Riot Games has settled for an undisclosed sum a class action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation for speaking out
The suit alleged targeted discrimination against women who worked at Riot. — Riot Games has settled the class action lawsuit …
Chrome team's idea for a new, but still cookie-based, anti-tracking standard is technically disingenuous and aimed at protecting Google's business interests
By Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan. — Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That's the new disingenuous argument from Google …
Trump's tweets “ordering” US companies to start looking for an alternative to China rattle tech stocks, with Apple closing down 4.6%, Amazon 3.1%, and AMD 7.4%
Shares of Apple and Silicon Valley's semiconductor companies were pummeled on Friday as President Trump responded …
Court filing: AT&T and FTC reached a settlement agreement in a 2014 mobile data throttling lawsuit, which still needs to be reviewed and voted on by FTC
(Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and AT&T Inc (T.N) reached a settlement agreement on a 2014 case that accused …
A first look at the Disney+ app that Disney says will offer a heavily curated and personalized experience for users with a combination of human editors and AI
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Academics are still waiting to receive key data originally promised in 2018 from Facebook, which has declined to provide some of the data citing privacy fears
In 2018, Facebook announced a partnership to provide data to academics to “help people better understand the broader impact …
Capacity, formerly Jane.ai, raises $13.2M Series B for its AI tech that can help companies maintain a searchable index by consolidating info from various apps
Capacity (formerly Jane.ai), a startup developing a platform that indexes data from apps, teams, and more and enables users …
A graphic look at a columnist's web activity during a typical workday shows how websites and tech firms track users via tracking scripts, unique IDs, and more
Earlier this year, an editor working on The Times's Privacy Project asked me whether I'd be interested in having all my digital activity tracked … Tweets: @peteskomoroch , @nadiehbremer , and @fmanjoo...
Ally, which makes goal-planning and execution management software for enterprises, raises $8M Series A led by Accel, bringing total raised to $11M
A Seattle startup has raised $8 million to fuel its quest to help companies stay on track and hit their goals in an era of rapid change for businesses, markets and industries.
Profile of Rodney Brooks, the Australian roboticist who in 1990 co-founded iRobot, which used to make robots for US army and is now popular for Roomba vacuums
The professor who got robots zipping through the world—and cleaning house—by challenging conventional wisdom in AI.
Sources: Uber's $1 Safe Rides Fee, introduced in 2014, was devised primarily to add $1 of pure margin to each trip; court documents: the fee brought in ~$500M
+ the massive affronts to rider and driver safety Travis Kalanick + Uber inflicted on the world—as chronicled in @MikeIsaac's excellent book—next time someone goes on about how evil Theranos was. Uber...
Google releases new community guidelines for employees, placing new restrictions on talking about politics on internal mailing lists and forums
and definitely no politics Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN : Google wants to squash political debates among its employees Rebecca Klar / The Hill : Google's new guidelines ask employees to not talk politics...
Tech Nation report: investments in UK tech startups hit a record $6.7B in the seven months of 2019, exceeding the total amount of investment in all of 2018
Foreign investment in UK tech startups booms but tech job openings take a dive. — The UK's tech sector has attracted $6.7bn …
Profile of Carla Engelbrecht, the director of product innovation at Netflix, whose experiments with interactive kids programs were a precursor to Bandersnatch
EARLIER THIS YEAR, Carla Engelbrecht flew to Phoenix, sat on the couch in a stranger's living room, and observed the stranger watching … See also Mediagazer
Seven top US publishers sue Audible, aiming to block the planned rollout of Captions, a new feature that shows text on screen as a book is narrated
ie, “books.” 🙄 https://www.theverge.com/... Lucas Matney / @lucasmtny : Going to be pretty hard for a company that frequently touts the accuracy of its natural language processing to specify how this ...
A look at the changing landscape of seed funding as more big VCs compete there, and pros and cons of raising a seed round led by a big VC vs a seed-focused fund
When every fund is a seed fund — When Mike Fitzsimmons went out to raise his seed round, he negotiated with all the usual suspects. Tweets: @dscheinm , @sarthakgh , @dunkhippo33 , @semil , and @kate...
Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain announces a partnership with BitPay to integrate BitPay's payment architecture into its wallet service
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk :
Misinformation, spread by exploiting our eagerness to share content without thinking, has created a “new world disorder” that we need to safeguard against
Claire Wardle / Scientific American : Tweets: @coyneoftherealm , @dgwbirch , @carnage4life , @jenlschwartz , @sciam , and @monaelswah Tweets: James C.Coyne / @coyneoftherealm : Currently conversation...
Imposters are making as much as $10K in royalties at a time by uploading copyright-infringing content to streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music
Noah Yoo / Pitchfork : Tweets: @bourgwick and @pitchfork Tweets: Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick : bootlegging of outtakes continues in the streaming age. https://twitter.com/... @pitchfork : One leaker to...
Carriers' agreement with state AGs to implement new robocall blocking tech does not impose any legally binding terms on them and there is no deadline to comply
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @jbrodkin and @brianweeden Tweets: @jbrodkin : There was a bizarre lack of skepticism in the news reporting I saw yesterday about this anti-robocall agreement bet...
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