| 11:25 PM • | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: A breakdown of Huawei's supply problems after the US ban, using its latest flagship phone as an example, from hardware to software to building an app ecosystem |
| 11:05 PM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Walmart launches a line of Android tablets under its Onn store brand starting at $64, which ship with Play Store and Google apps, unlike Amazon's Fire tablets |
| 10:50 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Cala Health, an SF-based startup developing wearable electronic devices to tackle chronic disease, raises $50M Series C from investors including GV |
| 9:40 PM • | Laura Hautala / CNET: Researcher: since at least October, web source code for thousands of Instagram profiles leaked the user's contact info; the issue was fixed in March |
| 9:05 PM • | Giancarlo Valdes / VentureBeat: IHS reports cloud-based gaming earned $387M in 2018, with Sony's Playstation Now responsible for 36% of that total, and predicts it will grow to $2.5B by 2023 |
| 7:55 PM • | Bijan Stephen / The Verge: Indiegogo CEO and President David Mandelbrot steps down, citing personal reasons, will be replaced by Andy Yang, former Reddit core product lead and 500px CEO |
| 7:45 PM • | Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: Samsung files emergency motion to redact details of its settlement with Qualcomm last year, revealed to be $100M, made public in the FTC v. Qualcomm ruling |
| 7:10 PM • | Andrew Webster / The Verge: Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149 |
| 6:50 PM • | Tara Seals / Threatpost: Researcher shares zero-day Windows 10 local privilege escalation exploit that grants full control over files reserved for full-privilege users |
| 6:30 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Modsy, which combines computer vision tech with human designers to help users design their homes, raises $37M Series C led by TCV, bringing total raised to $70M |
| 5:35 PM • | Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: Deutsche Bank says a software glitch has, for almost a decade, prevented some potentially suspicious transactions from being flagged to law enforcement |
| 4:55 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Instawork, a platform that connects hospitality workers with employers, raises $18M round led by Spark Capital, GV, and Burst Capital to expand across the US |
| 3:10 PM • | New York Times: Google says around 25% of calls placed using its Duplex AI service started with a human; calls to ~12 restaurants found people made 3 of 4 successful bookings |
| 2:20 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researcher: devices can be tracked across apps and sites with info from sensors like gyroscope; patched on iOS; a minor issue on Android, given poor calibration |
| 2:05 PM • | Emily Stewart / Vox: Despite support from 7,500+ employees, Amazon shareholders voted down a proposal asking Jeff Bezos to produce a comprehensive climate change plan |
| 1:55 PM • | Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: Source: Block.one, which raised ~$4B in its ICO, has made $174M in VC investments and bought back 10% of its stock, rewarding early investors like Peter Thiel |
| 1:30 PM • | Keith Barry / Consumer Reports: Testing finds Tesla's updated Autopilot software, designed to make changing lanes “more seamless”, does not work well and could create safety risks for drivers |
| 1:20 PM • | Owen S. Good / Polygon: Razer says it will shut down its Ouya and Forge TV services on June 25, marking the official end of the crowdfunded Android game console, discontinued in 2015 |
| 1:13 PM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the lead EU supervisory authority for Google, announces investigation into Google's online advertising data collection |
| 1:02 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Amazon shareholders reject two non-binding proposals to ban sale of facial recognition tech to government customers, despite pressure from ACLU and others |
| 12:55 PM • | Michael Novinson / CRN: Google says it's experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results; users searching for fresh news from sites including NYT or WSJ get no results |
| 12:45 PM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Toronto-based online investment management platform Wealthsimple raises $75M round led by Allianz X and says it now has 150,000 clients |
| 11:55 AM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: EE says it will roll out the UK's first 5G network on May 30, beating Vodafone by a month, in six cities, including London, Edinburgh, and Belfast |
| 11:40 AM • | Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: Google begins rolling out an updated mobile search design with a black “ad” label and favicons for all organic results |
| 11:20 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Avaaz study finds extensive far-right disinformation networks on Facebook ahead of EU elections; Facebook says it removed 77 Pages and 230 accounts in response |
