Facebook says it will not fact-check ads by UK political parties and candidates running in December election, but will fact-check political groups like Leave.EU
Facebook's political ad policy under pressure — London and New York (CNN Business)A controversial policy allowing politicians …
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will ban “party houses” after five people died in a shooting at a Halloween party in a California home rented through the service
- Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, tweeted on Saturday that the company would bar “party houses” and step up its efforts against unauthorized parties.
Trump has integrated Twitter into the very fabric of his administration, and, via more than 11,000 tweets, has reshaped the presidency
With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin. “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught …
Google releases patch for a Chrome zero-day vulnerability being used in the wild that allows hackers to escape sandbox protections via malicious websites
Attention readers, if you are using Chrome on your Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately …
Vetting political ads effectively and consistently at global scale is impossible; Congress should restrict ad targeting to the level of an electoral district
It's not about free speech. — Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest
The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.
Russia's “sovereign internet” law, which aims to enable disconnecting the country's internet from the rest of the world, went into effect on Friday
- The law tightens Moscow's control over the country's internet infrastructure and aims to provide a way for Russia to disconnect its networks from the rest of the world.
Global smartphone shipments in Q3 grew 2% YoY according to Strategy Analytics, while Canalys estimates 1% increase, bucking a two-year downward trend
Samsung grabbed the top spot with over 78 million smartphone shipments in Q3 2019. — HIGHLIGHTS — Global smartphone shipments bucked …
Twitter's ban on political and issue ads will let companies advertise things like fossil fuel-based products but ban ads from activists advocating against them
The company's feel-good decision is already a mess. — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday that the company …
Source: Facebook held talks to acquire Fitbit but wanted to pay roughly half of the $2.1B that Google eventually agreed to pay
it has to be extremely valuable to Google. Of course, the acquisition can also affect that trust, if no lessons are learnt from Nest. https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe : Google's braze...
The debate over Facebook's political ads policy has been too US-centric and the company hasn't explained how that policy will work in other countries
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian :
St. Louis-based PierianDx, which provides a genomics SaaS platform for clinical labs to build personalized medicine programs, raises $27M Series B
The startup describes its software as providing clinical labs with more streamlined and accurate analysis, interpretation and reporting for accelerating personalized medicine programs.
Emotion recognition systems, which have been installed in Xinjiang, have started rolling out across China even as experts say the tech does not work very well
Emotion recognition was the crime prevention buzz-phrase on everyone's lips this week at China's largest surveillance tech expo, held in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen.
At Blizzcon, Blizzard president gives vague apology over the Hearthstone Hong Kong protests response, says he accepts “accountability,” promises to “do better”
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica :
A look at the hidden complexities of an autonomous taxi service, after taking a fully driverless ride, now being tested as part of Waymo One service in Phoenix
After more than a decade, Waymo's driverless ride-hailing service is open to customers — Ed Niedermeyer is an author, columnist and co-host of The Autonocast.
Investment data management provider Confluence Technologies has acquired StatPro, a supplier of cloud-based portfolio analytics to asset managers, for $207M+
Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading
Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @gzuckerman , @farrisbaba , @whenrmmtrades , and @michaeltefula Tweets: Gregory Zuckerman / @gzuckerman : Indeed, a pioneer in other ways, too. Simon...
A look at six apps that Google has released as part of its Digital Wellbeing initiative: Paper Phone, Post Box, Desert Island, Morph, We Flip, and Unlock Clock
We know that we're all spending too much time glued to our phones, rather than looking at the person we're talking to …
A technical critique on why even a well-intentioned effort to build a client-side scanning system for messaging will break key promises of end-to-end encryption
Erica Portnoy / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Tweets: @eff and @matthew_d_green Tweets: @eff : It's impossible to build a client-side scanning system that can only be used for CEI. Here's why: htt...
A Verge writer and former Techmeme editor describes the process for his successful submission of “yawning face” and waffle emojis to the Unicode Consortium
Jay Peters / The Verge : Tweets: @cattsmall , @jaypeters , @jaypeters , @loudmouthjulia , and @mslopatto Tweets: Catt Small / @cattsmall : I didn't realize how simple the emoji proposal process was. ...
How student surveillance service Gaggle monitors online activities of about 5M US students for “suspicious or harmful content” using AI and human moderators
Caroline Haskins / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @carolineha_ , @trekonomics , @mediasee , and @loisbeckett Tweets: Caroline Haskins / @carolineha_ : SCOOP: I got hundred of pages of documents + content mo...
Some employees say Google's new community standards smack of censorship after memes about hiring of an ex-DHS staffer are deleted from an internal message board
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @rmac18 , @mccomments , and @rj_gallagher Tweets: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : A year on from the company-wide walk out, it's clear parts of Google's workforce still does...
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.