YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place”
Over the past few years, we've been investing in the policies, resources and products needed to live up to our responsibility …
YouTube suspends monetization of Steven Crowder's channel after continued review finds “pattern of egregious actions” that are against Partner Program policies
Right-wing performer gay-bashed a Vox reporter for years. They initially declined to do anything, then ‘demonetized’ him …
YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
even when it's documentary footage https://twitter.com/... Tim O'Brien / @timobrien : YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed. Why isn't Facebook doi...
Uber debuts Uber Copter, a helicopter service starting July 9 in New York, to ferry customers between Lower Manhattan and JFK for $200-$225 per person
For an 8-minute, one-way flight, the average ride will cost between $200 and $225 per person and include private ground transportation on both ends of the trip.
Report: Facebook to create an independent foundation to manage its cryptocurrency, will charge members a $10M licensing fee for the right to operate a node
Facebook is creating an independent foundation to govern its cryptocurrency, according to a report by The Information. Source: The Information .
Google to buy data analytics startup Looker for $2.6B in cash, Google Cloud's first major acquisition under new CEO Thomas Kurian
KEY POINTS — The acquisition of Looker is the first major acquisition under former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud …
Apple details the cryptography behind its upcoming Find My feature, which works so that even Apple cannot track device locations
WHEN APPLE EXECUTIVE Craig Federighi described a new location-tracking feature for Apple devices at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on Monday …
Amazon shows off its latest delivery drone, saying it will make deliveries to customers in the coming months, has a 15 mile range, and can carry up to 5 pounds
For the first time, Amazon today showed off its newest fully electric delivery drone at its first re:Mars conference in Las Vegas.
Interview with Apple's head of global accessibility on Voice Control, macOS' Hover Text for text magnification, and iOS 13's addition of pointer support
Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. — From dark mode in iOS 13 to a redesigned user interface …
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, to acquire endpoint security firm Endgame in a $234M deal
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the publicly traded company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced today that it has agreed to acquire endpoint security firm Endgame in a $234 million deal.
Microsoft has pulled its facial recognition database, MS Celeb, which contained 10M+ images of ~100K individuals scraped under the Creative Commons license
Microsoft has quietly pulled from the internet its database of 10m faces, which has been used to train facial recognition systems around the world …
JP Morgan Chase is informing customers that it is shutting down Finn, the mobile-only banking service aimed at younger customers, a year after its launch
Finn was a hybrid, offering digital banking as well as some branch access — JPMorgan Chase & Co. is killing an experiment …
Cloudera says CEO Tom Reilly is retiring and will leave the company's board, with board member Martin Cole to become interim CEO; stock down 40%+
KEY POINTS — Interim CEO Martin Cole is a former Accenture executive who has been on Cloudera's board since 2014. — Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly.
How groups of teens use AirDrop to share memes, and bombard unsuspecting adults who have AirDrop on, in an attempt to crash their phones
Veronica Belmont, a product manager at Adobe Spark, was riding the train down to Silicon Valley, doing some work on her phone, when dozens of teenagers plopped down into the seats around her. Tweets: ...
Sources: Bird in talks to acquire scooter startup Scoot, which was last valued at ~$71M; Scoot would be Bird's first full acquisition
If you are among those who thought that the scooter market sounded a little overhyped and overcrowded, we've gotten wind of a deal that could point to some impending consolidation.
Step, which wants to build a mobile-based banking service aimed at teenagers starting in the US, raises $22.5M led by Stripe
The smartphone revolution has well and truly disrupted the world of banking. A wide range of startups have cropped up that have completely removed the need …
Baltimore estimates recent ransomware attack will cost the city $10M to clean up, not including $8M of deferred or lost revenue from unprocessed payments
Data Sheet Tweets: Ian Duncan / @iduncan : City officials have said there's no evidence personal data was stolen by the hackers. But a spokesman for the mayor says authorities are investigating docume...
Sources show election security company VR Systems' use of remote-access software may have opened gap for hackers to tamper with NC voter data in 2016
Kim Zetter / Politico :
Pratilipi, a platform that enables users to read, write, and listen to stories in Indian languages, raises $15M Series B led by Qiming Venture Partners
Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times :
Amazon announces Alexa Conversations, which will enable Alexa to utilize multiple skills within conversations by asking follow ups to the initial question
Tom Simonite / Wired :
Amazon launches StyleSnap, an ML-powered feature in its app that lets users take a picture of an article of clothing and find similar items for sale on Amazon
James Vincent / The Verge :
Blockchain-based mobile voting platform Voatz, which held a pilot program with 24 counties in West Virginia during the midterms, raises $7M Series A
Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk :
FCC says AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and US Cellular agreed to pay a total $2.5B+ for spectrum licenses in 24GHz-28GHz bands across the US for their 5G networks
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
China's Didi Chuxing expands in Latin America, launches ride hailing services in Valparaíso, Chile and Bogotá, Colombia
this week it started a much-anticipated expansion into Chile and Colombia to double its Latam markets (also Mexico and Brazil) https://techcrunch.com/...
In 2019, US consumers will, for the first time, spend more time per day using their mobile devices than watching TV
Amy He / eMarketer :
Google appeals the EU's $1.7B fine over alleged anticompetitive advertising practices; EU says it will defend its decision in court
Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC :
Profile of UK-based Graphcore, which makes “Intelligence Processing Units”, AI chips designed to be better at guesswork and have high energy efficiency
Austin Carr / Bloomberg : Tweets: @atomico , @graphcoreai , and @austincarr Tweets: @atomico : ‘Unlike the number-crunching alternatives, British startup @Graphcoreai has developed a brain for comput...
UK-based open banking startup TrueLayer raises $35M from Tencent and Temasek, bringing its total raised to $47M
TrueLayer has just raised a $35M round of financing!
Connected bike and treadmill-maker Peloton says it confidentially filed for an IPO; the company raised $550M in August 2018 at a $4B valuation
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
Microsoft and Oracle announce a partnership to link their US data centers in an effort to unite against Amazon's AWS
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
Pivotal Software reports full-year revenue guidance of $756M-$767M, vs $803M expected, causing stock to drop as much as 45%
Jordan Novet / CNBC : Tweets: @joemccann Tweets: Joe McCann / @joemccann : Zuora, Box and now Pivotal all claiming “longer sales cycles” for their earnings misses or lowered guidance. Or it could be ...
With Apple making its Sign In with Apple feature mandatory for App Store developers, it starts to feel less like competition and more like brute force
Casey Newton / The Interface :
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