Amazon opens Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, its first full sized grocery store without cashiers or checkout lines
Amazon Go is going full grocery. — Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” …
Firefox begins rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users to thwart snooping ISPs
US-based Firefox users get encrypted DNS lookups today or within a few weeks. — Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service today and roll …
Netflix says it will launch top 10 lists to rank the most popular shows and movies, updated daily, after testing the feature in Mexico and the UK
- Top 10 lists will be rolled out after tests in U.K. and Mexico — New feature will appear in the service and be updated daily
Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock and says it plans to keep Credit Karma as a standalone operation
The week is kicking off with a major piece of M&A in the world of financial technology startups. Today Intuit — the accounting …
Revolut, a UK-based digital bank and payments company, raises $500M led by TCV at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from April 2018, bringing its total raised to $836M
- Revolut has raised $500 million in a funding round led by TCV, an early investor in Facebook and Netflix.
Survey of 11,500+ H-1B visa holders at US tech companies finds discomfort with Trump's policies, with many feeling their place in the US is highly conditional
OneZero conducted a 10,000-person poll to shed light on the plight of H-1B workers — This article is part of Into the Valley …
Apple, TikTok decline to testify in a March congressional hearing probing their ties with China; both firms had declined to testify in a similar hearing in Nov.
Apple and TikTok each have declined a request to testify at a March congressional hearing that would have probed their relationships with China …
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Apple's appeal to avoid paying ~$440M in damages to VirnetX in longstanding patent infringement case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Apple Inc's bid to avoid paying about $440 million in damages …
Samsung discloses website breach after some users see strangers' data and says an unrelated glitch caused push notifications to users from Find My Mobile app
Tight-lipped chaebol still won't talk about the dodgy app, though — Samsung has admitted that what it calls a “small number” …
Grab raises up to $856M from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and TIS INTEC, a Japanese IT solutions business
Southeast Asian on-demand transport startup Gojek denies that it is involved in talks to merge with Grab but today Grab announced a piece of news that — at the very least …
As China ramps up efforts to control the narrative around the coronavirus outbreak, it is leveraging platforms like WeChat and Twitter to track down critics
Joshua Left, a 28-year-old entrepreneur who runs a self-driving car startup in Wuhan, China, arrived in San Francisco in mid-January for a vacation …
Kuo: Apple will release its first ARM-based Mac in the next 12 to 18 months, using an Apple designed chip instead of an Intel processor
these kinds of apps take time to port, often with lengthy external testing. Can't just ship Chris Maddern / @chrismaddern : Apple may not always “love you back” with things like long-term support and ...
Microsoft reveals more Xbox Series X details: 12 teraflops of GPU performance, up 2x from the Xbox One X; support for 8K gaming; and a “quick resume” feature
PS5 is in trouble Kyle Orland / Ars Technica : The next Xbox will quadruple XB1's CPU, octuple its GPU performance Patrick Shanley / Hollywood Reporter : What Exactly is Xbox's New “Smart Delivery”? M...
Expedia is laying off ~3,000 employees, 12% of its workforce, says it has been “pursuing growth in an unhealthy and undisciplined way” in email to employees
Expedia Group is laying off 12 percent of its workforce, about 3,000 employees, in an effort to “streamline and focus” …
Apple publishes extensive deep dives into the tech behind its Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
A county judge in San Diego has ruled that Instacart's classification of its California workers is not compliant with AB5; Instacart says it will appeal
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News :
Uber plans to pay ~1,000 drivers to put ads on top of their vehicles in Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix by April 1, forming a unit called Uber OOH Powered by Adomni
Scott Nover / Adweek :
A look at the rise of narrated articles across publications, with many partnering with apps like Audm, Curio, and Noa to produce and distribute them
“I think the distinction between podcasts and longform audio articles and e-books is blurring, and that is likely to help preserve in-depth and investigative reporting” https://twitter.com/... @nieman...
Graphcore, which designs processors for AI applications, raises $150M extension to its Series D at a $1.95B valuation
The UK has a strong history when it comes to processors, but the global chip market has seen some ups and downs of late. Today comes some big news that underscores …
Microsoft's Azure Sphere, which includes custom IoT silicon and a Linux-based OS with a matching cloud service announced in April '18, hits general availability
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Sony unveils Xperia 1 II 5G flagship with a 3.5mm jack, wireless charging, 21:9 6.5" 4K OLED display, 8GB RAM, a 4,000 mAh battery, coming to Europe for €1,199
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica :
Ripcord, which is developing robots that can digitize paper records, raises $45M Series B2, bringing its total raised to $120M+
Staff at a California school district reportedly spent 20% of their time searching for lost documents until they retained the services of a records management company. Thanks: @jferrary
Kenya-based B2B e-commerce startup Sokowatch, which wants to offer working capital and data analytics to businesses, raises $14M Series A led ay Quona Capital
or rollups if they're wise. https://techcrunch.com/...
The Open Cybersecurity Alliance introduces an open source messaging framework, OpenDXL Ontology, to create a common language between cybersecurity tools
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
Mirantis co-founder Boris Renski leaves his role as CMO to launch FreedomFi, a startup open-sourcing 4G LTE and 5G on newly opened 3.5 GHz band for companies
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet :
L1ght, which wants to use AI to help tech companies combat online toxicity, bullying, and abuse, raises a $15M seed round
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Eaze finally closes a $15M bridge round and $20M as part of a Series D, as it works through cash flow, legal issues and aims to start selling its own cannabis
Six weeks after we broke the news that cannabis startup Eaze was running out of money, laying off more employees and scrambling …
Ex-employees detail the demise of failed AR startup Daqri, which raised ~$300M and launched half-baked AR products; Snap recently acquired some of its assets
Janko Roettgers / Protocol :
Cornerstone OnDemand, a cloud-based learning and talent management software startup, says it will acquire talent recruitment software company Saba for ~$1.4B
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
CEO of Mexico-focused real estate startup Homie resigns after allegations of sexual harassment from a job applicant and a probe by the company's ethics board
Anna Escher / TechCrunch : Tweets: @annaescher Tweets: Anna Escher / @annaescher : The CEO of a property tech startup that raised $8.2M offered an interviewee 3,000 pesos in exchange to spend the nig...
NTSB to convene its second hearing on a fatal crash involving Tesla's Autopilot; Tesla still hasn't formally responded to recommendations from the 2017 hearing
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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.
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