On Game Boy's 30th anniversary, a behind-the-scenes account of how Nintendo leveraged games like Tetris and Pokémon to appeal to the North American market
We look back ahead of the console's 30th anniversary — Nintendo couldn't do much wrong, come 1989.
Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing Huawei received funding from Chinese security and intelligence agencies and the People's Liberation Army
In the battle between Washington and Huawei, there has long been the taunt from Shenzhen that U.S. officials have failed to produce … Source: The Times & The Sunday Times .
Sri Lanka blocks access to social media platforms, including WhatsApp and Facebook, to curb spread of misinformation after a series of deadly explosions
LONDON — The Sri Lankan government blocked access to social media platforms on Sunday, following a string of explosions that claimed …
The French Government officially launches Tchap, its own messaging app with end-to-end encryption, after patching a security flaw found upon initial release
The French government just launched its own messaging app called Tchap in order to protect conversations from hackers, private companies and foreign entities.
Researchers: 33 of 36 apps for depression or smoking cessation shared data with third-parties and 2 apps shared very sensitive info, like health diary entries
‘Do I trust the person who made the app, and do I understand where this data is going?’ — Free apps marketed to people …
SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Essential, an $8/month streaming only plan for mobiles and smart speakers that gives access to 200+ channels
SiriusXM wants to cater consumers without cars, or cars without compatible stereos, with a new $8 plan for mobile and in-home listening.
AI-produced music raises copyright questions on whether AI or their human creators can claim authorship and whether artists mimicked by AI should be compensated
AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist? As AI begins to reshape how music is made …
Serena Williams reveals Serena Ventures, a fund she founded in 2014 that has backed 30 startups so far across e-commerce, fashion, and social good
Andela, the developer training and outsourcing company with operations in four African countries, already has a high-powered roll call …
How two towns in Kansas soured on educational software from Summit Learning, funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Summit CEO says protests are about nostalgia
WELLINGTON, Kan. — The seed of rebellion was planted in classrooms. It grew in kitchens and living rooms, in conversations between students and their parents. Tweets: @sokane1 , @nytimes , @coreypein...
Research paper argues that Facebook increased user surveillance as its competitors exited the market, makes the case for antitrust action against the company
In 2017, a 28-year-old law student named Lina Kahn turned the antitrust world on its ear with her Yale Law Review paper …
Sources: Qualcomm's joint venture with Guizhou province on a server chip plant will be shut down; Qualcomm and the province spent $570M on the plant since 2016
A joint venture between Qualcomm and the government of a rural Chinese province to make server chips will wind down by the end of the month …
HipChat co-founders raise $3M in seed funding for Swoot, a social podcast app that lets users recommend podcasts and see what their friends are listening to
Pete Curley and Garret Heaton, who previously co-founded team chat app HipChat and sold it to Atlassian, are officially launching their new product Swoot today.
Report finds that 26 states now either restrict or outright prohibit towns and cities from building their own broadband networks, up from 20 in 2018
which often provides a radically better product & forces AT&T, Verizon, etc to actually compete on quality & price— is to preserve the monopolies of the telecoms paying ALEC & state legislators for th...
Amazon says it now requires Amazon Flex delivery drivers to snap selfies on the road to verify their identities
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Toronto-based Lendified, an online lender offering small business loans of up to $150K available within 48 hours, raises $15M Series A
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China releases new rules for game approvals and will start taking submissions under the new application process from April 22
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French startup Alsid, whose SaaS solution helps companies monitor and protect Microsoft Active Directory installation, raises $14.7M Series A led by Idinvest
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A profile of Zoom and its founder Eric Yuan, who led Webex's engineering group at Cisco before leaving to build the video conferencing company
now tech's hottest IPO $ZM via @alexrkonrad tip @techmeme http://www.forbes.com/... Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : One of my favorite details from this story: Eric Yuan nearly burned down his neighbor's...
GM's Cruise execs talk about the autonomous driving unit's history, its progress and plans, internal development tools they use, and more
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Research: some WhatsApp group users are spreading Nazi propaganda through stickers and chain letters in Germany, where local laws forbid the use of Nazi imagery
Karsten Schmehl / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @raju , @buzzfeednews , @sunnysingh_n6 , and @miriamelder See also Mediagazer Tweets: Raju Narisetti / @raju : This. And we could do this with every country ...
Autonomous car startup Pony.ai launches PonyPilot, a pilot ride-hailing service for its employees within a 50 square kilometer area in Guangzhou, China
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @jeroenbartelse Tweets: Jeroen Bartelse / @jeroenbartelse : http://pony.ai/ tests robo-taxi program on its employees, promises self-driving trucks next http://ven...
Ethics can provide blueprints for good tech, but it can't implement them; ethics boards should raise awareness and drive self-criticism, not just be moral cover
or worse, “ethics washing”—a veneer of concern for the greater good, engineered to pacify critics and divert public attention away from what's really going on inside the A.I. sausage factories.” #ethi...
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.