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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...
The Verge
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...
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