Valerian Timothy China Freezes Game Approvals Amid Agency Shakeup Bloomberg China’s regulators have frozen approval of game licenses amid a government shake-up, according to people familiar with the matter, throwing the …
Valerian Timothy What James Gunn’s firing says about the rising stakes of social media The Verge - Graeme McmillanIndustry insiders were reportedly shocked about Disney’s sudden firing of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn two weeks ago, in response to an orchestrated outcry over tasteless jokes he’d made
Valerian Timothy Apple is now a $1 trillion company The Verge - Chaim GartenbergApple has become the first US company with a market cap of over $1 trillion. This follows a jump in its stock after reporting strong Q3 earnings that saw the iPhone maker surpass both its own projections
Valerian Timothy IoT boom will change how data is analysed ZDNet - Eileen Yu Deluge of data generated by Internet of Things will impact machine learning and the quality of data analysis, driving the need for such devices to …
Valerian Timothy Wonga investors inject £10M so cash-strapped payday lender can fund claims TechCrunch - Natasha LomasIf you were at Disrupt London four years ago you may remember more than a little awkwardness during an investor panel when two VCs that had invested in European payday loans firm Wonga declined to comment
Valerian TimothyCryptocurrency A Culture War Is Brewing Between Bitcoin’s Old and New Money Bloomberg - Olga Kharif Satoshi Nakamoto may be long gone, but his early followers are still around and their identities still unknown. They go by pseudonyms, such as Cobra, …
Valerian Timothy YouTube deletes Alex Jones’ channel for violating its community guidelines The Verge - Casey NewtonYouTube moved on Monday to delete the Alex Jones Channel for violating its community guidelines, the latest in a string of moves from tech giants that could dramatically limit the reach of the Infowars
Valerian Timothy Marketplace giants sign EU pledge to remove dangerous goods faster TechCrunch - Natasha LomasEcommerce giants Alibaba, Amazon, eBay and Rakuten have agreed to speed up the removal of dangerous goods being sold on their online marketplaces within the European Union. The EU’s executive body, the
Valerian Timothy Ping Identity acquires stealthy API security startup Elastic Beam TechCrunch - Ron MillerAt the Identiverse conference in Boston today, Ping Identity announced that it has acquired Elastic Beam, a pre-Series A startup that uses artificial intelligence to monitor APIs and help understand when
Valerian Timothy Instagram's redesigned Explore tab sorts everything into topics Engadget - Rachel EnglandAs if you weren't already spending hours falling down the rabbit hole that is Instagram's Explore tab, the site is making a few tweaks that'll make it even easier to spend time getting lost in other people's
Valerian Timothy Saudi women are driving men for Uber's Mideast rival CNN Business - by Sarah El SirganyIf you order a taxi anywhere in the world, chances are you'll get a male driver. Careem — the Middle East's answer to Uber — is aiming to change that in one of the most conservative societies in the world
Valerian Timothy CoverWallet looks to make it easy for businesses to get commercial insurance TechCrunch - Matthew LynleyIf a coffee fanatic decides they want to open up a coffee shop somewhere, odds are they’ll have to end up Googling “liability insurance” at some point — and trying to navigate the complex legal web to
Valerian Timothy Ex-Defense Official ‘Alarmed’ About Google Retreat From AI Plan Bloomberg - Ben Brody A former top U.S. Defense Department official said Tuesday he was "alarmed" by a recent decision by Alphabet Inc.’s Google to withdraw from work on a …
Valerian Timothy Microsoft’s facial recognition can better identify people with darker skin tones The Verge - Shannon LiaoMicrosoft says its facial recognition tools are getting better at identifying people with darker skin tones than before, according to a company blog post today. The error rates have been reduced by as
Valerian Timothy Uber wins the right to keep operating in London The Verge - Sean O'KaneUber has won its appeal to continue operating in London, a judge for the Westminster Magistrates’ Court announced in a decision today. The company is being given a probationary license that requires a
