Apple is suspending Siri response grading, the program in which humans review recordings of Siri queries for quality control, in response to privacy concerns
In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide.
Google will let Android users in Europe choose their default search engine starting in 2020; inclusion on the choice screen will be determined via auction
Only the top-three bidders will appear alongside Google on the choice screen — Starting in early 2020, Google will present …
DoorDash agrees to acquire Caviar, Square's food delivery business, for $410M in cash and preferred DoorDash stock
DoorDash has reached an agreement with Square to purchase on-demand food delivery and catering business Caviar . DoorDash has agreed to pay Square $410 million in cash and preferred DoorDash stock.
Google to add an automated text-to-speech feature for emergency calls made via the Pixel Phone app to help relay location information to first responders
The new feature will automatically describe the kind of emergency and exact address to first responders
FTC asks that the 147M people affected by the Equifax breach take free credit monitoring as only $31M of the $575M+ Equifax settlement is allocated to consumers
After “overwhelming” public interest, the FTC now urges users to settle for free credit monitoring instead.
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the biggest name in Fortnite and one of Twitch's most popular stars, says he will move to Microsoft's Mixer full-time
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the biggest name in Fortnite and one of Twitch's most popular stars, is leaving the platform to stream exclusively on Mixer.
Records show the NYPD has uploaded arrest photos of juveniles into a facial recognition database since 2015, despite higher risk of false matches in young faces
With little oversight, the N.Y.P.D. has been using powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers.
Amazon's Ring says that it receives some real-time 911 call data, including addresses, from police, which helps it curate crime news posts for its Neighbors app
Amazon-owned home security company Ring is pursuing contracts with police departments that would grant it direct access to real …
Following its move to stop selling new Dash buttons in February, Amazon says it will turn off the capabilities of all its Dash buttons worldwide on August 31
If you're dying to test out the features of Amazon's Dash button, it's now or never. Amazon said Thursday it will turn off …
Pentagon puts the decision of awarding the $10B JEDI cloud services contract on hold as Defense Secretary Mark Esper reviews accusations of unfair competition
The Pentagon is slamming the brakes on its mega-competition to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump suggested …
Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduces a bill that would give voters five rights, including the right to be notified when campaigns obtain their data
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday introduced a bill prompted by Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Facebook users' private data.
FCC says ISPs must provide geospatial maps of where they provide service, instead of just listing census blocks, will let the public comment on their accuracy
ISPs will have to submit geospatial maps of broadband service areas. — The Federal Communications Commission voted today …
Square Q2: revenue of $563M, up 46% YoY, gross payment volume of $26.8B, Cash app revenue of $135M, but guidance below expectations; stock down 6%+ after hours
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Poshmark, an online clothes marketplace with 50M+ users, says some user info, including names and encrypted passwords, was taken by an unauthorized third party
Poshmark, an online marketplace for buying and selling clothes, has reported a data breach. — The company said in a brief blog post …
FTC is looking into the Amazon/Apple deal that kicked many small resellers off Marketplace, has interviewed at least one reseller of refurbished MacBooks
Experts say the deal raises serious antitrust concerns — Last year, Amazon cut a deal with Apple to bring direct iPhone sales to its platform for the first time.
Sources: the Federal Reserve examined a Virginia Amazon cloud facility in spring, the first of what is expected to be ongoing oversight of big cloud providers
Visit was made in April to Amazon facility in Virginia — The Federal Reserve conducted a formal examination this spring …
Babylon Health raises $550M Series C at $2B+ valuation from Saudi Arabia's PIF, Kinnevik, and others to expand its AI-based health services to the US and Asia
Babylon Health, the UK-based startup that has developed a number of AI-based health services, including a chatbot used …
Facebook says it will open source two algorithms it uses to identify child sexual exploitation, terrorist propaganda, and graphic violence in images and videos
Crowdsourcing a better solution to disturbing photos and videos — Facebook will open-source two algorithms it uses …
Researchers developed AI that learned chess not by playing but analyzing reactions of expert commentators in text form to evaluate the quality of the moves
Machines that appreciate “brilliant” and “dumb” chess moves could learn to play the game—and do other things—more efficiently. Tweets: @techreview , @bobehayes , and @kasparov63 Tweets: @techreview : ...
German regulator says Google has agreed to stop listening in and transcribing Google Assistant recordings for three months in Europe
Germany's data protection commissioner is investigating — Google has agreed to stop listening in and transcribing Google Assistant recordings …
UrbanClap, an India-based on-demand home services marketplace with a presence in ten Indian cities and in the UAE, raises $75M Series E led by Tiger Global
On-demand home services marketplace UrbanClap has raised $75 million in its Series E round led by Tiger Global with participation …
An in-depth look at Intel's new Ice Lake chips, including their development history and benchmark results
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Facebook details its first takedown of inauthentic accounts linked to the Saudi government, alongside a separate takedown of accounts linked to UAE and Egypt
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Sources: as part of its antitrust probe, FTC is investigating whether Facebook bought startups like Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize possible competitors
buying up the up-starts to stay competitive. Half the goal of many founders is to get acquired. How these lines are drawn will definitely change the industry. https://twitter.com/... John Paczkowski /...
London Stock Exchange agrees to acquire financial data provider Refinitiv, a former arm of Thomson Reuters, in an all-stock deal valued at ~$27B
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YouTube has significantly changed its algorithm to boost what it deems “quality” children's videos following FTC probe into its use of personal data from minors
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Online sneaker marketplace StockX reset customer passwords after it was “alerted to suspicious activity”, initially said the reset was due to “system updates”
it was alerted to “suspicious activity” on its site. https://techcrunch.com/...
Esports organization Faze Clan countersues pro gamer Tfue, claiming he violated his contract by disparaging Faze and trying to form a rival esports organization
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Former Expedia executive Aman Bhutani taking over as CEO of GoDaddy as Scott Wagner, who was promoted to the post in 2017, steps down for health reasons
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Inside US-based “phone farms”, where people use dozens or hundreds of smartphones to fabricate engagements with ads and generate some disposable income
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Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace closes up 49% on its first day of trading, after raising $570M in its IPO, and is now valued at ~$6.7B
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee send letters to Jeff Bezos and Capital One's CEO requesting briefings on the recent Capital One data breach
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E-commerce site Wish raises a Series H, reportedly with $300M in funding, bringing its valuation to $11.2B, up from $8.7B in September 2017
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Pinterest beats with Q2 revenue of $261M, up 62% YoY, global MAUs of 300M, up 30% YoY, and an EBITDA loss of $26M, vs. $39M est.; stock is up 17%+
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Tweets: @mims and @levynews Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : Pinterest is bigger than Twitter and Snapchat (but gets maybe 1% of the press) https://twitter.com/... Ari Levy / ...
SEC filings: MacKenzie Bezos is now the second largest Amazon shareholder, holding 19.7M shares, or a ~4% stake worth ~$37B, in the company
here's our best guess at why Tweets: Angel Au-Yeung / @angelauyeung : SCOOP: Hours after trading closed today, @JeffBezos filed docs with the SEC showing he sold $1.8 billion worth of $AMZN stock in t...
Holloway, which publishes in-depth guides about running a startup, raises $4.6M in seed funding from The New York Times, NEA, Lightspeed, and others
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch : Tweets: @alex_danco , @gilbert , and @caseynewton See also Mediagazer Tweets: @alex_danco : Medium disguising a crushing down round by renaming themselves to Holloway is 4D ...
Opsani, which is working on AI-based DevOps software to continuously optimize cloud apps, raises $10M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures
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