Microsoft encourages Seattle area and Bay Area employees to work from home if possible through March 25 and asks sick employees to stay home
- People who can work from home in the two affected areas should do that, Microsoft said. — Microsoft said non-essential business travel …
In new App Store review guidelines, Apple now allows push notification advertising if users opt in, raises the quality bar on dating and “fortune telling” apps
Apple today updated its App Store review guidelines regarding some of the features introduced with iOS 13 …
Former Uber self-driving unit head Anthony Levandowski, a key figure in the Uber-Waymo trade secrets trial, ordered to pay $179M to Google over contract breach
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The former head of Uber Technologies Inc's self-driving technology unit must pay $179 million to Google …
Mark Zuckerberg details how Facebook and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are responding to COVID-19: free ads for WHO and other health orgs, misinfo flagging, more
block #disinformation exploiting #coronavirus emergency — study how anonymized #FB data can help show how #COVID19 virus is spreading But can Zuck & team catch enough #Corona hoaxes going in 100s of l...
UK's FCA warns UK citizens against offers from crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, saying it lacks authorization to market financial products in the country
The Financial Conduct Authority cautions UK citizens to avoid the bitcoin derivatives platform. Bitmex is promoting its services without authorization, it says.
Google starts rolling out 4K gaming for Stadia on the web for Stadia Pro subscribers; until now 4K gameplay was limited to Chromecast Ultra and TVs
Google last month started fulfilling its Q1 2020 roadmap by rolling out its streaming service to Samsung, Asus, and Razer phones.
Facebook says a contractor based in Seattle tested positive for coronavirus, leading it to shut its Seattle offices through March 9
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Azure IoT and Cisco IoT form partnership to integrate Cisco Edge with Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, say the partnership will enable more edge computing scenarios
Microsoft and Cisco this week announced the “seamless integration” of the two companies' Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud products, enabling more edge computing scenarios.
Apple retail employees say a memo to technical support staff noted iPhone repair parts and replacement phones would be in short supply for as long as 2-4 weeks
- Company re-opens nearly all of its retail locations in China — Coronavirus begins to strain Apple's global supply chain
Google launches a version of Anthos cloud platform for telecoms as part of its Global Mobile Edge Cloud strategy, partners with AT&T to test 5G edge solutions
Google LLC today launched a new version of its Anthos application development platform for telecommunications providers …
Federal judge rejects Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's suit against Google that claimed the brief suspension of her Ads account last summer violated her free speech rights
A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit in which Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused Google of temporarily suspending …
DuckDuckGo makes Tracker Radar, a tool detailing 5,326 domains used by 1,727 companies and organizations that track users online, publicly available
DuckDuckGo, the maker of search engine and browser technology that doesn't track you online, is sharing data it's collected about online trackers …
Emails show Wolfcom, a major body cam provider in the US, is testing integrating live facial recognition on its Halo camera with at least one police department
Police cam manufacturer Wolfcom has contracts with 1,500 organizations — olfcom, a company that makes technology for police …
Corellium, which was sued by Apple over its iOS virtualization software, demos Project Sandcastle, which uses checkra1n jailbreak to install Android on iPhone 7
Ten years ago, David Wang pulled off a remarkable trick, installing Android on the first-generation iPhone.
Foxconn says its revenue in February fell to $7.26B, down 18.13% YoY and down 40.35% month over month, after it cut production due to coronavirus fears
- Apple supplier Foxconn reported its biggest year-over-year revenue drop since 2013. — Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker …
OnePlus will roll out Door Step Service for repairing devices at users' homes or offices in six cities in India, including Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad
OnePlus is really pumping resources and investment into the Indian market, with exclusive features for fans and device owners in the region.
VSCO unveils Montage, an editing tool that lets users stack and layer multiple photos and videos to create a collage, as it continues to shift focus to video
VSCO, a popular photo editing app (and Gen Z meme), is continuing to shift its focus to video. Last month, the company finally gave …
Sources: federal agencies like CBP and ICE are using Locate X, a tool by a company called Babel Street that tracks phones using data from popular apps
Federal agencies have big contracts with Virginia-based Babel Street. Depending on where you've traveled, your movements may be in the company's data. Tweets: @demianbulwa and @levinsonc Tweets: Demi...
Israeli AI chipmaker Hailo raises $60M Series B, as it prepares to roll out Hailo-8, its edge chip custom-designed for AI workloads
Israeli AI chipmaker Hailo today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series B funding round led by its existing investors, who were joined …
Twitter will begin testing “Fleets”, letting iOS and Android users make posts that disappear after 24 hours, in Brazil, finally using a Stories-like format
Fleets Ali Salman / Wccftech : Twitter in Works to Introduce Disappearing Tweets Called ‘Fleets’ BBC : RIPTwitter trends as firm tests vanishing tweets Julio Cachila / International Business Times : F...
