Apple's WebKit announces strict anti-tracking policy to prevent covert tracking and all cross-site tracking, credits Mozilla's policy for inspiring its approach
WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple's Safari browser, has announced …
Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state's financial regulator
Bakkt has been cleared to launch. — The Intercontinental Exchange's young subsidiary announced Friday that it had acquired …
Sources: the US Department of Commerce to extend Huawei's license to buy US goods, which expires on August 19, by another 90 days
SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm …
Ikea says it is creating a new business unit, Ikea Home smart, with end-to-end responsibility for its portfolio of smart devices
‘We are just getting started’ — Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue.
Sources: SoftBank plans to lend up to $20B to its employees to buy stakes in its second VC fund, with Masayoshi Son accounting for more than half of the amount
Unusual setup doubly exposes the Japanese company to a startup economy that is starting to show cracks
Slack isn't becoming the “central nervous system” for all the workflows of its users because it's just filling cracks left by productivity apps, not fixing them
The arc of collaboration is long and it bends in the direction of functional workflows. Tweets: @kevinakwok , @caseynewton , @caseynewton , @carnage4life , @akothari , @saammotamedi , @sachinrekhi , @...
YouTube changes policy: copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via its manual tool
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A look at What3words, a location sharing app that divides the world into 57 trillion three meter squares, and assigns them a unique, random three-word address
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By not providing Siri users with clear control over how their data is used, Apple is at odds with the privacy doctrine that it preaches on billboards
I pooh-poohed this story at first, mostly on the grounds that I thought we knew about this, and that the recordings were only saved from users who had consented to it. Tweets: @ia , @carnage4life , @f...
How US-based companies are moving manufacturing out of mainland China while their Chinese counterparts are “de-Americanizing” their supply chains
- Electronics makers shift from China to side-step Trump tariffs — Tech giants like Huawei are ‘de-Americanizing’ supply chains Tweets: @noahpinion Tweets: Noah Smith / @noahpinion : 17/Over the pa...
Google was so obsessed with beating Facebook that it missed an opportunity with Google+ to tackle the problems, like radicalization, plaguing social media now
As a member of the marketing team for Google's once-hyped Google+ social network (remember that?) Tweets: @caro , @marypcbuk , @felizari , @gpanger , @mims , and @chrismessina Tweets: Caroline McCarth...
Source: Airbnb's revenue grew 40% in 2018, and it booked 91M nights in Q1 2019 for an overall bookings value of $9.4B, up 31% YoY, had about $3.5B in cash in Q1
How Facebook, which had around 37,000 employees at the end of last year, thinks about its IT strategy and builds most of its IT tools in-house
If you have ever worked at any sizable company, the word “IT” probably doesn't conjure up many warm feelings. If you're working for an old … Tweets: @kristphr , @grahamgilbert , and @codorniou Tweets...
Facebook has built a static analysis platform, dubbed Zoncolan, that can scan Facebook's 100M lines of code in under 30 minutes to help catch bugs
FACEBOOK DOESN'T HAVE the most stellar privacy and security track record, especially given that many of its notable gaffes were avoidable. Tweets: @wired , @wired , and @trustedsec Tweets: @wired : Fo...
Interview with Microsoft's Executive VP of Gaming Phil Spencer on how xCloud is years away from becoming mainstream, how it fits into Xbox's repertoire, more
Some Defcon attendees discuss why people are still getting hacked and what the cybersecurity community needs to do better
why are people still getting hacked, and what is one thing the cybersecurity industry needs to do better. Wide variety of answers https://www.vice.com/... pic.twitter.com/tCxZfEyj52
Segway-Ninebot unveils the semi-autonomous KickScooter T60 that it says can return itself to charging stations, expected to be available in Q1 2020 for ~$1,420
A look at donations by major tech execs to 2020 presidential candidates, with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders notably absent from the list of recipients
KEY POINTS — LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has donated money to four Democratic primary candidates, while Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has provided money to three.
Gab experienced a huge growth spurt in H1 2019 as SimilarWeb data shows its traffic between January and July grew almost 200% and unique visitors are up 180%
and that's before 8chan shut down @daithaigilbert https://www.vice.com/... via @vice David Gilbert / @daithaigilbert : Far right social media is seen by many as a fringe business, but @getongab is sho...
How cities like Katowice in Poland, Hangzhou in China, and Frisco, Texas are embracing esports tournaments in a bid to revive their economies
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Google says it bought homework helper app Socratic in 2018, launches an AI-powered version on iOS, adds subject guides, and promises Android launch this fall
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Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who says the company is now working with 4,500 AI startups, compared to 2,000 in April, 2017
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eMarketer estimates that 39.4% of US internet users, or about 112M people, will use a voice assistant at least monthly this year, up 9.5% from 2018
Victoria Petrock / eMarketer : Tweets: @yoda Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @yoda : yeah by accident like when i say “DAMMIT” after stubbing my toe and siri is all like “i'm sorry, i can't help you with that...
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