Sources: US tech companies, including Intel and Micron, have found ways to sell millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite the Trump administration's ban
SHANGHAI — A number of the United States' biggest chip makers have sold millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite …
Apple says it has acquired autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, hiring dozens of Drive.ai engineers and, per sources, taking over its autonomous cars
Apple bought Drive.ai, an autonomous driving startup once valued at $200 million, Apple confirmed to Axios on Tuesday, and has hired dozens of Drive.ai engineers.
Amid Huawei ban, FedEx sues US over mandate that it monitor all shipments, saying it violates due process and is unfeasible on the scale the government desires
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Oppo demos an under-screen selfie camera with a display using a custom transparent material, plans to launch in a commercial phone “in the near future”
Coming to a commercial phone ‘in the near future’ — The past couple of years of smartphone design have been dominated …
Instagram says it will roll out ads on its Explore page, visible when users tap on Explore posts, starting with an ad for IGTV today
Ads everywhere — Ads are coming to more places on Instagram. Today, the social media platform announced that it'll soon start placing ads within the Explore page …
Bill Gates says his “greatest mistake” was Microsoft losing the platform opportunity to Android on mobile, in an interview at VC firm Village Global
Gates calls Microsoft's smartphones failure a “$400 billion” loss. — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently gave …
Executives at seven of Facebook's Libra partners say the companies have only signed nonbinding agreements and have not yet paid to join the Libra Association
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the biggest selling points of Facebook's ambitious plans for its new cryptocurrency, Libra …
StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, General Atlantic, and GGV Capital and names Scott Cutler CEO
StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business.
Airbnb launches Airbnb Luxe, a new luxury tier of 2,000 listings with an average price of $14K a week to as high as $1M a week for a private atoll
Gone are the days of air mattresses on the floor. Airbnb Inc. is now catering to the mega-wealthy with a new tier of luxury rentals.
Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that would allow a malicious binary to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process
Researchers find new OSX/Linker malware abusing still-unpatched macOS Gatekeeper bypass. — Mac malware developers have jumped …
Chinese state-sponsored hackers, notably APT10, broke into eight IT service providers including HPE, IBM, and their client networks in a years-long invasion
Eight of the world's biggest technology service providers were hacked by Chinese cyber spies in an elaborate and years-long invasion, Reuters found.
EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity practices and seeks an interim order to prevent anti-competitive behavior
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it suspects of restricting competition via …
Social media verification scams are rampant because the verification process is opaque and arbitrary; platforms need to rebuild the whole system
Travis Hawley was scrolling through the comments sections of LeBron James's Instagram posts recently when he noticed some postings from other athletes. Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @birdyword , @taylorlore...
Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music
When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently …
Sources: the NSA collected metadata about calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last October, in a second such incident
The National Security Agency collected records about U.S. calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last year, in a second such incident … Tweets: @dnvolz , @jakelaperruque , and @ma...
Report: tests of ~10K firmware images from 500+ Huawei telecom devices found 55% had at least one vulnerability, much higher than that of its rivals
Top U.S. officials say research confirms fears of risks, but report stops short of accusing the company of deliberately building flaws into system
Bangalore-based Unacademy, which runs a platform that helps Indian students prepare for exams, raises $50M Series D from Steadview Capital and others
Big money continues to flow in India's growing education market. Bangalore-based Unacademy, which operates an online learning platform …
Sources: UK's largest supermarket Tesco has partnered with Israeli startup Trigo Vision to work on cashierless stores, as competition with Amazon heats up
Tesco Plc has turned to an Israeli startup for help as it looks to become the next major food retailer to remove cashiers from some of its stores. Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @business Tweets: Carolina...
Profile of Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, which has more rooms in China than in India, as it faces a bumpy rollout in the US, where it has 50+ hotel partners
A rare emerging-market unicorn aims to upend the hospitality business—but first it has to fix that runaway ceiling fan
Image sharing platform Imgur says it has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayments tool that Imgur will build into its service ahead of a forthcoming premium tier
Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks …
Some US schools are using microphones equipped with “aggression detection” algorithms, which critics say are unreliable, raising concerns about surveillance
Headphones recommended. … Ariella Russcol specializes in drama at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens …
MLPerf, a consortium of 40 tech companies including Facebook and Google, releases a set of benchmarks for evaluating the performance of AI tools
Metrics cover AI performance in image recognition, object detection and voice translation — A consortium of tech companies …
Microsoft unveils OneDrive Personal Vault, which protects folders with 2FA and is expected by year end, and ups OneDrive's $1.99/mo plan from 50GB to 100GB
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Alibaba launches an English language portal on Tmall, its flagship online mall, aiming to double the number of global brands from ~20K to 40K in three years
Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post :
Vulcan Cyber, which aims to automate security patching efforts, raises $10M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and YL Ventures, bringing total raised to $14M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
eSmart Systems, which develops predictive maintenance software for utilities, raises $34M from investors including Energy Impact Partners and Innogy Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
FCC broadband committee ex-chair sentenced to five years in prison for fraud; as a telecom CEO, she forged contracts to raise $270M+ for a fiber network
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Alienware co-founder Frank Azor says he is leaving Dell's gaming and XPS divisions; report suggests he will likely become AMD's first chief gaming officer
Vlad Savov / The Verge :
New Silex malware has begun bricking several hundred poorly secured IoT devices per hour, using default credentials to log in and then wipe devices
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
A look at Facebook's and Twitter's plans to combat disinformation ahead of the Democratic presidential debates on Wednesday and Thursday
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post :
Ford-backed Argo AI will invest $15M over five years to create a center for self-driving car research at Carnegie Mellon University
and researchers! This combination of industry and academia shows #PGH continuing to lead the way on self-driving technology. https://techcrunch.com/...
Carbon, a 3D-printing platform used by Ford, Adidas, and others, says it has raised $260M at a $2.4B valuation, following its 2017 Series D at a $1.7B valuation
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
FTC and DOJ announce their latest crackdown on robocallers, taking 94 actions against several companies and people blamed for a recent wave of spam calls
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
While new laws in cities like Oakland and Seattle restrict police surveillance tech, Ring video doorbells remain unhindered despite serving similar purposes
Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic : Tweets: @privacyproject , @sidneyfussell , @theatlantic , @cmsandefur , @evanselinger , and @eff Tweets: @privacyproject : “There's a tension inherent to any fight abo...
Uber to buy Seattle-based Mighty AI, which helps train computer vision models, to strengthen its self-driving car unit; Crunchbase: Mighty AI had raised $27.3M
Amir Efrati / The Information :
Cobalt Robotics, which makes indoor security robots designed to work alongside human guards, raises $35M Series B; it raised a $13M Series A in March 2018
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
NY-based Button, which links apps to other apps for smoother mobile shopping, raises $30M Series C led by Icon Ventures; source: deal values company at $200M+
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @chrismaddern , @ychernova , and @mdudas Tweets: Chris Maddern / @chrismaddern : Excited to share that we've raised an additional $30 million to keep b...
A deep dive on which vendor may be responsible for a supply chain attack that Google said resulted in pre-installed malware on budget Android devices
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
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