Microsoft to end Cortana support for iOS and Android apps in eight countries including UK, China from Jan. 31; Cortana content like reminders will stop working
Recently there were rumours that Microsoft might be discontinuing Cortana on Android and iOS.
Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at an Entrepreneurial Refugee Network event in the UK. Matt Crossick/PA Images via Getty Images
As millions pay for premium subscriptions to have a “clean” digital media experience, privacy and freedom from advertising are gradually becoming luxury goods
A decade ago, an internet video start-up called Hulu boldly declared an end to the era of paid TV.
New research shows that thousands of ships in Shanghai, the world's busiest port, are falling victim to spoofing of GPS systems that has left experts baffled
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world's busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
Survey: ~60% US adults believe they can not avoid data collection by corporations or govt., 81% think the risks of corporate data collection outweigh benefits
Majorities think their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits …
Profile of FaZe Clan, an esports and gaming lifestyle media org with 34 content creators, 15 pro esports players, 11 players/entertainers, and over 214M viewers
They already make every moment into consumable content. What can it become? — This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series …
A look at how the internet deviated from its sunny, American, all-devouring vision of mass empowerment, and why today it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone
Bill Wasik / New York Times : Tweets: @privacyproject , @nytmag , and @nytmag Tweets: @privacyproject : “Perhaps the deepest shift has been a shift in attitudes: the breaking of a spell that seemed t...
The Supreme Court says it will hear Google's appeal in the copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle over Java APIs
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DroneDeploy, a drone mapping and analytics platform, raises $35M Series D, bringing its total raised to $90M, says it now has over 5,000 enterprise customers
DroneDeploy, a startup developing a holistic cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform, today announced that it's closed …
Israel-based Pcysys, which has developed a cybersecurity risk assessment service that uses automated penetration testing, closes $10M Series A
Israeli cybersecurity startup Pcysys, announced on Wednesday that it completed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Canadian VC firm Awz Ventures …
Profile of Mixhalo, a live-music app being offered by bands like Aerosmith as a VIP experience, to let fans hear the music at live shows as the band intended
Think back to the first time you saw a high-definition TV program. — After a lifetime of looking at standard-definition shows … Tweets: @mcwm , @eugenewei , and @dangillmor Tweets: Mike Murphy / @mc...
Loop Returns, which helps stores on Shopify handle online returns, raises $10M Series A led by FirstMark Capital
Loop Returns, the startup that helps brands handle returns from online purchases, has today announced the close of a $10 million Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital.
Chicago-based Apervita raises $22M for its cloud-based platform that enables insurers and healthcare providers to share clinical and insurance claims data
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Enlitic, which is working on an AI-aided medical diagnostic tool that can read radiology scans, announces $25M Series B-1, following a $15M Series B in April
Health technology startup Enlitic announced it had completed a $25 million round of Series B-1 financing, valuing …
A look at Roundup, Montana, which has become a hub in Amazon's supply chain with prep centers that repackage sellers' goods according to Amazon's specifications
about double the number of people who actually live there. (Via @verge) https://www.theverge.com/... Maria Konnikova / @mkonnikova : “'If somebody actually thought about how many warehouses or how man...
How the mesh Wi-Fi router startup Plume is winning partnerships with some of the biggest US and international ISPs, despite Eero's fire sale to Amazon
Simplified device management might be more attractive than Wi-Fi mesh itself. — Yesterday, Charter Communications* …
pureLiFi, which is developing optical Gigabit Li-Fi components that can be integrated into mobile devices, raises $18M Series B from Temasek, others
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Qualia, which streamlines closing of real estate deals and claims to handle 15%+ of all US transactions, raises $55M Series C, bringing its total raised to $95M
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Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power
Tiernan Ray / ZDNet : Tweets: @ylecun Tweets: Yann LeCun / @ylecun : ZDNet's Tiernan Ray writes about XLM-R, Facebook AI's latest monstrous multilingual neural net for language understanding. https:/...
Creators say YouTube's new labeling policy for kids' content that holds creators solely accountable are murky, as some video categories fall in a gray area
panicking not just about losing critical features like comments and chat, but getting fined by the FTC. https://www.theverge.com/...
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