Apple says it has begun construction of its $1B Austin, Texas campus, opening in 2022, as Trump is scheduled to tour the nearby Mac Pro production plant
Apple has announced that it has begun construction of its new Austin, Texas, campus, on the day that President Trump is due to tour …
Amazon's Ring says police can request 12 hours of video footage from users near suspected crime scenes, keep the video forever, and share it with anyone
Police officers who download videos captured by homeowners' Ring doorbell cameras can keep them forever and share them with whomever …
Researchers find bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps from before July 2019 that could record video, take pictures, and extract GPS data without permission
A new vulnerability has been found in the Camera apps for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Android devices that could allow …
Malware that steals cryptocurrency found embedded in some versions of Monero's official client app available on its site; Monero team says it is investigating
The Monero Project is currently investigating a potential compromise of the official website after a coin stealer was found …
Alibaba has raised ~$11.2B in its Hong Kong share sale, after pricing 500M new shares at HK$176, in one of the largest equity offerings this year
- Company priced 500 million new shares at HK$176 each — Alibaba's share sale is among the world's largest this year
Facebook outlines effort to migrate its internal default development environment to Visual Studio Code, and enhancing its remote development experience
History — Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some developers use vim.
Anonymous users on Reddit, Patreon, and other websites are making, selling, and getting off to custom 3D likenesses of celebrities and other real people
\u003Cp\u003EYou can buy a belly button online. It can be an innie, outtie, twisted to the left or the right, and placed on a virtual body.
NTSB finds Uber's safety driver the primary cause of fatal Tempe crash, also blames lack of “safety culture” at Uber; AI not detecting jaywalkers played no role
The National Transportation Safety Board presented its findings today on the fatal crash involving an Uber test robocar and Elaine Herzberg.
Facebook quietly releases Whale, a meme-making iOS app, in Canada
The app was quietly released in Canada last week — Last week, Facebook quietly released a new meme-making app called Whale, The Information reports. The app is currently only available on the Canad...
Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in retail locations with Apple providing human-curated playlists and recommendations
Apple Music is now partnering with businesses to play music at retail stores. In a partnership with PlayNetwork …
Facebook begins rolling out new “brand safety” tools to let advertisers control the content their ads appear around, including white-listing publishers
- Facebook announced a slate of new “brand safety” tools for advertisers Wednesday, a way to let advertisers have more control over the content where their ads appear.
Vayyar, which builds radar-imaging chips, sensors, and software, for auto and IoT applications, raises $109M Series D led by Koch Disruptive Technologies
The future of the connected home, connected car and connected everything will have a lot of imaging technology at the center of it …
Gravitational raises $25M Series A, led by Kleiner Perkins, to help developers with cloud deployment using Kubernetes
As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced a $25 million Series A.
Cerebras Systems announces CS-1, an AI compute system powered by the world's largest chip; Argonne National Lab is using the first systems for basic research
Cerebras' world's largest chip takes compute to a whole new level. — Cerebras Systems' announced its new CS-1 system here at Supercomputing 2019.
Bengaluru-based Perfios, a credit decisioning and analytics company, raises $50M Series B led by Warburg Pincus and Bessemer Venture Partners
Founded by V R Govindarajan and Debashish Chakraborty, Perfios is a credit decisioning and analytics company which works with over 200 banks, non-bank lenders and fintech startups
Sources: ~20 Google employees staged a protest at Google offices during the interrogation of two staffers who have now been placed on administrative leave
- Google employees held a protest in San Francisco days before the company ended its long-held TGIF meetings, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. Tweets: @carnage4life , @sal19 , and @stau...
Google announces Your News Update, an Assistant-powered audio feature that chooses stories based on interests, location, and more, available first in the US
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Starburst, which is seeking to modernize data analytics with the open source Presto distributed query engine, raises $22M led by Index Ventures
Starburst, the company that's looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised …
The Indian government says it is “empowered” to intercept, monitor, or decrypt any digital communication on a citizen's device in India, citing a law from 2000
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Amazon unveils $34.99 Fire TV Blaster, a new infrared device that brings more TV voice commands for those with a Fire TV and Echo
Richard Vega / The Streamable :
Antivirus vendors and non-profits including Avira, the EFF, and Kaspersky form the Coalition Against Stalkerware to fight secretly installed snooping apps
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil with nearly 2M accounts, has raised $94M in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic
Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil, has reportedly raised $94 million in funding in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic …
Microsoft claims 20M DAUs for Teams, up from 13M in July, extending its lead over Slack, which in October said it had 12M; Slack closes down 8.35%
here's how that compares to rival Slack Mark Emem / CCN.com : Not Buying Slack in 2016 is Bill Gates' Best Call Ever as Microsoft Tech Advisor Kareem Anderson / OnMSFT.com : Slack fights back, says Mi...
Spotify says its free tier will now stream across Alexa-powered devices in the US, Australia, and New Zealand, and smart speakers from Sonos and Bose globally
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Apple launches a dedicated mobile app for its developer community, replacing the existing WWDC app, with video resources, news, account management, and more
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Pensa Systems raises $10M in additional seed funding for its tech that can help retailers automatically track in-store inventory using AI and autonomous drones
Pensa Systems, an Austin startup with its eye on “eliminating” a trillion dollar blind spot for the retail industry, has raised $10 million in additional seed funding. Thanks: @ginamanassero
CloudFactory, a data labelling for machine learning platform, raises $65M led by FTV Capital, bringing its total raised to $78M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
CyberCube Analytics, a cyber risk analytics platform for cybersecurity insurance underwriters, raises $35M Series B
Israel-based Viisights, which develops a video intelligence service that uses AI to analyze and manage video surveillance streams, raises $10M Series A
Luana Pascu / Biometric Update :
Patreon says it has paid out $1B+ to creators since its 2013 launch, up from $500M in Q4'18, has 4M+ members, up from 3M in Jan., and plans European expansion
All 4 million of you ❤️ Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter : Patreon Now Counts 4 Million Patrons That Have Paid Creators $1 Billion To Date
Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, to help listeners discover shows
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Snap pledges $750,000 to its top AR creators in 2020, 3x its 2019 commitment; 600,000+ Lenses, used 15B+ times, have been created by Snapchat creators
Garett Sloane / Ad Age :
Facebook says its F8 developer conference will take place on May 5-6 in San Jose
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Salesforce launches Cloud Voice, which integrates telephony inside Service Cloud, a revamped Einstein Voice Assistant, and a voice app development toolkit
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
CyCognito, a cybersecurity platform that analyzes a company's entire spectrum of internet-connected devices for vulnerabilities, raises $18M Series A
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
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