| 11:05 PM • | Dami Lee / The Verge: Hands-on with Nintendo's fourth Labo kit, which allows users to build their own VR games with six Toy-Con creations and will be available April 12 for $79.99 |
| 10:25 PM • | Joe Carlson / Star Tribune: DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic implantable defibrillators worldwide, which could allow hackers to take control of devices |
| 9:45 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Report: Apple acquires Italian startup Stamplay, which specializes in backend automation, for about €5M |
| 9:25 PM • | Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline |
| 8:40 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially |
| 8:26 PM • | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Sources: Bitmain plans to deploy ~$80M of mining equipment in China to take advantage of excess hydropower and low electricity costs in the summer rainy season |
| 8:00 PM • | Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: Trump to nominate Michael Kratsios to be his first US CTO; Kratsios is currently US deputy CTO and was formerly chief of staff at Thiel Capital |
| 7:30 PM • | Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Pinterest has sped up the timing of its IPO, plans to make its filing public as early as Friday and list its shares on the NYSE in mid-April |
| 7:20 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Source: Uber picks the NYSE for its upcoming IPO; Lyft will start trading next week on Nasdaq |
| 6:55 PM • | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: A look at some of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort who secured funding before Demo Day due to early interest from those connected to the YC network |
| 6:40 PM • | Alex Heath / Cheddar: Q&A with Vishal Shah, Instagram's head of product who previously ran Instagram's business products, on e-commerce as a revenue driver, IGTV, and more |
| 6:10 PM • | Michael McWhertor / Polygon: Valve announces a Steam game library redesign and Steam Events, which developers can use to communicate in-game events, entering open beta in the coming months |
| 5:35 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Houseparty promotes co-founder and COO Sima Sistani to CEO; co-founder and CEO Ben Rubin will move to the company's board and continue to advise product teams |
| 5:15 PM • | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Sources: UiPath, a process automation platform targeting IT businesses, is raising $400M+ at a $7B+ valuation; it closed a $265M Series C in November |
| 5:05 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Hacker groups are creating backdoor admin accounts and redirecting users to tech support scams using a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin |
| 4:45 PM • | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: An ad fraud scheme that runs video ads behind banner images targeted popular Android apps, including many using Twitter's MoPub ad platform |
| 4:00 PM • | Mark Sweney / The Guardian: Report: for the first time, music streaming accounted for more than half, at 54%, of UK record label income as it hit £468M in 2018, up 35% YoY |
| 2:45 PM • | Andrew Liptak / The Verge: MPAA: streaming video subscriptions surpassed those for cable TV for the first time in 2018 globally, rising 131.2M or 27% YoY to 613.3M, as cable fell to 556M |
| 2:25 PM • | Richard Lawler / Engadget: Comcast's Xfinity Flex, a $5/month service for its broadband customers, comes with a 4K set-top box and access to paid and free, ad-supported streaming services |
| 2:00 PM • | Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: Rent the Runway raises $125M, led by Franklin Templeton Investments and Bain Capital, at a $1B valuation as it expands its subscription clothing business |
| 1:45 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Delaware filing: payment card services startup Marqeta is raising $250M Series E at a valuation of $1.9B |
| 1:25 PM • | Nicholas Fandos / New York Times: Jared Kushner's lawyer told the House Oversight Committee late last year that Kushner uses WhatsApp for official WH business, including with foreign contacts |
| 1:20 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: HoneyBook, which offers a financial and business management platform for freelancers and “solopreneurs”, raises $28M Series C, bringing the total raised to $74M |
| 1:00 PM • | Peter Kafka / Recode: Sources: Apple's new TV service to be unveiled Monday will be a storefront for other streaming services, with Apple hosting and serving the streams |
| 12:05 PM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: LogRocket raises $11M Series A, led by Battery Ventures, for its software tool that records a user's activity for engineering teams to review and resolve issues |
