Hands-on with Samsung's new S20 lineup: 120Hz refresh rate makes the screens stand out, the Ultra is significantly bigger, and the cameras are ambitious
If you were planning to buy a premium Android smartphone this year, you can rest easy knowing they'll all come with more or less the same things.
UK proposes plans to put media regulator Ofcom in charge of regulating social media, with a focus on removing illegal content and minimizing “harmful” content
Ministers unveil plans to block harmful content, while guaranteeing free speech — Ofcom will be put in charge …
US officials claim Huawei has, for over a decade, been able to covertly access mobile-phone networks globally through back doors designed for law enforcement
Trump administration ramps up push for allies to block Chinese company — U.S. officials say Huawei Technologies Co …
Samsung announces the 6.2" Galaxy S20, 6.7" Galaxy S20 Plus, and 6.9" Galaxy S20 Ultra, with starting prices ranging from $1,000 to $1,600, coming March 6
and that's exactly why it's amazing Justin Diaz / Android Headlines : You Can Pre-Order The Galaxy S20 Series From T-Mobile Next Week Daniel Petrov / PhoneArena : AT&T has the best free Galaxy S20 pre...
Google rolls out Emoji Kitchen, which mashes up two emojis into a sticker, for Gboard on Android
Compatible with WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and more — There are already hundreds of emoji available to cover every emotion from yawning to being a straight-up drunk weirdo.
WhatsApp says it now has 2B users worldwide, up from the 1.5B it announced two years ago
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging service, revealed today just how big it has become. The Facebook-owned app said it has amassed two billion users, up from 1.5 billion it revealed two years ago.
Research: Apple Pay makes up about 5% of global card transactions and is on pace to double that share by 2025
Future of Finance — New technology is upending everything in finance. — Apple's mobile wallet is gobbling up a growing chunk of card payments around the world.
Facebook says it has banned a network of two dozen fake pages and accounts linked to two Southeast Asian telecoms for using disinformation against rivals
South-east Asian providers said to have used fake accounts to discredit rivals — Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia's …
Flipboard launches Flipboard TV, an in-app feature that offers professional short-form video, for $2.99/mo; will be a Galaxy S20 exclusive for first 3 months
Flipboard , the popular news aggregator app, is introducing a new subscription video service. Called Flipboard TV …
Malwarebytes detected 11 threats per endpoint for its Mac users in 2019, up from 4.8 threats per endpoint in 2018, while PCs saw 5.8 threats per endpoint
Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its State of Malware Report for 2020 [PDF], which suggests that Mac malware is growing much more common.
Book excerpt from Steven Levy's Facebook: The Inside Story, with a look at Zuckerberg's lost handwritten journal, in which he noted plans for world domination
In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. Tweets: @stevenlevy , @stevenlevy , @stevenlevy , and @stevenlevy Tweets: Steven Le...
The FTC is asking Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft about acquisitions from the past decade that were small enough to not be reported to the gov't
FTC to review acquisitions made by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — The Federal Trade Commission …
Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip with a foldable 6.7" FHD+ AMOLED display, 3,300 mAh battery, dual front-facing cameras, coming February 14 starting for $1,380
Foldable phones still feel like a dream, but to kick off the 2020 smartphone season, Samsung is hoping to change that.
Samsung confirms Quick Share, its AirDrop-like feature, to launch with the Galaxy S20; Quick Share allows files to be shared with up to 5 friends simultaneously
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FBI says it received 467,361 cybercrime complaints in 2019, with attacks involving business email compromise causing about half of the estimated $3.5B in losses
Average loss per BEC scam amounted to nearly $75,000, per complaint, on average. — The FBI received 467,361 internet …
Reuters launches a new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog and partners with Facebook to review news headlines, deepfakes, and user generated content
Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process.
Nvidia says that Activision Blizzard has removed its catalog of games like Overwatch, WoW, and Call of Duty from Nvidia's cloud gaming service GeForce Now
A bad precedent for cloud gaming — Nvidia's GeForce Now feels like one of the very best ways to get a free taste of cloud gaming …
A look at online coding program Lambda School, which lets students defer tuition payments until they have jobs, but that many say is costly and under-delivers
Students at Lambda School say the program hasn't delivered on its promise — Bethany Surber was sleeping on friends' couches … Tweets: @dhh , @dhh , @_danilo , @knguyen , @dhh , @dhh , and @dhh Tweet...
Meditation app maker Headspace raises $53M in equity, led by Blisce, and $40M in debt and will use the funds to build tools for users with chronic diseases
Meditation app maker Headspace has raised $53 million in new equity funding and another $40 million in debt.
Profile of DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim who has been privately telling people to expect a criminal antitrust case in Silicon Valley in the next few months
As Hollywood scales up to battle big tech, Makan Delrahim, the nation's top antitrust regulator (and a former movie producer) … Tweets: @flargh and @alexweprin See also Mediagazer Tweets: Peter Cohen ...