| 11:00 AM • | Alex Heath / Cheddar: Source says Medium has 200K-400K paying subscribers, which at $50 per user amounts to a minimum of $10M per year from subscriptions alone |
| 10:35 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Transport for London says it will roll out default WiFi device tracking on the Underground this summer, after a trial in 2016, to improve analytics and more |
| 10:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Box revamps its workplace automation tool Relay, launched with IBM in 2016, and updates Box Tasks and File Request Links |
| 10:15 AM • | Alex Moss / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Federal court ruling affirmed the right to share copyrighted material for criticism and helped EFF protect a Reddit commenter's anonymity |
| 10:05 AM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Apple unveils Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, aimed at preserving user privacy without reducing effectiveness of ads, coming soon to Safari |
| 9:55 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Percepto, which makes autonomous drones for industries like energy, oil, and gas, raises $15M Series A led by USVP and Arkin Holdings |
| 9:35 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: KaiOS, which provides the OS for feature phones from OEMs like Nokia and Jio, raises $50M led by Cathay Innovation, says 100M handsets are now powered by its OS |
| 9:15 AM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: All but the largest Apple device resellers have vanished from Amazon's marketplace six months after Apple cut a deal with the retail giant |
| 8:20 AM • | Taylor Dixon / iFixit: A close look at Apple's Taptic Engine and how it uses software integration and resonance to make haptic feedback feel better in its devices than the competition |
| 7:15 AM • | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: Federal judge rules in favor of FTC in antitrust case against Qualcomm, says its licensing practices for modem chips have strangled competition; stock drops 10% |
| 7:05 AM • | Dave Lee / BBC: Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei |
| 6:35 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google and UCSD research: of the 27 hacking service providers contacted online to hijack test Gmail accounts, ten never replied and only five launched attacks |
| 4:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: US is considering blacklisting as many as five Chinese video surveillance companies, including Hikvision and Dahua Technology, from buying US tech |
| 3:05 AM • | Livemint: Sources: Indian ride-hailing service Ola is suspending its food delivery business and laying off ~40 employees, about 18 months after acquiring Foodpanda India |
| 2:10 AM • | Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab: The 016, a small social network with no algorithmic feed, seeks to connect local media, organizations, and businesses with the citizens of Worcester, MA |
| 1:35 AM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: UNESCO says AI assistants are reinforcing gender stereotypes by mostly defaulting to female-sounding voices, urges better safeguards against gendered language |
| 1:20 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: The “tech cold war”, escalated by recent actions against Huawei, started over a decade ago when China began restricting US services companies in its market |
| 12:45 AM • | Reuters: Inside the war against Huawei, led by Australia and the US, who fear Beijing's 5G domination could be used for espionage and sabotage of critical infrastructure |
| 12:20 AM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: TransferWise discloses a new $292M secondary round led by Lead Edge Capital, Lone Pine Capital, and Vitruvian Partners at a $3.5B valuation |
| 11:45 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Valve launches a dedicated Steam Chat app for iOS and Android, which includes many key features of the desktop chat client such as Invite Links and Group Chats |
| 9:35 PM • | Matt Novak / Gizmodo: Source: Comcast's upcoming health device to focus on monitoring the motion of elderly people at home; Comcast has no plans for a direct-to-consumer launch |
| 9:05 PM • | Vivian Ho / The Guardian: After backlash, Google to require abortion services advertisers in the US, UK, and Ireland to declare in their ads whether or not they provide abortions |
| 9:00 PM • | Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Pure Storage misses with Q1 revenue of $326.7M, up 28% YoY, and a net loss of $27.6M, up 70% YoY from $16.2M; stock down 19%+ after hours |
| 8:35 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Wagestream, which works with employers to give employees access to monthly earned wages via an app, raises $51M Series A in equity and debt financing |
| 8:10 PM • | Celia Wan / The Block: Sources: Circle has cut its $250M fundraising goal that was reported in March to $150M; the company has raised $246M to date, according to Crunchbase data |
| 7:30 PM • | openDemocracy: Insiders say Facebook and Google pressured EU's expert group on disinformation to soften fake news regulations and avoid discussing their abuse of market power |
