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A DOJ Probe Into Elon's Tweets Could Spell Yet More Trouble for Tesla

The reported criminal probe is likely in its early stages, but darkens an already gloomy sky gathering over Elon Musk's automaker.

5 hours ago

Wired

A DOJ Probe Into Elon's Tweets Could Spell Yet More Trouble for Tesla

Wired

Twitter's Chronological Timeline Will Save Us From Ourselves

Twitter announced it's giving users more control over their timelines just in time for tweets about Toad.

7 hours ago

Wired

Twitter's Chronological Timeline Will Save Us From Ourselves

Wired

The Collateral Damage of Trump's Extreme Declassifications

Trump has the legal right to make public whatever documents he chooses. But he's going to cause untold damage in the process.

8 hours ago

Wired

The Collateral Damage of Trump's Extreme Declassifications

Wired

'Captain Marvel' Trailer: The Next MCU Movie Will Pummel You with '90s Nostalgia

The MCU wants to take you back to the days of Blockbuster and beepers.

8 hours ago

Wired

'Captain Marvel' Trailer: The Next MCU Movie Will Pummel You with '90s Nostalgia

Wired

QAnon Is Trying to Trick Facebook's Meme-Reading AI

How should Facebook balance transparency about its automated systems with security?

9 hours ago

Wired

QAnon Is Trying to Trick Facebook's Meme-Reading AI

Wired

The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI

In 2016, three friends created a botnet that nearly broke the internet. Now, they're helping the feds catch cybercriminals of all stripes.

12 hours ago

Wired

The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI

Techcrunch

Google will match up to $1M in donations for Hurricane Florence relief

As cities in Hurricane Florence's path deal with its aftermath, Google will match up to $1 million in donations to help with relief efforts. The disaster's death toll is currently 35 people and about 343,000 people in North Carolina are without electricity. The hurricane caused widespread flooding and ...

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Techcrunch

Google will match up to $1M in donations for Hurricane Florence relief

Techcrunch

Solving the mystery of sleep

Alice Lloyd George Contributor

3 hours ago

Techcrunch

Solving the mystery of sleep

Techcrunch

Google's Work Insights helps businesses better understand how they work

At an event in Tokyo, Google today announced the launch of Work Insights, a new tool that gives businesses more insights into how their employees use the company’s G Suite productivity tools and how teams collaborate using those tools. In addition, Google is also launching its investigation tool ...

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

Google's Work Insights helps businesses better understand how they work

Techcrunch

Google launches new AI initiatives in Japan

It’s no surprise that Google used its Cloud Next 2018 event in Tokyo today — one of a number of international Cloud Next events that follow its flagship San Francisco conference — to announce a couple of new initiatives that specifically focus on the Japanese market. These announcements ...

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

Google launches new AI initiatives in Japan

Techcrunch

TaskRabbit kicks off Canadian expansion

TaskRabbit is kicking off its Canadian expansion in the greater Toronto area before rolling out in Vancouver in October and Montreal sometime in 2019.

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

TaskRabbit kicks off Canadian expansion

Techcrunch

An Intel drone fell on my head during a light show

It didn't hurt. I thought someone dropped a small cardboard box on my head. It felt sharp and light. I was sitting on the floor, along the back of the crowd, and then an Intel Shooting Star Mini drone dropped on my head. Audi put on a massive show to reveal its first EV, the […]

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

An Intel drone fell on my head during a light show

Readwrite

What Will Cryptocurrency Be Like in 10 Years?

Investors, pundits, and enthusiasts can’t stop speculating about cryptocurrency, and more often than not, their predictions center on price. But simply musing over the market performance of a specific coin ignores the larger potential of cryptocurrency. This space is about more than price fluctuations ...

14 hours ago

Readwrite

What Will Cryptocurrency Be Like in 10 Years?

