Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Salesforce reports Q3 earnings of $3.39B, up 26% YoY, vs. $3.36B est., and Sales Cloud revenue of $1.02B, up 11% YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours — Salesforce sees strong growth ahead, but its fourth quarter outlook was mixed. — Salesforce delivered strong results as it continues to benefit … Salesforce
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Amazon says it’s starting to sell text analysis software to mine medical records for info that doctors and hospitals can use to improve treatment and cut costs — The move is the latest by a technology company to tap the health care market — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .01% is starting … Amazon
Read MoreIt’s safe to say the digital assistant wars are over. Siri, arguably, is awful, and the clear-cut favorite in the space is undoubtedly Google Assistant. As for Alexa, well, as the great Ricky Bobby once said, “if you’re not first you’re last.” For iOS users, this presents a bit of a problem. We know Siri
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon says Alexa can be used to donate selected toys to children, in partnership with Toys for Tots, the first time it’s been possible to donate items on Alexa — Fresh off its biggest shopping day in history, Cyber Monday 2018, Amazon today is making it easy for Alexa owners to
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Fast Pair, its Bluetooth pairing spec, now pairs Bluetooth accessories across devices sharing a Google account and will support Chromebooks in 2019 — Earlier this month, Google released a Fast Pair Validator app on the Play Store to help Bluetooth manufacturers support Android’s seamless Bluetooth pairing solution. Google says
Read MoreMicrosoft has provided a number of fixes and updates to several older variants of Windows 10. The October 2018 Update/1809 did not get a new generally-available update today, however. Microsoft patches several versions of Windows 10 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreBuilding an LED matrix is a fun project, but it can be a bit of a pain. Usually it starts with hand-soldering individual LEDs and resistors together, then hooking them up to rows and columns so they can be driven by a microcontroller of some sort. That’s a lot of tedious work, but you can
Read MoreWith the entire world seemingly up in arms over “fake news,” you’d think it would have been wiped out by now. Yet low-credibility content continues to thrive on social media thanks to the disproportionately influential effect that social media bots have on humans. A team of researchers from Indiana University at Bloomington recently conducted a
Read MoreKate Clark / TechCrunch: Bird debuts Bird Platform, which sells scooters to entrepreneurs, who can rebrand and rent them out with access to Bird’s chargers and mechanics for a 20% cut — Bird announced today that it will sell its electric scooters to entrepreneurs and small business owners, who can then rent … Bird debuts
Read MoreThe deadline for lawmakers to take a stance on the Congressional Review Act is Dec. 10. Tech companies, celebs to rally for net neutrality ahead of congressional deadline – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe companies are offering few other details about the device. Sprint, HTC working on 5G smart hub for first half of 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNearly everything’s on sale — from ancient Mac Minis to the brand-new MacBook Air, now starting at $1,079. It's still Cyber Monday at B&H: Discounts continue on Apple computers – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFollowing a dramatic touchdown, a new robot on the Red Planet is ready to get down to business. NASA wowed with Mars landing, but InSight's just getting started – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe former teacher who created that famed pineapple under the sea, and all its crazy characters, has died at age 57. SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg honored by fans: 'He was a genius' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAt a hearing in London, officials from nine countries criticized the social network and said they planned to release internal Facebook documents soon. A Hot Seat for Facebook, an Empty Chair for Zuckerberg and a Vow to Share Secret Files Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: YouTube support page suggests annotations, which appeared as translucent overlays on videos, will go away in Jan. 2019, after the editor tool closed in 2017 — It’s all Cards and End Screens from now on — YouTube annotations, those annoying translucent boxes that you rush to disable … YouTube support
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Red Hat announces it has acquired early-stage startup NooBaa, a Tel Aviv-based hybrid cloud data management service, amid Red Hat’s own acquisition by IBM — Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn’t closed yet and in the meantime
Read MoreCharlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: Ex-Facebook staffer Mark Luckie posts 2,500-word memo detailing Facebook’s “black people problem”, originally shared internally before his last day in November — In a 2,500 word internal memo released publicly this morning, former Facebook employee Mark S. Luckie delivered … Ex-Facebook staffer Mark Luckie posts 2,500-word memo detailing Facebook's "black
Read MoreSometimes, traveling the internet feels a little like exploring an endless cave system looking for treasure. Lots of dark passageways without light or life, some occasional glimmers as you find a stray gold doubloon or emerald scattered in a corner. If we take the metaphor too far, then finding [Paul]’s “Little Arduino Projects” repository is
Read MoreParesh Dave / Reuters: Google has blocked gender-based pronouns from its AI-driven text suggestion feature called Smart Compose, after preventing bias proved too difficult — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type. Google has blocked gender-based pronouns
Read MoreA recently-discovered patent implies Sony might be working on a new kind of game cartridge. Whether this is an idea for its upcoming console, tentatively called the PlayStation 5, or an as-yet-unknown successor to the poor old PlayStation Vita, we don’t know — but it’s also possible it could be both. Dutch site TechTastic today revealed
Read MoreContrary to what was promised, Argentina might not be getting thousands of Bitcoin ATMs (BATMs) by the end of 2019 after all. Back in October, Reuters reported US-based financial solutions provider Odyssey Group was gunning to roll out 150 Bitcoin-enabled ATMs in Argentina by the end of 2018, with plans to distribute over a thousand
Read MoreLast month, Twitter banned misgendering transgender people as a part of a wider update to its hateful conduct policy. The previous policy banned “repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone.” The new rewording is far more protective in what it considers to be a threat, and now encompasses “media
Read MoreMark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed: Chair of UK fake news inquiry: seized trove of Facebook docs shows FB engineer flagged Russian “entities” as pulling billions of FB data points per day in 2014 — Facebook claimed engineers later “found no evidence of specific Russian activity”. Chair of UK fake news inquiry: seized trove of Facebook
Read MoreA symbolic chair was left empty at the disinformation session, where politicians from nine countries expressed annoyance at the Facebook chief’s absence. Zuckerberg conspicuous in his absence at international hearing – CNET Source: CNet
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