| 11:55 AM • | Jez Corden / Windows Central: Internal documents: disc-less Xbox One S, a cheaper alternative with a 1TB HDD, will launch globally on May 7 |
| 11:50 AM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is beta testing video ads on its shopping app on iOS with plans for a similar product for Android later in 2019 |
| 11:42 AM • | Pedro Canahuati / Facebook: Facebook says it will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook users and thousands of Instagram users after it found passwords were stored in a readable format |
| 11:30 AM • | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Facebook admits it inadvertently stored some user passwords in plain text, searchable by employees; source says it may have been between 200M and 600M passwords |
| 11:06 AM • | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: Instagram, which has largely escaped scrutiny, is teeming with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and extremist memes, boosted by its recommendation algorithm |
| 10:25 AM • | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: Tesla files two lawsuits against multiple former employees and the self-driving car startup Zoox alleging misappropriation of the company's trade secrets |
| 9:55 AM • | Vikas SN / The Economic Times: Sources: Netflix is testing a low-cost, mobile-only subscription with select users in India, for half the price of its entry-level plan in the country |
| 9:45 AM • | Guy Rosen / Facebook: Facebook says it blocked 800+ distinct variants of New Zealand shooting video, in contrast to ISIS-style propaganda which is not rebroadcast or reshared widely |
| 9:30 AM • | James Vincent / The Verge: Four European Wikipedia sites are blocking access and directing users to contact their EU representatives on March 21 to protest the copyright directive |
| 9:00 AM • | Dustin Childs / Zero Day Initiative: Researchers hacked Apple's Safari, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation in Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 contest, earning $240K in cash awards |
| 8:45 AM • | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Tencent misses Q4 profit estimates with net income falling 32% YoY to $2.1B on revenue of $12.6B, partially due to China's gaming freeze |
| 8:20 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Guesty, which provides tools for property managers who list on Airbnb and other rental sites, raises $35M Series C led by Viola Growth |
| 7:45 AM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft launches Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview and Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS in limited preview |
| 7:15 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Apple iPad mini (2019) review: same specs as larger iPad Air, headphone jack, and solid performance, but has huge bezels and a Lightning port instead of USB-C |
| 7:05 AM • | Alfred Ng / CNET: US retailers are deploying facial recognition tech to fight shoplifters, raising privacy concerns due to lack of legal restrictions or rules to prevent abuse |
| 6:40 AM • | Jamie Rigg / Engadget: A look at the history of game-playing AI and how it often beats humans, from IBM's Deep Blue to AlphaGo |
| 4:50 AM • | Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: A look at an automated Instagram influencer account made to garner free meals from NYC restaurants in exchange for posts |
| 2:55 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: YouTube faces legal and ethical minefield from unmarked “kidfluencer” sponsored marketing, which targets kids under 13, who are barred from creating accounts |
| 1:20 AM • | Laura M. Holson / New York Times: After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count |
| 12:50 AM • | Mike Snider / USA Today: Survey: average US consumer subscribes to three streaming video services, 69% subscribe to at least one, up from 55%, and 47% experience subscription fatigue |
| 12:00 AM • | Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes bitcoin, and CMC Crypto ex BTC, which doesn't, launch on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters |
| 11:15 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Microsoft says support for Windows 7, which makes up 40% of desktop market, will end Jan. 14, 2020; enterprise customers can pay for extended support until 2023 |
| 10:10 PM • | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: In its first quarter since going public, Tencent Music posts net loss of $127M on $785M revenue, mainly due to a one-off share-based charge to label partners |
| 7:55 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the “bitcoin/crypto ecosystem” |
| 7:15 PM • | Eugene Kim / CNBC: Amazon vendors say Amazon is more aggressively blocking ads of unprofitable products and telling them to lower wholesale prices for ads to be reinstated |