Readwrite

The Future of Blockchain: Technology Partnerships with AI, Bots, and IoT

Each technology we use offers some type of benefit. However, advantages rapidly increase by integrating numerous technologies. While Superman can save the day, there is no chance for evil to win when he joins the Justice League. In this case, the blockchain, which is the decentralized ledger behind ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

The Future of Blockchain: Technology Partnerships with AI, Bots, and IoT

Fast Company

Why Mastercard signed on as League of Legends’ first-ever global sponsor

Mastercard has signed a multi-year partnership deal with Riot Games to be the first exclusive global payment services partner of League of Legends (LoL) global esports events. It’s League of Legends’ first-ever global brand partner. The deal includes LoL esports’ three annual ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

Why Mastercard signed on as League of Legends’ first-ever global sponsor

Fast Company

As Inbox fades away, here’s how to give Gmail its best features

When Google launched Inbox in 2014, the company embarked on a bold mission: to reinvent the very way we think about email. In essence, what Google wanted was a do-over. Gmail, a decade old at the time, was starting to feel ill-suited for taming the wild beast email had become. Inbox was designed to be ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

As Inbox fades away, here’s how to give Gmail its best features

Fast Company

This powerful off-the-shelf phone-hacking tool is spreading

Researchers at internet watchdog Citizen Lab have found that a sophisticated piece of spyware designed to break into most commercially available smartphones is now in use in 45 countries. Pegasus, designed by Israeli security firm NSO Group, has been pitched as a so-called “lawful intercept” ...

11 hours ago

Fast Company

This powerful off-the-shelf phone-hacking tool is spreading

Fast Company

Would you let your kid play with an Alexa-powered rubber ducky?

Next time you sing “Rubber Ducky” in the bathtub, it might be able to sing back. Amazon is now partnering with toymakers such as Hasbro and Tomy International on building Alexa voice interactions into their products. The idea is to have toys that can respond to voice commands with sounds, ...

12 hours ago

Fast Company

Would you let your kid play with an Alexa-powered rubber ducky?

Fast Company

New iPhone reviews: Here’s what real people should be thinking about

Apple began taking preorders at 3 a.m. this morning for two of its new iPhones–the Xs and the Xs Max. Also early this morning, the pro phone reviewers came out with their reviews (see how that works?), and the feedback is good but not great. If you’re considering buying one of these ...

12 hours ago

Fast Company

New iPhone reviews: Here’s what real people should be thinking about

Fast Company

YouTube’s right-wing influencers are more organized than you think

YouTube is home to a right-wing “alternative influence network” that can drive viewers to extremist positions on race, gender, and other topics, according to a new report from the Data & Society Research Institute. Network members, who range from libertarians to overt white nationalists, ...

12 hours ago

Fast Company

YouTube’s right-wing influencers are more organized than you think

Engadget

Capcom closes Vancouver studio behind "Dead Rising"

Video game publisher Capcom is shutting down its Vancouver studio and around 158 employees will be let go. The company told Variety that operations were suspended Tuesday and a skeleton crew would remain on board until January in order to finalize th...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Capcom closes Vancouver studio behind "Dead Rising"

Engadget

MCU heroes could get their own shows on Disney's streaming service

We still don't have an official name for the streaming service Disney is working on to compete with Netflix, but a new rumor from Variety suggests there will be plenty of Marvel content on it. According to the report, Disney has similar plans for the...

2 hours ago

Engadget

MCU heroes could get their own shows on Disney's streaming service

Engadget

AI can identify objects based on verbal descriptions

Modern speech recognition is clunky and often requires massive amounts of annotations and transcriptions to help understand what you're referencing. There might, however, be a more natural way: teaching the algorithms to recognize things much like yo...

3 hours ago

Engadget

AI can identify objects based on verbal descriptions

Engadget

Amazon helps others make accessories for Echo speakers

There aren't many Echo-oriented accessories beyond Amazon's own Echo Button, but that's about to change very shortly. Amazon has released a beta Alexa Gadgets Toolkit that lets hardware brands make Echo-focused Bluetooth accessories that respond to...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Amazon helps others make accessories for Echo speakers

Engadget

Netflix picks up hit BBC drama "Bodyguard"

Netflix has purchased the streaming rights to Bodyguard -- a six-part BBC One series that has been raking in viewers in the UK. The show had a strong premiere, drawing in 10.4 million viewers, which is the highest launch figure for any new drama on a...

