Google has a “Purchases” page that shows your purchases based on receipts you have in your Gmail inbox; Google says only you can view your purchases
KEY POINTS — Google saves years of information on purchases you've made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.
Profile of Brian Hofer, an anti-surveillance activist who drafted San Francisco's facial recognition ban and over two dozen other privacy laws in California
SAN FRANCISCO — As San Francisco's Board of Supervisors prepared to vote Tuesday on an ordinance forbidding city agencies …
Italy launches Google antitrust probe, says Google refused to integrate Italian energy giant Enel's app to find electric car charging stations into Android Auto
Google has been hit by yet another antitrust investigation in Europe, but this time it's not about well-worn complaints …
After exploding bear repellent sent 20+ workers to the hospital, Amazon is building special warehouses for hazardous items, with first set to open this summer
JUST BEFORE 8AM one Wednesday last December, a can of bear repellent exploded in an Amazon warehouse in New Jersey, sending two dozen workers to the hospital.
Salesforce says faulty script deployment gave users access to all of their company's Salesforce data, forcing it to shut down much of its infrastructure Friday
Faulty production script gave users access to all their company's Salesforce data. — Salesforce is going through …
Study: adding a recovery phone number to a Google Account can stop up to 100% of bot hijacking attempts, 96% of bulk phishing attacks, 76% of targeted attacks
Every day, we protect users from hundreds of thousands of account hijacking attempts. Most attacks stem from automated bots …
IBM report attributes a 95% decline in attacks caused by hacktivist groups since 2015 to the disintegration of Anonymous and sustained law enforcement crackdown
Hacktivist scene collapses as Anonymous hacker collective dies a slow death. — Threat intelligence analysts have long …
Techdirt settles suit by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claimed to invent email; no money exchanges hands; Techdirt to link to an Ayyadurai statement on related articles
It's possible that some of you saw the news earlier this week that the legal dispute, in which Shiva Ayyadurai sued us for defamation …
Profile of ObEN, which creates “personal artificial intelligences”, life-size holographic AI avatars, by modeling people's appearance and adapting their voice
In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world … Tweets: @nafeezahmed , @mims , @gideonmann , @bcmerchant , and @bcmerchant Twee...
Microsoft announces Minecraft Earth, a real-world AR version of Minecraft, available in closed beta on iOS and Android this summer
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Physical storage startup Clutter, valued at $600M in its last raise, acquired the storage business of rival Omni, which is pivoting to rentals of personal items
On the heels of Clutter announcing a large growth round of $200 million earlier this year, the storage startup is cleaning up the competitive field.
VC-backed consumer startups are outperforming enterprise startups at IPOs in this decade, going public more often at higher valuations, compared to the 2000s
On May 10th, ride hailing juggernaut Uber Technologies went public raising $8.1 billion at an initial valuation just over $75 billion. Tweets: @gavinsbaker and @efeng Tweets: Gavin Baker / @gavinsbake...
All harmful technologies are a product of unethical design, yet, like car companies in the '70s, today's tech companies would rather blame the user
an excerpt adapted from Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology | Tweets: @longreads , @sesmith , @longreads , @longreads , and @longrea...
Spotify to start testing Car Thing, a voice-controlled smart assistant device that connects to your car and phone over bluetooth, with some Premium users in US
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy supercomputer maker Cray in a deal valued at $1.3B, or $35 per share, which represents a premium of 17.4% to Cray's last close
Arjun Panchadar / Reuters :
CDN provider Fastly closes up 50% on its first day of trading after raising $180M in its IPO, is now valued at about $2.2B
Michael Hytha / Bloomberg :
Tests of Verizon's 5G in Chicago on the Galaxy S10 5G show download speeds of up to 1.35 Gbps, but speeds were inconsistent, though never fell below 550 Mbps
Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends :
MultiVu, which is developing a compact 3D image camera that uses a single sensor and AI for applications like 3D face authentication, raises a $7M seed round
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Deliveroo announces that Amazon is leading a $575M funding round for the UK-based food delivery service, bringing the total raised to $1.53B
Chloe Taylor / CNBC :
A look at Twitter in Japan, its second-largest market, raking in $136M in Q1 revenue, where the service has mass appeal and many users have multiple accounts
Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company's total revenue — When Yu Sasamoto joined Twitter Inc. as head of Japan in 2014 … Tweets: @richbtig , @hamburger , @luca , and @selinawangtv Tw...
The key value of Uber was its relentless innovation and promise to change the world, which the board forgot when it focused on stability in replacing Kalanick
When Uber hired Dara Khosrowshahi in 2017, the company board was solving the wrong problem. — The ride-hailing app was in the midst … Tweets: @danprimack , @eliotwb , @dkthomp , @mikeisaac , @seldo ...
Google says it will shut down Jump, its cloud-based VR video stitching service, on June 28, due to a usage decline as new video formats and VR cameras came out
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Filing: Facebook has set up a new company in Switzerland, Libra Networks, that will focus on payments, financing, identity management, blockchain, and more
Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi / Reuters :
Microsoft and Sony announce a strategic partnership to explore development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure for game and content-streaming services
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Sources: Google agreed to refund advertisers that paid for ads displayed in an ad fraud scheme discovered in 2017, following lawsuit over back-payments
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal :
Alphabet's Wing says it will start drone deliveries in Helsinki, Finland, in the coming weeks with a gourmet supermarket and a restaurant as launch partners
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they've stopped selling customer geo-location data to third parties, according to letters they all sent the FCC
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Stack Overflow says hackers breached its systems on May 11 but that there is no evidence of customer data being accessed, promises more info when probe ends
Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow. Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Hackers Breach Stack Overflow Q&A Site, Some Users' Data Exposed Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : S...
Q&A with Google News creator Krishna Bharat on the impact of AI on journalism, the future of assisted interviews, and AI's contribution to democratic processes
Nicolas Kristen / Global Editors Network :
Zipline raises $190M at a $1.2B valuation, will expand its drone delivery service for medical supplies to US, starting in N. Carolina, where it got FAA approval
Lora Kolodny / CNBC : Tweets: @erprose and @kimbatronic Tweets: Eric Rosenbaum / @erprose : start-up that transports stuff much more important than affluent urbanite home at 2am can also be a billion...
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