| 7:00 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Khronos Group releases OpenXR 0.90 specification for AR and VR hardware standards; supporters include Google, HTC, Microsoft, Oculus, Samsung, Unity, and Valve |
| 6:45 PM • | Scott Stein / CNET: Qualcomm says it is developing Snapdragon-powered VR and AR headsets that will double as wireless VR for PCs, with hardware arriving this year |
| 6:10 PM • | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: Epic says Fortnite has 250M registered players, up from 200M in December, releases a free cross-platform SDK to help developers launch, operate, and scale games |
| 5:35 PM • | Sara Salinas / CNBC: Google's stock rose 2% by the end of trading, adding nearly $17B to its market value, the same day it was fined €1.49B by the EU Commission |
| 5:20 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday, expected to cost $10/month; NYT and The Washington Post have opted out |
| 4:18 PM • | CNBC: Walmart's CTO Jeremy King is leaving the company to start a “new adventure”, to be replaced by Senior VP of Customer Technology Fiona Tan |
| 4:10 PM • | Caroline Haskins / Motherboard: Interviews detail the ongoing battle on YouTube between children-focused channels making animated videos and those featuring humans |
| 3:15 PM • | Vlad Savov / The Verge: By integrating Stadia into YouTube, Google plans to cement YouTube's dominance, as 200M users already watch gaming content there every day |
| 2:50 PM • | Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: Case reports shed light on how deputies in the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Oregon are using Amazon's facial recognition software to investigate crimes |
| 2:25 PM • | Paris Martineau / Wired: Inside Airbnb's “guerrilla war” against US local governments, which often face a slew of lawsuits from the company when they try to collect occupancy taxes |
| 2:10 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Uber says Freight, which connects truck drivers to shipping companies, is expanding to Europe, starting in the Netherlands |
| 1:50 PM • | Patrick Howell O'Neill / Gizmodo: AT&T and Comcast say they successfully tested anti-robocall protocol SHAKEN/STIR, which adds a verified status to calls authenticated across networks |
| 1:00 PM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: Epic Games will give away $100M in grants, varying between $5,000 and $500,000, to fund creative projects that use its Unreal Engine 4 toolset |
| 12:45 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Facebook begins rolling out threaded messages to Messenger users around the world, activated by long-pressing on a message |
| 12:40 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based Movius, which lets companies assign a separate phone number to any phone, raises $45M Series D, bringing total raised to $100M |
| 12:35 PM • | Jason Del Rey / Recode: Instagram's new in-app shopping feature could help customers make serendipitous impulse buys, something Amazon is not especially strong at |
| 12:25 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Las Vegas-based NS8, which develops a SaaS solution to combat e-commerce fraud, raises $26M Series B led by Edison Partners |
| 12:15 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Audio sample marketplace Splice, which charges $7.99/month for access, raises $57.5M Series C co-led by USV and True Ventures |
| 12:10 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Report: Apple approved production of its wireless charging AirPower mat earlier this year, after announcing it in 2017 with a 2018 launch date |
| 12:05 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Skedulo, a service that helps companies manage their mobile employees, raises $28M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 |
| 11:50 AM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Boston-based Optimus Ride says it will deploy its autonomous shuttle service in NYC from Q2 2019, running in closed loops at the Brooklyn Navy Yard |
| 11:40 AM • | Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas pleads guilty to wire fraud related to fake invoices that tricked Facebook and Google employees into sending him over $100M |
| 11:25 AM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple updates App Store guidelines to mandate new apps are built on iOS 12.1 SDK or later and support iPhone XS Max and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, starting March 27 |
| 11:20 AM • | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: Hands-on with Oculus Rift S: nice hardware design by Lenovo, display has double the pixels but isn't AMOLED, and it lacks eye tracking and wireless tech |
| 11:03 AM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Oculus announces $399 Rift S, developed alongside Lenovo, with higher-res 1280x1440 displays and improved optics, available in spring |