| 7:05 PM • | Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Slack updates its S-1 filing, registers about 117M of its Class A shares, and says it expects to raise $196.5M in its direct listing on the NYSE |
| 6:40 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Google says it stored some G Suite passwords in plaintext due to an error dating back to 2005, found another set of unhashed passwords in 2019, both now fixed |
| 6:00 PM • | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft officially rolls out the Windows 10 May 2019 update, which includes Windows Sandbox and unified search across Windows, Office, Bing, and more |
| 5:50 PM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: A look at “cloud” or “dark” kitchens that only serve delivery customers such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo, and how investing strategies in the space diverge |
| 4:55 PM • | Zack Seward / CoinDesk: Circle, which owns trading platform Poloniex, equity crowdfunding site SeedInvest, and the USDC stablecoin with Coinbase, lays off ~30 people, ~10% of its staff |
| 4:30 PM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Biofourmis raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia India and MassMutual Ventures to develop smarter chronic disease treatments using wearable medical sensors and AI |
| 4:00 PM • | Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: To reduce the tedium of work and increase productivity at its warehouses, Amazon has created several video games where workers compete by fulfilling real orders |
| 3:20 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: After eight months of alpha testing, the first official version of Tor Browser for Android has been released on the Play Store |
| 2:15 PM • | Christina Farr / CNBC: Comcast is working on an in-home device to track people's health |
| 2:10 PM • | Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: Huawei reiterates that it has been working on its own mobile OS; sources: Huawei has been pitching app makers and European carriers on its own mobile app store |
| 2:05 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft removes Huawei's MateBook X Pro from its online store, stays silent on whether it will prevent Huawei from obtaining Windows licenses for its devices |
| 1:40 PM • | Bloomberg: New healthcare offerings from Tencent-backed Waterdrop and Ant Financial's Xiang Hu Bao catch on in China, threatening conventional health insurance businesses |
| 1:35 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Apple says the new iteration of its butterfly keyboard uses “new materials” in the switch mechanism that should reduce double- and missed-key presses |
| 1:15 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Tel Aviv-based Guardicore, which protects cloud workloads from cyber threats, says it's raised a $60M Series C, bringing its total raised to $110M |
| 1:10 PM • | Jason Snell / Six Colors: Apple updates 13" and 15" MacBook Pros with improved keyboards and 9th-generation Intel CPUs with up to 8 cores, expands its Keyboard Service Program coverage |
| 1:00 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Microsoft announces SharePoint landing pages called Home Sites, a chatbot-like Q&A tool for Yammer, and faster OneDrive file syncing |
| 12:50 PM • | Thomas Simms / Cointelegraph: Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, filed for the US copyright for the original Bitcoin white paper and most of the original Bitcoin code |
| 12:45 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft launches Service Mesh Interface for Kubernetes to help manage application environments and networks; partners include Docker, Pivotal, and VMware |
| 12:25 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Predictive sales startup People.ai raises $60M round led by Iconiq, sources say at around a $500M valuation, launches new lead insights product called The Wire |
| 12:16 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Lyft announces passenger-safety features including an in-app panic button to call 911; now riders leaving a rating under 4 stars must leave additional feedback |
| 12:00 PM • | Christina Farr / CNBC: Alphabet's Verily announces partnerships with big pharma firms Novartis, Sanofi, Otsuka, and Pfizer as it moves into the clinical trials space |
| 11:20 AM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Mozilla releases Firefox 67 with new privacy features that block cryptomining and fingerprinting, WebRender, a 2D rendering engine for Windows 10, and more |
| 9:50 AM • | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: Two weeks after the city of Baltimore's networks suffered a ransomware attack, many of its systems remain offline, including utilities billing, phone, and email |
| 9:40 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Marqeta, which provides payment card services to third-parties like Square and Instacart, raises $260M Series E led by Coatue Management at a ~$2B valuation |
| 9:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Ivalua, which provides spend management solutions for enterprises, raises $60M led by Tiger Global Management at a $1B+ valuation |
