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Mighty, the iPod Shuffle for Spotify, gets a bigger battery and better bluetooth 19 hours ago – Technology, like so much of life, is cycle. Gadgets evolve, leaving holes in our lives that some fresh new startup is waiting in the wings to fill. There are few better examples of the phenomenon than the Mighty. Introduced last year, the product built a pretty solid reputation as “the iPod Shuff...
Temasek acquires Sygnia, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, for $250M 20 hours ago – Temasek, the Singaporean government-controlled company that is one of the world’s biggest investors, is today announcing an acquisition to beef up its cybersecurity business. It is acquiring Sygnia, a startup out of Israel that keeps a low profile, but has built technology and services to help la...
Gartner picks digital ethics and privacy as a strategic trend for 2019 20 hours ago – Analyst Gartner, best known for crunching device marketshare data; charting technology hype cycles; and churning out predictive listicles of emergent capabilities at software’s cutting edge has now put businesses on watch that as well as dabbling in the usual crop of nascent technologies organiza...
Walmart’s Vudu may add subscription video channels to its streaming service 17 hours ago – Walmart appears to have big plans for its video streaming service, Vudu . On the heels of a partnership with MGM for original content, new reports claim the retailer is now in discussions with various video services, in the hopes of making them accessible through Vudu itself. That move would make...
Huawei’s new phone can wirelessly charge the competition 18 hours ago – Make no mistake, Huawei’s going after the big dogs here. The company’s taken a Samsung-esque approach to the world of flagship smartphones with a beast of a handset that delivers everything and the kitchen sink. The Mate 20 Pro is a 6.4 inch powerhouse with features and specs to spare. It’s a com...
Paperspace scores $13M investment for AI-fueled application development platform 18 hours ago – Paperspace wants to help developers build artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with a software/hardware development platform powered by GPUs and other powerful chips. Today, the Winter 2015 Y Combinator grads announced a $13 million Series A. Battery Ventures led the round wi...
Medical device maker Medtronic finally fixes its hackable pacemaker 15 hours ago – Medtronic, a maker of medical devices and implants, has pulled the plug on its internet-based software update system, which security researchers had found had a dangerous security vulnerability The company said in a notice this week that it’s switching off the software distribution network after ...
Facebook rolls out checks for UK political ads 15 hours ago – Facebook has announced it rolled out a system of checks on political ads run on its platform in the UK which requires advertisers to verify their identity and location to try to make it harder for foreign actors to meddle in domestic elections and referenda. This follows similar rollouts of polit...
Pinterest is turning more of its window shoppers into buyers with newest features 15 hours ago – Like many other leading social media companies, Pinterest is making it easier to purchase the products on its platform.
Coinbase now lets you buy and sell ZRX 12 hours ago – Coinbase’s newest asset is live. On Tuesday the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform added support for ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project. On Coinbase, ZRX joins the rarified ranks of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin. The addition doesn’t come as a surp...
Periscope broadcasters can now assign their own chat moderators 12 hours ago – It’s going to be harder for trolls to disrupt Periscope broadcasts. The Twitter-owned live-streaming app has offered chat moderation capabilities for years, but it has so far relied on group moderation. That means when users flagged a comment as abuse, spam or harassment, Periscope would randomly...
Google-incubated AdLingo uses chatbot integration to create conversational ads 13 hours ago – “Conversational marketing” is a phrase that I hear a lot, but when the team at AdLingo uses it, they mean something specific — namely, bringing chatbots and other conversational assistants into online advertising. The startup is part of Google’s Area 120 incubator, and co-founder and general mana...
Samsung acquires network analytics startup Zhilabs to help its transition to 5G 3 hours ago – Samsung Electronics is betting that acquiring Zhilabs, a real-time networks analytics startup based in Barcelona, will ease its transition from 4G to 5G technologies. Financial details of the deal, which was announced today, have not been disclosed. Zhilabs will be fully owned by Samsung, but it ...
Scribd and The New York Times announce a joint $12.99 subscription 3 hours ago – If you want to subscribe to both Scribd and The New York Times, you can now do it for a combined price of $12.99 per month — particularly impressive when you consider that a standard NYT digital subscription costs $15.99 on its own. You sign up and pay through Scribd, but once you do, you’ll […]
Scribd and The New York Times announce a joint $12.99 subscription 3 hours ago – If you want to subscribe to both Scribd and The New York Times, you can now do it for a combined price of $12.99 per month — particularly impressive when you consider that a standard NYT digital subscription costs $15.99 on its own. You sign up and pay through Scribd, but once you do, you’ll […]
YouTube experiences a major outage lasting for more than an hour 5 hours ago – No, it’s not just you. As of Tuesday evening Pacific Time, YouTube was down for many users. The outage appears to have begun some time around 6:15 p.m., making this a pretty long outage for such a major site. Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're...
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Twitter spammed people’s phones with cryptic notifications 14 hours ago – Twitter, the Bluth Company of Silicon Valley social networks, kicked off Tuesday by sending users incomprehensible text strings via push notifications. A wide range of Twitter users tweeted their notifications, which consisted of long strings of numbers and lowercase letters, followed by a colon ...
Google Maps will now help you find EV charging stations 13 hours ago – Finding a place to quickly top off your electric car’s battery might get a little bit easier: Google announced today that it’s adding support to Google Maps for EV chargers. Both Tesla and Chargepoint’s global network of EV chargers will be added to the iOS and Android versions of the app startin...
Facebook’s ex-security chief will start a new center to bring Washington and Silicon Valley together 11 hours ago – Alex Stamos, Facebook’s ex-chief security officer, thinks his former home at the heart of Silicon Valley is ill equipped to address the world’s most pressing digital problems, namely security, user privacy, and the protection of democratic institutions. To address this, and perhaps help ease the ...
Scribd partners with The New York Times for a cheaper joint subscription 3 hours ago – If you already have or are looking into a subscription for The New York Times, then Scribd has a bundle for you that’s a great deal: for $12.99 a month, you can subscribe to both NYT and Scribd. Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription service that enables you to read books, newspapers, and m...