| 10:45 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Google's Stadia could be the future of gaming but the announcement left questions unanswered, like cost and subscription, launch date, or available games |
| 10:10 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Opendoor, which buys homes from sellers directly to sell at a profit, raises $300M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3.8B valuation |
| 9:55 AM • | Michelle Toh / CNN: Profile of Connie Chan, a16z's first partner promoted from within, who has built a reputation for sourcing deals with startups like Pinterest and Lime |
| 9:30 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Abstract, which provides a versioning platform for designers, raises $30M Series C led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, sources say at a $190M valuation |
| 9:15 AM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Amazon adds a built-in light to its entry-level Kindle, now available to preorder for $89.99, shipping April 10 |
| 9:10 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Blameless, which offers a site reliability engineering (SRE) platform for enterprises, comes out of stealth with $20M from investors including Accel |
| 8:45 AM • | Apple: Apple launches new AirPods with hands-free “Hey Siri” and more talk time for $159, with wireless charging case for $199, available to order today |
| 8:25 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Portworx, which provides a cloud-native data management platform for enterprises, raises $27M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures |
| 8:05 AM • | Manish Singh / VentureBeat: Opera adds unlimited VPN service to its Android browser for free, with 256-bit encryption and no data logging |
| 7:40 AM • | Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: Paris-based Doctolib, which books doctor appointments and related services on mobile, raises $170M led by General Atlantic, at a $1.1B valuation |
| 7:15 AM • | EU Press Room: The European Commission has fined Google €1.49B for “abusive practices in online advertising” and breaching EU antitrust rules |
| 6:45 AM • | Alex Konrad / Forbes: Profile of Eduardo Saverin's B Capital VC firm, which has made ~20 investments since launching in 2015 with a $360M fund, as it prepares to raise a larger fund |
| 4:40 AM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Marketplace Pulse study that examined sales rankings and reviews of 23,000 products on Amazon claims most Amazon-branded goods are flops |
| 2:35 AM • | ABC: Sources: Uber used a program codenamed Surfcam, made in 2015, to steal drivers from an Australian rival by tracking their cars online and scraping driver info |
| 12:25 AM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Kaspersky Lab says it has filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in Russia, alleging monopolistic App Store policies regarding parental control apps |
| 12:00 AM • | TechCrunch: A roundup of the 88 companies that launched at YC's Winter 2019 Demo Day 2, including ride-sharing, insurance, developer tool, and crypto trading startups |
| 11:10 PM • | Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: In response to a FOIA lawsuit, FCC admits in court that its Electronic Comment Filing System isn't designed to track the sources of comments |
| 10:55 PM • | AAP: Some Australian telcos have blocked access to 4chan, 8chan, Voat, Zerohedge, and video hosting platform Liveleak for continuing to host Christchurch footage |
| 10:15 PM • | Kent Walker / The Keyword: Google says it will start asking Android users in Europe to choose their preferred web browser and search apps in response to EU Commission antitrust concerns |
| 9:45 PM • | New York Times: Facebook announces that it will stop allowing ad targeting of race, gender, and age groups in the housing, jobs, or credit categories by the end of the year |
| 7:25 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple says it will support three media literacy programs in the US and Europe that aim to combat fake news and train young people to seek reliable news sources |
| 6:50 PM • | Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net: Interview with Google VPs Phil Harrison and Majd Bakar on Stadia's infrastructure, its controller, how it integrates with YouTube, games as links, and more |
| 6:40 PM • | Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net: Google Stadia hands-on: controller response is the best from a cloud system to date, though with some latency, and the feel of the controller is Xbox-like |
| 6:10 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Bully Pulpit Interactive: from Dec. 30, 2018 through Mar. 10, Trump's campaign spent $3.5M on Facebook ads and $1M on Google, nearly double the Democratic field |