| 9:10 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Study: despite News Feed changes, “junk news” from known sources of disinformation in EU get 1.2x-4x the engagement of professional news sources on Facebook |
| 8:25 AM • | Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: Self-driving trucks will carry mail for USPS for the first time, with autonomous truck startup TuSimple operating a two week pilot between Phoenix and Dallas |
| 7:50 AM • | Bill Hanvey / New York Times: By not giving consumers control over performance and maintenance data collected by their cars, manufacturers can limit where cars are repaired and serviced |
| 7:25 AM • | FinSMEs: Modulr, which provides a Payments as a Service API platform for digital businesses, raises £14M led by Frog Capital, bringing its total raised to £24.5M |
| 7:10 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google says it now offers “regular”, “rapid”, and “stable” channels for its Kubernetes Engine, now in alpha, will offer Windows Server Container support in June |
| 6:45 AM • | Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: Q&A with Daniel Gruss, one of the researchers who discovered Spectre and Meltdown, on discovering the new side-channel flaw ZombieLoad and why it has that name |
| 5:40 AM • | Alfred Ng / CNET: Microsoft calls for a GDPR-like law in the US that would place the accountability obligations on the companies that collect and use personal data |
| 4:30 AM • | Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: An update on Waymo's driverless taxi service Waymo One, six months after its Phoenix rollout: safety drivers remain at the wheel for most rides |
| 3:05 AM • | Oculus: Facebook announces that Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S are now shipping globally |
| 1:30 AM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: GM is shutting down its Maven car-sharing service in 8 out of the 17 North American cities in which it operates |
| 11:50 PM • | Thomas Germain / Consumer Reports: Facebook's privacy setting to opt out of face recognition technology is missing for some users, nearly 18 months after it was announced |
| 10:00 PM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is developing a paid music service via a new app it expects to debut as early as this fall, mostly in emerging markets |
| 8:45 PM • | Julia Alexander / The Verge: Professional gamer Tfue sues esports org FaZe Clan over allegedly “oppressive” contract, says FaZe violates CA law by acting as an unlicensed talent agency |
| 7:55 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: US intelligence chiefs have been briefing US tech companies since Oct. to warn them on the risks of trade with China, showing classified info to execs |
| 7:40 PM • | Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: Documents show that Lyft pays less per mile to drivers who rent a car via Lyft's Express Drive than those with their own car; Lyft blames the cost of insurance |
| 6:45 PM • | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Snap says it has appointed Derek Andersen, its VP of finance, as CFO, and Lara Sweet, its chief accounting officer and interim CFO, as chief people officer |
| 6:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Sony turned to Microsoft for cloud gaming partnership after talks with Amazon fell through last year; the deal was a surprise for the PlayStation team |
| 6:00 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Quadric.io raises $15M Series A led by automotive Tier 1 supplier DENSO to build a plug-and-play supercomputer for autonomous systems |
| 5:33 PM • | Marlize van Romburgh / Silicon Valley Business Journal: Santa Clara-based Marvell says it's buying chip design business Avera Semiconductor from GlobalFoundries in a deal valued at up to $740M |
| 5:20 PM • | Reuters: Commerce Dept. creates a general license, which expires Aug. 19, to restore Huawei's ability to maintain existing networks and push software updates to handsets |
| 5:00 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram quietly overhauls the design of IGTV to have just one central feed, much like TikTok, as it tries to ramp up the app's growth a year after launch |
| 4:45 PM • | Julia Love / Reuters: Mexico unveils plans to withhold tax from drivers for ride-hailing and food delivery firms like Uber and Rappi; China's Didi says it won't take part in the plan |
| 4:19 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: FTC seeks evidence that Broadcom's conduct harmed rivals in WiFi and network switch chip markets, broadening its probe |
| 2:48 PM • | Bloomberg: Source: DOJ is leaning against approving T-Mobile's takeover of Sprint because the companies' proposals don't go far enough to resolve anti-trust concerns |
| 2:45 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Clinc, which provides a conversational AI platform for customers in verticals like healthcare, travel, and banking, raises $52M Series B led by Insight Partners |
| 1:55 PM • | Matt Simon / Wired: Inside Facebook's new robotics lab, where the company is teaching robots to walk on their own, hoping the lessons learned can advance the company's AI efforts |
