Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week
Here's Everything You Need to Know Mariella Moon / Engadget : WSJ: Facebook's cryptocurrency finds backing from PayPal and Uber Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk : Facebook Hires Standard Chartered Bank Lobbyi...
Google's Chrome 76, now in beta, will block Flash by default; a Google employee claims Chrome 76 will prevent sites from detecting users in Incognito Mode
Following version 75's release on Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux last week, the next beta release of Google's browser is rolling out.
Wyoming's laws exempting some digital tokens from state securities rules, and cryptocurrency from state property taxes, spawned dozens of crypto LLCs there
IF YOU BELIEVE you may have stumbled into a cryptocurrency conference (godspeed, my friend), there are a few telltale signs.
Researchers say a LinkedIn profile, now gone, of a woman connected to US policy experts and insiders, exhibited activity typical of state-run espionage
LONDON (AP) — Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into Washington's political scene. The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top …
Amazon Game Studios confirms reorganization after report that dozens of game developers were laid off; source: devs given 60 days to find new jobs at Amazon
Yesterday, as the video game industry's attention was focused squarely on the final day of the E3 convention in Los Angeles …
Sources: Libra Foundation, overseeing Facebook's upcoming cryptocurrency, may have eBay, Coinbase, Vodafone, a16z, USV, Thrive, more among the launch partners
Facebook has been quietly building out its cryptocurrency for over a year, and it looks like that time has been well spent …
Black Hat removes Rep. Will Hurd as the 2019 Black Hat USA keynote speaker amid questions about his voting record on women's rights
Rep. Will Hurd will no longer give the keynote address at the Black Hat security conference amid questions about his voting record on women's rights.
Sources: as Stellar and others refused to partner and MobileCoin refused to sell, Facebook hired several dozen blockchain experts for several million/year each
Facebook's GlobalCoin project, also known as Project Libra, may face significant hurdles as the social media giant works toward a prospective launch.
Researchers find some sleep apps and trackers provide inaccurate data and can cause an increased fixation on sleep, which can worsen anxiety and insomnia
Are you sabotaging your sleep in your quest to improve it? — Many new tools are becoming available to monitor your sleep or help …
Amazon shuts down Spark, its Instagram rival launched in 2017; URL directs to #FoundItOnAmazon, its product discovery site similar to its Interesting Finds tool
Amazon's two-year-old Instagram competitor, Amazon Spark, is no more. — Hoping to capitalize on the social shopping trend …
Twitter says its official app will return to the Mac by using its existing iOS codebase through Project Catalyst, with full feature parity with other platforms
What's the news? — Last week, Apple announced Project Catalyst for macOS 10.15 Catalina, which makes it easy for developers …
Huawei delays launch of its foldable Mate X phone from June to September, says it is doing extra tests after Samsung's troubles with the Galaxy Fold
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint have approached Dish, Charter, and Altice about buying Boost Mobile and some of Sprint's spectrum to get DOJ's approval for merger
Cecilia Kang / New York Times :
Binance announces that it will stop serving trading customers in the US from September; Binance gets ~15% of its traffic from US customers
Larry Cermak / The Block :
An in-depth report on stalkerware apps: a technical assessment of their invasive surveillance capabilities, marketing for abusive spouses, security risks, more
Executive Summary — Persons who engage in technology-facilitated violence, abuse, and harassment sometimes install spyware on a targeted person's mobile phone. Tweets: @adam_senft , @einsteinsattic ...
WeChat's data centralization has inextricably linked it to all aspects of daily life in China and made it a cornerstone of the government's social-credit system
Living in China with the app that knows everything about me. — It's 9 a.m. on a typical morning in Chengdu and I'm awakened by the sound of my phone alarm. Tweets: @nautilusmag and @hardmaru Tweets:...
Testim, which makes AI-based tools for automated software testing, raises $10M Series B led by SignalFire, with participation from Lightspeed and others
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Facebook releases AI Habitat, a platform to research embodied AI, which uses data from physical surroundings, and Replica, a dataset of sample spaces, on Github
all part of our continued research for next-gen VR and AR experiences. https://tech.fb.com/... Dhruv Batra / @dhruvbatradb : Excited to share this collaborative project by FAIR & FRL. If we can train ...
Huawei says lock screen ads appeared inadvertently for some users following testing of ads in its Magazine service
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Pew: 26% of US adults earning under $30K are “smartphone only” internet users, up from 12% in 2013; only 6% of those earning over $75k are “smartphone only”
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero :
Amazon to allow devs of Alexa skills aimed at kids to offer premium content for purchase; parents can opt out of the new feature and must approve purchases
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Hands-on with redesigned Apple CarPlay in iOS 13: new dashboard with Siri Suggestions, Do Not Disturb While Driving, calendar and settings apps, and Light Mode
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
Mexico blocks Walmart's acquisition of grocery delivery app Cornershop for $225M citing Walmart's size and Cornershop's access to Walmart's competitor data
Daina Beth Solomon / Reuters : Tweets: @dainabethcita Tweets: Daina Beth Solomon / @dainabethcita : Walmart wanted to buy delivery app Cornershop for $225 million. Mexico said no. Here's why the comp...
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