Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros to store and retrieve the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” …
Microsoft Surface Pro X review: beautiful design and good screen but expensive, slow for the price, and has an unimpressive battery and app compatibility issues
Better than expected isn't enough — The Surface Pro X is the computer Microsoft has tried to make for at least seven years.
1,100+ Googlers sign a letter asking Google to commit to eliminating its carbon footprint by 2030 and stop working with orgs harming climate change refugees
Google employees announced a campaign today to push the company to eliminate its massive carbon footprint by 2030.
Netflix added a “skip politics” button to a segment of Seth Meyers' new comedy special “Lobby Baby”, following a request from the comedian
New York (CNN Business)Seth Meyers thinks some comedy fans may be burned out by DC politics, so he asked Netflix (NFLX) to help him do something about it.
Data brokers like Sift and Kustomer, which share consumers' est. lifetime value with companies, now share it with customers on request due to new privacy laws
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients.
A former head of election integrity operations at Facebook says the company's business model and ad targeting tools make it hard for it to not harm democracy
The company can't avoid damaging democracy. — I joined Facebook in June 2018 as its “head of Global Elections Integrity Ops” …
Uber reports Q3 revenue of $3.8B, up 30% YoY, gross bookings of $16.5B, up 29%, net loss of $1.2B; Uber Eats revenue up 64% to $645M; stock down 7%+
Revenue of $3.8 billion, with growth accelerating to 30% year-over-year, or 31% on a constant currency basis
Companies in Vision Fund's portfolio, like Wag and Fair, are struggling; sources say Oyo founder invested $2B in his company with a loan backed by Masayoshi Son
Other companies the huge tech investment fund has backed have struggled lately — SoftBank Group Corp. 's longtime strategy … Tweets: @rolfewinkler , @aaronlucchetti , @second_measure , @maxseddon , ...
Study of ~10K startups: women represent 13% of founders but own 7% of founder equity; 31% of all equity owners are women, but hold 6% of total startup equity
Female entrepreneurs have less equity in their own companies than do male entrepreneurs, according to a new report from Carta.
Researchers show that they can use lasers to send commands to smart speakers, tablets, and phones via Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant from far away
By pointing lasers tuned to a precise frequency at a smart assistant, researchers could force it to unlock cars, open garage doors, and more.
Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content
Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.
Google Play Points, which rewards Android users with store credit or discounts for purchases like apps and movies, expands to the US from Japan and South Korea
Google Play is launching a new rewards program, Googe Play Points, that will allow you to earn points for everything …
Mozilla urges Congress to reject ISPs' lobbying against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome, says the campaign is using Google as boogeyman to spread confusion
ISPs lobby against DNS encryption, but Mozilla tells Congress not to trust them. — Mozilla is urging Congress to reject …
Sources: following WeWork's collapse, moving forward SoftBank will add new governance standards for companies it backs, to limit outsized control of founders
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iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2 seem to terminate apps in the background far more aggressively, hurting the multitasking experience, especially on the iPad
A growing number of iPhone and iPad users have complained about poor RAM management on iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, leading to apps like Safari …
Facebook debuts logo with text that has context-dependent coloring, says it's to further distinguish the company from the Facebook app, which keeps its branding
Facebook is worried people might … Marie C. Baca / Washington Post : Move fast and capitalize things: Facebook unveils new logo Tom McKay / Gizmodo : FACEBOOK IS DOING JUST FINE, OK? Matt Southern / S...
Twitter suspends accounts linked to Hezbollah and Hamas after criticism from US lawmakers, after previously saying it distinguished military and political arms
Curbs come after lawmakers pressed social media companies to remove content from groups the U.S. classifies as terrorist organizations
Google News for Android and iOS adds an option to show stories for up to two languages and regions
In recent years, Google has strived to make its products work better internationally. Google News for Android and iOS now supports bilingual feeds to show stories for up to two “languages & regions o...
