A bipartisan amendment to FISA to prohibit warrantless surveillance of Americans' online browsing and search histories failed in the Senate by one vote, 59-37
Congressional privacy hawks scored a critical victory on Wednesday that deepens the uncertainty about the fate of expired federal surveillance powers.
Google announces a new tab-grouping tool for Chrome, rolling out “slowly”, letting users cluster tabs together and organize them by name and color
Google is introducing a new feature to Chrome that will have you asking how you lived without it before.
Reddit is beta testing two Ethereum-based tokens for users to earn rewards for contributing content to subreddits /r/Cryptocurrency and /r/FortniteBR
Reddit, the popular online forum, is beta testing two Ethereum-based tokens for users to earn rewards for contributing content, The Block has learned.
Report: Google's Pixel division has lost Marc Levoy, the engineer leading the camera division, and GM Mario Queiroz over the past year, as sales disappoint
The general manager for the Pixel division is also gone. — What you need to know — According to The Information, Marc Levoy and Mario Queiroz have both left Google. Source: The Information .
A coalition of 20 children and consumer groups says TikTok has flouted an agreement it made with the FTC to protect the privacy of children
Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
In an open letter, Brian Huseman, Amazon's VP of public policy, calls for the establishment of a federal price gouging law amid coronavirus scams
- In a blog post Wednesday, Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of public policy, called for the establishment of a federal price gouging law.
Nvidia unveils its A100 AI chip with 54B transistors and 5 petaflops of performance, about 20 times more than the previous-generation Volta
Nvidia unwrapped its Nvidia A100 artificial intelligence chip today, and CEO Jensen Huang called it the ultimate instrument for advancing AI.
Sony says it has developed the world's first image sensors with built-in AI, which would give “intelligent vision” to cameras for retail and industrial uses
- Turning the chip into a tiny computer, company touts privacy — Benefits for factory automation and retail footfall analysis
Trump extends an executive order banning US companies from using telecom equipment from companies like Huawei for another year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday extended for another year an executive order signed in May 2019 declaring a national emergency …
OnlyFans had a 75% increase in signups in April, with 150,000 signups a day, as digital sex work becomes a more mainstream source of revenue during the pandemic
Ansel Elgort, Blac Chyna, and Caroline Calloway have all popped up on the adults-only platform. But what about the actual professionals? Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @eiffeltyler , @chaykak , @eternalriqu...
Apple says its VP for Public Policy and Government Affairs Cynthia Hogan has resigned, following her appointment to Joe Biden's VP selection committee
Cynthia Hogan, Apple's vice president for public policy and government affairs, has resigned from the company, Apple said.
Epic Games unveils the Unreal Engine 5, coming in 2021, with a PlayStation 5 demo and says the Epic Online Services tools are available today
Hello, and welcome to The Edge, the newsletter … Marshall Honorof / Tom's Guide : PS5 already beats gaming PCs with this key feature Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Latest updates on PS5: Launch is ...
Facebook has partnered with China Mobile and others to build a undersea cable to help bring more reliable and faster internet to Africa, sources say for ~$1B
- U.S. giant starts new effort to boost internet on continent — Move comes after West Africa had outages from broken cables
Ireland-based Workvivo, an employee communication platform, raises $16M Series A led by Tiger Global
Workvivo, an employee communications platform founded only three years ago, has raised $16 million in a Series A funding, in a round led by Tiger Global which is best know for large growth-oriented ro...
Microsoft stops offering 32-bit version of Windows 10 to OEMs for new PCs, but still offers support for existing 32-bit PCs
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Sources say Google has rolled back diversity programs, but Google disputes the claims and says it's adding outside help to scale racial equity training globally
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Amazon is suing two companies for “widespread tech support fraud”, alleging they tricked new users of Alexa devices into paying for purported tech support
Amazon is suing two companies for “widespread tech support fraud,” alleging that they tricked new users of Echo speakers …
Houseparty is debuting its first co-watching live event video series called In The House, featuring more than 40 celebrities, from May 15 through May 17
Houseparty, the video chat app that's seen a surge of growth during quarantine, is preparing to expand its service in a new direction: co-watching live video with friends.
Dell announces a new XPS 17 and a redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays, only USB-C ports, and Intel 10th-gen CPUs, starting at $1,300 and $1,500
Often imitated. Never duplicated. Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld : Alienware Area-51m upgradability: How the Holy Grail of laptop features eluded us Sean Endicott / Windows Central : Is the Dell XPS 15 (75...
France plans to go ahead with its digital services tax this year regardless of an international deal, after offering in January to suspend it until end of 2020
PARIS (Reuters) - France will go ahead with its tax on big digital businesses this year whether there is progress or not towards …
Uber says all riders and drivers will need to wear masks starting next week and introduces new tools to verify drivers are doing so before each trip
> “Uber will require all drivers and riders to wear masks starting Monday” via @cnbctech by @ryan_browne_ https://www.cnbc.com/... Ryan Browne / @ryan_browne_ : Uber has set aside $50 million to distr...
Report: 175M people under the age of 18, or 93.1% of Chinese minors, were online in 2019; urban-rural internet penetration gap among minors is down to 3.6%
Children and teenagers in China are hyper-connected and using the internet in ways that were unimaginable and inaccessible to earlier generations. Tweets: @sub8u Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : Ju...
A new French law compels internet giants to remove pedophile and terrorism-related content within an hour or face a fine of up to 4% of global revenue
Cisco beats Q3 expectations with revenue of $12B, down 8% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue of $6.43B, down 15% YoY
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Glassnode: addresses holding 10,000+ ETH, known as whales, have fallen to 1,050, the lowest since January 2019, while big bitcoin holders have been on the rise
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Stockholm-based Anyfin, whose app uses AI and publicly available data to help consumers refinance existing loans, raises $30M Series B led by EQT Ventures
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Reports: live-streaming grew 45% between March and April, and 99% YoY; Twitch saw the highest growth, as hours watched rose 50% from March to April and 101% YoY
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Intel releases its 10th-gen Comet Lake vPro mobile and desktop CPUs, with mandatory hardware shield and Wi-Fi 6 integration
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Facebook brings Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, to the US after launching internationally last year
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Amazon gives its Fire HD 8 tablet and Fire HD 8 “Kids Edition” a spec bump, adds a new Fire HD 8 Plus model with 3GB of RAM and Qi wireless charging
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Filing: Kickstarter laid off 25 employees, or ~18% of its workforce; the company says 30 staff members took voluntary buyouts, taking total reductions to 39%
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Profile of Louis Borders, founder Borders bookstores, as his dotcom-era online grocery delivery service Webvan reemerges using a network of automated warehouses
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Cryptocurrency trading service FalconX raises $17M from Avon Ventures, Accel, and others
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