Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You’ve probably heard the idiom of the fox guarding the hen house — but how about the one of the encrypted phone company run by drug lords? Okay, that’s obviously not an idiom, but it’s a true story chronicled by Vice’s Joseph Cox. In the story, Cox tells
Read MoreImage: Google When Microsoft was slammed for not offering enough compelling exclusive games to attract gamers to Xbox, it bought its way out — purchasing game developer after game developer to prep itself for the next console war. Now, it appears Google may similarly be shoring up the upcoming Stadia cloud gaming platform by building
Read MoreCook says he has no regrets, “not at all.” Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses decision to come out in new interview – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreExclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess | Artists: Garret Beard and William Joel All four major US carriers – AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint — have each issued the same press release announcing that they are forming “a joint venture” called the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI). It is designed to
Read MoreFor this edition of CNET’s Show Us Yours we visit Alex from Worcester, Massachusetts, who describes himself as one of the last 3D enthusiasts. A butt-kicking home theater for a 3D diehard – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhile expanding at a breakneck pace, the co-working company has struggled to turn a profit on millions of square feet of office space. ‘It’s Definitely Pretty Empty’: Why Saving WeWork Will Be Hard Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe company confirms that it quietly shrank its “Add-on items” program in recent months. Amazon now makes super-cheap items insanely easy to impulse buy – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThese heavily upgraded rigs could take you places you might not think possible. Ford bringing 5 modified Super Duty trucks to SEMA 2019 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreForget the Galaxy Fold. This prototype from TCL has a 10-inch screen and folds in two different directions. Hands-on with a new foldable phone concept that's the largest and most daring yet – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreShannon Liao / CNN: Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch, signs rapper Offset to live stream video games, after having raised $146M from 21st Century Fox and others — New York (CNN Business)In the world of live-streamed video games, there’s Twitch and then there’s everything else. Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch, signs
Read MoreIt’s been almost a year since Red Dead Redemption 2 was released — and it still stands head and shoulders above most of the games released this year. Not to pre-emptively jinx my opinion of any of the games coming out between now and the end of the year, but I think, if I had the
Read MoreTwitter probably won’t be joining the Libra Association. Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency gets a 'hell no' from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNothing spoils your mood quite like your windscreen wipers not feeling it when the beat drops. Every major car manufacturer is focused on trying to build the electric self driving vehicle for the masses, yet ignoring this very real problem. Well [Ian Charnas] is taking charge, and has successfully slaved his car’s wipers to beat
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5B to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings, including WeWork and Uber — SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5 billion to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint announce the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative to bring RCS to Android phones in 2020 — Here’s a shocker. All four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile — have just announced that they’re joining forces to deliver RCS messaging in the US for Android
Read MorePhotography by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If your Google Home or Google Home Mini has recently stopped working, good news: Google will likely replace it. This year, there have been a growing number of reports of bricked Homes and Home Minis on Google’s support forums (via 9to5Google) and on Reddit (via Android Police), and
Read MoreRyan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: TikTok says its content moderation policies are led by a US-based team and it will not remove content, including posts about Hong Kong, at the behest of China — Short-form video app TikTok can’t shake an air of suspicion that surrounds it in the United States. TikTok says its content
Read MoreBijan Stephen / The Verge: Caffeine hopes celebrities and entertainment can help it beat Twitch … The streaming wars are heating up: corporate content giants like Netflix, Amazon, and Disney are all playing their positions, strengthening their value propositions. The sheer number of upcoming streaming services available … Caffeine hopes celebrities and entertainment can help
Read MoreThe e-commerce giant’s investments in delivering packages in one day as it ramps up for the holiday-shopping season continue to bit into its profit margins. Amazon profits pinched by speedy shipping push Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MorePhoto by Oliver Berg/picture alliance via Getty Images Gaming and politics do mix, as the recent furor over Blizzard’s censorship of pro-Hong Kong voices has shown: it hasn’t blown over, and the conflict shows no signs of stopping. Today, a new challenger appeared: the nonprofit organization Fight for the Future, which has spun up a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, TikTok fired back after weeks of attacks from Congress over the company’s ties to the Chinese government. In a blog post, TikTok maintained that it doesn’t censor content critical of the Chinese government, and that none of its operations are subject to Chinese law. On Wednesday,
Read MoreComputers can do many jobs more quickly than humans, but they tend to copy our mistakes—after all, they learned it from watching us. Scientists have found that a major algorithm used in hospitals is biased against black patients, because it’s reflecting racial health disparities that already existed. Read more… A Major Hospital Algorithm Is Biased
Read MoreMr. Maurer’s wonky fascination with technology led to lamps he made out of scribbled memos, tea strainers and incandescent bulbs with feathered wings. Ingo Maurer, Designer Known as a Poet of Light, Dies at 87 Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreEmil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Amazon reports Q3 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $3.6B, up 44% YoY, and subscriptions services revenue of $5B, up 34% YoY — Amazon today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2019, including revenue of $70.0 billion … Amazon reports Q3 "other" category revenue, which
Read MorePhoto by Chesnot/Getty Images Twitter will never join Libra, CEO Jack Dorsey said today at a Twitter media event in New York City. He said “hell no” when asked if he would join and explained that the Facebook-created cryptocurrency initiative didn’t need to be a cryptocurrency to pull of its broader goals of democratizing the
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