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DataDog Files To Go Public With Quick Revenue Growth, Slim Losses, And History Of Profitability
crunchbase.com - Sophia Kunthara
DataDog filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, revealing its recent financial results and general health.Subscribe to …
YouTube
ProBeat: YouTube messages should have never existed
VentureBeat - Emil Protalinski
YouTube is killing its messages feature two years after introducing it, despite there being no use case for a built-in chat functionality in the app.
Gamescom
Ep.5 - Facebook Off-Facebook, Apple TV+, Gamescom
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Mobile Technology
LG Dual Screen review: A foldable enigma
VentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers
I hold in my hands a smartphone accessory that sports a fully foldable screen. It’s got nothing to do with the beleaguered Samsung Galaxy Fold or Huawei Mate X, nor the half-dozen bendable phone prototypes
Microplastics
You’ve Got Microplastics by Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News
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WIRED’s Matt Simon joins the show to talk about microplastics—what they are, why they’re a nightmare, and whether you should fret about eating …
Tech Tent - What Facebook knows about you - BBC Sounds
bbc.co.uk
The social giant will reveal what it knows about your net activity off of its platform.
Tech Podcasts
Apple Health: Once the company’s ambition, now has stalled
Marketplace
On Fridays, our “Quality Assurance” segment takes a deeper look into a big tech story. This week: why several Apple employees are leaving the …
Kara Swisher
DoorDash is still stealing tips. And is Tesla f... by Pivot
megaphone.fm
Kara and Scott are back in the studio to talk about Trump bringing foreign policy to Twitter, state AG's taking on big tech and Tesla possibly being …
Tech Podcasts
Galaxy Note 10 Plus review, Apple fall lineup r... by The Vergecast
megaphone.fm
This week on The Vergecast...Dieter's got a review for the Galaxy Note 10, Samsung has some blue bubble bashing GIFs, and there are a whole bunch of …
Kara Swisher
CDA 230: The US law that shaped the internet, e... by Recode Decode
megaphone.fm
CDA 230: The US law that shaped the internet, e... Recode's Kara Swisher convenes a panel of experts to talk about section 230 of the Communications …
Tech Podcasts
Bitcoins got Bakkt - Bad News For 8/22/19 - The Bad Crypto Podcast
badcryptopodcast.com
The US government has given the go-ahead for the Bakkt ETF to launch next month. That’s right, Baby’s got Bakkt. The IRS knows exactly how much …
Tech Podcasts
If you don’t like Facebook, try building your own social network
Marketplace
About 69% of adult Americans use Facebook, according to the Pew Research Center. It’s a big number, and that bigness is also the platform’s biggest …
Tech Podcasts
Automattic’s Cate Huston on Building Distributed Engineering Teams
distributed.blog - Posted byMatt
Read more about Cate Huston in “How to Build and Strengthen Distributed Engineering Teams.” Cate Huston is the Head of Developer Experience at …
Tech Podcasts
Ham Nation 416 WWV Special Event and Hamfest Recap | TWiT.TV
twit.tv
Gordo's contest on top of a hill, celebrating 100 years of WWV with a special event station, Amateur Radio Newsline with Don, the Solar Report with …
Recode
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley wants to know where... by Recode Media
megaphone.fm
Foursquare co-founder and executive chairman Dennis Crowley discusses the business of tracking and selling location data The Sportswriter: The …
Tech Podcasts
This Week in Google 522 The Corgi Parade | TWiT.TV
twit.tv
This Week's Stories:- The WeWork IPO is a harbinger of recession- IKEA's IoT Future- Deepfakes: don't believe your eyes- Nest Cameras' Green Light is …
Samsung Galaxy Note
Hands-On Tech: Galaxy Note 10+ Unboxing & First Look
twit.tv
Jason Howell and Leo Laporte unbox and take a first look at the Galaxy Note 10+. Samsung's latest flagship smartphone features a nearly bezel-less …
Microsoft
Windows Weekly 635: Will A.I. for Food
twit.tv
New Microsoft Edge hits Beta channel• Microsoft brings Edge Beta to Windows 10, 8.1, and 7, and Mac • Related: Microsoft touts one million Chredge …
Google Stadia
9to5Google Daily 290: Android is now completely dessert free
9to5Google - Damien Wilde
Listen to a recap of all the top 9to5Google stories of the day. 9to5Google Daily is available on Google Play, iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Pocket Casts
Long-form Journalism
How gun-detection technology promises to help prevent mass shootings
Fast Company - DJ Pangburn
New tech firms are leveraging artificial intelligence to identify firearms and alert law enforcement within seconds—but they face plenty of practical challenges. Even after the back-to-back mass shootings
IPOs
Ping Identity files for $100M IPO on Nasdaq to trade as ‘PING’
TechCrunch - Ingrid Lunden
Some eight months after it was reported that Ping Identity’s owners Vista Equity had hired bankers to explore a public listing, today Ping Identity took the plunge: the Colorado-based online ID management
Robotics
You Are Already Having Sex With Robots
WIRED - Emma Grey Ellis
Henry the sex robot is the “mind” of a “woman” trapped in the “body” of a “man.” When you talk to Henry, you’re really talking to an artificial …
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
China AI Startup to File for Hong Kong IPO Soon Despite Protests
Bloomberg - Lulu Yilun Chen
Megvii is filing documents soon for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise as much as $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said, …
Ransomware
Ransomware: an evolving threat
techradar.com - Kelvin Murray
Ransomware is any malware that holds your data ransom. These days it usually involves encrypting a victim’s data before asking for cash (typically …
Ransomware
Ransomware Attacks Are Testing Resolve of Cities Across America
The New York Times
Computers were shut down at the E.M. Gilliam Memorial Library following a ransomware attack in Wilmer, Tex. Two Iranian hackers were charged in November in connection with a ransomware attack that targeted
Ransomware attacks are an expensive threat to city and state governments. They won’t ebb anytime soon.
The Washington Post - By Rachel Siegel
Upon learning that Riviera Beach’s computer systems were being held hostage earlier this summer, KaShamba Miller-Anderson’s first instinct was to assume it was a joke. Her four years on the city council
Ransomware
While one Texas county shook off ransomware, small cities took full punch
Ars Technica - Sean Gallagher
Lubbock County managed to isolate the attack quickly. Others, not so much. Few details have emerged about the coordinated ransomware attack that …
Ransomware
The Trade Secret: Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers
propublica.org - by Renee Dudley and Jeff Kao
As ransomware attacks crippled businesses and law enforcement agencies, two U.S. data recovery firms claimed to offer an ethical way out. Instead, …
Ransomware
What Can Be Done To Fight Back Against Ransomware Attacks
NPR
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Josephine Wolff, a professor at Tufts University, about software that is available to help ransomware victims recover their files and why it is rarely used in the U.S. Texas,
Ransomware
Ransomware: Why cities have become such a big target for cyberattacks - and why it'll get worse
ZDNet - Danny Palmer
A number of US cities have paid ransoms of hundreds of thousands of dollars after getting caught out by hackers -- and if the business model is …