Google Assistant now lets users create reminders that can be assigned to friends or family, including scheduled time-based or location-based reminders
If you're a fellow parent, you probably spend a lot of time coordinating with your partner through on-the-fly conversations, text messages or phone calls.
Tech companies can do a lot more to protect the identities of people speaking in recordings used to train AI, like shifting the voice or gender of the speaker
It turns out that Siri, Alexa, and whatever it is you call Facebook Messenger have been a little loose-lipped with your conversations.
Leaked documents show that Microsoft pays $12 to $14 per hour to the contractors who transcribe up to 200 audio clips per hour to train Cortana
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Sega's Genesis Mini, launching September 19 for $79.99, is 55% smaller than the original Genesis, comes with two USB controllers, and has 42 built-in games
It's been three years since the breakout success of Nintendo's tiny NES Classic, but the miniature console wars are finally heating up.
Amazon launches a new donations program, called FBA Donations, for third-party sellers to dispose of unsold products stored in its warehouses in the US and UK
KEY POINTS — Amazon is launching a new donations program, called FBA Donations, for third-party sellers that store …
VMware says it is in talks to acquire Pivotal Software for $15 per share in cash, an 80% premium on Pivotal's $8.30 closing price on Wednesday
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About 200 Google employees sign a petition, saying they “refuse to be complicit” in potential cloud computing work for the US Customs & Border Protection agency
Workers are circulating a petition — Google employees are demanding that the company not bid …
How Bluetana, an app that detects hidden Bluetooth-based card skimmers at gas pumps, is helping police; study: a skimmer can steal an estimated $4K to $60K/day
“Bluetana,” a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps …
UPS takes a minority stake in self-driving truck startup TuSimple for an undisclosed sum, says it's been carrying UPS cargo between Phoenix and Tucson since May
The delivery giant has announced a minority stake in autonomous trucking startup TuSimple — UPS has had autonomous trucking …
Flashy Gen Z résumés, containing photos and bitmoji, are colliding with employer efforts to reduce hiring bias with systems that remove such embellishments
Employers see surge in Gen Z CVs containing photos and illustrations; 'there's a freaking bitmoji' Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @db , @antoniabmassa , @glassdoor , and @mattnavarra Tweets: Taylor Lorenz / ...
Profile of Microsoft's Executive VP of Gaming Phil Spencer, who has steadfastly advocated for cross-platform play since taking over as head of Xbox in 2014
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OnePlus CEO talks about a second 5G phone coming in Q4, international expansion, and plans to launch a TV set
OnePlus, China's upstart smartphone maker, is preparing a global rollout of its new 5G device this year, as it looks to expand in the US and win more customers from Huawei, Apple and Samsung.
As the 10+ day internet shutdown in Kashmir continues, pharmacists run out of drugs, people can't get cash, and online related businesses close
Pharmacists can't restock medicines; workers aren't being paid. But the government still loves to block the internet for “peace and tranquillity.” Tweets: @nihamasih , @nytimestech , @vindugoel , @pu...
Flatfair, a London-based startup that lets landlords offer deposit-free rent to tenants, has raised $11M Series A led by Index Ventures
Flatfair, a London-based fintech that lets landlords offer “deposit-free” renting to tenants, has raised $11 million in funding.
How St. Louis University is trying to help new students acclimate to campus life by putting an Echo Dot in every dorm room with a campus-specific Alexa skill
Students at St. Louis University are headed back to school with Alexa in their dorm rooms to help with everything from weather to campus bus schedules.
WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019
WeWork parent The We Company is about to achieve … Stephen Gandel / CBS News : WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat : WeWork IPO filing hypes tran...
Twitter's followable topics may open big new audiences for the company, as well as polarize them; Twitter still thinks its “trending” section can be fixed
On Wednesday, Twitter invited reporters to its headquarters in San Francisco for an update on improvements to the product.
Alibaba beats with June quarter revenue of $16.3B, up 42% YoY, cloud computing revenue of $1.1B, up 66% YoY, and core commerce revenue of $14.14B, up 44% YoY
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit on Thursday …
Incorta, which aims to optimize data warehousing projects for enterprises, raises $30M Series C led by Sorenson Capital, bringing its total raised to $75M
Incorta, a startup founded by former Oracle executives who want to change the way we process large amounts data, announced a $30 million Series C today led by Sorenson Capital.
The House Homeland Security Committee subpoenas 8chan owner Jim Watkins, demanding that he appear before the committee on September 5
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Facebook simplifies Groups' privacy settings, to public and private; “secret” Groups are now private and hidden, and “closed” Groups are now private and visible
now it's looking to clean them up Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot : You can no longer label your Facebook groups as ‘secret’ Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Facebook's group privacy settings actually make...
Cisco reports Q4 revenues of $13.43B, up 6% YoY, and revenues of $7.88B for Infrastructure Platforms, up 6% YoY; stock down 7%+ after weak guidance
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Taso Du Val, the CEO of Toptal, a freelancing platform with ~$200M in revenues, has retained all of Toptal's stock, as it hasn't raised since a 2012 seed round
Toptal, a service that connects companies with freelance software engineers, is a Silicon Valley success story. Tweets: @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , and @amir Tweets: Amir E...
CipherTrace: $3.1B may have been stolen through cryptocurrency exit scams and another $874M in misappropriated funds in 2019
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AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls
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Berlin-based game studio Klang raises $23.3M led by Novator Partners to develop a MMO space colony simulation called Seed, bringing its total raised to $37.4M
Klang has raised $22.33 million in funding to develop a massively multiplayer online space colony simulation called Seed.
Google says Course Kit, its toolkit for teachers launched last year, will now be called Assignments and be able to detect plagiarism
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Mux, a video streaming analytics platform with clients like CBS Interactive, PBS, and Vimeo, raises $20M Series B from TPG's Evolution Media, Accel, and YC
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Some Credit Karma users say they were served other users' account information when they logged in; Credit Karma says it is a technical malfunction, not a breach
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Overstock.com shares fall ~36% over three days, after its CEO Patrick Byrne said he was part of “Deep State” federal investigations related to the 2016 election
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Chrome OS 76 begins rolling out with support for virtual desktops, Android-style media controls, and more
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Caviar employees want DoorDash and Square to renegotiate transition packages; they have complained about issues with compensation, insurance, visa status, more
Google is siding with the Empire, and it's a culture war internally. Tweets: @techworkersco : Solidarity with Caviar workers who are simply asking Square and DoorDash to keep basic promises on pay and...
Rimeto raises $10M Series A for its corporate directory that integrates with systems like HR, CRM, and others for richer, easier-to-search employee profiles
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Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, NYU, and University of Washington debut SuperGLUE, a series of AI benchmarks to measure natural language processing performance
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Slack announces new administrator features for Plus and Enterprise customers, including announcement channels and workflow automation
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