Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube
KEY POINTS — Google marketed itself as the “leader” for content for children ages 6 through 11, the allegations claim.
Sources: Amazon is testing a biometric payment system that identifies and charges users by scanning their hand, with first Whole Foods deployments by next year
Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon's latest payment method uses flesh and blood. — The e-tailing giant's engineers …
Razer updates Blade Stealth ultrabook gaming line with Intel 10th-gen CPUs, Nvidia GTX 1650, 16GB DDR4 RAM, starting at $1,500, available end of September
For years, Razer has been chasing the specter of a truly ultraportable gaming laptop with its Blade Stealth line …
Android 10 launched on Wednesday, with the update available to all Pixel phones
After six betas over six months, the newest version of Android is finally out. — Android 10 is finally finished! The next big Android update, which we've been examining for most of the year as the ...
Mozilla says its WebExtensions API (Manifest) v3 updates in Firefox won't follow Google's implementation that hindered ad blockers
Like Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, Mozilla distances itself from Google's planned extensions update that is anticipated to hinder ad blockers in Chrome.
A look at the newly-announced Light Phone 2, a $350 stripped back feature phone with an E Ink display, and how the company learned from the first generation
The Light Phone returns with many aspirations and not too many features — Released in the spring of 2017 …
Web browser Brave hands evidence to Irish data regulator showing Google uses hidden webpages to pass personal data of users to advertisers, undercutting GDPR
Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies …
Firefox 69 arrives and now blocks third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting, and cryptomining by default
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Basecamp CEO: Google's practice of letting rivals pay for ads that appear ahead of their brand in organic results is a shakedown and like paying ransom
KEY POINTS — The CEO of web-based project management tool company Basecamp sounds off on Google's search ad practices in a now-viral tweet.
Asus announces ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition with 1TB storage, Snapdragon 855 Plus, 6.59-inch 1080p OLED display, and 6,000mAh battery, for €1,199
Just think of all the Android games you could take everywhere — Asus' ROG Phone II is already a flagship Android phone worth getting excited …
Amazon announces over 20 Fire TV-branded devices, including a new Fire TV Cube and an Anker-made soundbar, as the company seeks to compete with Roku and others
At the big European tech trade show, IFA 2019, Amazon today announced over 20 new Fire TV-branded devices …
The downloads of Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based messaging app, which uses a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network, have spiked amid protests in Hong Kong
John Koetsier is a journalist, analyst, author, and speaker. — How do you communicate when the government censors the internet?
Acer unveils Pro versions of its ConceptD laptops for creative professionals with Nvidia Quadro RTX graphics cards, available in November starting at $1,700
Gallery: Acer ConceptD 3 hands-on | 7 Photos … Gallery: Acer Swift 5 hands-on IFA 2019 | 13 Photos
Railsbank, which operates an open banking and regulation compliance platform, raises $10M Series A led by Moneta Capital, opens a new office in Singapore
Railsbank, the open banking and compliance platform co-founded by CEO Nigel Verdon, who previously founded Currencycloud, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
Microsoft and Qualcomm's Vision AI Developer Kit, which can run containerized Azure AI services locally, now available for $249 with Snapdragon 603, 8MP camera
In May 2018 during its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced a partnership with Qualcomm to develop …
Elliptic, which uses AI to trace and locate suspicious transactions on blockchains, raises $23M Series B led by Tokyo-based financial institution SBI Holdings
Blockchain forensics firm Elliptic has raised $23 million in a Series B funding round led by Tokyo-based financial institution SBI Holdings.
In one of the first cases of its kind, a British High Court has ruled that police use of live facial recognition does not violate privacy or human rights
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Facebook says its facial recognition tech will no longer identify new users in their photos by default; all users can now opt out via a Face Recognition setting
Cambridge was what registered on everyone's radar but facial recognition was a part of it, too. https://twitter.com/... Paul Stamatiou / @stammy : here's the direct URL to opt-out of Facebook face rec...