Mozilla is working to fix a Firefox bug being actively exploited by scammers, which causes the browser to lock up after displaying a warning message
Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze while displaying scary message. — Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox …
Cloud HR software company Workday to acquire Scout RFP, which makes cloud-based e-sourcing and procurement software, for $540M
Based in San Francisco, Scout RFP makes cloud-based e-sourcing and procurement software. — Workday announced Monday that it plans to acquire Scout RFP …
London-based Ebury, which provides foreign exchange and currency services for SMEs, raises £350M led by Santander, which now owns 50.1% of total shares
As the UK continues on its slow march to leave the European Union, a London-based startup that enables companies to work internationally …
Medopad, which is building AI-based measurable indicators of disease progression picked up by apps and wearables, raises $25M Series B led by Bayer
Medopad, the UK startup that has been working with Tencent to develop AI-based methods for building and tracking “digital” biomarkers …
How India's digital transformation, driven partly by cheap mobile data plans and corporate venture funding, can serve as a model for Africa's digital economies
Africa's digital economy is still small in size compared with those of its global peers. But it has seen exponential growth … Tweets: @aubreyhruby , @aubreyhruby , and @aubreyhruby Tweets: Aubrey Hru...
Microsoft is launching Azure Quantum in the coming months, to let select Azure cloud customers use three prototype quantum computers from Honeywell, IonQ, QCI
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Adobe, Twitter, and The New York Times Company announce the Content Authenticity Initiative to develop an industry standard for digital content attribution
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Microsoft launches Office app on iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, and PowerPoint functionality, expanding from its initial debut with Galaxy Note10
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A look at startups like Cameo and Karat, which are building services for creators and influencers, as VCs bet on a now established part of the digital economy
Why 2020 will be a ‘watershed year’ for the creator economy — Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she's been running her own business for 10 years. Tweets: @kateclarktweets , @benjeffriess ...
Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store, with full PSD editing, layers, context-aware tools, and more, for $9.99 per month and a 30-day free trial
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Microsoft unveils Azure Synapse Analytics, a service that leverages big data analytics with tools to manage various data sources in a unified workspace
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
8chan returns as 8kun, claiming that anything considered illegal in the US will be removed; /pol, where mass shooters posted manifestos, is notably absent
and QAnon Is Already Posting Lydia Dishman / Fast Company : From Russia with hate: 8chan is back online Evann Gastaldo / Newser : ‘Cesspool of Hate’ 8chan Is Basically Back Tweets: @nytimes : 8chan, t...
Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser to be generally available on Jan. 15, with new privacy features including InPrivate browsing and tracking prevention
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget :
Overview of Microsoft product announcements at Ignite relating to security, compliance, and identity from Application Guard for Office to Azure Firewall Manager
Kirk Koenigsbauer / Microsoft Security :
Dropbox rolls out Transfer, its file transfer tool that debuted in beta in July, to all users; Transfer lets paid users share 100GB files and free users 100MB
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Pollinate launches a payments, business management, and CRM platform that banks can offer their merchant customers, says it has raised a total of £60M
Q&A with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on internal resistance to winning the JEDI contract, bias in AI, shifting culture in a huge company, working with rivals
Mike Murphy / Quartz : Tweets: @mcwm and @mcwm Tweets: Mike Murphy / @mcwm : I had a pretty wide-ranging chat with @satyanadella about Microsoft. We spoke about the internal resistance to winning the...
Los Angeles-based Boulevard raises $11M Series A for its software to manage salons and spas
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint to buy threat management provider ObserveIT for $225M in an all-cash deal
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
Apple, Google, and Amazon are distributing apps and products made by Chinese firms that the US has accused of abetting human rights violations
BuzzFeed News :
Google Nest Wi-Fi review: faster than Google Wi-Fi, easy guest network setup, secondary points double as smart speakers, but only two Ethernet jacks on router
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
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