappealing software
China's camera champion could have been a better phone — Before I came across Huawei's P30 Pro, I was confident in telling everyone … Tweets: @vladsavov Tweets: Vlad Savov / @vladsavov : Huawei P30 ...
Sources: ahead of its expected IPO in June or July, shares of Slack on private markets are selling for prices valuing it at ~$16B, 2X+ its last funding round
In the next few months, anyone will be able to buy stock in Slack Technologies Inc. In the meantime, wealthy investors … Tweets: @alex and @ellenhuet Tweets: @alex : umm idk if slack is going to go pu...
CleverTap, which helps companies track and improve engagement with users, raises $26M led by Sequoia India at a $150M-$160M valuation
CleverTap, an India-based startup that helps companies track and improve engagement with users, has pulled in $26 million in new funding thanks to a round led by Sequoia India.
Labelbox, which provides services to create, manage, and maintain data sets for machine learning applications, raises $10M Series A led by Gradient Ventures
Labelbox, a provider of services to create, manage, and maintain data sets for machine learning applications, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding.
Alphabet's Project Wing gets approval in Canberra, Australia to launch a commercial drone delivery service, will initially deliver from a dozen local businesses
Jake Evans / ABC :
UK student arrested over 4 years ago is sentenced to 6+ years for a blackmail scheme that involved buying ads on porn sites that installed ransomware if clicked
Dominic Casciani / BBC :
Facebook says it will use AI to stop notifying users to reach out to deceased friends, rolls out a “tribute” section dedicated to posts made posthumously
the company's term for profiles of people who have died. New from @lmatsakis http://www.wired.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Facebook adds 3 new updates to improve memorialized accounts- A new ...
YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows under a new unit, following the success of Netflix's “Bandersnatch” and others
But Don't Expect Bandersnatch Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : YouTube plans to develop its own interactive original shows Lynn La / CNET : YouTube to develop its own choose-your-own-adventure shows J...
Udacity lays of 20% of its staff, or 75 employees, and restructures its operations to help bring costs in line with revenue
Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company's co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks …
Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Stack Overflow's annual survey, taken by 90K+ developers this year, finds Python to be the fastest-growing major programming language, with Rust the most-loved
Nick Heath / TechRepublic :
51% of consumers who bought the Google Pixel 3 in Q4 2018 were previously Samsung smartphone owners, while only 18% previously owned an iPhone
Jeff Fieldhack / Counterpoint Research :
Apple has reportedly hired Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt, as a senior architect
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Verizon is pushing updates to patch critical flaws in millions of residential routers, after the vulnerabilities were reported in mid-December
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity
a clear signal that inorganic follows are super annoying. Yoel Roth / @yoyoel : Certain types of inorganic follow behavior, like follow churning (repeatedly following and unfollowing the same account ...
Opera for desktop now includes a cryptocurrency wallet, after its Android app got one in December; wallet keys and transactions are synced between PC and mobile
Manish Singh / VentureBeat :
ShopBack, a Singapore-based rewards app that works with Alibaba and other major online brands, has closed a $45M round led by Rakuten Capital and EV Growth
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
App performance monitoring startup PagerDuty raises its IPO price range to $21-$23/share, could raise $240M at a $1.69B valuation at the high end of the range
Becky Peterson / Business Insider :
Sources: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have yet to make an appearance at Google's weekly “TGIF” town halls in 2019, their longest absence since at least 1999
BuzzFeed News :
Investigation finds games approved for kids on the Play Store with shooting and gore; Google removed 16 games after press inquiry
K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK :
Pinterest's slow approach to growth has let it build a distinct brand and avoid harsh scrutiny, while allowing other platforms to overshadow it in the press
Seth Fiegerman / CNN : Tweets: @sfiegerman , @adzebill , @fritinancy , and @terrymatz Tweets: Seth Fiegerman / @sfiegerman : Years ago, Pinterest bet on a slow and thoughtful approach to growth, in s...
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