| 5:45 PM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: House Homeland Security Committee chair seeks briefings from the CEOs of Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube on their responses to the Christchurch attack |
| 5:25 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Kickstarter CEO and co-founder Perry Chen steps down but will remain chairman of the board; Head of Design and Product Aziz Hasan promoted to interim CEO |
| 4:10 PM • | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nexusguard report: when the FBI shut down 15 of the largest DDoS-for-hire websites in December, it led to an 85% reduction in overall attack size worldwide |
| 2:50 PM • | David N. Cicilline / New York Times: Chairman of House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law explains why the FTC, undergoing a “credibility crisis”, should probe Facebook |
| 2:17 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Facebook settles with ACLU over allegedly discriminatory ads for employment, housing, and credit, paying ~$5M and making changes to prevent discrimination |
| 2:13 PM • | Andrew Webster / The Verge: Google has created its own game studio, led by former EA and Ubisoft executive Jade Raymond, to develop titles for its new Stadia game streaming service |
| 2:05 PM • | Bijan Stephen / The Verge: Kickstarter staff announce their intention to unionize, potentially becoming the first major US tech company with union representation |
| 1:55 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Mojo Vision, an under-the-radar AR startup that hasn't publicly revealed what it's building, raises $58M Series B from Google's Gradient Ventures and others |
| 1:45 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Google has partnered with AMD to power Stadia, using a custom GPU for its data centers that delivers 10.7 teraflops, far more than the Xbox One X's 6 teraflops |
| 1:28 PM • | Andrew Webster / The Verge: Google unveils its Stadia controller, which connects directly to Google's data centers and looks like Sony's DualShock, says users can use their own controllers |
| 1:15 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google unveils Stadia, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs that lets users “instantly” play games, coming in 2019 with 4K HDR support at 60FPS |
| 1:11 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Starting June 19, Twitter will require any app that has 100K+ calls/day for certain APIs to submit their app for review and will force B2B devs to pay |
| 12:58 PM • | YouTube: Livestream of Google's keynote at the Game Developers Conference |
| 12:40 PM • | Charlie Warzel / New York Times: Instead of focusing only on moderation, the debate around New Zealand massacre should look at how platforms incentivize and provide infrastructure for extremism |
| 12:12 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Patreon will offer creators three new plans beginning in May, with fees ranging from 5-12%, but existing creators can keep their current pricing model |
| 12:00 PM • | Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: As platforms crack down on other forms of hate, experts and researchers say anti-Muslim bigotry has spread unchecked on Facebook and other social networks |
| 11:40 AM • | Media Matters for America: Despite Alex Jones' YouTube ban, an account posting only InfoWars content, called Resistance News, had millions of views, before YouTube took it down today |
| 11:30 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Norsk Hydro, one of the world's largest producers of aluminum, has shut down several metal extrusion plants as it deals with a ransomware attack |
| 11:15 AM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Firefox 66 arrives with autoplaying blocked by default, the ability to search through open tabs, and smoother scrolling, even when there are slowly loading ads |
| 10:55 AM • | Axios: Arlan Hamilton's diversity-minded investment fund Backstage Capital falls through, after two “anchor investors” pulled out and other deals failed to materialize |
| 10:51 AM • | Scott Stein / CNET: HP Reverb, a lightweight $600 VR headset that's slated to arrive late April, has ~24 pixels per degree vs. ~14 on the Vive Pro, but pixels are still discernable |
| 10:40 AM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: In iMac Pro's build-to-order options Apple now includes a $5,200 option for 256GB RAM and Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics with 16GB dedicated video memory for $700 |
| 10:20 AM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft says Teams is now used by 500,000 organizations, including 91 of the Fortune 100, and promises eight new features, three available today |
| 9:55 AM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Denmark-based Peakon, which provides a SaaS platform for employee retention, raises $35M Series B led by Atomico |
