How TikTok is making inroads into US schools, as students create TikTok clubs to riff on the latest memes, and shoot videos on Newton's Laws for extra credit
Teens love the app, and now it's getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun? Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @carolinemoss , @niubi , @jamiew , @katherinemiller , ...
Researchers find malware operators are now using steganography techniques to hide malicious code in WAV audio files
Steganography malware trend moving from PNG and JPG to WAV files. — Two reports published in the last few months show that malware operators are experimenting with using WAV audio files to hide mali...
Twitch is testing Watch Parties, a feature that allows streamers to screen Prime Video content that their viewers can watch along if they have Amazon Prime
This is fargin' awesome! — Twitch is now testing out a long-requested “watch parties” feature, which means that streamers …
TikTok launches an education program in India, partners with local edtech startups to create and promote educational content
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ESET details a hacking campaign, active for the past 6 years, by the Russia-linked group the Dukes or Cozy Bear, which was thought to be dormant since DNC hack
Largely out of the spotlight since 2016, Cozy Bear hackers have been caught perpetrating a years-long campaign.
Seven US lawmakers, including Wyden, Cruz, Ocasio-Cortez, and Rubio accuse Apple of “censorship of apps” at the “behest of the Chinese government”, in a letter
- Cruz, AOC, others ask Apple to reinstate HK map app it pulled — Apple CEO discussed consumer rights with Chinese regulator
Havenly, which connects interior designers with clients for $99 virtual full-room makeover sessions, raises $32M Series C, bringing its total raised to $57.8M
The interior design service's latest funding will support the launch of a private-label collection and more
Y Combinator partners talk about its online Startup School program, which has enlisted 30K+ startups, as the institution tries to overcome its insular image
About 30,000 startups have enrolled in the accelerator's online program, as the iconic institution tries to overcome its insular image.
AT&T raises the price of its streaming service AT&T TV Now, with the basic Plus package up $15 to a $65/month; the move follows a similar increase in March
- TV Now service will rise to $80 a month for 65 channels — Phone giant is under pressure from activist to boost returns
Comparing Trump and Democratic 2020 presidential campaigns online: it is “like a supercar racing a little Volkswagen Bug”, with Democrats being the Volkswagen
On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google … Tweets: @kevinroose Tweets: Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : @AllMattNYT The b...
eMarketer: Google will take 37.2%, or $48.05B, of all US digital ad spend this year, down from 38.2% in 2018, while Amazon will take 8.8%, up from 6.8% in 2018
Google dominates the search ad market today, but eMarketer's latest forecast shows that within the next two years, Google's revenue share will fall and Amazon's will rise.
A behind-the-scenes account of a cyberattack that disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, which was tied to a specific unit of Russia's GRU
How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack. Tweets: @matonis , @securitybeard , @a_greenberg , @a_greenberg , @nxthompso...
Wing starts first commercial drone delivery service in the US, delivering orders from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christiansburg, Virginia
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Inside Intuit's 20-year fight to make it harder to file taxes for free, including a pact with the IRS that kept a US-run service from competing with TurboTax
“integrity without compromise” chief among them. Some joke it should be “compromise without integrity.” pic.twitter.com/geh00ke8Wf Justin Elliott / @justinelliott : So, ProPublica's TurboTax coverage ...
David Sacks' Craft Ventures, which led Bird's Series A round, has closed its second fund with $500M, up from the $350M it had closed for its debut fund
Craft Ventures, the venture firm launched in 2017 by serial entrepreneur David Sacks, has closed its second fund with $500 million …
A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system
Sundays are for making a house into a home … Tweets: Karen Hao / @_karenhao : IT'S HERE!!! The biggest story I've ever worked on. @techreview's very first interactive ever, which walks through a concr...
Filing: Flipkart to enter the food retail business in India through a new subsidiary called Flipkart Farmermart, will invest $258M in the new venture
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A look inside a community of hackers who tinker with Kindle e-readers to disable Amazon's tracking, circumvent file format restrictions, install games, and more
Melanie Ehrenkranz / OneZero : Tweets: @dlberes , @medium , and @mvzelenks Tweets: Damon Beres / @dlberes : For years, a community of Kindle hackers has taken a little bit of power away from Amazon a...
Lively, a Health Savings Account platform for employers and individuals to track healthcare spending, raises $27M Series B, bringing its total raised to $40M
Radius Networks, which enables location-based transactions like curbside and in-store pickup, raises $15M Series A
Realtime Robotics, which is developing hardware and software to allow robots to move freely in dynamic environments like factory floors, raises $11.7M Series A
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