MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on Android at Google, dies after being stabbed in San Francisco on April 4
I worked with Bob Lee when I first started working at Google. … Jenny Lee : Last night, I heard about Bob Lee's passing. I am completely devasted and heartbroken. — Bob was our Chief Product Office...
YouTube raises YouTube TV's price by $8 to $72.99/month, citing a rise in “content costs”, effective for new users on March 16 and existing users on April 18
here's what you should switch to Florence Ion / Gizmodo : YouTube TV's Price Is Increasing to $73 a Month, and It Makes Me Want to Cancel My Subscription Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide : YouTube TV is g...
Automattic closed a new funding round of $288M in February and recently completed a $250M share buyback aimed at current and ex-employees at a $7.5B valuation
I don't think he was even old enough to drink. Now, he runs a $7.5 billion company https://twitter.com/... Matt Mullenweg / @photomatt : Some belated news and some timely news, on the latest with @aut...
Facebook's wav2vec Unsupervised, a way to build speech recognition systems that require no transcribed data, may bring automatic translations to more countries
Wav2vec Unsupervised (wav2vec-U) … Tiernan Ray / ZDNet : Facebook AI cuts by more than half the error rate of unsupervised speech recognition Donald Conway / Insider Voice : Facebook Wav2vec-U learns ...
Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries unveils a military drone that can fly autonomously, form a data-sharing swarm, and track people, missiles, equipment using AI
depending on who you ask.” I'll got out on a limb and say it's neither nor. https://www.wired.com/... William Fitzgerald / @william_fitz : or maybe just don't make autonomous lethal weapons? https://t...
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Fold2 with an upgraded camera system, larger 7.6-inch main display, and hole-punch cameras; release date and price TBA
which should you get? Bhushan Akolkar / Coinspeaker : Samsung Unveils Its Galaxy Note 20 and the Galaxy Z Fold 2, Shipments to Start by August 21 Engadget : The Morning After: Samsung revealed the Not...
How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists
Alyssa Bereznak / The Ringer : Tweets: @jeremysliew , @alyssabereznak , @jeremysliew , @peterpham , and @karolcummins See also Mediagazer Tweets: @jeremysliew : “@suecothechild has been making music ...
Source: Bytedance spent ~$1B advertising TikTok in 2018, heavily promoting its short video app on Facebook and Instagram, and becoming Snap's biggest advertiser
China's first big hit in the U.S. uses an advanced algorithm to personalize its video-sharing app, and parent Bytedance's enormous ad spending … Tweets: @jeremysliew , @mtatsis , @peterpham , and @kar...
Sources: at least three prominent investors have decided not to fund HQ Trivia after finding troubling conduct on part of the founders, particularly Colin Kroll
When the New New Thing Is an Old Thing: Bicycles Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine : HQ Founder Accused of ‘Creepy’ Behavior Toward Women Steve Kovach / Business Insider : HQ Trivia was getti...
The New York Times acquires online consumer guide The Wirecutter, founded by former Gizmodo editor-in-chief Brian Lam; sources say NYT will pay more than $30M
maybe the — way to go for journalism startups. Brian Lam / @blam : All this love, thank you! Ben French / @benfrench : The Times opened 9 jobs today for @wirecutter, including GM, design, technology a...