Nintendo announces an updated Switch console which, it says, will last up to nine hours on a single charge; FCC filing suggests it has a new SoC and storage
It's the same old Switch, just longer lasting — Nintendo is updating the original version of the Switch to offer better battery life …
The European Commission launches a formal antitrust investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct by Amazon in its dual role as marketplace and retailer
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon's use of sensitive data …
Neuralink, which has received $158M in funding including $100M from Elon Musk, hopes to begin testing its brain-computer interface on humans by Q2 of 2020
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk aspires to make inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painless as Lasik eye surgery.
Google's vice president of public policy, Karan Bhatia, tells US Senate that the company has “terminated” Project Dragonfly, its Chinese search engine project
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Google's vice president of public policy, Karan Bhatia …
Amazon says Prime Day surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined, with users buying 175M items, up from 100M in 2018
- Amazon says Prime Day sales this year surpassed the combined sales of Black Friday and Cyber Monday last year. — Amazon said it sold with more than 175 million items …
Microsoft says AT&T will use its Azure and Office 365 suite for its 250,000 staff in a non-exclusive deal; source says multi-year deal is worth $2B+
KEY POINTS — All AT&T Communications employees will use Microsoft 365, which includes Windows 10 and Office 365.
MacBook Pro 13-inch (2019, two ports) review: great performance, display, and trackpad but keyboard reliability remains an issue and battery life is average
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Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC
Google Maps is bringing bike-sharing station information to global markets from today, more than a year after first debuting the feature in New York City.
MacBook Air (2019) review: classic design works well and True Tone display looks great, but its CPU can struggle, keyboard is a worry, and USB-C can be a hassle
Can it live up to the classic? — There's not a lot that's changed with 2019's iteration of the MacBook Air … Tweets: @backlon Tweets: Dieter Bohn / @backlon : I reviewed the 2019 iteration of the Ap...
Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify
- Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
Unwarranted health fears about wireless tech can be traced to a scientist's flawed report in 2000 that failed to account for the shielding effect of human skin
How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology. — In 2000, the Broward County Public Schools …
Google has banned Chinese app developer CooTek from its ad platforms and Play Store, removing 60+ CooTek Android apps for bombarding users with disruptive ads
Google is banning CooTek, a publicly traded Chinese app developer, from its Play store and ad platforms after BuzzFeed News …
Review of 33 high-profile blockchain projects within the financial sector and interviews with execs shows the limitations of blockchain and its weak adoption
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years ago Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) and Citigroup Inc (C.N) announced a new blockchain system they said would make payments …
Icertis, an enterprise contract management SaaS, raises $115M led by Greycroft and PremjiInvest at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $211M
Indo-US enterprise contract management software provider Icertis has become the latest software-as-a-service (SaaS) …
Researchers created an app that could withhold insulin or trigger a lethal overdose after Medtronic and the FDA delayed a replacement plan for flawed pumps
TWO YEARS AGO, researchers Billy Rios and Jonathan Butts discovered disturbing vulnerabilities in Medtronic's popular MiniMed and MiniMed Paradigm insulin pump lines.
A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years
PAOLI, Pa. — Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle. Tweets: @alecstapp , @eff , @imhassan , and @quatrainman Tweets...
Reflecting on VidCon, it's clear that influencers' command of social media foreshadows future power in politics and elsewhere
As social media expands its cultural dominance, the people who can steer the online conversation will have an upper hand. — ANAHEIM, Calif. … Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @joshspero , @nytimesbusiness...
Researchers shed light on how WeChat censors images in private chats automatically in real time by using a massive and growing index of MD5 cryptographic hashes
The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing. — WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many different ways.
Indies making single-play games focused on story worry about the rise of subscription models, which better suit longer, replayable games
Subscription services change everything. — The Netflix model doesn't work for video games. Neither does the Spotify plan, the HBO Go ecosystem or the Amazon Prime Video marketplace.
Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company
FOUR OF THE seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company, including two women who claimed Google retaliated against them for their internal a...
Berlin-based Billie, which offers a B2B invoicing and payments platform, raises €30M Series B led by Creandum
Billie, the Berlin-based fintech startup that offers a B2B invoicing and payments platform, has raised €30 million in Series B funding.
Peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace Turo raises $250M Series E from IAC at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to nearly $450M
Car-sharing startup Turo has raised $250 million in a Series E round of funding from IAC, the internet media company that owned and spun out Match.com, and OKCupid.
Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis
AlphaSense, an enterprise search engine for market analysis and business intelligence, raises $50M Series B led by Innovation Endeavors
Google and its flagship search portal opened the door to the possibilities of how to build a business empire on the back of organising and navigating …
Atlanta-based software company Ebix to acquire Indian online travel booking company Yatra through a merger deal valued at $337.8M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Ascend, which develops an autonomous dataflow service to reduce the effort required from data engineers, raises $19M Series A led by Accel
Seth Colaner / VentureBeat :
LG Pay, with both NFC and magnetic stripe terminal support, is now available in the US for the LG G8, will expand to other LG phones in the coming months
Joe Maring / Android Central :
Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered
’ Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph : ‘Libra Is so Screwed’ — Should Have Used Bitcoin, Says Samson Mow Martin Young / Bitcoinist.com : Congress to Hold Second Hearing on Libra and Crypto Marko Vidrih...
Tencent-backed Chinese game focused live-streaming platform DouYu raises $775M at $3.73B valuation, after pricing its US IPO at the bottom of its marketed range
Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Bulgaria says hackers stole millions of taxpayers' financial data in June; an expert says nearly all adult citizens' personal records may have been compromised
Angel Krasimirov / Reuters :
London-based ContractPodAi, which develops AI-powered contract lifecycle management software, raises $55M Series B led by Insight Partners
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
Highlights from the House's antitrust hearing, where Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook executives fought criticism that their companies dominate their markets
Bloomberg :
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News
Subscribe — Top of the Morning — Hi Peter. Julie Bort / Business Insider : The cofounder of Palantir just called Google ‘an unpatriotic company.’ … Chris White / The Daily Caller : Facebook's Form...
Finix, a payments infrastructure platform that lets companies own and control their payment processing, raises $17.5M Series A led by Bain Capital
Jeff Kauflin / Forbes :
FCC authorizes funding for ISPs to provide broadband access for 220,000+ unserved rural homes and businesses in 24 states as part of the Connect America Fund
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @jbrodkin Tweets: @jbrodkin : I though repealing net-neutrality rules would magically create so much broadband that direct government payments to ISPs wouldn't be...
London-based payments startup SumUp secures a $371M loan from Goldman, Bain Capital, and others to fuel an international expansion
Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg :
Inside a lawsuit against Girls Do Porn, one of Pornhub's popular channels, which 22 women allege post videos without proper consent, leading to doxxing and more
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