YouTube has run the Trump ad wrongly accusing Biden of corruption, which was seen 10M-30M times, but Google says it strives to ensure ads are “honest”
(CNN Business)You'd be forgiven for thinking that the only tech platform that allows politicians to run false ads is Facebook.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will be on Amazon's Fire TV when it launches on November 12
- Analysts will be looking to see if Disney gives any color on expected subscriber numbers for Disney+. — Disney shares were up about 3% after the company reported an earnings beat for its fiscal fo...
Sources: Google has been holding internal meetings on changing its political ad policy, and plans to share more information with employees soon
Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal :
US safety investigators report: dilemma for self-driving cars is not saving one innocent victim over other; it's between caution and competitive advantage
It has nothing to do with the ‘trolley problem’ — he advent of self-driving cars revived the decades-old philosophical conundrum known as the “trolley problem.”
Twitter says it will begin a series of experiments within two weeks that tweak functions like the retweet and reply to promote healthier conversations
Twitter knows we treat each other terribly on Twitter. We dunk, ridiculing friends and strangers via quote-tweets. We ratio, piling on replies to bad tweets.
Disney says Disney+ will launch in UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain on March 31
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AngelList launches its VC and angel fund product in India, which will allow individuals to raise small blind pools of capital and deploy them within 6-12 months
AngelList will manage the legal and regulatory aspects of raising capital and investing it, while the byte-sized funds will be able …
Andreessen Horowitz is launching a free crypto startup school, with a seven-week program that starts in February 2020
Last month, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) general partner Chris Dixon announced at TechCrunch Disrupt that the VC firm would run a free crypto startup school.
Microsoft starts shipping its $3,500 HoloLens 2 to preorder customers in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK
New gesture controls and a bigger field of view — Microsoft's HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today after being announced earlier this year.
Snapdocs, a platform that digitizes the mortgage closing process, raises $25M Series B led by F-Prime Capital
Real estate tech company Snapdocs today revealed that it has raised $25 million in series B funding to further develop its products and platform.
Sources: Alibaba is planning to launch a Hong Kong IPO next week with plans to raise as much as $15B
- It's said to proceed with listing hearing early next week — Alibaba's share sale comes after a U.S.-China agreement — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is moving ahead with plans …
Some users across all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day, causing distress in some cases
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
YouTube rolls out a new homepage design with larger thumbnails and features like an “add to queue” option, a desktop version of “Don't recommend channel”, more
YouTube's homepage is getting a makeover. The company announced today an updated …
Blackstone buys majority stake in MagicLab, owner of dating apps Badoo and Bumble, valuing the company at $3B+; Whitney Wolfe Herd to become CEO of the company
Bumble, the popular and profitable dating and networking app built around the ethos of women calling the shots on how connections …
DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015
but spying on private citizens by gaining access to their social media account information, if proven true, is illegal and completely unacceptable. https://twitter.com/... Molly McKew / @mollymckew : ...
Cloudflare, in its first earnings report after IPO, announces Q3 revenue growth of 48% YoY to $73.9M as GAAP loss increased to $40.9M from $38M in Q3 2018
Update: After rising in after-hours trading, shares of Cloudflare are down as we prep the Daily for publication.
Small-satellite startup Kepler provided satellite broadband connectivity to the Arctic at over 100Mbps to a German icebreaker sea vessel
Small-satellite startup Kepler has done something never before accomplished with satellite-based broadband connectivity: providing a high-bandwidth to the Arctic.
If its Sprint merger goes through, T-Mobile says it will offer free 5G to first responders for a decade and free broadband to 10M households with children
but only if it's approved Daniel Golightly / Android Headlines : T-Mobile Outlines 5G Plans, Major Initiatives Via Sprint Merger Phillip Prado / Android Authority : T-Mobile unveils new $15 plan, free...
Internal chats from 2012 and 2013 show Facebook staff lamenting its “unethical” practices, as Zuckerberg argued that the company's survival was more important
- New documents show dissent within Facebook's top ranks — Disclosures come as company faces multiple antitrust probes Tweets: @sarahfrier , @campuscodi , and @autiomaa Tweets: Sarah Frier / @sarah...
Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2 with a fix for a bug that terminated apps in the background far more aggressively
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Google hires Sanjay Gupta, a former Disney and Star executive, as the manager and vice president of sales and operations for its India business
Google said on Friday it has appointed Sanjay Gupta, a former top executive with Disney India and Star, as the manager and vice president of sales and operations for its India business.
OpenAI releases the full version of GPT-2 text generation AI, which it previously said was too dangerous to share, after finding “no strong evidence of misuse”
James Vincent / The Verge :
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest: Amazon Echo speakers, Samsung and Sony smart TVs, Xiaomi Mi9, others hacked; Facebook Portal and Google Nest not attempted
Amazon Echo, Samsung and Sony smart TVs fall on first day of Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest. Tweets: @campuscodi Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Facebook Portal survives Pwn2Own hacking co...
Lori Systems, a Kenyan logistics platform that connects cargo owners with truck fleets, raises $30M Series A led by Chinese investors
Lori Systems, an African logistics platform that connects cargo owners with truck fleets, has secured nearly $30 million in a Series A round of financing led …
Adobe says it is developing live-streaming features that are built directly into its Creative Cloud apps, starting with a beta version for Adobe Fresco
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Google contractors recall the often absurd predicament of representing Google, like escorting job candidates around campus, while not working for the company
Kevin Kiprovski had a lofty title, “Expeditions Associate,” and a fun job — he got to demo Google virtual reality gear to young students. Tweets: @thestalwart , @mhbergen , @ron_miller , @josheidelson...
Alibaba invests $3.3B in its logistics arm Cainiao, raising its stake to 63%
Cainiao will use the money raised to invest in technologies and logistics infrastructure services Cainiao also offers solutions to Alibaba's international e-commerce business, including Tmall Global …
Photoshop for iPad has met with a lackluster reception and a review rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars, prompting Adobe exec to defend its first version
what happened? Killian Bell / Cult of Mac : Adobe chief defends Photoshop for iPad following poor reviews Stephen Warwick / iMore : Adobe's Chief Product Officer defends Photoshop for iPad Tweets: Sco...
AMD unveils two new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs in 24-core and 32-core versions, built using its 7nm “Zen 2” architecture, available Nov. 19 for $1,399 and $1,999
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet :
Indiana passes law, targeting Big Tech, that exempts sales taxes for an unprecedented 50 years to companies that commit $750M+ to a data center in the state
Ed Soliday likens data centers to the Spruce Goose, the enormous wooden airplane Howard Hughes flew just once.
Dropbox Q3: revenue of $428.2M, up 19% YoY, net loss of $17M, up from $5.8M YoY, 14M paid users, avg revenue per paying user of $123.15, up from $118.60 YoY
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Sources: the CEO and CSO of Alphabet's Chronicle, which is to be merged with Google, have left, with the CTO leaving soon as the cybersecurity startup implodes
more like a ship than a sports car https://www.vice.com/... pic.twitter.com/03mXkZ1oJx Karl Bode / @karlbode : Speaking of Google promises that completely fell apart, anybody heard from Google Fiber ...
Postmates workers say they are making 30% less than they did before the company changed its algorithms and eliminated a $4-per-job guarantee in May
and after a while you realize you're making half of what you used to.” How computers essentially decide what people in the gig economy get paid. via @abhabhattarai https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... ...
Google says it is open sourcing the phone-based VR software of Cardboard, less than a month after the company discontinued its Daydream View VR headset
Jay Peters / The Verge :
EU competition commissioner says Google's plan to let its price comparison rivals bid for top space on a search page has not led to more traffic for the rivals
Ghost Locomotion emerges from stealth with $63.7M and says its self-driving kit will work with some cars made from 2012 onwards when it launches in 2020
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
An investigation into I'm Shmacked, which exploited thousands of students by inducing them to provide viral videos of college parties to earn Instagram fame
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times : Tweets: @jimswiftdc , @katierosman , @nytimes , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz Tweets: Jim Swift / @jimswiftdc : Imagine taking out hundreds of thousands of dollar...
Skeptics say the effectiveness of online ads is misleading because the benchmarks marketers use don't distinguish people buying from ads and those buying anyway
The Correspondent : Tweets: @alicesalisburyj , @flexlibris , @thepunkrockshop , @theofanning , @gerrymcgovern , @ingridlunden , @woganmay , @radiomorgenland , @saminprint , @frolleinjune , and @wolfi...
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