Amazon says it has filed a protest of the Pentagon's decision to award the JEDI contract to Microsoft, claiming “unmistakable bias”, and “errors” in process
- Oracle and IBM were removed from the competition earlier this year, and last month Amazon was knocked out.
UK's Labour party pledges free broadband for all by 2030, by nationalizing part of BT and introducing a tax on tech giants, if it wins the general election
Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030, if it wins the general election.
Apple says it will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its App Store, after experts attribute a variety of lung injuries and fatalities to e-cigarettes
Amid growing health concerns over e-cigarettes, Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store this morning, Axios has learned.
Microsoft plans to launch its xCloud game streaming service in the US in 2020, with plans to expand xCloud preview to Canada, India, Japan, and Western Europe
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Source: NIH and Google planned to launch a dataset of 100K chest X-rays in 2017, scrapped project days before launch, after finding personal info on some images
Fumbled project with NIH highlights potential pitfalls of Google's ambitions with sensitive health data
Google says it is now rolling out support for RCS messages in the Android Messages app to all of its users in the US
Google today announced that it is now rolling out to all of its users in the U.S. support for Rich Communication Services messages (you can think of it as the next generation of SMS) …
Microsoft rolls out its November 2019 Xbox Update with support for Google Assistant in English, improved gamertags, text-based content filters, and more
November is here and that means friends, family, food and plenty of gaming in between. Thanks to your feedback …
TikTok says it has started allowing some users to add links to their profile bios and send their viewers to shopping sites
TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to e-commerce sites …
Germany passed a law on Thursday that could force Apple to open up the iPhone's NFC chip to rival mobile payment platforms in the country
BERLIN (Reuters) - Apple said on Friday moves in Germany to force it to open up its Apple Pay mobile payments system to rivals could hurt data protection …
Nvidia reports Q3 revenues of $3.01B, down 5% YoY, compared to $2.91B expected, with gaming revenue down 6% YoY at $1.66B and data center revenue of $726M
Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. — Nvidia shares seesawed in extended trading on Thursday …
NUVIA, founded by three former Apple chip execs, raises $53M Series A from Dell and others to develop a new CPU for data center servers
(Reuters) - Three of Apple Inc's former top semiconductor executives in charge of iPhone chips have founded a startup to design processors for data centers …
Sources: Apple signed on 200,000 subscribers to Apple News+ in its first 48 hours in March but has since struggled to add customers
if Apple can't throw traffic and get them subscribers, you think individual pubs will be able to switch to paid models. Too much free stuff out there!!! https://twitter.com/... Jason Snell / @jsnell :...
New Jersey says Uber owes it about $650M in unemployment and disability insurance taxes because Uber has been misclassifying drivers as independent contractors
Bloomberg Law :
Report finds toxic content on Giphy, including child abuse, depictions of rape, and imagery associated with white supremacy, despite its ban on illicit content
Certain hashtags and keywords revealed the illegal and banned content. — Image search engine Giphy bills itself as providing …
Sources: FCC plans to scrap and replace the Electronic Comment Filing System, used for public feedback, after the fake comments controversy
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo :
Docs show surveillance robots from Knightscope collect data using tools like facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, and wireless device detection
OneZero obtained a presentation that reveals how Knightscope uses facial recognition and license plate readers to track individuals Tweets: @ozm , @davegershgorn , @kodykinzie , @grog_wilson , @bryanr...
Automated crypto lending platform Compound raises $25M Series A from a16z, says it now has over $150M worth of assets on its platform
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
Sources: the 50 AGs investigating Google are preparing to expand their antitrust investigation beyond Google's ad business into search and Android businesses
Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch; US users can enroll in three health studies
all made possible by Apple's iPhones, apps and money https://www.nytimes.com/... Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : FT: “The new app declares that “privacy is a fundamental human right”. It allows users t...
Google search launches an experimental feature on mobile that will use AI to let users check their pronunciation of unfamiliar American English words
James Vincent / The Verge :
Instagram says it is expanding its test making Like counts private to the rest of the world beyond Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand
they'd have to count the names manually” (thanks @JoshConstine) https://techcrunch.com/...
Toronto-based password manager 1Password raises $200M Series A led by Accel, its first external round of funding in its 14-year history
CEO of 1Password. Why?! Growth at all costs is a San Francisco ideology. We should replace it with humane ideology: bind scale to responsibility. The societal cost of all-costs growth is everything. h...
US authorities filed a request in September to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch to face fraud charges over the $11B sale of Autonomy to HP
Telegraph :
Facebook has tested Popular Photos, an Instagram clone with an infinite scroll of pictures, inside its own app in October
a News Feed without the exhausting links & text https://techcrunch.com/...
The maker of viral deepfakes of Mark Zuckerberg and Boris Johnson says they show how personal data can be used in unexpected ways, even of those in power
Maya Shwayder / Digital Trends : Tweets: @mayaergas and @furorrises Tweets: Maya Shwayder / @mayaergas : All those viral #deepfake videos you've been seeing? Many of them are the work of this one guy...
Following EU scrutiny, Google to stop sharing info with buyers in ad auctions about the type of content on a page where an ad could appear, starting in February
Bloomberg :
On-demand transcription service Rev lets freelancers listen to “unclaimed” audio or video files, which can contain personal info or even trade secrets
Sarah Emerson / OneZero : Tweets: @sarahnemerson , @brad_bauer , @biocuriosity , @ozm , @mikeisaac , and @ozm Tweets: Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson : @rev Gig workers at the transcription company Re...
Salesforce says it will use Microsoft's Azure for its Marketing Cloud service, signaling a thaw in a complicated relationship
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Google Cloud makes Contact Center AI, which automates interactions with customers in call centers, available generally
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
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