Valerian TimothyArtificial Intelligence Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: The whole world is now a computer ZDNet - Steve Ranger The cloud, IoT and AI are turning the whole world into one great big computing opportunity, says Microsoft's chief executive. Thanks to cloud …
Valerian Timothy Former Uber engineer sues company for sexual harassment, testing company's new policy on lawsuits USA TODAY - Mike SniderA former Uber software engineer has sued the ride-hailing company for sexual harassment, sexual and racial discrimination, and retaliation. Ingrid Avendaño filed the suit Monday in California Superior
Valerian Timothy Twitter is treating Bulgarians tweeting in Cyrillic like Russian bots The Verge - Vlad SavovA week ago, Twitter announced it would become more aggressive in pursuing trolls on its service, a move which seems to have had some unforeseen consequences, judging by the present upheaval in the Bulgarian
Valerian Timothy YubiKey's new iOS SDK lets developers bring hardware 2FA to their apps TNW - Matthew HughesYubico, the maker of the popular YubiKey hardware two-factor authentication (2FA) token, has announced the launch of its iOS SDK. This allows developers to bake truly secure 2FA (read: not based on SMS)
Valerian Timothy Notability for iOS adds handwriting search & conversion, side-by-side view, more 9to5Mac - Chance MillerPopular note-taking and annotation app Notability has been updated this week with a handful of new features. The update brings the app to version 8.0 and includes handwriting recognition and conversion,
Valerian Timothy Gemini Photos saves your iPhone storage from unwanted photos Cult of Mac - Buster HeinEver take 50 photos just to get that one perfect shot? Snapping the perfect frame isn’t easy, but cleaning up the extra photos is even worse. The folks at MacPaw have come out with a new app that makes
Valerian Timothy WhiteSmoke uses artificial intelligence to correct your writing errors Popular Science - Stack CommerceWhen you spend all day writing emails and reports, it's easy to make typos. Unfortunately, it only takes one misplaced letter to cause serious embarrassment. WhiteSmoke is a top-rated app that uses intelligent
Valerian Timothy How the Dutch police are using AI to unravel cold cases TNW - Alejandro TauberIf the Dutch police would decide to solve all the cold cases in their archive today, just reading through the roughly 30 million sheets of paper would take them about a century. Barring inventions of life
Valerian Timothy Nintendo Japan's new Switch bundle drops the dock Engadget - Richard LawlerIt's a cheaper option for gamers who already have one Switch. Once Nintendo's online service for the Switch launches this fall its cloud saves will make it easier to swap between systems, and now there's
Valerian Timothy Amazon bans customers who return items too often Alphr - Thomas McMullan Shoppers have taken to social media after being "exiled" from the online storefront Amazon may not be the customer-friendly, free returns paradise it …
Valerian Timothy NASA releases spectacular video of Jupiter’s swirling clouds Alphr - Thomas McMullan The last few months have been a great time for fans of immense gas giants. NASA’s Juno mission has continued to feed back a series of sublime images …
Valerian Timothy Sony says it’s the beginning of the end for PS4 Engadget - Rachel EnglandThe PS4 era is entering its final stages. Speaking to investors, PlayStation boss John Kodera outlined the company's three-year roadmap and it seems console sales are not expected to be a major source
Valerian Timothy Machine learning is helping computers spot arguments online before they happen The Verge - James VincentIt’s probably happened to you. You’re having a chat with someone online (on social media, via email, in Slack) when things take a nasty turn. The conversation starts out civil, but before you know it,
Valerian TimothyIn Vivo Vivo’s all-screen, pop-out camera ‘Apex’ smartphone teased for June 12th 9to5Google - Ben SchoonRemember back at MWC when Vivo showed off that crazy concept Android smartphone, the Apex? It wasn’t expected that Vivo would ever actually deliver the phone to market, but now, it looks like June 12th
