What to expect from WWDC 2019: new Mac Pro, iOS 13 with Dark Mode and updates to core apps, macOS 10.15 with Marzipan apps, and 31.6-inch 6K pro display
Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 3rd, and this year looks to be more consequential than most.
DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III
Chess and Go were child's play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world?
Sources: DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other businesses
The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other business, sources say.
IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain non-public Huawei ban-related info, keeps Huawei's other membership privileges
A major scientific society has banned employees of Huawei, the Chinese communications giant, from reviewing submissions …
MediaTek claims its 7nm chipset is the world's first SoC with an integrated 5G modem, will ship in devices in 2020 using Arm's Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU
Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem.
Report: Apple to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids starting next week
As tech companies grapple with safety and privacy concerns, Apple will reportedly limit third-party tracking in kids apps starting next week. While the company hasn't announced the change, a source t...
Sources: DOJ began work on a possible Google antitrust investigation after brokering a deal with FTC, which considered and opted not to pursue the case in 2013
A possible probe could open a new chapter in the tech giant's troubles with regulators around the world who contend that the company is too large
Coinbase COO Asiff Hirji is leaving the company, to be replaced by VP of business Emilie Choi; a number of execs, including the CTO, have left Coinbase recently
- Former TD Ameritrade executive Asiff Hirji joined in 2017 — Emilie Choi named as Hirji's successor at San Franscico firm
Sources: Amazon is interested in buying Sprint's prepaid brand Boost Mobile, which T-Mobile and Sprint have already pledged to sell to get their merger approved
Profile of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who, sources say, argued for removing fake news and demoting Breitbart in News Feed in 2017 and early 2018
KEY POINTS — In succeeding Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom, Adam Mosseri has to balance his staff's desire for autonomy with the greater needs of Facebook.
Report: Spotify is working on a new “Social Listening” feature that allows users to listen along with their friends and add songs to a shared queue
and welcome—how this feature will transform date nights into DJ battles. https://twitter.com/... Ian Kar / @iankar_ : This is...not what I expected when I thought about social and music for Spotify. M...
By having an estimated one billion active device users, Apple has a self-sufficient level of ecosystem strength to thrive despite slowing user growth
Apple's ecosystem is massive. Approximately a billion people are using more than 1.4 billion Apple devices. Tweets: @neilcybart , @neilcybart , @neilcybart , @neilcybart , @neilcybart , and @stevesi ...
Uber reports Q1 revenue of $3.1B, up 20% YoY, gross bookings of $14.65B, up 34%, net loss of $1.01B; Uber Eats revenue grew 31% to $239M, gross bookings up 108%
and Wall Street is thrilled Tweets: @cnbc : “We're probably a couple years away from really being in the clear here.” Here's what 3 experts had to say about Uber's first-ever quarterly earnings report...
As anonymized phone records of millions of people in low-income countries are used in big data projects for saving lives, critics worry about potential misuse
Researchers have analysed anonymized phone records of tens of millions of people in low-income countries. Tweets: @gquaggiotto , @amymaxmen , @gquaggiotto , and @semihakcomak Tweets: Giulio Quaggiotto...
A look at the terms “creators” vs. “influencers” on YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms, and how recent digital history has shaped the terms
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Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017
yes, that Foursquare — just raised $150M and bought a Seattle startup owned by Snap socalTECH.com : Snap Unloads Placed To Foursquare Tweets: Paris Martineau / @parismartineau : even if you aren't a f...
Tempus, a clinical data collection and analytics platform launched in 2015 by Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, raises $200M Series F at a valuation of $3.1B
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Camera app VSCO, which has an ad-free social feed and makes its money on subscriptions, says 2M+ people paid $20 in 2018 for its premium service
The camera app VSCO is unlike its social counterparts. Though it has a feed similar to Facebook's News Feed and Twitter's Timeline … Tweets: @kantrowitz , @kantrowitz , @kantrowitz , and @caseynewton...
Sorted Group, a Manchester-based delivery platform for retail companies, raises £15M, bringing its total amount raised to £22M
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Slack's final quarterly results ahead of its IPO show revenue grew 67% YoY to $134.8M, losses grew 28% to $31.9M, and paying customers increased 42% to 95,000
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Amazon to buy Sizmek's Ad Server and Dynamic Creative Optimization units after the adtech company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March
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