Sources: after Trump's ban, chipmakers including Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx, and Broadcom have told employees they will not supply Huawei until further notice
Alphabet Inc.'s Google will end business relationships that involve the transfer of non-public hardware, software and technical services …
Source: Google will stop collaborating and providing Huawei with technical support for Android and Google services, including Google Play
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except …
FCC Chairman recommends approval of the proposed T-Mobile and Sprint merger after New T-Mobile promises to cover 97% of the US population with 5G in three years
FCC chair backs merger after T-Mobile and Sprint pledge 97% U.S. 5G coverage in 3 years
Meteorologists say interference from 5G phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30%, equivalent to the quality of predictions in the 1980s
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Report: Toshiba Memory plans to buy back the shares it sold to Apple, Dell, Kingston, and Seagate last year, as part of a refinancing plan
In June last year, Toshiba sold its memory division to a four-company consortium that included Apple. However, now, Toshiba is going to buy … Source: Wall Street Journal .
Report details how game publishers are paying top streamers, with 15K+ concurrent viewers, $25,000-$50,000 an hour to stream a new game and build buzz
The past few years have been full of impressive achievements in the realm of professional gaming, whether it's enormous prize pools … Source: Wall Street Journal .
TikTok owner ByteDance launches Feiliao on iOS and Android, a chat app that is a hybrid of interest-based forums and an instant messenger
In WeChat -dominated China, there's no shortage of challengers out there claiming to create an alternative social experience.
Researchers say VidMate, a popular Chinese Android app with 500M installs, secretly subscribes users to paid services and exposes their personal information
More than half a billion people have installed VidMate, an Android app that enables them to download videos from YouTube, WhatsApp, and other platforms.
Identity and authentication platform Auth0 raises $103M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures at a valuation of $1B, says it has 7,000 enterprise clients
Auth0, a 2013-founded identity and authentication platform, has pushed into unicorn territory with a $1 billion valuation after raising $103 million in its latest Series E round.
Despite Musk's exaggerations, there's a chance Tesla's vertically integrated approach and love of software will win in auto, just like Apple succeeded in mobile
Elon Musk makes it easy to dismiss his grandiose — unhinged, even — descriptions of his product plans.
Many Ethereum nodes running popular clients like Parity and Geth take months to apply security patches, which may leave the network vulnerable to 51% attacks
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Facebook releases maps of population density, movement, and network coverage to help nonprofits and universities better map the spread of infectious diseases
Facebook this morning announced a new initiative focused on using its data and technologies to help nonprofit organizations …
Prowler.io, which uses AI to help businesses make decisions in areas like asset management and logistics, raises $24M led by Tencent at a $100M valuation
- Companies are giving Prowler.io $24 million in new funding — Cambridge-based startup's AI used in finance, logistics
Siemplify, which provides a security orchestration and automation platform, raises $30M Series C led by Georgian Partners, bringing its total raised to $58M
Siemplify, a New York and Tel Aviv security orchestration platform provider, today announced that it's secured $30 million …
By making its Avoid Player feature for Dota 2 part of its premium Battle Pass subscription, Valve is now charging players a minimum of $9.99 to avoid harassers
T.C. Sottek / The Verge :
Xiaomi beats revenue expectations with Q1 sales of ~$6.3B, up 27% YoY, and net income of ~$303M, up 23.5% YoY, thanks to growth in sales outside China
Josh Horwitz / Reuters :
Robin Powered, a provider of cloud-based workplace scheduling and management software, raises $20M Series B led by Tola Capital
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao shares how the exchange reacted to the hack and theft of 7000 bitcoins, steps taken afterwards, and lessons learned
Growth of impermanent formats like Stories, which may be shared more in 2019 than News Feed posts, shows awareness that digital pasts are a liability for many
Mike Isaac / Brain Dump :
Amazon's offering of flight bookings in India in partnership with Cleartrip is a sensible entry point for its foray into travel
Skift : Tweets: @ivan_brussels Tweets: Ivan Maljkovic / @ivan_brussels : “Although flight bookings are getting more complex because of the mashup of fees, fare types, and ancillary services, they hav...
Q&A with Stephen Machuga, the CEO of Stack Up, which provides video games and consoles to help veterans and active duty soldiers with PTSD and mental illness
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
A look at the multi-pronged, cross-sector approach Finland is taking to successfully fight misinformation campaigns and fake news
Eliza Mackintosh / CNN : Tweets: @bruce_arthur , @tofvessonmikael , @leskevicius , @rogueusmint , @schemaly , @senyorrequena , @holden , @9elumi , @nkjemisin , @osma , @martynmcl , @rozrothstein , an...
Opera's Reborn 3 is a major update with a clean visual redesign and futuristic-feeling features like Opera Flow for simple syncing and blockchain-based tools
Scott Gilbertson / Ars Technica :
Inside the small but highly organized community on Habbo, a role playing game and social networking service that launched in 2001 and outlived many competitors
Nick Summers / Engadget : Tweets: @vilile , @osma , and @sulka Tweets: Vili Lehdonvirta / @vilile : A fascinating return to @Habbo, a pixel art virtual world that had millions of users in early 2000s...
Sam Altman talks about his years at Y Combinator, OpenAI's ambitions to create a friendly general artificial intelligence, and its “capped profit” model
they behave in the same ways they think their superintelligent A.I. will, in other words like raging assholes accountable to no one https://idlewords.com/... @pinboard : This is the new “if we can jus...
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