Report: Jony Ive was dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process and frustrated inside a more operations-focused company
Shortly after Apple's announcement last week that Jony Ive was leaving the company, Bloomberg published a report that suggested … Source: Wall Street Journal .
Facebook says it will treat 2020 US Census like an election and will have “people, policies and technology in place to protect against census interference”
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Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace, where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, called capsules, in the US and South Korea
Samsung has launched its Bixby Marketplace, a dedicated app store where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, similar to Amazon's Alexa skills.
Facebook-appointed auditors say its policy banning “white nationalism” and “white separatism” is too narrow as it only applies to posts using the specific terms
Company policy prohibits praise or support for specific term ‘white nationalism’
Intel puts around 8,500 patents related to the wireless modem business that it is exiting up for auction
In what looks set to become one of the highest profile patent sales in years, Intel has put its IP relating to cellular wireless connectivity on the auction block.
Spotify ends its direct music upload beta program for artists after debuting it last year, saying it would rather focus on features unique to the platform
Spotify is shutting down a program that allowed indie artists to upload their own music to the streaming service, the company announced today.
Walmart China uses VeChainThor blockchain to show customers the path a food product took, from its source to the shelves, with 23 product lines listed now
Walmart China has launched a blockchain-based platform aimed to address food safety concerns in the country.
Many internet outages are caused by problems with the trust-based Border Gateway Protocol, which was conceived in 1989 and remains largely unchanged since 1994
IN A WEEKS-LONG stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. Tweets: @campuscodi , @kiraallmann , and @wired Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : @Techme...
Strategy Analytics predicts that Roku will, at 52M devices, have 70% more OTT devices than its next closest competitor, Sony Playstation, by year end
Strategy Analytics predicts there will be 52 million Roku-enabled devices in use by year-end — The Roku OTT ecosystem further extended …
Industrial AR headset maker RealWear raises $80M Series B led by industrial automation company Teradyne, bringing its total raised to over $100M
I'm a former tech executive covering VR, AR and new media for Forbes. — RealWear, Inc., producer of the HMT-1 ruggedized head-mounted …
Japan to tighten restrictions on the export to South Korea of materials for smartphone displays and chips starting July 4, in a dispute about war-time labor
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Iran says power consumption jumped 7% in June, largely due to Bitcoin mining, making the country's power grid unstable, seizes 1,000 Bitcoin mining machines
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How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting
THE SUPREME COURT'S conservative justices ruled Thursday that the highest court doesn't have the power to address partisan gerrymandering … Tweets: @wired , @wired , and @samwangphd Tweets: @wired : T...
Israel-Based NeuroBlade raises $23M Series A from Check Point co-founder Marius Nacht, Intel Capital, and others to bring its AI chip to market
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli startup NeuroBlade said on Wednesday it has completed a $23 million early funding round, led by Marius Nacht …
Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented
How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet — On 27 April, before he burst … Tweets: @nickywoolf , @ryan_padraic , @xtophercook , @cerithom...
Ex-Equifax CIO Jun Ying sentenced to four months in prison for insider trading; he pleaded guilty to selling Equifax shares prior to 2017's breach announcement
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CoinMarketCap buys Hashtag Capital, which started as a crypto trading fund and now builds “true price” tech based on liquidity, to improve its data offerings
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Google launches a Fuchsia OS developer website with official documentation about developing for the open source operating system
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Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, announces $12M Series A; Tundra generates revenue via premium checkout options like faster shipping
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch : Tweets: @garrytan Tweets: Garry / @garrytan : Tundra raised $12M from our friends at Redpoint!The $1 trillion B2B wholesale market is set up with platforms/distributors ch...
Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019
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How tech like ground-penetrating radar, drones, lidar, and hyper-accurate 3D mapping is changing archaeology by enabling cheaper, noninvasive site surveys
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Profile of Jay Carney, formerly Obama's press secretary, who is now a member of Jeff Bezos' elite S-team, in charge of PR and policy at Amazon
Eugene Kim / CNBC : Tweets: @jordannovet , @mattrosoff , @matthewstoller , and @stevekovach Tweets: Jordan Novet / @jordannovet : 'Amazon's leadership instructed certain policy and sales people to st...
Bleckwen, which develops AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A
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TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for a blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business
Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk : Tweets: @lopp , @ercwl , @decntrlzd , @aridavidpaul , @raetoken , @atrissidoarjo , @aridavidpaul , @zooko , @aridavidpaul , @aridavidpaul , @udiwertheimer , @mdudas , @coindes...
China-based robotic process automation startup Laiye, whose product UiBot gained 6,000 enterprise users after launching in January, raises $35M Series B
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How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists
Alyssa Bereznak / The Ringer : Tweets: @jeremysliew , @alyssabereznak , @jeremysliew , @peterpham , and @karolcummins See also Mediagazer Tweets: @jeremysliew : “@suecothechild has been making music ...
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