Twitter says accounts that have not been logged into for six months leading up to Dec. 11 will be removed, likely freeing up a large number of usernames
No exact date for when usernames will be available — Twitter is sending out emails to owners of inactive accounts with a warning …
US teen says TikTok blocked her from posting after she accused China of putting Muslims into concentration camps; TikTok blames other reasons for the suspension
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Facebook buys the VR studio behind Beat Saber, one of virtual reality's biggest titles with over 1M copies sold since May 2018
Virtual reality doesn't have many hit games yet, but Facebook is buying the studio behind one of the platform's biggest titles.
Sources: amid a CFIUS investigation, ByteDance is separating TikTok from its Chinese operations and providing assurances US user data is inaccessible to China
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok …
Amazon announces new Alexa emotions for developers to let Alexa respond to questions from US users with a “happy/excited” or a “disappointed/empathetic” tone
Alexa is also getting a radio DJ-like voice — You might hear a little more emotion from Alexa's vaguely-robotic voice …
Investigation shows how easy it is to register .gov domains using forged credentials; many US cities including LA, Houston haven't registered their .gov domains
Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names …
Twitter should offer a way to memorialize dead people's accounts before removing accounts that have been inactive for over six months
Editor's note: Drew is a geek who first worked at AOL when he was 16 years old and went on to become a senior writer at TechCrunch.
Outlook.com can now be installed as a Progressive Web App on Windows or macOS by using Chromium-based browsers
You can now install Outlook.com as an app — Microsoft is turning its Outlook.com and Outlook for the Web mail services into Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
Global smartphones sales in Q3 fell 0.4% YoY as consumers sought better value; Samsung's marketshare surged to 20.4%, Huawei's to 17%, and Apple's fell to 10.5%
Huawei, Samsung, and OPPO Increased Market Share in the Third Quarter of 2019, While Apple and Xiaomi Share Declined
HP Inc. beats with Q4 revenue of $15.41B, up 0.3% YoY, says its personal systems business, which includes PCs, contributed $10.43B in revenue, up 4% YoY
Enrique Lores speaks at the HP Media Day at the 70th Cannes Film Festival at Majestic Barierre on May 22, 2017, in Cannes, France.
Leaked docs: Amazon's Ring was working on neighborhood “watch lists” and a feature to notify users of individuals deemed suspicious, built on facial recognition
Ring, Amazon's crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software …
Memo: Google fires four employees, citing data-security violations, amid rising tension between management and staff
But Critics Say It's Retaliation for Protesting Charlie Wood / Business Insider : Googlers say the company is trying to crush worker organization after it fired 4 people Cara Curtis / The Next Web : G...
Q&A with Kevin Systrom on Instagram in the 2010s: selling to Facebook for $1B, its positive and negative social impact, the influencer economy, and more
As the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president …
A look at SoftBank's controversial process of participating in multiple rounds to pump up a startup's valuation and how the WeWork debacle is changing that
In early 2018, the founders of Chinese artificial intelligence startup SenseTime Group Ltd. flew to Tokyo to see billionaire investor Masayoshi Son. Tweets: @mvolpe , @lisaabramowicz1 , and @mdudas . ...
A look at the state of AI accountability research, which is focused not just on improving existing systems but also on whether such systems should ever be used
and, if so, who gets to govern them”, writes @FrankPasquale https://lpeblog.org/...
Sources: Facebook made several bids to acquire Fitbit, including a final offer of $7.30/share, below Google's announced offer of ~$2.1B in cash at $7.35/share
Facebook sued by NSO Group employees who claim their private Facebook and Instagram accounts were unfairly blocked after WhatsApp had sued NSO Group last month
Steven Scheer / Reuters :
Amazon partners with pharmacy chain Giant Eagle to bring to Alexa prescription medication reminders and the ability to request refills
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Shuttl, an app-based bus aggregator that operates ~2,000 buses clocking over 100K daily rides in India, says it has raised $36M as part of its ongoing Series C
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Facebook bans white nationalist outlets Red Ice TV and Affirmative Right, says VDare's page is still under review, after recent report
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian :
Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue of ~$7.65B, up 5.5% YoY and in-line with analyst estimates, as growth slows to 3.3% QoQ; smartphone revenue dropped 7.8% YoY to ~$4.6B
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Amazon brings Alexa to AWS IoT Core devices, lowering requirements for microprocessor type and RAM, now 1MB instead of 100MB, by offloading tasks to AWS
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Sources: Bangalore-based scooter rental startup Bounce raises ~$150M Series D led by existing investors B Capital and Accel at a valuation “well over $500M”
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Commerce Department proposes rules for implementing Trump's supply-chain order, including giving foreign companies time to address US concerns and avoid a ban
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop :
Uber drivers in France are occupying a majority of Uber's Greenlight Hubs, centers for registering new drivers, demanding a cap on the number of drivers, more
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE : Tweets: @veenadubal and @bigblackjacobin Tweets: Veena Dubal / @veenadubal : “In France, we['ve ]..unions, we['ve] more social security, we['ve] more labor rts, we have mor...
Kasada, which has developed tech to fight bot-powered attacks, says it has closed $7M Series A, which includes funding from its newest investor In-Q-Tel
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Docs shared by tech giants in response to questions from Congress show few customers, employees, or contractors bother to challenge the firms in arbitration
it's a rigged system that allows them to systematically escape accountability for cheating workers and consumers. Google contractors, for example, have initiated just *three* arbitration claims in the...
Amazon says it is shutting down a controversial program in 2020 that uses AI to send shoppers free samples based on their buying habits
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
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