Joe Rogan's podcast, which he said had ~190M downloads/month in 2019, will become a Spotify exclusive this year; his YouTube will no longer have full episodes
A massive gain for the platform — Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify.
Kuo says Apple may not include wired EarPods in iPhone 12 box to boost AirPods sales, and raises AirPods sales estimates for 2020 from 80M to 93M units
According to the latest report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple may not include the wired EarPods headphones in the box of the iPhone 12.
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs
At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
Sony says PlayStation Now has 2.2M subscribers and PlayStation Plus has 41M+ subs; Xbox Game Pass had 10M subs and Xbox Live had 90M active users in April
PlayStation Plus has amassed over 41 million subscribers, too — Sony says 2.2 million people are subscribed to PlayStation Now …
Indian ride-hailing company Ola says it is cutting 1,400 jobs, or 35% of its workforce in the country, as revenue dropped by 95% in the last two months
Ola said on Wednesday it is cutting 1,400 jobs in India, or 35% of its workforce in the home market, as the ride-hailing firm works …
Microsoft says it is improving its Windows Subsystem for Linux, including adding GUI app support, as its Terminal command line tool reaches version 1.0
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Productivity tool Notion's free tier gets unlimited notes and blocks
There's never been a better time to check out the collaborative note-taking app — Notion, the workspace and note-taking app, just became much more appealing to individual users. The company said to...
Microsoft debuts PowerToys Run launcher for Windows 10, an open source app that lets users quickly search files and apps, similar to Apple's Spotlight search
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Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences, accounting for consumer traits like body type, skin tone, location, socioeconomic class, age, and poses
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Vaccine trials that use AI to rapidly test trillions of possibilities with simulated patients could replace slow and costly human clinical trials
Simulators that can rapidly test trillions of options would accelerate the slow and costly process of human clinical trials. Tweets: @wired , @nxthompson , @mlipsitch , and @maartenvsmeden Tweets: @wi...
A look at Crucible, the first of two major titles scheduled for release this year from Amazon Games, shows that Amazon is finally serious about video games
An intriguing blend of MOBA and battle royale. — 4m ago — Amazon does seemingly everything.
Sources: Facebook will limit offices to 25% occupancy, put people on shifts, and require temperature checks and masks when it reopens workplaces in July
- Company plans to put employees on shifts to reduce numbers — Grab-and-go meals, temperature checks, updated shuttles coming
Profile of the founders of Occupy Democrats, who run a Facebook page employing meme tactics for the left, regularly outperforming pages for Trump and Fox News
Occupy Democrats, a Facebook page that Rafael and Omar Rivero started eight years ago, has emerged as a counterweight to right-wing meme machines. Tweets: @ewerickson , @oliverdarcy , @kevinroose , an...
Helsinki-based Happeo, which offers intranet, enterprise social network, and collaboration software to companies, raises €10.9M Series A led by INKEF Capital
Today Finnish startup Happeo, an employee communications platform, announces having raised approximately €10.9 million …
The SD Association unveils new SD 8.0 spec, with SD Express card speeds reaching 3940 MB/s with PCIe 4.0 support, roughly four times the speed of current cards
As resolutions and file sizes continue to grow, it's important for storage —especially removable storage—to keep up …
Cybersecurity insurance startup Coalition raises $90M Series C led by Valor Equity Partners at a $800M pre-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $125M
This morning, Coalition announced that it has closed a $90 million Series C. The funding comes around a year …
Video chat tools like Zoom do well to emulate workspaces but lack flexibility in creative presentation and miss the subtleties of in-person interactions
Software tools simulate work. They should really let us put on a show. — Did you find yourself, over these last fascinating and upsetting weeks, always on camera? Tweets: @jaycuthrell Tweets: Jay C...
Zoom no longer lets individual users sign up for free in China, reportedly due to regulatory requirements; only paid accounts can host meetings
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Starship Technologies' fleet of delivery robots helped residents of Milton Keynes, a small city of 270K in UK, with grocery deliveries during the lockdown
Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries. Tweets: @mit_csail , @dintersmith , @eringriffith , a...
Xiaomi beats estimates with Q1 revenue of $7B, up 13.6% YoY, thanks to sales of its higher-priced 5G models in China as well as growing sales overseas
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Xiaomi Corp reported a 13.6% rise in first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, beating estimates, as the Chinese smartphone maker sold …
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features
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Truework, which helps banks, rental agencies, and others securely check employment details of applicants online, raises $30M Series B led by Activant Capital
As organizations look for safe and efficient ways of running their services in the new global paradigm of increased social distancing …
Ukrainian Secret Service says it's arrested a hacker who has allegedly sold billions of stolen credentials on hacking forums and Telegram channels
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Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online, raises $60M led by B Capital; source: startup valued at ~$300M
think of neighborhood stores — are still offline in the country.” Khatabook is trying to change that and just raised $60M to do so, via @refsrc https://techcrunch.com/...
Google says it won't “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry”, after new Greenpeace report on Big Oil ties
How Tech Companies are Helping Big Oil Profit … Sam Shead / CNBC : Google plans to stop making A.I. tools for oil and gas firms Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Google pledges not to make custom softwa...
Lyft partners with anti-sexual violence organization RAINN to provide free rides to individuals who contact RAINN hotline in select, undisclosed US cities
Chiara Sottile / NBC News : Tweets: @nbcnews Tweets: @nbcnews : Lyft partners with the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization to offer 1,000 free rides to individuals seeking crisis suppo...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal
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Canada's competition watchdog says it fined Facebook C$9M after an investigation found FB made “misleading” claims about how it shared Canadians' personal info
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NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments
Sara Fischer / Axios : Tweets: @donie , @antoniogm , @zackkanter , @antoniogm , @pilhofer , @freedomofpress , @tealtan , @_ram_ , @jimpethokoukis , @auren , @girlsreallyrule , @nicdawes , @davidubert...
Microsoft says it acquired Windows task automation startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate
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Bitfury: share of bitcoin sent to mixers by darknet entities rose to 20% in Q1 2020, up from 1% in Q1 2019
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Some sex workers on OnlyFans say they are being pushed out in favor of mainstream celebrities and influencers, as the site is scrutinized amid SESTA/FOSTA laws
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone : Tweets: @madame_glitter , @hypnofemdom , @rizzn , @cherubbrat , @racebaitr , and @lauraagustin Tweets: Madame Glitter / @madame_glitter : Educate yourselves and move to A...
Researchers name Nigerian cybercriminal group, Scattered Canary, as one of the sources of recent unemployment and Cares payout scams using identify theft data
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @lilyhnewman Tweets: Lily Hay Newman / @lilyhnewman : the secret service warned about rising pandemic unemployment fraud and the nigerian BEC group “scattered canary...
Inside Amazon's biggest COVID-19 warehouse outbreak, which occurred in northeastern Pennsylvania, where local lawmakers believe 100+ workers tested positive
without social distancing. https://www.nytimes.com/... @dealbook : At first, Amazon told workers about each new coronavirus case. But when the total reached about 60, the announcements stopped giving ...
Chinese fitness app Keep raises $80M Series E at a $1B valuation led by Jeneration Capital Management
Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia : Tweets: @ruima Tweets: Rui Ma / @ruima : I remember when fitness in China was just not a thing (~12 years ago). Yoga was just starting to be a bit of a thing. And now ....
Israeli commercial cybersecurity company Cyberbit, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, raises $70M from Charlesbank Technology Opportunities Fund
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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
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.