Battery Ventures closes on $2B in commitments across two funds, a $1.2B flagship and another $800M companion vehicle, two years after its last fundraise
Battery Ventures, the now 37-year-old investment firm, just closed on two new funds that — at $2 billion in capital commitments …
State of Software Engineers 2019: global demand for AR/VR engineers up by 1,400%, gaming developers up 146%, security engineers up 49% but slower than in 2018
Overview — The worldwide process of digital transformation, while something of a buzzword, reflects a critical truth: every company is now a technology company.
Microsoft shows how containerized and dual-screen apps will work in Windows 10X with a new emulator and SDK and also refreshes its Android-based Duo SDK
In Under 90 Seconds Tweets: Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Here's my first look at Microsoft's new Windows 10X operating system for dual screens. It feels like a modern and cleaned up version of Windows fo...
Third-party sellers from China and other countries are flooding Amazon with thousands of new brands, overwhelming the USPTO as applications soar for trademarks
How Amazon is causing us to drown in trademarks. — Maybe it's cold, and you need some winter gloves. Tweets: @abhabhattarai , @annehelen , and @profcarroll Tweets: Abha Bhattarai / @abhabhattarai : ...
Boston- and DC-based Carbon Relay raises $63M led by Insight Partners to automate Kubernetes app deployment, bringing its total raised to roughly $70M
Four out of 10 enterprises report that they're using Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration framework for automating app deployment …
Deep Instinct, which has developed a threat detection platform that uses deep learning, raises $43M Series C led by Millennium New Horizons
Cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct Ltd. is hoping to make a name for itself after raising an impressive $43 million in a funding round led by Millennium New Horizons.
China launches an app that uses its vast surveillance network data to let users check if they have come into close contact with coronavirus carriers
not sure if this sets off my creepy af meter more than the coronavirus sets off my scared af meter https://twitter.com/...
The number of companies skipping MWC over coronavirus keeps rising, with Facebook, AT&T, Cisco, Sony, Intel, Amazon, Nvidia, and MediaTek among those missing it
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Irish startup Fenergo, whose platform helps financial institutions onboard customers, meet compliance, and more, raises $80M at an $800M post-money valuation
Europe has emerged as a key region for hatching and scaling fintech companies, and today one of the bigger hopefuls is announcing …
Apple releases a Catalyst-based Swift Playgrounds app for the Mac, which was built from the existing iPad version of the app
Learn real coding the fun way — Screenshots Jonny Evans / Computerworld : Apple's Mac Catalyst seems to be becoming very, very serious Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : Apple's Swift Playgrounds App C...
Research: over the past year, 95M people in the US used a major streaming service, 25M had a family plan, 13M had a free trial, and 10M+ were sharing a login
Over the past year, 95 million people in the U.S. used a major streaming service, 68 million were self-paying …
Nova Credit raises $50M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins to expand its service sourcing credit reports across borders
Around 70% of the world's population now has some form of bank account or — thanks to mobile phones — a facility to receive and send money virtually, according to the World Bank.
YouTube continues to mirror Twitch, testing a new clap feature that lets fans donate to creators with animated applause for $2, of which YouTube takes a 30% cut
but for a fee. Claps cost $2! Only some creators have access to the beta. This comes after creators expressed frustration with the continued advertising revenue problems on YouTube. https://twitter.co...
SoftBank's Vision Fund posts an operating loss of $2.05B in Q4 compared to a $1.6B profit a year earlier; Vision Fund invested $74.6B in 88 companies as of Q4
Sam Nussey / Reuters :
Lyft reports Q4 revenue of $1.02B, up 52% YoY, an adjusted EBITDA loss of $130.7M vs $251.1M in Q4 2018, and 22.9M active riders, up 23% YoY
Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance :
As part of Apple News' 2020 election coverage, Apple says Siri can now answer election-related questions, including sharing live election results from AP
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Analysis: among the 10K most popular sites, right-leaning outlets placed 227 cookies in a user's browser, versus 131 for their left-leaning counterparts
Andy Greenberg / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @nxthompson , and @janelytv Tweets: @wired : A recent analysis of news outlets found that the median popular right-wing site planted 73 percent more cookies ...
Twitter launches new tool to combat misinformation on the US Census; a prompt will point users searching for Census-related keywords to the official Census site
Marty Johnson / The Hill :
Texas-based Cysiv, an enterprise Security Operations Center-as-a-Service company that spun out of Trend Micro, raises $26M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital
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Registrars raise alarm over ICANN's plan to allow Verisign to raise .com TLD prices by 70% over the next decade, much higher than forecasted inflation in the US
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
Ramp, which develops a corporate credit card that helps businesses identify savings, raises $25M from Founders Fund and others
Jen Wieczner / Fortune :
Paris-based CybelAngel, which helps companies manage digital risk in real time, raises €32.9M Series B, bringing its total raised to €47.6M
Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups :
After testing it in Ireland, Spotify makes its Kids app available in the UK and Australia for its Premium Family plan subscribers
Rachel England / Engadget :
PredictHQ, which aggregates data sets from public sources to help companies forecast demand for their services, raises $22M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
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.
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