Study: smart speakers accidentally activate to random words between 1.5 and 19 times per day on average, with HomePod and Cortana devices activating the most
WHEN SPEAKERS ARE ALL EARS — Understanding when smart speakers mistakenly record conversations
Swedish game developer Embracer to buy US-based Saber Interactive, maker of the game World War Z, for up to $525M in cash and stock, most of which is deferred
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish video game group Embracer is buying U.S. game developer Saber Interactive for up to $525 million, the Swedish company said on Wednesday.
Survey of 979 tech experts: 49% say tech will “mostly weaken” democracy between now and 2030, 33% say it will “mostly strengthen” democracy, 18% see no change
About half predict that humans' use of technology will weaken democracy between now and 2030 due to the speed …
CB Insights: fintech startups across the world raised $33.9B across 1,912 deals in 2019, which is down from $40.8B raised across 2,049 deals in 2018
Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late stage firms and focused on developing markets, a new report has revealed.
Twitter is suspending 70 accounts linked to Michael Bloomberg's campaign for violating its policies, citing platform manipulation and duplicative content
hate speech, millions of fake accounts, russian trolls, trump lies & bigotry & incentivized violence are all ok — but Bloomberg sock puppets? hey THAT'S WHERE WE DRAW THE LINE. #FiddlingWhileRomeBurns...
Sources: Intuit is nearing a deal to buy personal finance portal Credit Karma for about $7B in cash and stock; the deal could be announced as soon as Monday
Acquisition would be Intuit's largest ever and the first sizable transaction under CEO Sasan Goodarzi Tweets: @cararlombardo , @carnage4life , @bsteverman , @chriszeoli , @cararlombardo , @semil , @aa...
WhatsApp lets some private group chat invite links get indexed by search engines like Google, allowing anyone to join
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Irish DPC report: 6 inquiries into multinational tech companies' GDPR compliance were opened in 2019, bringing major cross-border probes to 21, but no decisions
The lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech has put out its annual report which shows another major bump …
Interview with Garry Kasparov, the first chess world champion to be defeated by a computer, about chess, AI, and a strategy for staying a step ahead of machines
Twenty-three years after he lost to Deep Blue, Kasparov says people need to work with machines. You have to “nudge the flock of intelligent algorithms.” Tweets: @softengresgrp , @warinthefuture , @to...
Michigan-based Algo, a SaaS startup that uses AI to help companies analyze and manage their supply chains, raises $15M Series A led by Integrity Growth Partners
- $15 million investment into Troy company Algo — Company applies AI to supply chain management
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), the best performing sector in crypto today, feels more like cosplaying a financial system than an actual viable alternative to it
Over the last year or so, much-to-most of the cryptocurrency world has pivoted from the failure of “fat tokens” and ICOs … Tweets: @counternotions and @jonrussell Tweets: Kontra / @counternotions : “D...
Reggora, a residential appraisal software platform, raises $10M Series A, led by Spark Capital with Boston Seed Capital participating
Reggora, a Boston, MA-based residential appraisal software platform provider, raised $10m in Series A funding. — The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from Boston Seed Capital.
Researchers detail “SweynTooth” bugs, which could allow hackers in radio range to crash Bluetooth Low Energy-based devices like pacemakers and fitness trackers
in this case more than 480 of them. https://www.wired.com/... Aaron Miri / @aaronmiri : “For all of these affected devices, they either won't be patched at all or will require huge effort to be update...
Cyber insurance company At-Bay, which helps businesses assess risk across their tech stack with continuous vulnerability monitoring, raises $34M Series B
At-Bay, a Mountain View, CA-based cyber insurance company, raised $34m in Series B funding. — The round was led by Acrew Capital and Munich Re Ventures, through its HSB fund.
iMerit raises $20M Series B for its platform that helps enrich and annotate large datasets that power advanced algorithms in fields such as machine learning
iMerit, a Los Gatos, CA-based data annotation and enrichment company, raised $20m in Series B funding.
Profile of computer scientist Xia Peisu, who is called the “Mother of Chinese Computing” for shaping some of China's first computer science institutions
& a new field of computer science to support that industry—China needed trained personnel. Here, too, Xia was essential.” —@leilasedai on Xia Peisu (via @BBC_Future) https://www.bbc.com/... Hilde De W...
Canalys: global PC shipments are expected to decline between 3.4% and 8.5% YoY in 2020, taking into account the impact of the coronavirus outbreak
After exiting Colombia in January, Uber relaunches in the country after finding a legal loophole, says customers will now rent vehicles with drivers via its app
Enveil, a startup working on homomorphic encryption, raises $10M Series A led by C5 Capital, with Mastercard, Capital One Ventures, and others participating
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Ethos Capital, prospective buyer of .org TLD, proposes rules that would ban steep fee increases for nonprofits, establish an independent “stewardship council”
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Alphabet and Softbank ally with telcos like China Telecom and vendors like Nokia to promote industry-wide standards for balloon, drone network tech
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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.