US arrests an Ethereum Foundation researcher, claiming he participated in discussions about how N. Korea can avoid sanctions during a crypto conference there
On Friday, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced criminal charges against a cryptocurrency researcher …
Facebook complies with Singapore's fake news law and adds a label that is visible to local users, under the users' post, saying the post contains false info
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user's post at the request …
Court filing: Intel says it has sold smartphone modem chip business to Apple at “a multi-billion dollar loss”, blames Qualcomm for forcing it out of the market
(Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) sold its smartphone modem chip business to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) at “a multi-billion dollar loss …
Adobe: Black Friday online sales grew 19.6% YoY to $7.4B, as Thanksgiving sales rose 14.5%, to $4.2B; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $9.4B, up 18.9%
Following swiftly on the heels of a Thanksgiving that broke records with $4.2 billion in online sales, Black Friday also hit a new high …
How angel investing for social status is a core part of Bay Area tech ecosystem, and is critically missing from other cities trying to grow their tech scenes
Michael Seibel of YC posted a short video the other day about a topic that's near and dear to my heart: Why Fundraising is Different in Silicon Valley. Tweets: @alex_danco , @giordanobc , @jposhaughne...
EU antitrust regulators are conducting a preliminary investigation into Google's data collection practices
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google's collection of data, the European Commission told Reuters on Saturday, suggesting the world's …
Singapore orders Facebook to correct a post by an Australian user, as part of a new “fake news” law; Facebook faces a fine of up to $365K if it does not comply
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With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is now comfortably beating Intel in the high-end desktop/workstation CPU market, and is getting further ahead
When AMD launched its third-generation Zen 2 Ryzen processors earlier this year, Intel had to be sweating.
Researchers say multiple telcos are deploying RCS in ways that expose users to text and call interception, spoofed phone calls, and location data leaks
A standard used by phone carriers around the world can leave users open to all sorts of attacks, like text message and call interception …
Only seven out of 21 US presidential candidates have implemented DMARC on their domains' email, a basic security feature that could have prevented the DNC hack
Just one-third of the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates are using an email security feature that could prevent a similar attack …
China's new rules, effective Jan. 1, require videos created using AI or VR tech to be clearly marked, make distribution of deepfakes a possible criminal offense
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online …
LG announces CEO Jo Seong-jin will be replaced by Brian Kwon Dec. 1, amid 2020 leadership shakeup and LG smartphone division's 18th straight quarterly loss
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How Jeff Beacher, owner of a Las Vegas nightclub frequented by celebs, helped build Airbnb's celebrity marketing program in 2015, making it into a luxury brand
For one week in the summer of 2015, consumers of celebrity gossip news couldn't escape Mariah Carey's trip to Malibu, California. Tweets: @vandermey , @tsgiles , @shiraovide , @vandermey , and @bloomb...
A look at the Masakhane project, which aims to translate African languages using neural machine translation by working with AI researchers across the continent
English, Arabic, and French dialects can be found on parts of the African continent and are used across tribes, ethnic groups …
Advanced Navigation raises $13M Series A for a range of products largely based on AI-enabled inertial navigation systems, which mostly do not rely on satellites
The Robot Report :
Wyze security cams will lose the AI-based person-detection feature in Jan 2020 after Xnor.ai terminated their agreement; Wyze is working on in-house replacement
Jon Porter / The Verge :
An overview of crisis in India's telecom sector, after a Supreme Court ruling that sided with the government saddled mobile carriers with $13B in fresh debt
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HSBC to shift $20B of assets by March 2020 to blockchain-based custody platform Digital Vault, one of the biggest uses of blockchain technology by a bank
Interview with the Internet Society CEO, as he tries to defend the sale of the .org top level domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital
Kieren McCarthy / The Register : Tweets: @n_is_een , @steve_walker , @glynmoody , and @kierenmccarthy Tweets: Dirk Poot / @n_is_een : How a revolving door at #ICANN allowed Chehade, Brooks, Atallah, ...
A look at China-based MiningLamp, a Palantir-like startup that provides analytics tools to China's police and 200+ of Fortune 500, for an actionable information
South China Morning Post : Tweets: @pstasiatech and @ebkania Tweets: Paul Triolo / @pstasiatech : ChinaAIWatch Chinese data mining firm MiningLamp, now a national AI champion, began by helping police...
A recent fracas between Binance and The Block shows crypto needs more independent journalists investigating the industry despite the community's media hostility
David Z. Morris / Fortune : Tweets: @moorehn and @arrington See also Mediagazer Tweets: Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn : Crypto, like most tech innovations, tends to resist scrutiny based on moral grounds...
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