Personal information of most of Ecuador's population, including 6.7M children, left exposed online with home addresses, phone numbers, work information, more
Elasticsearch server leaks personal data on Ecuador's citizens, their family trees, and children, but also some users' financial records and car registration information.
The dearth of TikTok videos on Hong Kong protests offers a glimpse of how China could shape the perception of real-world events by US and global audiences
Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok — A search for “#hongkong” on Twitter reveals … Tweets: @reedalbergotti , @mattdpearce , @craigsilverman , @tombschrader...
The Wi-Fi Alliance launches the Wi-Fi Certified 6 program for devices using next-gen 802.11ax Wi-Fi radios, expected to be up to 40% faster than Wi-Fi 5
Promising a “new Wi-Fi era,” the nonprofit Wi-Fi Alliance industry group launched the Wi-Fi Certified 6 program Monday.
Sources: Australia has concluded that China was responsible for the hacking of its national parliament and three largest political parties earlier this year
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament …
Despite what media and politicians say, there is no tangible tech backlash from consumers, who shrug off warnings of a dystopian future and embrace new tech
Worse, we think there is one. — Mr. Walker is the author of “The Art of Noticing.” — It's fun, and increasingly fashionable, to complain about technology.
Sources: Amazon changed its search algorithm last year to boost items that were more profitable for it, overriding internal dissent from lawyers and engineers
The e-commerce giant overcame internal dissent from engineers and lawyers, people familiar with the move say.
A look at TopBuzz, the English version of ByteDance's Chinese AI-powered news aggregator Toutiao, that rose from 1.8M MAUs in Nov. 2017 to 23M MAUs by Oct. 2018
The MIT Technology Review called it “the insanely popular Chinese news app that you've never heard of.” Tweets: @michellemanafy See also Mediagazer Tweets: Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy : TikTok p...
Israel-based Trigo raises $22M Series A to enable supermarkets to launch Amazon Go-like cashierless stores by providing them with cameras, sensors, and software
The days of supermarket queues are numbered. That's if Amazon and a slew of well-financed startups' recent activities are anything to go by.
Greenlight, which provides preloaded debit cards for kids 13 and older that parents can manage from their smartphones, raises $54M Series B led by Drive Capital
Kids have to learn financial literacy sometime — or should, depending on your parenting philosophy.
Mozilla, Creative Commons, and Coil announce a $100M grant over five years to developers using Web Monetization, a proposed browser standard for micropayments
Steven Melendez / Fast Company :
As AT&T's CEO plans to retire, AT&T's TV business keeps declining, the Time Warner integration looks shaky, and now an activist shareholder pushes for changes
Wall Street Journal :
Beekeeper, a communications platform for hourly workers without desktop PCs, raises $45M Series B co-led by Thayer Ventures and Swisscanto
Jeff David, managing director of The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., is a fan of Beekeeper, a communications platform for non-desk workers. Beekeeper
Facebook says it is planning changes to tool allowing advertisers to rewrite news story headlines after UK's Conservative party altered a BBC headline in an ad
BBC article used in ad with a changed headline that contradicted article content — Advertisers on Facebook are able … Tweets: @eamorris_ and @mattnavarra Tweets: Elizabeth A. Morris / @eamorris_ : F...
Qualcomm to buy TDK's remaining interest in RF360 Holdings, a joint venture focused on RF front-end, paying $3.1B total, a sum that includes earlier payments
One of Qualcomm's important but under-appreciated 5G business areas, RF front-end (RFFE) development, is about to come fully …
Volkswagen is unifying its fragmented IT efforts under a new Car.Software unit, which will develop “vw.os”, with first cars with new software shipping next year
Christoph Rauwald / Bloomberg :
Since its 2014 IPO, Alibaba has struggled to grow beyond China despite investing $5B+ in new markets; ~5% of its last FY revenue came from international retail
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dali_yang , @vinhlhq2015 , @baldingsworld , @wblau , and @eolander Tweets: Dali L. Yang / @dali_yang : Alibaba's missteps overseas; A botched toilet-paper play in Vietn...
An overview of Qualcomm's various R&D projects aimed at making 5G technology ubiquitous over the next few years
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat : Tweets: @natetibbits , @bassilelkadi , and @horwitz Tweets: Nate Tibbits / @natetibbits : Most comprehensive piece I have read on #5G. @Horwitz on a day of demos in @Qu...
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