Xbox Game Pass for PC will be available for $4.99/month with access to at least 10 games during beta, according to Microsoft's website ahead of its E3 event
A beta might be launching today — Microsoft has published its Xbox Game Pass for PC pricing ahead of the company's E3 event later today.
iOS 13 shows a pop-up with a map of location data an app has tracked and its reasons for needing the data, when asking permission for background location access
Apple continued its strong focus on privacy with the announcement of iOS 13 this week. The update includes several new privacy features …
How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe
Over years of reporting on internet culture, I've heard countless versions of Mr. Cain's story: an aimless young man — usually white …
Quibi to launch on April 6 2020 with a $7.99/mo ad free tier and a $4.99/mo tier with pre-roll ads, will pay costs plus 20% for up to $6M/hour to show creators
Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman offered an in-depth look at their new short-form video service during …
Sources: China summoned US and global tech giants to warn of dire consequences if they cooperate with Trump bans, hinting US companies should lobby against bans
SAN FRANCISCO — The Chinese government this past week summoned major tech companies from the United States and elsewhere to warn …
FAQ on how Sign In with Apple works based on information at WWDC, including details about two-factor authentication support and private email relay service
One of the bigger security announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple's new requirement …
Researchers have developed an algorithm that allows video editors to modify human speech in “talking head” videos by altering text in transcripts
A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text - copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.
Researchers find that only 4,183 security flaws from a total of 76K vulnerabilities discovered between 2009 and 2018 had been exploited in the wild
Most vulnerabilities that are exploited in the wild have a CVSS severity score of 9 or 10. — New research published this week has shed …
In a communique, G20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to close loopholes global tech companies use to reduce their corporate taxes
Former Unity VP Anne Evans has filed a lawsuit against the company for retaliation and wrongful termination, alleging CEO John Riccitiello sexually harassed her
Unity Technologies, the multibillion-dollar gaming engine, is facing a lawsuit from its former VP of global talent acquisition …
Carbon Health, which provides video and message-based virtual care through an app in addition to in-person care at seven Bay Area clinics, raises $30M Series B
In addition to its seven Bay Area clinics that offer in-person care, the startup has a mobile app through which patients …
Apple's sign-in button, built for a post-Cambridge Analytica world, is a sign of how much tech infrastructure needs to be rebuilt as privacy expectations change
Protection against developers, not hackers — In 2019, Facebook isn't just a homepage; it's a passport. Tweets: @natisho and @peterpur Tweets: @natisho : “This might seem strange: Apple is tightening...
Some European mobile traffic was rerouted through China Telecom due to a BGP leak at a Swiss colocation company which was accused of a similar mistake in 2018
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How MTN and Orange, two of the biggest mobile carriers in Africa, are trying to expand internet access in the continent by selling ~$20 phones powered by KaiOS
About half of humanity don't have internet access, and a lot of those people are in Africa. Enter a $20 device with smartphone brains and a five-day battery. Tweets: @trevornoren , @whiteafrican , an...
FloSports, a $150/year live and on-demand streaming service focusing on niche sports, raises $47M Series C led by Discovery, bringing the total raised to $75M
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Amazon VP Sean Scott talks about how his team built the Scout delivery robot, which is currently in field testing, how Scout finds its way around, and more
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Luminous Computing, which aims to build a photonic chip, raises $9M seed round led by Bill Gates, with Dara Khosrowshahi, Travis Kalanick, others participating
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London-based Realeyes, which uses AI to let brands like AT&T and Mars gauge emotions of consumers through their facial expressions, raises $12.4M Series B
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @mikebutcher Tweets: Mike Butcher / @mikebutcher : In return for incentives, people are asked to share their webcams and smartphone cameras with the Realeyes softw...
Google details the root cause behind the recent outage that caused Google Cloud to lose a third of its traffic, which affected Snapchat and YouTube among others
Brian Barrett / Wired : Tweets: @jessfraz Tweets: Jessie Frazelle / @jessfraz : The author of this did a great job of translating the post Mortem in a way people would understand what happened with t...
Profile of 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, who wants to leverage the falling costs of genetic sequencing and the company's DNA library to fuel a “biotech machine”
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