Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a 6.7-inch phone, which will shrink to a pocketable square when folded inward like a clamshell, early next year
- Coming in 2020, it will close inward like a classic flip phone — Collaboration with designer Thom Browne to push luxury appeal
YouTube has removed 100K+ videos and 17K channels for hate speech, ~5x more than in Q1, since implementing changes to its hateful content policies in June
Over the past several years, we've redoubled our efforts to live up to our responsibility while preserving the power of an open platform.
Firefox 69 arrives and now blocks third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting, and cryptomining by default
Mozilla today launched Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox 69 blocks third-party tracking cookies and cryptomining by default.
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more
codenamed “Burrito” internally and called “Time in Bed tracking” — will allow users to choose to wear Apple Watch to bed. If the user has more than one Apple Watch, they can pick one to be their desig...
Review of Neighbors, Ring's neighborhood watch feature: great for locals concerned about crime but its privacy policy is lacking and it is not really “opt-in”
Security cameras and doorbell cameras can make people feel safer, but they also raise privacy concerns.
Interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri about the company's strategy to transform all of its products to “as-a-service” offerings
Exclusive: Neri tells Ars about the leap HPE is making—and why not everyone will make it. — It's been just over two years …
As a growing number of Americans over 50 play video games as a way to remain socially connected and cognitively sharp, some are finding stardom on Twitch
Audrey Buchanan, 88, has put more than 3,500 hours into “Animal Crossing” — and been able to connect with her grandson across the country. Tweets: @pcacares_org , @justinmerriman , and @nancyleamond T...
Viral Chinese deepfake app Zao, which lets users put themselves in pre-selected scenes from popular movies and soap operas, sparks privacy concerns
an anachronism in this age of perceptual #AI.. https://twitter.com/...
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts
a mixed blessing https://techcrunch.com/... Ellen K. Pao / @ekp : Social platforms have known as early as 2014 that social media impacts mental health and only now is Facebook starting to hide like co...
OpenGov, a cloud platform for public sector budgeting and citizen engagement, raises $51M Series D, bringing its total raised to $140M
OpenGov, the firm co-founded by Panaltir's Joe Lonsdale that helps government and other civic organizations organise, analyse and present financial …
A look at the growing interest in Twitter among the protesters in Hong Kong and the struggles new users face getting on to the platform
For over two months, Hong Kong's protesters have shown an uncanny ability to learn and adapt, whether it's figuring out how to deal with tear gas … Tweets: @ellan_ou , @maryhui , and @stegersaurus Twe...
Podcasting startup Himalaya overstated its $100M fundraise in February, as it did not have that much money in hand, nor were all the stated investors on board
Himalaya Media launched in February as a San Francisco-based podcasting startup that had raised an eye-popping $100 million.
Small business loan platform Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence, a marketing tech firm with a database of ~20M small and medium businesses in the US
Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today Kabbage — a fintech startup backed by SoftBank that has built a business around lending …
An analysis of 257 European Series A rounds from 2014-2018, led by the 20 most active lead VCs in Europe
9 months ago we published, together with Dealroom and Atomico, actionable benchmarks on Seed funding in Europe — round sizes, conversion rates and time to Series A. Tweets: @mishmashkautsan and @petri...
Cloudflare sets initial price range of $10-$12 per share for its IPO, which will value the company at between $2.9B and $3.5B and could raise over $400M
Cloudflare, a content delivery and Internet security firm, set an initial price range for its IPO this morning.
A study of the fastest-growing startups established from 2007 to 2014 finds middle age is a typical starting point for the founders of successful tech companies
older founders have a higher success rate. Seema Jayachandran / @seema_econ : @Techmeme And that's not because most founders are middle aged. It's because the success rate (e.g., having IPO, being in ...
Sealed memos: FBI agents praised Backpage.com for its cooperation in child trafficking investigations, even as the government pursued its case against the site
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason : Tweets: @reason , @rosealliance , and @reason Tweets: @reason : The memo reveals that six years before Backpage leaders were indicted on federal charges, prosecutors ...
A grand jury indicts eight people for allegedly running two of the largest US illegal streaming sites, Jetflicks and iStreamItAll, that touted 37,000+ paid subs
Brian Barrett / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @neilturkewitz Tweets: @wired : Jetflicks was like having Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO, and a basic cable subscription, all for the price of a fancy san...
How MuleSoft disclosed a critical security flaw, proactively contacting customers to verify patches were installed and openly responding to reporter questions
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Thanks: @campuscodi
Inside Amazon's plans to integrate Alexa deep into in-car systems, as it prepares to announce the second version of the Alexa Auto SDK this week
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Thanks: @technologizer
Tencent invests $125M in Kuaikan World, which runs a Chinese comics app and an online community for fans of comics; Kuaikan's app has 200M+ users and 40M+ MAUs
Song Jingli Tue / KrASIA :
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