| 1:40 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researcher finds database, belonging to Mumbai-based Chtrbox, with contact info, including phone numbers, of millions of Instagram users exposed online |
| 1:35 PM • | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Facebook document shows it courts carriers and phone makers, ~100 companies, with “aggregated and anonymized” personal data about its users and their histories |
| 1:00 PM • | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Graphic design app Canva raises $70M at a valuation of $2.5B from Bond, Mary Meeker's new VC fund, and others, bringing the total raised to $166M |
| 12:50 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says its Edge for Mac browser is now available in preview, starting with daily canary builds for macOS 10.12 and above |
| 12:43 PM • | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: Google unveils Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 with a Snapdragon XR1 chip, an improved 8MP camera, and ~8 hours of battery life; orders open today for $999 |
| 12:28 PM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Y Combinator says it has promoted longtime partner Geoff Ralston to president; Sam Altman says he will no longer be the chairman and will instead be an advisor |
| 12:15 PM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: Xbox chief outlines plans to fight toxicity in gaming through new moderation tools for Xbox Live communities and a new industry-wide initiative to share tech |
| 11:35 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook releases maps of population density, movement, and network coverage to help nonprofits and universities better map the spread of infectious diseases |
| 10:45 AM • | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: Researchers say VidMate, a popular Chinese Android app with 500M installs, secretly subscribes users to paid services and exposes their personal information |
| 10:20 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Robin Powered, a provider of cloud-based workplace scheduling and management software, raises $20M Series B led by Tola Capital |
| 10:10 AM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Report: Toshiba Memory plans to buy back the shares it sold to Apple, Dell, Kingston, and Seagate last year, as part of a refinancing plan |
| 10:05 AM • | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: FCC Chairman recommends approval of the proposed T-Mobile and Sprint merger after New T-Mobile promises to cover 97% of the US population with 5G in three years |
| 9:40 AM • | David McCabe / Axios: FCC chairman will recommend approval of T-Mobile, Sprint deal |
| 9:23 AM • | Wall Street Journal: FCC Chairman Recommends Approval of T-Mobile-Sprint Merger |
| 9:20 AM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Identity and authentication platform Auth0 raises $103M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures at a valuation of $1B, says it has 7,000 enterprise clients |
| 8:55 AM • | Josh Horwitz / Reuters: Xiaomi beats revenue expectations with Q1 sales of ~$6.3B, up 27% YoY, and net income of ~$303M, up 23.5% YoY, thanks to growth in sales outside China |
| 8:40 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: Prowler.io, which uses AI to help businesses make decisions in areas like asset management and logistics, raises $24M led by Tencent at a $100M valuation |
| 8:20 AM • | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: TikTok owner ByteDance launches Feiliao on iOS and Android, a chat app that is a hybrid of interest-based forums and an instant messenger |
| 7:55 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Siemplify, which provides a security orchestration and automation platform, raises $30M Series C led by Georgian Partners, bringing its total raised to $58M |
| 7:25 AM • | Paul Tassi / Forbes: Report details how game publishers are paying top streamers, with 15K+ concurrent viewers, $25,000-$50,000 an hour to stream a new game and build buzz |
| 6:50 AM • | Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: Despite Musk's exaggerations, there's a chance Tesla's vertically integrated approach and love of software will win in auto, just like Apple succeeded in mobile |
| 4:30 AM • | Security Research Labs: Many Ethereum nodes running popular clients like Parity and Geth take months to apply security patches, which may leave the network vulnerable to 51% attacks |
| 2:50 AM • | Eric Niiler / Wired: Meteorologists say interference from 5G phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30%, equivalent to the quality of predictions in the 1980s |
| 1:30 AM • | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: By making its Avoid Player feature for Dota 2 part of its premium Battle Pass subscription, Valve is now charging players a minimum of $9.99 to avoid harassers |
| 12:30 AM • | Skift: Amazon's offering of flight bookings in India in partnership with Cleartrip is a sensible entry point for its foray into travel |
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