Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends
The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing …
BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs
Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch …
Deep dive on the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy
In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase.
Yelp adds personalized search results based on users' diet, lifestyle, accessibility, and other preferences, to its iOS app
For good or ill, it's common for internet services to track what you do and offer “personalized” suggestions. But Yelp, that stalwart of internet reviews …
Fairphone debuts Fairphone 3, its ethical, repairable smartphone made of responsibly sourced, recyclable materials, available from September 3 for €450
Featuring a repairable design made of fairly sourced, recyclable materials — Three years after the release of its last handset …
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years
The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.
Source: judge rules Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and IP from before 2014 to the estate of Dave Kleiman in $10B lawsuit filed in 2018
Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, a judge ruled Monday.
Bernie Sanders pledges to protect news orgs from tech monopolies if elected, including stronger antitrust enforcement, taxing targeted ads to fund public media
Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right …
Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum, the first time it's done so for “pure-play blockchain service providers”
Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has issued banking and securities dealers' licenses …
Verizon will enable spam call filtering by default on many Android phones, after an FCC vote to let carriers do so; iOS users will need the Call Filter app
Available on select Android handsets at first — Verizon is starting to opt in customers to its call filtering service so they can better identify and block spam calls.
Data from 14,756 fares: Uber and Lyft have slashed driver pay in recent years by taking a larger portion of each fare, far more than they publicly report
In July, an Uber driver we'll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a trendy neighborhood of a major U.S. metropolitan area.
Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments
and it will be available on all devices Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google falls to third place in worldwide smart speaker market DED / Roughly Drafted : HomePod Pro: Apple takes the high end in home a...
Platform9, which offers a SaaS-based, fully managed, hybrid cloud platform raises $25M Series D led by NGP Capital, says its revenue grew 130% in the last year
Platform9, the startup best known for its SaaS-based, fully managed hybrid cloud platform, today announced that it has raised …
GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple
Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware :
Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Source: DHS exposed sensitive data from a bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website for over a decade, despite warnings, before being secured in May
Emily Baumgaertner / Los Angeles Times :
E-commerce startup Enjoy, led by ex-Apple VP of retail operations Ron Johnson, raises $150M Series C to fuel its UK expansion, has now raised $350M to date
Enjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million …
Sensor Tower: daily US downloads required to reach No. 1 on the App Store Top Charts for non-game apps is 94K, down ~30% since 2016, but 174K for games, up ~47%
With the App Store's big makeover in fall 2017, Apple attempted to shift consumers' attention away from the Top Charts and more toward editorial content.
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699
Cherlynn Low / Engadget :
Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events; sites to be censored will be determined on a case-by-case basis
Alison Bevege / Reuters :
Amid recent ransomware attacks against local governments, US officials fear similar attacks on election databases; CISA to launch a program to help secure them
Christopher Bing / Reuters :
VMware unveils Tanzu, a new set of Kubernetes services to help enterprises manage virtual machines and containers in a single view
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Despite Japan's reputation as a tech powerhouse, it only has three unicorns, compared to 192 in the US, 96 in China, and 20 in the UK, according to CB Insights
Financial Times : Tweets: @trevornoren , @psb_dc , @yaromir , @financialtimes , and @cint Tweets: Trevor Noren / @trevornoren : Number of unicorns by country https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.co...
Ethos, which uses predictive analytics and big data to issue life insurance policies, raises $60M Series C led by GV at a ~$500M valuation
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Tencent has teamed up with Chinese carmaker Changan to roll out a voice-operated version of WeChat for use in vehicles and to develop a connected car system
South China Morning Post :
Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
VMware announces updates to its digital workspace platform, Workspace One, including a new AI-powered virtual assistant powered in partnership with IBM Watson
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Axonius, which helps companies keep track of their enterprise assets like clouds, computers, and devices, on their network, raises $20M Series B led by OpenView
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Hackers seen attacking enterprise networks' Webmin servers and VPN services by Pulse Secure and Fortinet, after critical flaws were recently made public
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @gossithedog Tweets: Kevin Beaumont / @gossithedog : This is just one (super critical) vulnerability in this one SSL VPN product, which is over 4 months old. https:/...
CRED, a 9-month old Indian startup, raises $120M Series B to help people improve their financial behavior; source: the startup's valuation is now $430M-$450M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
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