Phil Schiller, in an email to a user, says screen-time apps Apple restricted used MDM feature only intended for enterprises, creating privacy and security risks
Earlier today, a report from The New York Times highlighted Apple's removal of a number of App Store apps that had allowed users …
FCC gives SpaceX permission to fly some Starlink satellites at a lower orbit than planned earlier, enabling SpaceX to launch first internet satellites in May
Changing the destination for more than 1,500 satellites — The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX's request …
Officials say FBI, DHS, NSA, and the US Cyber Command task forces, formed before midterms to combat foreign interference in elections, have been made permanent
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about Russia's continued meddling in American elections, calling it a “significant counterintelligence threat.”
Docker discovers unauthorized access to a Hub database that exposed info of ~190K users; the info included access tokens for GitHub and Bitbucket repositories
An unauthorized person gained access to a Docker Hub database that exposed the the user names and hashed passwords for approximately 190,000 users.
Study of 40 DC Uber drivers over a two-year period finds some still don't know what they actually earn because of how often Uber changes the rules
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Google hasn't updated Android distribution data, which details the adoption of Android versions and which it used to update every month, in the last six months
The Android developer website hosts a distribution dashboard that details the adoption of Google's mobile operating system versions.
Profile of Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, an LLC that is part charity and part VC firm with investments in 30+ startups, including Pinterest
In the seven years since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, his 55-year-old widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has become one of the most high-profile philanthropists in the world.
Charter reaches settlement nine months after NY Department of Public Service revoked its 2016 Charter/TWC merger approval, agrees to broadband expansion terms
Charter must expand its own network and pay $12 million to fund more broadband. — Charter Communications won't be kicked out of New York after all.
After Partnership on AI issues a report condemning the use of algorithms to assess bail, only Microsoft agrees to publicly comment on it
The Partnership on AI, a trade organization founded by Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to set best-practice standards on AI research … Tweets: @davegershgorn Tweets: Dave Gershgorn...
Affirm, an online lending company led by former PayPal CTO Max Levchin, spins out Resolve, an automated payments platform focused on B2B e-commerce
Resolve takes Affirm's buy now, pay later approach and applies it to business purchasing. — Affirm, a financial services company led …
PayPal to buy $500M worth of Uber shares at $47/share, says the companies will work on future payment collaborations, including developing Uber's digital wallet
Uber's announcement of its IPO pricing earlier today came with a $500 million belated Easter egg.
Source: E*Trade is preparing to let customers trade cryptocurrencies on its platform starting with Bitcoin and Ethereum, will consider adding other currencies
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Overcast introduces a new clip-sharing feature, allowing users to share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public podcast
I think it's brilliant and just what podcasts needed to help them go viral — this will be copied by everyone. http://twitter.com/... Marco Arment / @marcoarment : I tried sending both the video and UR...
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo says it will no longer allow anti-vaccine fundraisers or any projects making health claims that do not have a scientific backing
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Tangdou, an app with 200M users in China that offers dance video tutorials for the elderly, has closed a round led by Tencent, bringing total raised to ~$100M
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Profile of Up & Go, a worker owned on-demand house cleaning service in New York, which takes only a 5% cut and lets its cleaners decide the design of the app
Rating drivers on Lyft. Three stars? Five stars? I know Lyft wants to feed the ravenous maw of its machine intelligence … Tweets: @wired , @isabel_pedersen , @aprilrinne , and @kierandhanrahan Twee...
Dyndrite, which is building a new geometric modeling kernel that is used in CAD or design applications, raises $10M Series A led by Gradient Ventures
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Tweets: @authentise Tweets: @authentise : Common geometry kernels, underlying mathematical algorithms for 3D modeling, date back to the '80s. @Dyndrite is developing a fu...
The National Library of China to archive over 200B public posts on Weibo and 210M news stories published on Sina.com
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
A deep look at how Airbnb has influenced the housing market and transformed neighborhoods in Barcelona, where 1.5M visitors stay in Airbnbs annually
filled with restaurants selling paella, tapas, and sangria, none of which have local origins, but which conform to a generic image of Spain.” http://www.newyorker.com/... Ben Detrick / @bdetrick : if ...
San Francisco-based Brightback, a subscription retention and churn management software startup, raises $11M Series A led by Index Ventures
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
Credly, which helps education institutions, industry associations, and companies issue digital credentials to certify people's skills, raises $11.1M Series A
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How Cambridge Systematics, a transportation consultancy, used location data from 5M cell phones in Los Angeles to help the city revamp its bus transit system
Adam Rogers / Wired : Tweets: @streetsblogden , @jetjocko , and @imeluny Tweets: Streetsblog Denver / @streetsblogden : Los Angeles is using cellphone data from 5 million people to reimagine its bus ...
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