E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content creators; E3 has removed file but data still circulates
A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors …
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes mass shooters and gamifies the massacre of innocents
On August 3, 2019, at around 11am local time, initial police reports indicated that a gunman had walked into an El Paso Wal-Mart and opened fire.
Data breach seller provides evidence that sneaker marketplace StockX was hacked in May, says 6.8M records with contact info and hashed passwords were taken
It wasn't “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm.
Report: out of 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store, ~50% have fewer than 16 installs and 87% have fewer than 1,000; only 13 have 10M+ users
Around 87% of all Google Chrome extensions have fewer than 1,000 installs. — There are 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store …
Goldman Sachs reveals Apple Card customer agreement, says jailbreaking as well as purchasing cryptocurrency, casino chips, and lottery tickets is forbidden
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Former Building 8 employees shed light on Facebook's challenges in trying to break into consumer hardware, as it struggles to turn Portal into a success
KEY POINTS — Building 8, the laboratory she started, turned into a costly failure for Facebook, and Dugan was gone in less than two years.
Boston-based Jobble, an on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work in the US, raises $11M Series A
Jobble, a Boston, Massachusetts-based community of on-demand workers, raised $11m in funding. — The round was led by Vestigo Ventures …
How companies use AI in customer service: some to serve clients better, and some to find the “breakpoint” at which their service is so bad that a customer quits
Technology lets companies see how badly they can treat consumers, right up until the moment they bolt Tweets: @alexhillman , @zackwhittaker , @georgebdavis , and @wsj Tweets: Alex Hillman / @alexhillm...
Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
Apple spent $4.2B, or 7.9% of its revenue, on R&D in Q3, the highest percentage of R&D spending since 2003, and is on track to spend $16B in 2019
KEY POINTS — Apple CFO Luca Maestri hinted that R&D would continue to rise, and said that the company's $1 billion purchase …
Budget hotel booking startup RedDoorz raises $45M Series B; the company claims to have 1,200+ properties across Southeast Asia, 800 of which are in Indonesia
Raini Hamdi / Skift :
China is moving away from using QR codes for mobile payments and is increasingly adopting facial recognition payments technology from WeChat Pay and Alipay
In cities around China, vendors from supermarkets to bakeries have adopted facial recognition payments technology Facial recognition … Tweets: @muloongo Tweets: Muloongo Muchelemba / @muloongo : China...
Parks Associates: 39% of US broadband homes own a streaming media player, up 1% since 2018; Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% and 30% of the market, respectively
New research data shows that streaming media player growth is flattening. However, the number of connected TV homes continues to grow strongly, thanks to smart TV. See also Mediagazer
Diabetics in the US are increasingly using electronic skin patches and smartphones to better manage their disease through continuous glucose tracking
Wearable blood-sugar monitors deliver round-the-clock glucose readings—and relief from the daily grind of finger-stick blood tests Tweets: @stefaniei Tweets: Stefanie Ilgenfritz / @stefaniei : The pro...
Sources: US officials warn the UK that a free trade deal would not happen if digital services tax on companies like Google and Amazon becomes UK law this fall
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph : Tweets: @benrileysmith , @martinsfp , @feorlean , @pmdfoster , and @telegraph Tweets: Ben Riley-Smith / @benrileysmith : *Exclusive* US has told Britain it will not get ...
UK data science company DataSparQ has developed “AI Bar”, an AI-powered facial recognition system to help bartenders check IDs, fill orders faster and fairer
Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo :
WeWork has acquired at least six software companies related to real estate, possibly to build a software stack that it can sell to other real estate companies
This week WeWork, also known as The We Company and best known for its global coworking business, is adding another software company to its portfolio of acquisitions.
Turkey's TV and radio watchdog granted oversight of online content, including streaming services; online content providers must now get broadcasting licenses
Reuters : Tweets: @asliaydintasbas , @nervana_1 , @diegocupolo , @humeyra_pamuk , and @p_zalewski See also Mediagazer Tweets: Asli Aydintasbas / @asliaydintasbas : Stupid idea for today's world! Turk...
Inside “Instabeach”, Instagram's annual invite-only party in Malibu for 500 of its top creators, which has become a who's who of young Hollywood
it's where more and more young stars go to make a name for themselves https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Sara Mc / @sara_mcalpine : “the one thing YouTube and Instagram haven't changed [is] the ratio of...
Designer toy maker Superplastic raises $10M Series A led by Craft Ventures to turn two of its characters, Janky and Guggimon, into animated Instagram stars
Janko Rottgers / Variety : Tweets: @rrhoover Tweets: Ryan Hoover / @rrhoover : Superplastic just announced their new characters and $10M in funding. #investor https://variety.com/... Keep an eye on t...
EQT and Canada's state pension fund buy a majority stake in Waystar, a provider of revenue cycle management software for healthcare orgs, at a $2.7B valuation
Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare :
Privacy activists say Microsoft's funding of Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision contradicts its public calls for facial recognition regulation
Thomas Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @hamza13sg and @kenroth Tweets: Hamza H / @hamza13sg : “Microsoft is under fire for funding the Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision, which is reportedly ca...
Interview with Snap CTO Bobby Murphy on augmented reality, visual communications, Lenses, Spectacles, and a future world in which the camera dominates
Mark Wilson / Fast Company : Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @jeremysliew , @_danielsinclair , @fastcompany , @willstew , @tomemrich , @ctrlzee , @kerrymflynn , and @mtatsis Tweets: Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker...
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