Medical groups say the new federal data-sharing rules, allowing patients to access health records through apps, lack strong data protections to preserve privacy
Americans may soon be able to get their medical records through smartphone apps as easily as they order takeout food from Seamless or catch a ride from Lyft. Tweets: @yoda , @yoda , @yoda , @ragnarsma...
Google finally adds a setting to block automatic image loading on its iOS Gmail app, giving users the ability to more easily block unwanted email tracking
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Profile of Dean Stoecker, CEO and co-founder of data analytics company Alteryx, which went public in 2017 and generated $28M in profit on $254M revenue in 2018
Sun Tzu meets software in mid-August at downtown Denver's Crawford Hotel. The floors are terrazzo. The chandeliers are accented with gold. Tweets: @asanwal and @forbes Tweets: Anand Sanwal / @asanwa...
Ginger, which provides an app-based employee mental health platform, raises $35M Series C led by WP Global Partners, bringing its total raised to $63M
Mental health issues are thought to impact one in every five people in the US, and the stress of working life can be an exacerbating factor.
Sources: more than half of the state attorneys general in the US are preparing an antitrust investigation into Google, scheduled to be announced on September 9
Data Sheet Casey Newton / The Verge : YouTube says it's being responsible — but what it needs to be is accountable Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : US antitrust investigation into Google may begin ne...
Flaws found in Supermicro motherboards could let hackers remotely mount virtual USB drives; patch issued, but 47,000+ potentially exposed devices found online
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
Facebook says a DHS policy that lets agents create fake profiles to monitor foreigners is against the company's rules requiring use of real names for accounts
Tami Abdollah / Associated Press :
How the Pentagon is laying the groundwork for AI-powered weapons systems capable of taking lethal action without direct human input
Wallops Island—a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses—is mostly known as a launch site for government and private rockets.
Profile of Denmark's Casper Klynge, the world's first foreign ambassador to the tech industry, as the country grapples with tech giants' power
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @ibogost , @orskov , @iradhikagupta , @jeremyakahn , @ukpriyaguha , @prepaid_africa , @ramanewdelhi , @psb_dc , @aelfred_d , @niallotuathail , @deptechambnjw...
A look at life under governments that use internet blackouts, as a watchdog documented 196+ shutdowns across 25 countries in 2018, up from 75 shutdowns in 2016
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @freedomonthenet , @emilyschmall , @razarumi , @lyssaslounge , @digiphile , and @kenroth Tweets: @nytimes : Internet shutdowns have become one o...
Huawei says, without evidence, that the US targeted its networks with cyberattacks, and that FBI agents have pressed Huawei staffers at home for info on Huawei
Raymond Zhong / New York Times :
Ahead of the macOS Catalina launch, Apple relaxes upcoming notarization requirements for Mac apps created outside of the Mac App Store, until January 2020
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Report: scammers used commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate a German company's boss, tricking a manager into transferring $243K
Ravie Lakshmanan / The Next Web : Source: Wall Street Journal .
Zero-day exploit broker Zerodium increases the price of a “zero-click” exploit chain for Android to $2.5M, eclipsing iOS' top prize for the first time
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
SoftBank is $600M+ underwater on its early-2018 Uber investment as the stock hits an all-time low; because of a CFIUS review, it may not get board seats
Ari Levy / CNBC : Tweets: @gerberkawasaki , @mdudas , @hackapreneur , @dee_bosa , and @mattrosoff Tweets: Ross Gerber / @gerberkawasaki : SoftBank is more than $600 million underwater on Uber as stoc...
Neura, a mobile app engagement analytics startup, raises $16M Series B led by Pitango Venture Capital and Liberty Technology Venture
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Google debuts Neural Structured Learning, a TensorFlow-compatible open source framework that specializes in training neural nets with graphs and structured data
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
Melbourne-based Culture Amp, an employee survey platform that lets users post anonymously, raises $82M Series E led by Sequoia Capital China
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
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