Apple, Amazon, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance form Project Connected Home over IP, a partnership to create a new smart home networking standard
- Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance announced a new partnership. — It's called Project Connected Home over IP …
The Epilepsy Foundation files criminal complaint against 30+ unidentified Twitter users for coordinated attack of seizure-inducing videos to its feed last month
(CNN)Attackers sent videos of flashing and strobing lights to people on Twitter last month as part of a cyberattack which deliberately targeted people with epilepsy.
After a cyber attack, Canadian medical lab LifeLabs paid a ransom to recover the stolen data of 15M+ customers, which included login info and test results
Data breach took place in early November, and hackers also gained access to 85,000 laboratory test results.
The defining moments of tech in the 2010s, including the Arab Spring and unveiling of the iPad, as recalled by Zuckerberg, Snowden, Phil Schiller, and others
An oral history of the 2010s — When the decade began, tech meant promise — cars that could drive themselves, social networks that could take down dictators.
Facebook pilots a program in the US to use part-time contracted “community reviewers” to expedite the fact-checking process and aid its fact-checking partners
Facebook is creating a new pilot program in the U.S. that will leverage part-time contracted “community reviewers” to expedite its fact-checking process.
Ring device testing shows it lacks safeguards that would deter credential stuffing and brute force attacks, making 2FA a key part of securing accounts
It's not so much being watched. It's that I don't really know if I'm being watched or not. — From across the other side of the world …
Instagram expands its fact checking efforts by hiding false content behind warnings, except for politicians, and removing it from Explore and hashtag pages
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An in-depth look at Ikea's Home Smart business, which has shifted from being a hobby to a core part of its future
The Swedish furniture giant has conquered living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms — but can it hang on to the future of the home? — Björn Block hurries out of the Ikea Museum …
SEC charges former Palo Alto Networks IT administrator and four accomplices with insider trading from 2015 to 2018; the traders made over $7M in illegal profits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Tuesday said they have charged a former IT administrator and four friends involved …
Current and ex-employees of SoftBank's Vision Fund describe an environment of sycophancy towards Son, harassment, rivalries, and a culture of recklessness
Masayoshi Son's venture capital firm is famous for making outsize bets on tech startups. It has also been described as an environment of sycophancy and harassment. Tweets: @bw , @puiwingtam , @shirao...
Mac Pro needs little to no tooling for basic fixes and upgrades, scores a 9/10 on repairability; components are modular but some are proprietary, like SSD cards
and outside — the 2019 Mac Pro in pictures Asif Shaik / iPhone Hacks : Mac Pro Can Play 16K Videos Using Only One of Its Graphics Cards Richard Lawler / Engadget : The Morning After: iFixit peeks insi...
Googler says she was fired for sending pop-ups on labor rights via modified internal browser plugin; Google: she “abused privileged access” in altering the tool
and blatant retaliation against—queer labour organisers https://twitter.com/... Brianna Wu / @briannawu : It's hard to even imagine a pretext justifying this indefensible firing. This is union busting...
Nvidia debuts Drive AGX Orin platform for autonomous vehicles and robots, open-sources autonomous car AI models, and announces a partnership with Didi Chuxing
Today marked the kickoff of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in Suzhou, China, where CEO Jensen Huang debuted a host of products and services during his keynote address.
An examination of poorly secured police and private databases reveals how China is ramping up its ability to spy on its citizens to new and disturbing levels
The authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home. One of the world's biggest spying networks … Tweets: @paulmozur , @marcorubio , @nytimes , and @hawleymo T...
Author details how he created a deepfake video over two weeks at a cost of $552 using Faceswap, with an explanation of the tech and some of its limitations
I learned a lot from creating my own deepfake video. — Deepfake technology uses deep neural networks to convincingly replace one face with another in a video. Tweets: @mathewi , @yoda , @aprilwright...
After a massive outcry over the police raid on Nginx Moscow offices, Rambler's board orders company execs to ask law enforcement to terminate the criminal case
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Paige, which helps diagnose cancer using computer vision trained with clinical image data, raises $45M Series B led by Healthcare Venture Partners
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Email cleanup service Unroll.me settles with FTC for misleading users about how it shared users' email data, will have to delete personal info it collected
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NLRB rules that employers can ban workers from using company email for union and other organizing purposes, overturning the Board's ruling from 2014
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Alchemy, which is building middleware that connects Dapps to underlying blockchains like Ethereum, raises $15M from Pantera, Stanford, Coinbase, and others
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Analysis of US tech unicorn IPOs during the 2010s finds a high number of offerings, with 13 in 2019 alone, but very mixed success once public
Stephanie Stamm / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjgraphics , @aljazzaf , and @shaneshifflett Tweets: WSJ Graphics / @wsjgraphics : From 2010-14, nine unicorns reported annual profit. But since mid-...
Facebook is funding a free 45-minute online Reuters course for journalists on spotting and handling manipulated media, now in English, French, Spanish, Arabic
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Lime launches LimePass, a $5/week subscription service that waves the scooter and bike unlock fees; users still pay the per-minute charge for rides
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Ex-Facebook staffers on how Facebook's focus on growth metrics in performance reviews prodded staff to game the system and ignore other impacts of their work
former PM at FB https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : “...When business page admins did something with FB's tools, they'd count as active. So the team would keep sending noti...
Huckleberry, which uses AI to match small businesses with insurance plans, raises $18M Series A led by Tribe Capital
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WhatsApp fixes bug that allowed a rogue group member to render the app unusable, forcing a reinstall and loss of group chat content
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YouTube Music adds new personalized playlists, New Release Mix, Your Mix, and Discover Mix, to rival Spotify's playlists like Discover Weekly and Release Radar
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Hugging Face, which recently found success with its open-source NLP library after debuting an app that let users chat with an artificial friend, raises $15M
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Online training startup Springboard raises $11M led by Reach Capital, partners with Microsoft to train ~5,000 students in three years for data analytics roles
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.