Category: Tech news

As the Trump administration reups an anti-hacking agreement with China, security researchers say China is inching its toes up to that red line.

Executives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter will testify to three congressional committees about Russia and the 2016 election.

The 20-year-old kids behind RoBhat Labs are unearthing the hidden bots that plague the social media giant—so, why isn’t Twitter?

We took Apple’s iPhone X on a trampoline to test the camera’s image stabilization and slow-motion capture capabilities.

The satellite company and the AI company are using the cloud to interpret the Earth.

And all the questions we still have about how the technology’s path to commercialization.

Square announces its new $999 professional Register, GameStop begins a rental subscription pass and Nintendo says Switch will beat the Wii U in sales. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

 Just a day before tech’s big Russia-focused Congressional hearings begin, Google is out with a new report on the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election across its platforms.
“While we have found only limited activity on our services, we will continue to work to prevent all of it, because there is no amount of interference that is… Read More

 Apple and Qualcomm’s feud appears to be escalating further heading into the fourth quarter, as a new report by The Wall Street Journal this evening indicates Apple is designing iPhones and iPads that would not include Qualcomm’s components. Instead, Apple may opt to work with Intel and possibly MediaTek for its modem chips, according to the report. This would be another… Read More

 The Bay Area-based Wonder Workshop announced today that it has closed a $41 million Series C round of funding. The team has built a number of very cool little robots that kids can program on their mobile phone in a manner that helps them grasp at some computer science basics. Read More

 Facebook has reportedly upped its estimate of how much content was produced by Russian-backed actors during the election and how widely that content was seen. According to prepared remarks due to be presented tomorrow but acquired by The Wall Street Journal today, the company estimates 80,000 pieces of content may have been viewed by a total of 126 million people. Read More

A new blueprint from city transportation planners and engineers, who say it’s never too early to start thinking about the future.

Our culture team went into social-media hiding so they could mainline the new episodes—but now that they’re back, it’s time to unpack.

 It’s understandable when things change as fast as they do these days that it takes a bit for our ideas of how things work to catch up to how they actually work. One misunderstanding worth clearing up is the suggestion that Apple (or Google, or whoever) is somewhere maintaining a special folder in which all your naughty pics are kept. You’re right to be suspicious, but that’s… Read More

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