| 9:40 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: A look at an iPhone prototype board from 2006-2007, when the device was codenamed “M68” and “Purple 2” within Apple |
| 9:25 AM • | Kaiser Health News: Report: US has spent $36B digitizing health records, which has risked patient safety with thousands of reports of deaths and injuries tied to software glitches |
| 9:00 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Yandex partners with Hyundai to develop software and hardware for autonomous cars |
| 8:37 AM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple updates iMac lineup with Intel's 8th-gen and 9th-gen Core CPUs and AMD's Radeon Pro Vega GPUs; 21.5" starts at $1,299, 27" 5K at $1,799, available today |
| 8:15 AM • | Emma Sandler / Digiday: Instagram adds in-app shopping to let users buy from 20 beauty and fashion brands including Kylie Cosmetics, Nike, and Huda Beauty |
| 7:25 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Amid a noticeable uptick in Mirai botnet activity, a Palo Alto Networks report says a new Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems |
| 6:30 AM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: CEO of Exactis talks about the fallout after the marketing company exposed 230M personal records on a public server, says he plans to focus on another startup |
| 4:35 AM • | Recode: European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on why breaking up big tech should be a last resort, GDPR favoring large companies, and more |
| 2:00 AM • | TechCrunch: A roundup of the 85+ companies that launched at Y Combinator's Winter 2019 Demo Day 1, including medical, AI, on-demand, e-commerce, and robotics startups |
| 12:15 AM • | Manish Singh / VentureBeat: Indian ride-hailing company Ola raises $300M from Hyundai and Kia for exploring mobility solutions and developing electric vehicles |
| 11:35 PM • | Chris Sonderby / Facebook: Facebook says original Christchurch attack video was viewed <200 times during live broadcast; first user report came in 12 minutes after live broadcast ended |
| 10:35 PM • | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: Source: Google's upcoming lower-priced Pixel phones will be called Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL with 5.6- and 6-inch displays; 3a to feature Snapdragon 670, 4GB RAM |
| 10:15 PM • | Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill: Rep. Devin Nunes is suing Twitter and some of its users for defamation, alleging Twitter is shadow banning conservatives, seeks $250M+ in damages |
| 9:30 PM • | Peter Kafka / Recode: Reed Hastings confirms that Netflix won't be offering its content through Apple's upcoming video service |
| 8:15 PM • | James Vincent / The Verge: Nvidia launches the 70mm by 45mm Jetson Nano, its AI computing board for entry-level applications aimed at developers, makers, and enthusiasts, starting at $99 |
| 8:10 PM • | Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: Mobile ad network Kiip hires new CEO after former CEO Brian Wong was indicted by a grand jury Friday on a sexual assault charge from an SXSW encounter in 2016 |
| 7:55 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS is launching new EC2 G4 instances with support for Nvidia's T4 GPUs, which optimize for running AI models and use ray tracing tech, in the coming weeks |
| 7:20 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Nvidia says Drive Constellation, its cloud-based autonomous vehicle simulation platform, is generally available, with Toyota as its first customer |
| 7:15 PM • | Stefan Etienne / The Verge: Xiaomi launches Black Shark 2, a ~$480 gaming smartphone with a pressure-sensitive 6.39" OLED display, vapor chamber cooling, and 6GB-12GB of RAM, in China |
| 6:55 PM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: General Catalyst announces initiative to invest at least $25M into 25 to 35 seed-stage startups each year, with initial investments between $500K and $2M |
| 5:55 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlassian acquires AgileCraft, which lets companies plan their strategic projects and workstreams using the Agile software development methodology, for ~$166M |
| 5:00 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Intel claims it will build America's first exascale supercomputer by 2021 using its new Xe GPU architecture, partnering with Cray in a Department of Energy deal |
| 4:12 PM • | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Putin signs into law bills banning “fake news” and penalizing those who post content found to be insulting to state officials, state symbols, or Russian society |
| 3:30 PM • | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Six banks sign letters of intent to issue stablecoins on World Wire, an IBM payment network that uses Stellar's public blockchain |
