Sources: US Cyber Command launched an offensive cyber strike on Thursday that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches
President Trump approved an offensive cyber-strike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches …
Bitcoin rises above $10K for the first time in over a year, as the unveiling of Libra and increased institutional support spur hopes of mainstream adoption
The world's most popular cryptocurrency gets a boost from Facebook's plan to launch Libra — Bitcoin rose over $10,000 …
NASA says it was hacked in April 2018 via an unauthorized Raspberry Pi on the network; hackers had access for nearly a year, stealing Mars mission-related data
NASA described the hackers as an “advanced persistent threat,” a term generally used for nation-state hacking groups.
iRobot has acquired Root Robotics, which makes a $199 educational robot that can be programmed to draw, respond to touch and sound, play music, and more
Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot, the robotics company perhaps best known for its iconic Roomba autonomous home vacuum cleaners …
PayPal COO Bill Ready, who joined the company in 2013 when it acquired Braintree, is leaving the company at the end of 2019
PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready is leaving the company at the end of the year, PayPal announced via a statement issued on Thursday.
Leaked Microsoft memo says Slack, AWS, Google Docs, PagerDuty, and even GitHub are prohibited or discouraged from internal use, primarily over security concerns
As Slack makes its stock market debut, there's a major company that won't be allowing its employees to use the business collaboration …
How COPPA came about 20 years ago, making 13 years the internet's age of adulthood, as a bipartisan COPPA 2.0 bill seeks to raise the age to 16
The inside story of COPPA, a law from the early days of e-commerce that is shaping a generation and creating a parental minefield Tweets: @wsj and @waituntil8th Tweets: @wsj : The internet age of adul...
Google was never really serious about tablets, with years of scattershot reboots; its decision to stop making tablets was rational but could be shortsighted
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FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt regulations within 12 months requiring crypto exchanges share customer info when moving funds
Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk :
As Amazon and others offer ever speedier delivery, the climate benefits of e-commerce disappear due to reduced fuel efficiencies and increased warehouse space
With its acceleration of Prime shipping from two days to one, Amazon established a new normal. Tweets: @tfadell , @chesapeakebay , @erica_pandey , and @axios Tweets: Tony Fadell / @tfadell : It's time...
Magic Leap sues Chi Xu, a former employee who founded the China-based AR startup Nreal, for alleged IP theft
- The startup says the former employee stole its AR secrets — Alleged technology theft a sore point in U.S.-China relations — Magic Leap Inc., a U.S. startup that makes … Tweets: @technology Twee...
Privacy experts worry about how Amazon and Walmart will store and use videos captured by cameras worn by delivery associates during in-home deliveries
The war for the e-commerce shopper is fought on the battlefield of convenience. One-click ordering, same-day delivery … Tweets: @peterhense , @latimes , @hilarymkinney , and @latimes Tweets: Peter He...
Snap introduces Snap Select, which lets advertisers buy ads exclusively for Snap's premium content, like its shows and vetted premium partners, at fixed CPMs
When the hedges arrived at La Malmaison on Saturday, they had to be trimmed down. Snapchat wanted the vibe of its Cannes space to open — not private and exclusive. Tweets: @rakeshlobster , @richbtig ...
Legal tech startup Atrium's business model incentivizes efficiency over milking billable hours, as most law firms do, giving it a leg up in automating busywork
Law firms have little incentive to build or buy software that will save their lawyers time since they often bill clients by the hour. Tweets: @joshconstine Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : I wr...
Airbus partners with Microsoft to sell custom apps for HoloLens to aerospace companies, starting with an app for airline maintenance workers and cabin crews
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Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, files for IPO; it reported a $82.2M net loss and $313.6M in revenue for its last fiscal year
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION … Renaissance Capital : Customer experience platform Medallia files for a $100 million IPO
Livepeer, a decentralized marketplace for encoding providers and developers who need video-streaming services, based on Ethereum network, raises $8M Series A
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Didi begins opening its ride-hailing platform to rivals, starting with a pilot project in Chengdu, allowing users to hail cars dispatched by competitor Miaozou
Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post :
How the firearms industry relies on female influencers to skirt the restrictions imposed by social media platforms on advertising guns and related services
Kaitlyn Tiffany / Vox : Tweets: @fraying , @kozinets , and @dancharvey Tweets: Derek Powazek / @fraying : If I ran Instagram, this kind of paid “influencer” crap would be a one-strike account deletio...
Owners of Jibo, a social robot designed to be loved, on their attachment to the robot companion and their slow mourning knowing its servers will go dark soon
families became emotionally attached to a robot they bought off indiegogo. now it's about to die, and many are mourning its death https://www.theverge.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Wonderful p...
A look at the blossoming machine-learning community in Africa, where IBM and Google are trying to use AI to tackle challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @techreview Tweets: @techreview : Africa, not Silicon Valley or China, might offer AI a chance to return to its original promise: creating technology that ...
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