YouTube TV is raising its monthly rate to $65 from $50, due to “the rising cost of content”; some ViacomCBS channels are becoming available on the service today
YouTube TV is getting another price hike, making its live TV streaming service less competitive with the cable TV services it aims to replace.
Facebook says it removed 220 Groups and 95 Instagram accounts dedicated to “Boogaloo”, weeks after US said Boogaloo members planned murder of a federal agent
Facebook announced Tuesday that it is removing groups dedicated to the Boogaloo extremist movement one month …
Over 400 advertisers are due to suspend Facebook ads on Wednesday for a month, as sources say talks broke down; Zuckerberg will meet boycott organizers
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook …
Sources: Apple is facing production delays of up to 1-2 months for its 5G iPhone range and will likely not need to postpone the launch until 2021
US tech titan to make more older handsets to offset coronavirus disruption — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. — Apple is pushing its suppliers …
Spotify expands its Premium Duo plan, which allows ad-free streaming for two people for $12.99 per month, to 55 markets including the US
Streaming services have been offering family plans for years. While the terms and prices may change, the basic premise is the same …
Sources: Apple has shifted the strategy of its Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some titles in development and seeking games with more engagement
- Company ends contracts for multiple future Arcade titles — Apple seeks games with stronger engagement to hook users
Researchers say China's mobile hacking campaign against the Uighurs was broader and more aggressive than previously known, beginning as far back as 2013
A new report revealed a broad campaign that targeted Muslims in China and their diaspora in other countries, beginning as early as 2013.
Amazon Game Studios pulls its free-to-play PC title Crucible from wide circulation following negative reviews, an exceedingly rare step for a big-budget game
- Crucible was first big-budget release from Amazon Game Studios — Game will move to closed beta while developers work on changes
UK's Competition and Markets Authority calls for a “pro-competition regulatory regime” to monitor Facebook, Google, and other digital ad giants
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has called on the UK government to create “a new pro-competition regulatory regime” …
Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, quits Twitter after getting involved in an acrimonious debate regarding racial biases in AI
This is an updated version. — Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit …
Leaked memo: Google will not reopen its US offices until September 7 at the earliest, pushing back its earlier plan to bring some workers back starting July 6
- U.S. offices will stay closed until Sept. 7 at the earliest — Company had planned to begin returning employees in July
Over fifteen journalists describe covering Facebook, which they say lies on the record, has ghost-written op-eds, and received quote approval for interviews
One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Tweets: @mattrosoff , @silvermanjacob , @dse...
SCOTUS rules 8-1 in favor of letting online companies trademark generic names, siding with Booking.com and rejecting federal government restrictions
Booking.com wins the right to trademark its own name in a case that was first considered by teleconference by the court amid pandemic
Apple freezes updates for tens of thousands of mobile games on the App Store in China, closing a widely used loophole, to comply with licensing regulations
Tech group under pressure from Chinese government to comply with local rules — Apple has frozen updates for tens of thousands …
The 👁👄👁 stunt, a hyped beta of a fake app, exploited Silicon Valley's fixation on shiny new things, but raised $200K for charities
Last weekend, the stunt aimed to use Silicon Valley's love of shiny new things for charity. The result left people wondering about the memeification of movements.
Sources: Google told European publishers it will cut them off from its ad tools if they block it from harvesting their reader data
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers … Tweets: @profcarroll and @jason_kint Tweets...
California will enforce its digital privacy law, which went into effect on January 1, starting today, despite industry calls for delay because of the pandemic
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Chicago-based The Mom Project, a job site aimed at women returning to work, raises $25M Series B led by 7CG, bringing its total raised to $36M
Women have long had the short end of the stick when it comes to employment, regularly finding themselves struggling to break through the glass ceiling …
Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental Pinterest-like app for documenting personal projects and hobbies
Facebook's recently launched app, Hobbi, an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down.
Source: following Amazon's acquisition, two of Zoox's earliest and most senior engineers have left for Waymo
All is not well following Amazon's $1 billion-plus acquisition of self-driving car developer Zoox. Two of its earliest and most senior engineers—James Philbin and Marc Wimmershoff …
Canadian Intelligence officials say China hacked Nortel, once a world leader in wireless tech, starting in the late 1990s, to promote companies like Huawei
Nortel was once a world leader in wireless technology. Then came a hack and the rise of Huawei. Tweets: @wicary , @sonaliranade , @iancapstick , and @zichenwanghere Tweets: Stephen Wicary / @wicary :...
Fauna, which wants to make adding a database a simple API call, adds $27M to its $25M Series A, bringing its total raised to $57M
Databases have always been a complex part of the equation for developers requiring a delicate balance to manage inside the application, but Fauna wants …
TransferWise says it has been given permission by UK regulators to offer investment products in the future
TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service recently valued at $3.5 billion, has secured an additional license with U.K. regulators to enable it to offer investment pro...
Shenzhen-based Pudu Technology raises $15M Series B to develop autonomous indoor delivery robots
Shenzhen-based robotics R&D startup Pudu Technology today announced it raised $15 million. The company, which claims to have over 2,000 hotel, restaurant, and hospital customers across 20 …
The Australian government announces AU$1.35B will be used over the next decade to boost cyberdefense capabilities against a surge in state-backed cyberattacks
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Dun & Bradstreet, one of Wall Street's oldest data and analytics providers, raises $1.7B in its IPO, valuing the company at $8.8B
- IPO shares priced at $22 each, above its marketed range — Company returns to public markets after less than two years
B Capital, a VC firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin that invests in companies in enterprise tech, fintech, and more, has closed its second fund at $820M
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FCC officially designates Huawei and ZTE as risks to national security, and telecoms can no longer use federal subsidies to purchase equipment from them
Makena Kelly / The Verge :
Bozoma Saint John, veteran of Uber, Apple, and Pepsi-Cola, is joining Netflix as CMO, succeeding Jackie Lee-Joe, who joined Netflix a year ago
Kelsey Sutton / Adweek :
Google shares details on upcoming Sheets features that automatically clean up and complete data, through formula suggestions and more
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Elementary Robotics, which develops tools to automate industrial tasks, announces $12.7M Series A to deploy its automation products at scale
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California police won't release training materials on facial recognition or license plate readers on copyright grounds, despite law mandating access
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE : Tweets: @eff and @chutch28 Tweets: @eff : If police training materials are kept secret, manufacturers of surveillance technology and private organizations can influence pol...
Microsoft unveils initiatives to upskill workers amid the “COVID-19 economy” including cash grants, affordable skill certificates, and a learning app in Teams
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Video game companies shifting to the cloud has sparked an infrastructure arms race to build more data centers so as to achieve low latency and zero packet loss
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired : Tweets: @poweredbyinap and @molleindustria Tweets: Inap / @poweredbyinap : In a new article from @WIRED on IT infrastructure and the future of gaming, INAP's Jennifer Cu...
Leaked memo: Verily is suspending spot bonuses through 2020 and redirecting the money to diversity and inclusion programs
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge : Source: Business Insider .
US Cybercom warns foreign state-backed hackers will likely abuse a recently discovered SAML vulnerability that allows unauthorized network admin logins
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Cloud computing blockchain startup Dfinity opens platform to outside devs, debuts a decentralized TikTok-like service, CanCan, written in under 1K lines of code
Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk :
Researchers from Disney and ETH Zurich detail innovations in creating movie-quality face-swapping technology
Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo :
NexHealth, which provides an automated online appointment system for small medical and dental practices, raises $15M Series A
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Researchers found 25 Android apps, downloaded 2.3M+ times, stealing Facebook credentials through a phishing page overlay; Google has now removed them
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