Twitch reverts Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' channel to offline mode after he calls Twitch out for using it to promote other streamers, including a porn broadcast
Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) has largely avoided any bad blood between him and Twitch following his jump to Mixer, but that apparently didn't last long.
Samsung has unveiled ISOCELL Bright HMX, a 108MP smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with Xiaomi, one of the largest ever at 1/1.33-inches
With the smartphone megapixel camera wars raging on, Samsung has fired a significant shot. It unveiled a 108-megapixel smartphone …
Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows
Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.
The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies
Agency solicits vendor proposals to collect data from Facebook, other social media to head off safety threats
Sources: Facebook halted acquisition talks with Houseparty late last year due to antitrust concerns and began internal changes to make itself harder to break up
SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for the breakup of big tech companies like Facebook.
Apple's wearables, now at a $16B annual run rate and growing at 55%-60%, will cross iPad and Mac by the end of 2020 to become its third largest product category
The wearables era at Apple began years ago. However, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are only now slowly starting to pay attention to what Apple has been building.
As researchers find more ways to detect browser incognito mode despite Chrome 76 protections against it, NYT's paywall is back up for Chrome Incognito visitors
With the release of Chrome 76, Google attempted to put a stop to web developers and publishers detecting people using Chrome's Incognito Mode.
Defcon has a prototype secure voting machine for hacking, funded by a $10M DARPA project aimed at developing an open source voting platform on secure hardware
At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.
An in-depth look at the feasibility, progress, and experts' opinions of lidar-based vs Tesla-like camera-only approaches to fully autonomous cars
“They're all going to dump lidar,” Musk said about self-driving rivals in April. — Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars. Tweets: @arstechnica , @aparanjape , and @ghosthayes Tw...
ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China that shows only censored search results, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu
ByteDance has taken another step into search with the launch of a new search portal today. Called Toutiao Search …
The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming the Clintons and Trump for Jeffrey Epstein's death, are a grim testament to our deeply poisoned information ecosystem
and Trump's tweets Pbokelly / Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check : Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned | NYT Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : twitter's trending topic...
Wheels Up, a subscription-based private aviation company that wants to be the Airbnb of private aviation, raises $128M Series D at a valuation of $1.1B
KEY POINTS — Wheels Up, the private aviation start-up that counts Tom Brady and Serena Williams as members, says it completed …
Canalys: Samsung shipments in Europe grew 20% YoY in Q2 to give it a market share of 40.6%, while Xiaomi's grew 48%, Huawei's fell 16%, and Apple's fell 17%
District judge rules that Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash, following its allegedly botched listing in 2017
Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash (BCH) following its allegedly botched listing …
Deliveroo says it is exiting Germany completely, a year after shuttering services in smaller German cities to concentrate on cities like Berlin and Munich
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Chairman of India's Reliance says its telecom Jio is adding 10M new customers every month, launches a new broadband service called Jio Fiber
Shubham Raheja / Livemint : Tweets: @trengriffin Tweets: Tren Griffin / @trengriffin : The ability of Reliance Jio to add 10M new wireless customers a month is enabled by a virtualized cloud based ar...
Vienna-based Bitpanda raises €43.6M through an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO), launches a crypto exchange that allows fiat-to-crypto trading in 54+ countries
Thomas Ohr / EU-Startups :
LeafLink raises $35M Series B led by Thrive Capital for its e-commerce marketplace that connects 1,200+ licensed cannabis brands to 3,500+ cannabis retailers
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Facebook-backed Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $125M Series D led by Naspers, bringing its total raised to $190M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
FireEye: Chinese state-backed hacker group APT41 hacks video-game companies and sells virtual game currencies on the dark web as a side hustle
Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review :
Inside Netflix's government lobbying efforts, which have shifted in recent months to align more with Hollywood studios and less with Silicon Valley
outside the U.S.: “It's not your typical Silicon Valley firm.” http://thr.cm/... https://twitter.com/... Mark Broatch / @markbroatch : ‘In Europe, Netflix complies with laws mandating at least 30% of ...
Ofcom: streaming services' subscriptions for Q1 in UK: Netflix posts the largest gains, up 26% YoY to 11.5M, Amazon Prime trails with 6M but is up 23% YoY
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Private equity firm KKR to acquire German payments group Heidelpay, which is used by 30K+ merchants for online and mobile payments, for €600M+
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times :
Carwow, a car price comparison website, raises a £25M strategic funding round led by Daimler, says its marketplace facilitated £2B+ worth of car sales to date
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