Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference citing COVID-19 concerns; event organizers say the conference is proceeding as planned
Twitter pulled out earlier today — Facebook has pulled out of the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, TX, according to a company statement given to Business Insider.
Report: senior management at Apple rebuffed some operations execs' suggestion to relocate part of its manufacturing from China to Vietnam as early as 2015
Production on Apple's devices has been stymied in recent weeks due to delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China. Source: Wall Street Journal .
Twitter says it strongly encourages its 4,800 employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus, the first major US company to do so
Twitter on Monday became the first major U.S. corporation to strongly encourage its employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus.
US sanctions two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea's Lazarus Group, which has hacked two crypto exchanges since 2018
UPDATE: The Department of Justice has also indicted the two Chinese nationals on money laundering-related charges.
Robinhood says it is again experiencing a “major outage”, after saying issues were resolved on Monday, and will compensate users on a case-by-case basis
- Robinhood saw a second day of glitches that kept clients from trading as markets rebounded.
iPhone maker Foxconn says it expects its Chinese plants to begin operating normally by the end of March, after the disruption caused by the coronavirus
- Hon Hai says its facilities are at 50% seasonal capacity — The epidemic has disrupted Apple's finely tuned supply chain
Waymo raises $2.25B from Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, parent-company Alphabet, and others to scale up its autonomous vehicles operations
Waymo, the autonomous vehicles division of Google parent company Alphabet, just got a massive capital infusion from a coterie of investors.
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code
To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.
Honeywell says it will launch a quantum computer within three months with a quantum volume of at least 64, the world's most powerful quantum computer
Under Honeywell's quantum plans, customers will connect directly to systems housed by the company. Honeywell will use quantum computing …
Google updates Pixel phones with new Motion Sense gesture controls, emoji, AR effects, car crash detection for its Personal Safety app, photo and video features
One of the benefits of owning a Pixel smartphone is that it improves over time as Pixels are first to receive updates that deliver the latest fixes and improvements.
Mac Pro 2019 review: beautiful design, incredibly quiet, but most apps don't push performance limits, expansion slots still can't use Nvidia GPUs, and is pricey
Apple's back in the pro game, but can it keep up? — Reviewing the new Mac Pro has been an interesting challenge.
BMC to acquire its longtime mainframe software competitor Compuware from Thoma Bravo for an undisclosed sum; Thoma Bravo bought Compuware in 2014 for $2.4B
Together they plan to focus on mainframe operations, cybersecurity, application development, data, and storage.
How a security analyst sent his mother to a state correctional facility with fake credentials to plant malicious USB drives, resulting in the director using one
Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility's defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother. Tweets: @condenast and @kimzetter Tweets: Cond Nast / @condena...
Brookings study: only 10 US cities have grown their share of tech jobs since 2010, resulting in less diversity for companies and no economic windfall elsewhere
Where tech jobs go, so does wealth. — US jobs in tech, arguably the dominant industry of our time, are increasingly concentrating …
Bolt, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter startup co-founded by Usain Bolt, closes $30M Series A at a $100M valuation led by Rokk3r Fuel ExO
Bolt Mobility, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter company co-founded by Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, announced Tuesday that it closed a Series A funding round … Tweets: @rmac18 Tweets: @rmac18 : If ...
Talespin, which uses VR/AR to develop enterprise training tools, raises $15M Series B led by Cornerstone OnDemand, bringing its total raised to $20M
Talespin made itself famous for a virtual reality demo where managers learn how to fire a hapless worker named Barry.
ACLU sues ICE for its algorithm used to recommend if people arrested for immigration violations should be let go, argues it's rigged to detain nearly everyone
In 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began using a software tool to recommend whether people arrested … Tweets: @chadloder , @theintercept , @jvagle , and @theintercept Tweets: Ch...