5 hours ago

Engadget

Netflix picks up hit BBC drama "Bodyguard"

Engadget

Bikini Kill's riot grrl punk is available to stream for the first time

Prince, The Beatles and other well-known artists gave into the siren's call of streaming music years ago, but not Bikini Kill -- you still had to get the iconic riot grrl group's music the old-fashioned way. Until now, that is. The feminist punk gr...

6 hours ago

Engadget

Bikini Kill's riot grrl punk is available to stream for the first time

Venturebeat

Microsoft releases two new Windows 10 previews ahead of October 2018 Update

Microsoft today released two new Windows 10 previews for PCs. The first build is from the RS5 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update the company plans to release next month, and the second is from the 19H1 branch, which, as its name indicates, will arrive in the first half of next year. This ...

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

Microsoft releases two new Windows 10 previews ahead of October 2018 Update

Venturebeat

Riot Games signs Mastercard as League of Legends sponsor as it fixes sexist culture

Riot Games announced today that Mastercard has signed on to become a global sponsor for the League of Legends esports game for multiple years. The global agreement is a first of its kind for Riot, and it underscores the growing importance of esports to global brands that want to reach the right demographic ...

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

Riot Games signs Mastercard as League of Legends sponsor as it fixes sexist culture

Venturebeat

Moxi is a hospital robot with social intelligence

Moxi, a robot from Diligent Robotics endowed with social intelligence made its debut today in pilot programs at hospitals in Texas. Moxi is a robot with a face, head, and arm that gets around on four wheels. The robot can use its hand to do things like grab and store medical supplies then deliver them ...

2 hours ago

Venturebeat

Moxi is a hospital robot with social intelligence

Venturebeat

G Suite's new Work Insights tool reveals adoption and collaboration rates within your company

Google has today announced a couple of new tools for G Suite users. First up, the company lifted the lid on a completely new tool called Work Insights, which is designed to help “surface organizational insights about G Suite deployments at the team level,” according to a blog post from G ...

5 hours ago

Venturebeat

G Suite's new Work Insights tool reveals adoption and collaboration rates within your company

Venturebeat

U.S. Justice Department is investigating Elon Musk's statement on taking Tesla private

(Reuters) — Tesla said on Tuesday the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating Chief Executive Elon Musk's public statements in August that he was considering taking the electric carmaker private, the latest and biggest threat to Musk and his leadership of the electric car maker. The Justice ...

6 hours ago

Venturebeat

U.S. Justice Department is investigating Elon Musk's statement on taking Tesla private

Venturebeat

NPD August 2018: Monster Hunter: World's roars back with Steam release

According to The NPD Group, Monster Hunter: World was the No. 2 best-selling game in the U.S. in August. The multiplayer action game released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One back on January 26, but the PC version came out on August 9.

6 hours ago

Venturebeat

NPD August 2018: Monster Hunter: World's roars back with Steam release

Ars Technica

Russian surveillance plane got shot down by Syria?and Russia blames Israel

Did Israel fail to warn Russia in time, or are Syria's aging air defenses to blame?

7 hours ago

Ars Technica

Russian surveillance plane got shot down by Syria?and Russia blames Israel

Ars Technica

You think your neighbors can drive energy conservation

Beliefs about neighbors' environmental attitudes might trump your own.

8 hours ago

Ars Technica

You think your neighbors can drive energy conservation

Ars Technica

Apple repays '14B in 'illegal aid' to Ireland, so EU drops court case

"Always Ireland's intention to comply with our legal obligations in this regard."

8 hours ago

Ars Technica

Apple repays '14B in 'illegal aid' to Ireland, so EU drops court case

Ars Technica

Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows just got a whole lot more streamlined

Desktop image is configured to offer particularly tight Windows integration.

8 hours ago

Ars Technica

Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows just got a whole lot more streamlined

Ars Technica

The coolest tech in Audi's new e-tron electric SUV is banned in the US

The high-end electric SUV market just got a new option.

9 hours ago

Ars Technica

The coolest tech in Audi's new e-tron electric SUV is banned in the US

Ars Technica

Video: A quick explainer on the promise"and risks"of TrueDepth in the iPhone XS

An app developer and an Ars editor cover the basics of Apple's 3D camera.

10 hours ago

Ars Technica

Video: A quick explainer on the promise"and risks"of TrueDepth in the iPhone XS