ESA says the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), scheduled for early June as a three-day event, has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns
ESA announces it won't hold massive game marketing event for the first time since 1995. — [Update: In a message sent Wednesday morning …
Google recommends all North American employees work remotely until at least April 10
New York (CNN Business)Google parent company Alphabet is recommending that all of its North America employees work from home through April 10 due to coronavirus, according to an email shown to CNN.
Two Exabeam employees tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from the RSA conference in San Francisco; one is now in a medically induced coma
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Source: Google plans to launch a second-gen Chromecast Ultra dongle later this year, based on Android TV, with 4K HDR support and a standalone remote
According to a reliable source familiar with the company's plans, Google is planning to launch a second-generation Chromecast Ultra this year based on Android TV.
Microsoft says it worked with partners in 35 countries to take down the Necurs botnet, one of the largest known to date, infecting 9M+ computers worldwide
Microsoft and partners in 35 countries move to bring down Necurs, today's largest malware botnet. — Microsoft announced today …
How some high-profile direct-to-consumer startups have struggled to make their economics work amid rising customer acquisition costs
How venture capital became the most dangerous thing to happen to now-troubled DTCs like Outdoor Voices, Harry's, and Casper
As COVID-19 spreads, online travel sites face challenges as bookings slump; Airbnb launches “More Flexible Reservations” to refund guests more easily
find long-term renters. 🙄 https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jimmy Thomson / @jwsthomson : The Airbnb hosts who will feel this the most are those who have taken multiple properties of...
Uber says it may temporarily suspend drivers and riders who have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19, will compensate quarantined drivers for up to 14 days
(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) notified riders and drivers that it may temporarily suspend the accounts of anyone …
Google temporarily bans all ads for medical face masks, following a similar move by Facebook on Friday
E3 2020 will no longer go ahead, sources have told GameSpot. Tweets: Jennifer Elias / @jenn_elias : Since our story originally posted an hour ago, we've received several reader messages w/screenshots,...
A look at EARN IT Act, a bipartisan bill to make firms earn Section 230 protections by meeting standards that reduce child exploitation but weaken data privacy
Backers of the EARN IT Act focus on protecting children from being exploited, but security experts say the bill actually chips away at your encrypted messages.
Google's wearable Jacquard sensor, installed into the insole of a shoe, uses machine learning to scrutinize a soccer player's footwork in real time
How powerful is your kick? Did you pass effectively? The latest Jacquard wearable uses machine learning to scrutinize a player's footwork in real time.
Report: 83% of internet-connected medical imaging devices run on outdated operating systems, up 56% since 2018 due to the end of Windows 7 support in Jan.
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 security division said medical equipment is outdated and vulnerable to hacker attacks and health care organizations … Source: Unit42 .
Ahead of this month's SCOTUS review of Oracle's 2010 Java copyright infringement case against Google, a look at how Oracle once got rich by copying IBM's SQL
Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights. — More than a decade ago … Tweets: @newsycbot , @markcallaghandb , @grimmelm , and @binarybits Tweets: @newsycbot : O...
Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20 Plus review: excellent screen and hardware with good battery life but 5G isn't worth the cost and only two years of software updates
By doing less than the S20 Ultra, Samsung achieves more — It's very easy to take the Galaxy S20 for granted.
Early look at Amazon's Graviton2 Arm chip, expected to be publicly available in a few months, suggests better performance per dollar on EC2 than Intel chips
It's been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called ‘A1’ instances. Tweets: @timbray , @oimaurici...
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs scales back Toronto smart city project prompted by local privacy critics, who argue it exploits people's data from the physical world
Faced with an array of opponents for its sensor-laden city of tomorrow in Toronto, a Google sibling has dramatically dialed back plans. Tweets: @rafael_a_calvo , @mikethebbop , @bhaggart , @sallan_fou...
TikTok to launch a Transparency Center in LA, to let external experts evaluate its content moderation, to be followed by providing insights into its source code
(Reuters) - Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a bid to boost transparency …
UK will introduce a 2% tax on search engines, social media services, and online marketplaces with $650M+ annual revenue and £25M+ UK revenue starting on April 1
The U.K. government has confirmed that it will levy a 2% tax on “the revenues of search engines, social media services …
Sources: during a meeting, the White House sought help from Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and others to combat coronavirus misinformation and track its spread
The White House on Wednesday sought new help from Amazon, Google and other tech giants in the fight against coronavirus …
Trump administration announces new rules letting patients use apps of their choice to access healthcare data; some groups criticize the lack of data safeguards
can EHR vendors still charge for their API after the sunset period? https://www.nytimes.com/... Jane Sarasohn-Kahn / @healthythinker : IMHO @HealthPrivacy has money quote @NYTimes re #CuresAct #intero...
Libra rival The Celo Foundation launches Alliance for Prosperity, a cryptocurrency developer platform, backed by 50+ partners including a16z and Coinbase
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SpotOn, which provides point of sale payment services, raises $50M Series B led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Franklin Templeton
Small and medium enterprises make up the vast majority of businesses globally, and today a startup building merchant services to help them operate is announcing …
Match Group, in a break with the Internet Association trade group, will publicly support the EARN IT Act despite privacy concerns over the legislation
Researchers find anonymous social media app Whisper left hundreds of millions of intimate user messages, tied to personal details like location, exposed online
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Apple may be working on a new fitness app, codenamed “Seymour” in leaked code, for iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, which will let users download guided workout videos
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Video of an alleged Pixel 4a reveals hole-punch front camera, 3.5mm jack, 60Hz 5.8" display with 443 PPI pixel density, Snapdragon 730, 6GB RAM, 3080mAh battery
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UK says it plans to spend $1B creating an ARPA-like “blue skies” agency to fund high-risk tech R&D aimed at “really big societal challenges”
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Researchers: Intel CPUs vulnerable to new “LVI” attacks, which let attackers inject and execute code inside the CPU, theoretically even from a site's JavaScript
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Overview of new policies announced by Instacart, DoorDash, and Postmates to help gig workers with potential financial burdens caused by COVID-19
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New Enterprise Associates closes a $3.6B fund, focused on tech and healthcare startups at all stages, bringing its total capital under management to $24B
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Cloudera reports Q4 revenue of $211.7M, up from $144.5M YoY, vs. estimated $201.79M, ARR of $731.2M, up 11% YoY; stock up 7%+
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Sources outline how SoftBank-backed Improbable has struggled to attract developers to SpatialOS, a game simulation platform that has only one game running on it
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business , @athomson6 , @athomson6 , and @hkanji Tweets: @business : Improbable Worlds, backed by SoftBank, promised to revolutionize gaming. But seven years after ...
VMware, a company once seemingly threatened by container technology, overhauls its portfolio of vSphere products to include native support of Kubernetes
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Facebook says it is testing a feature that lets accounts cross-post Stories from Facebook to Instagram
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Twitter rewrites Developer Policy to better support academic research, clarifying rules around data usage, the use of “good” bots, and more
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DeepCrawl, a website crawler and SEO management platform, raises €16.7M Series B led by Five Elms Capital and Beringea
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FBI arrested a Russian national on March 7 at JFK airport, claims he operated deer.io, a marketplace alleged to have $17M in sales of stolen accounts since 2013
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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
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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.