| 2:35 PM • | Associated Press: Facebook is struggling with Today In, its feature curating local news, because 40% of Americans live in places that do not have enough local news coverage |
| 1:20 PM • | C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: Five years after Google announced Android Wear, Wear OS still feels unpolished and laggy, and lacks a stand-out flagship, as OEM interest has faded |
| 11:45 AM • | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: Nokia 9 PureView review: the five-camera array produces great images but is very slow, often losing photos and the in-display fingerprint sensor is atrocious |
| 10:25 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Latin American carrier America Movil to acquire Nextel in Brazil for $905M |
| 10:05 AM • | Financial Times: Israeli ride-hailing service Gett, which anticipates becoming profitable later this year, is planning an IPO on either the London Stock Exchange or in Israel |
| 9:40 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Slack launches Enterprise Key Management, a tool that enables customers in regulated industries to control their encryption keys and revoke them if required |
| 9:26 AM • | Washington Post: Inside YouTube's efforts to shut down uploads of the Christchurch shooting, coming as quickly as 1 per second, as uploaders managed to evade its detection tools |
| 9:25 AM • | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Stanford is launching the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence to put humans and ethics at the center of AI and aims to raise $1B+ |
| 9:00 AM • | Slate: NIST's benchmark test for facial recognition systems uses images of immigrants, US visa applicants, abused children, and dead people, without consent |
| 8:50 AM • | Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: Report: Myspace has lost all the photos, videos, and music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 due to data corruption during a server migration project |
| 8:40 AM • | Apple: Apple debuts new 10.5" iPad Air, from $499, and 7.9" iPad mini, from $399, both with retina display, A12 Bionic chip, and support for the first-gen Apple Pencil |
| 8:30 AM • | Joe Tidy / BBC: Profile of reclusive infosec expert Fabian Wosar, who has devoted himself, at huge personal cost, to helping victims of ransomware around the world |
| 8:05 AM • | John Koblin / New York Times: An overview of Apple's big spending plan to challenge streaming incumbents like Netflix, ahead of its March 25 “It's show time” event |
| 7:45 AM • | Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: UKCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure for the public sector, raises £25M from Digital Alpha |
| 7:20 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: OneWeb, which recently launched its first constellation of micro-satellites to provide global internet access, raises $1.25B to begin mass producing satellites |
| 7:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Filing: Lyft is seeking to raise as much as $2.1B at a valuation of up to $18.5B in its IPO, offering 30.8M shares at $62-$68 each |
| 6:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Fidelity National has agreed to acquire Worldpay, including assuming Worldpay's debt, for ~$43B, in the biggest-ever deal in the international payments sector |
| 6:05 AM • | TechCrunch: Trends in seed and early-stage funding in the US over the past decade: number of <$1M rounds are down, $1M-$5M rounds are flattening, but $10-$20M rounds are up |
| 4:30 AM • | Joe McKendrick / ZDNet: Survey of 500 IT executives finds 58% of enterprises deploy a new build daily, and 26% at least hourly, but only about one-third support continuous testing |
| 2:55 AM • | Ryan Merkley / Creative Commons: Creative Commons says copyright can't protect photos from being used for facial recognition, like IBM did, and that public policy should address privacy issues |
| 2:10 AM • | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: A look at BNB, a coin from Binance, the world's largest digital-asset exchange by trading volume, which has more than tripled in value in the last three months |
| 1:35 AM • | Dan Falk / Quanta Magazine: A look at how AI is being used in science, from probing the evolution of galaxies and calculating quantum wave functions to discovering new chemical compounds |
| 1:10 AM • | Lilach Baumer / CTech - 24/7: Lightbits Labs comes out of stealth, says it has raised $50M led by Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron, and others for its datacenter software with “hardware acceleration” |
| 12:20 AM • | Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Lyft will seek to raise around $2B at a valuation of up to $23B as it starts its IPO roadshow this week |
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