Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns
Sony, EA, Activision Blizzard, Unity, and Epic Games have all withdrawn due to COVID-19 concerns — This year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed …
Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers
Apple has disabled the iOS application of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database …
Microsoft adds productivity features to Cortana, drops consumer skills including music, connected home, and third-party skills in the upcoming Windows 10 update
Cortana is converting to a productivity assistant, meaning Cortana skills are on the way out. — What you need to know
Sources: Elliott Management has taken a “sizable” stake in Twitter, nominated four directors to Twitter's board, and seeks to replace CEO Jack Dorsey
- Elliott has nominated four directors for Twitter's board — Hedge fund has had ‘constructive discussions’ with company
FCC proposes fines of $91M for T-Mobile, $57M for AT&T, $48M for Verizon, and $12M for Sprint for sharing customers' location information with outside parties
The Federal Communications Commission proposed fines totaling more than $200 million against the nation's biggest wireless carriers …
Amazon restricts employee travel in US, Google restricts travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea as a Google employee in Zurich is diagnosed with COVID-19
A Google employee in Switzerland has a confirmed case of the virus — Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy …
Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year
'Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced legislation that would tax nonqualified stock options at vesting …
Facebook says its 3D Photos feature, which retroactively converts 2D photos to 3D using neural nets, now works on photos taken with single-lens cameras
Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don't actually capture depth data. Using the magic of machine learning …
Facebook to start rolling out a redesign for Messenger next week that removes the Discover tab, reorients the People tab around Stories, and hides chat bots
Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger's strategy three years ago. Now they're being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses.
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review: 120Hz screen is nice and battery life is good but the main camera often acts like a first-gen product with first-gen problems
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
In warehouses, call centers, and elsewhere, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous
In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous
Investigation: several staff members of the Chan-Zuckerberg family office have made allegations of assault, sexual harassment, and more, against other staff
KAUAI, Hawaii — One minute before midnight on December 29, 2017, one of Mark Zuckerberg's personal staffers got a phone call.
Twitter verified the account of a fake candidate for Congress created by a 17-year-old to test its election integrity efforts; the account is now suspended
An excerpt from the book “The Hacker and the State”, which includes details about North Korea's hacking campaigns against banks across the world
They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a “money mule” to pick up the cash. Tweets: @harvard_press , @nicolas_veron , and @buch...
Accolade, provider of a health care platform for employees to manage benefits, files to raise up to $100M in IPO; PitchBook: Accolade is valued around $620M
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION … Asher Dewhurst / Accolade : Proposed Initial Public Offering Nasdaq : Health benefits platform Accolade files for a $100 million IPO Tweets: @rock_he...
The competition between GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates, and UberEats illustrates the importance of expanding supply and focusing on growth over profits
which reminds me that Postmates announced that it was filing for an IPO over a year ago and still hasn't pulled the trigger. https://medium.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Great summary of how...
TikTok, with 145M US downloads, claims Chipotle-sponsored #boorito hashtag had 3.9B views; Captiv8: hashtag campaigns cost ~$150K, homescreen takeover $50K/day
Bloomberg :
Four former US defense secretaries urge America to shape artificial intelligence and machine learning norms or else authoritarian regimes and companies will
or Dictators Will https://www.defenseone.com/... | Commentary by former Defense Secretaries William Cohen, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel and Ash Carter https://twitter.com/... Trae Stephens / @traestephen...
Google Stadia's APK shows Stadia may get a free tier, offer users a free trial for Stadia Pro, and add features like YouTube streaming, family sharing, and more
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
A look at the TranscribersOfReddit subreddit where 3,186 volunteers write elaborate transcriptions of memes, videos, and images to make the site more accessible
Alex Lee / Wired :
Developers say Mac Catalyst is great for providing mouse and window support for iPad apps and porting simpler apps but struggles with complicated ones
Alex Blake / Digital Trends : Tweets: @stevesi and @matt_on_tech . Thanks: @smashdawg Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Apple says Mac Catalyst is working. We asked developers to find out the trut...
Analysis of 15K+ funding rounds raised by 12K+ startups shows seed rounds getting bigger: 3M+ rounds were 7.8% of total in period 2015-17, and 17% for 2018-20
Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @crunchbase Tweets: @crunchbase : You might have the feeling that seed rounds are getting larger. On the whole, current data suggests that they indeed are....
A profile of Stripe and Y Combinator-backed digital bank Monzo, which has $1.6B+ in customer deposits, 3.8M customers, and says 40K are signing up every week
and how, years after he started the digital bank, the Valley never really left him. @monzo @t_blom @CNBCi https://www.cnbc.com/... Thanks: @ryan_browne_
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.