AT&T TV launches across the US after rolling out in over a dozen markets last year, with prices that start at $49.99/month but go up dramatically after a year
ONE — free Android TV box, which is good for one TV, but each additional Android TV box costs a whopping $120 per device (which they're happy to let you pay on installment). Matthew Keys / @matthewkey...
Sourcegraph, which enables developers to search, explore, and better understand code, raises $23M Series B led by Craft Ventures
Sourcegraph wants to be the Google of code, even though code search is harder than web search — As opposed to web search, most people don't use, know, or care about code search.
Public, a stock investing app that allows users to buy fractions of shares, raises $15M Series B led by Accel and Greycroft, bringing total raised to ~$24M
Investing in the stock market can be intimidating for many. It can also be difficult for those who don't have tons of extra cash …
Facebook to begin publishing a monthly report on coordinated inauthentic behavior, says it took down 467 Facebook accounts and 1,245 Instagram accounts in Feb.
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Apple agrees to pay up to $500M to settle a US class-action lawsuit accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones
but no way that will happen. https://www.reuters.com/... Owen Barcala / @obarcala : Remember when Apple was outraged that people would accuse it of slowing down iPhones to get users to buy newer model...
Ampere unveils Ampere Altra, an 80-core ARM-based 64-bit server processor for server applications like data analytics, AI, database, storage, and more
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JD.com beats estimates with Q4 net revenue of $24.5B, up 26.6% YoY, says it expects Q1 revenue to increase “at least 10%” YoY to ~$19.09B amid COVID-19 concerns
Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily :
Cloud gaming services are raising questions of licensing and platform control, as Nvidia's GeForce Now service encounters some publisher and developer pushback
Nick Statt / The Verge :
A rootkit exploit affecting MediaTek chipsets in millions of Android devices gets a patch from Google, almost a year after the exploit was first revealed online
Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers :
UnitQ raises $11M Series A, led by Google's Gradient Ventures, to spot bugs in user reports with natural language processing
As of early 2018, only 21% of bugs found during software testing were fixed immediately, according to Statista. It's the belief of Christian Wiklund, David Eklov …
Apple shares rose 9.3% Monday, closing at $298.81, with the Dow up 5.1% and Nasdaq up 4.5%, as the market rebounded from last week's coronavirus-fueled selloff
A look at Cryptolaemus, a group of security researchers and administrators fighting the Emotet malware, currently one of the most dangerous malware operations
A private group of 20+ security researchers and system administrators have been waging a silent war against Emotet, today's most dangerous malware operation. Thanks: @steveranger
US private equity group Thoma Bravo has closed the acquisition of UK-based cybersecurity company Sophos for $3.9B; the deal was first announced in Oct. 2019
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Hulu launches its new “FX on Hulu” hub, Disney's biggest step toward overhauling the streaming service since its acquisition of 20th Century Fox last year
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Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives
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Music app publisher MWM, whose apps include edjing Mix, Drum Machine, Beat Snap 2, and Tao Mix 2, raises €50M led by blisce/, bringing its total raised to €60M
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Procore, provider of construction management software, files for IPO, reveals revenue of $289.2M in 2019, up 55% YoY, on net loss of $83.1M vs. $56.7M in 2018
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Sensel, which makes multi-touch input devices for third parties, raises $28M Series A to work with new OEMs, bringing its total funding to $38M
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A look at some of the Redditors and subreddits fighting disinformation on a site notorious for incubating conspiracy theories and spreading falsehoods
Steven Melendez / Fast Company : Tweets: @gideonro , @kschwabable , @fastcompany , and @harrymccracken . Thanks: @kschwabable Tweets: Gideon Rosenblatt / @gideonro : Reddit depends upon its moderator...
A look at WireGuard, a lightweight and simple open source VPN tool and protocol that will soon be part of the Linux kernel
compared with tens of thousands of lines in other VPNs. That doesn't make it more secure, but it does make it easier to find and fix problems. https://www.wired.com/... @z3rotrust : “...adding WireGua...
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.