Study of 189 facial recognition algorithms shows they misidentify people of color more often than white people, confirming facial recognition tech's racial bias
Facial-recognition systems misidentified people of color more often than white people, a landmark federal study released Thursday shows …
Convenience store chain Wawa discloses a data breach across its 700 stores over the past nine months that may have exposed customer and credit card details
The breach may have affected all 700 stores over the past nine months. — If you used your credit card or debit card to buy gas …
Ripple raises $200M Series C led by global investment firm Tetragon at a $10B valuation
Ripple, a San Francisco-based company that uses cryptocurrency to move money across borders, announced a massive funding round on Thursday that values the company at $10 billion.
Apple opens its bug bounty program to security researchers, publishes eligibility criteria, bounty categories, and report and payout guidelines
Apple opens its previously-closed bug bounty program to all security researchers. — Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program today …
Sources: Apple has a secret team of ~12 engineers working on satellites and related wireless tech to beam data directly to its devices
Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, striving to find new ways to beam data such as internet connectivity directly …
Google acquires Montreal-based game development house Typhoon Studios as part of its plan to create exclusive content for Stadia
Google's Stadia cloud gaming division has acquired Typhoon Studio, a Montreal-based triple-A game development house. — The move is part of Stadia's plan …
France's competition authority fines Google €150M for mistreating advertisers by suspending them on its search engine in a random and unjustified fashion
Google has been accused of suspending keyword advertisers on its search engine in a random and unjustified fashion
OnePlus unveils a bug bounty program with rewards from $50-$7,000 open to any security expert and a bug bounty partnership with HackerOne for select researchers
You can earn up to $7,000 for submitting a bug — OnePlus announced its second data breach in two years back in November …
Claire Stapleton, a Google Walkout organizer, recalls Google execs supporting the activism initially, then slowly pushing her out of the company in retaliation
Claire Stapleton didn't just buy into the lore of Google—she helped write it. What happened when the bard of Google became one of its most vocal critics?
Facebook bans misleading posts, photos, ads, and other content about the 2020 US Census, even if posted by a politician, on Facebook and Instagram
this is a good step. But if Facebook is able to stop spreading lies about the census, why won't you stop spreading other lies from politicians?! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Vanita Gupta / @van...
Leaked dataset from a location data company with a log of the movements of 12M+ Americans shows how “anonymous” location data can be used to track people
and it's not hard to figure out who you are Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo : Holy Shit, Reportedly Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central : Your phone tracks your every move and there is nothing you can do ab...
Ghostery releases Ghostery Midnight, a desktop app that includes an ad blocker, tracker protection and monitoring, and a VPN, for $14 per month
Ghostery, a popular privacy- and security-focused browser extension and mobile browser app, has officially launched for desktop users.
IAC to buy online caregiver marketplace Care.com in a deal valued at nearly $500M; Care.com stock is up 13+%
- IAC's deal to buy Care.com comes one day after it detailed plans to spin off all of its shares of online dating company Match Group. — Care.com soars more than 13% on the news …
Jury finds Cox Communications liable for its customers' piracy of 10,000+ musical works, awards $1B to Sony Music, EMI, Universal, and Warner Music
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Report: Facebook has tasked a co-author of Windows NT with building an OS from scratch, in order to stop relying on Android for products like Oculus and Portal
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Source: The Information .
Apple open sources parts of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit allowing anyone to prototype HomeKit devices
Apple joins Amazon, Google … Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Apple Open Sources Some of HomeKit Jon Porter / The Verge : Apple open-sources HomeKit tools to speed up smart home push Craig Wilson / Input : ...
Congress passes the TRACED Act, enabling fines of up to $10K per robocall and requiring carriers to deploy STIR/SHAKEN protocol to identify spoofed numbers
per call Octavio Blanco / Consumer Reports : How the New Robocall Law Would Protect Consumers Mehreen Kasana / Input : New bill could help us finally say goodbye to scam robocalls Bob Cronin / Newser ...
According to a new report from Have I Been Pwned, 170M emails along with usernames and hashed passwords were stolen in the Zynga breach in September
In September 2019, game developer Zynga … Manikanta Immanni / TechDator : Zynga Data Breach Has Comprised Over 172 Million Accounts Jackie Dunham / CTVNews : 173 million accounts exposed in hack of ‘W...
F5 Networks says it will acquire AI-powered fraud prevention platform Shape Security for around $1B in cash
F5 Networks will pay approximately $1 billion to acquire Shape Security, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that sells a fraud prevention platform to banks, airlines, retailers, government agencies, ...
HaptX, which develops gloves with realistic haptic feedback for industrial VR and robotics applications, raises $12M Series A, bringing its total raised to $19M
I'm a former tech executive covering VR, AR and new media for Forbes. — Comprehensive partnership with Advanced Input Systems …
Docs: SpaceX, others are lobbying FCC to deny Amazon's waiver request for spectrum access for its satellite internet project after Amazon missed 2016 deadline
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Sources: China's Ant Financial acquires stake in Vietnamese e-wallet company eMonkey in a strategic move to get into Vietnam's ~100M fintech market
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TiVo to merge with technology licensing company Xperi; the combined company will have a fully diluted equity value of $2.4B, with TiVo owning ~53.5% of it
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Hipac, a Chinese B2B e-commerce platform for mothers and babies, raises $100M Series D led by Anchor Equity Partners
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Ad exchange Rubicon Project and Telaria, a yield optimization platform for video publishers, to merge, creating the largest independent programmatic ad platform
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land :
Israel-based Gloat, an AI-powered career development platform for employees at companies like Unilever, Oracle, Cisco, and PayPal, raises $25M Series B
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Levelset, a New Orleans-based billing and payments platform for contractors in the construction industry, raises $30M from Horizons Ventures
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
StradVision, a South Korea-based developer of vision processing technology for autonomous vehicles, raises $27M Series B, bringing its total raised to $40M
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.