Sources: Amazon nixed proposals that indicated the environmental impact of shipping choices, including a “Green” delivery option, to avoid alienating shoppers
A few years ago, Amazon.com Inc.'s quick delivery team debated doing something radical for the e-commerce giant: asking shoppers to consider the environment. Tweets: @business , @tfadell , @alistairmb...
DoNotPay launches Digital Health, a $3/month tool that automates CCPA data deletion requests; the fee gives users access to its other services like Robo Revenge
In January, a new law gave consumers the power to stop companies collecting their personal information. Tweets: @rstephens and @fortunemagazine . Thanks: @jeffjohnroberts Tweets: Robert Stephens / @rs...
HPE partners with AMD to use its chips in HPE's $600M US DOE supercomputer contract announced last August to optimize AI and ML for nuclear weapons support
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Google announces it has hired Sony game development leader Shannon Studstill to run a new Stadia Games and Entertainment studio in LA
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Google says it will switch to mobile-first indexing for all sites from September and 70% of sites shown in its search results have already shifted over
Google has said currently 70% of sites shown in search have already been switched over. — Google has announced that by September 2020 …
Buenos Aires has had live facial recognition in its subway systems for about a year, which has caused wrongful detentions, even as politicians praise the system
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @davegershgorn , @davegershgorn , @bcmerchant , @ozm , @dlberes , @ipvanish , @ozm , and @fabiochiusi . Thanks: @davegershgorn Tweets: Dave Gershgorn / @davegershgo...
Allies rally around Jack Dorsey as Elliott Management, reportedly with a ~4% stake in Twitter, puts pressure on the CEO, who may not survive the medium term
“The most feared investor in America” has Twitter's CEO in his sights — Were there not a deadly coronavirus spreading across the globe … Tweets: @steelhouse , @mslopatto , and @hkanji Tweets: @steel...
Facebook says it is testing its Messenger app for macOS, which was first announced last April, in several non-US markets, including France, Mexico, and Poland
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Details from trial of alleged Vault 7 leaker show the password for CIA's Confluence VM was “123ABCdef”, and shared passwords were posted on the group's intranet
Kieren McCarthy / The Register : Tweets: @punkarelly Tweets: Kru / @punkarelly : this story is amazing. i can't wait for the book. “The password for the Confluence virtual machine that held all the h...
After Zynga's Sept. 2019 data breach, which affected ~172M users, 2 plaintiffs have filed a suit against the company for “failure to reasonably safeguard” info
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OYO Hotels CEO Ritesh Agarwal says OYO will cut ~17% of its 30k global staff to ~25k; sources: OYO intends to fire “about half” of its full-time staff in China
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Google Assistant can now be asked to read webpages or Android app content aloud, launching with support for 42 different languages
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Sources: DoorDash lost around $450M in 2019 and is in talks to raise debt that would convert to equity when it goes public
Erin Griffith / New York Times : Tweets: @eringriffith and @gigworkersrise Tweets: Erin Griffith / @eringriffith : one piece of news from this profile of DoorDash: the company is out raising a round ...
A look at Banjo, which offers Palantir-like tools to flag emergencies, crime, and more using AI and has a 5-year deal with Utah and access to surveillance data
it's off the charts, building a total surveillance state. https://www.vice.com/... Emily Coleman / @editoremilye : Well, this is a nightmare. https://twitter.com/... Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : This...
Zoom Q4: revenue of $188.3M, up 78% YoY, ~81,900 customers with 10+ employees, up ~61%; stock is up from ~$75 in Jan. to $116 amid COVID-19 but down after hours
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Top court in France rules an Uber driver in 2017 should have been classified as an employee; Uber says it's made changes since then to give drivers more control
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Google moves all job interviews to Hangouts “for the foreseeable future” due to coronavirus, while Amazon and Facebook have also limited on-site job interviews
Jay Peters / The Verge : Tweets: @carlquintanilla , @dtunkelang , @rothgar , and @nickstatt Tweets: Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : (Verge) - Google has begun informing prospective job candidat...
India restores internet access in Kashmir for two weeks, though mobile data restrictions remain, after Supreme Court ruling that the ban could not be indefinite
Aijaz Hussain / Associated Press :
McAfee: nearly half of all malware on Android are hidden apps, up from 30% in 2018, which abuse accessibility features to create accounts, download apps, more
Esther Shein / TechRepublic :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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