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Facebook wants to make you secure no matter how hard you make it
Nov 12, 4:17PM
When you have a billion people using your service, you have an obligation to keep your users secure, even when they behave in unsafe ways. Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Facebook, speaking at Web Summit last week, told a quick story to show what his company was up against when it came to security. “The family car was not designed to be driven into a wall at 100 kilometers… Read MoreDriving the Midwest
Nov 12, 3:54PM
Last September, in the depths of high summer, my wife and I wanted to see the Midwest again. We began in Brooklyn and drove across the Verrazano, a bridge so long and well-engineered that its makers took into consideration the curvature of the Earth when they designed it. This spit us out out onto Staten Island, once New York’s ash heap and now a bustling bedroom community surrounded on… Read MoreSnapchat Spectacles vending machine page starts 24-hour countdown to next location
Nov 12, 3:10PM
Snapchat’s going to be selling Spectacles at another location in just under 24 hours as of Saturday morning, as the company’s Snapbot locator page started a 24 hour countdown timer as of 7 AM PT (10 AM ET). The sleeping bot on Snap’s Spectacles locator page will presumably be replaced by an updated map when the countdown runs out, showing you were the adorable vending… Read MoreTrendspotting
Nov 12, 2:00PM
Brexit and Trump; applied CRISPR and the Gigafactory; the rise of self-driving vehicles, the fall of pollsters; the global saturation of smartphones, the first mass-market VR headsets; the first drone-delivered terror bomb, the first drone drug mule; Signal and the Secure Enclave; Ethereum and the DAO; AI and SpaceX — we can all agree, I hope, that this has been one hell of a year. Read MoreCrunch Report | Facebook Made Us All Dead
Nov 12, 4:15AM
Facebook has a bug and has switched their profiles to being memorialized, Mark Zuckerberg affirms that Facebook didn’t affect election and Singles’ Day breaks shopping records. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Kickstarter smash hit INSTRUMENT 1 from Artiphon is now available to buy
Nov 11, 11:58PM
Take a Chapman Stick, add a lot of tech in its belly and jam a USB cable up its jacksie and you get something that looks vaguely like an INSTRUMENT 1. It’s a completely new type of musical instrument developed by Artiphon. Funded through a seven-figure Kickstarter campaign, the instrument is shipping now, and we can’t wait to see what people will be creating with it. Read MoreNintendowned: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in (null) seconds
Nov 11, 10:53PM
We knew the NES Classic Edition, with its retro aesthetic and solid game selection, would be hard to get at first, but this is some next level, Tickle Me Elmo-style demand. Amazon, which made its supply of the console available at 2PM Pacific today, sold out in what appeared to be less than a minute. Read MoreAT&T downgrades video quality on mobile with 'Stream Saver'
Nov 11, 10:37PM
AT&T just introduced a new “feature” much like T-Mobile’s Binge On that automatically throttles all video streams to a lower resolution and bandwidth unless you opt out of it. They call it Stream Saver, and yes, it applies to “unlimited” data plans. Read MoreFacebook Messenger launches its public group chat feature "Rooms" in select markets
Nov 11, 10:20PM
Facebook’s experiment with semi-anonymous social networking centered around interests, via a standalone app called Rooms, failed. But the learnings from that earlier experiment have now popped up in Facebook’s Messenger application as a new feature called Rooms, which is rolling out now in select markets. The limited launch is meant to serve as a test to see if Facebook’s… Read MoreSignups for encrypted mail client ProtonMail double after election
Nov 11, 10:07PM
The election of Donald Trump has lots of Americans worried about their privacy, and they’re turning to encrypted communication platforms to protect themselves. During an interview yesterday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden encouraged those concerned about the ramifications of Trump at the helm of the NSA to use encryption — and it seems like people are listening. ProtonMail, an… Read MoreInstant apps are publishers' newest 'frenemy' when it comes to monetization
Nov 11, 10:00PM
When the App Store opened there were 552 apps. Today, there are 2 million iOS apps, and 2.2 million apps in Android’s Google Play store. Needless to say, getting a single app noticed in a sea of 4.2 million is far from simple. What’s more, individuals tend to use only a limited number of apps per month, and most of their time in apps is concentrated across a very small number of them. Read MoreLyft denies report — okay, tweet — suggesting its COO is in talks with Trump's transition team
Nov 11, 9:51PM
Yesterday, former Fortune reporter Dan Primack reported that not only was billionaire investor Peter Thiel being considered for Donald Trump’s transition team but that Thiel was, in fact, already on it as of yesterday. That report has since been confirmed. Now, a newer report from Primack — a tweet, actually — states that Trump’s transition team is “looking… Read MoreWeekly Roundup: Trump victory casts shadow of despair over tech industry
Nov 11, 9:32PM
This week, the U.S. was shell-shocked and the tech world was in dismay from Donald Trump’s election victory. Silicon Valley lost its mind in a mess of tweet storms and public outcry. It was the perfect time for GoPro to announce it is recalling its Karma drone, and we escaped this harsh cruel reality with the launch of Google’s Daydream VR and the Nintendo NES Classic Edition. Read MoreGillmor Gang LIVE 11.11.16
Nov 11, 9:07PM
This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording starts at 1:00pm PT. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Read MoreDemocratic Trump supporters were hiding in plain sight
Nov 11, 9:07PM
If you’re shocked by Donald Trump’s election, you’re not alone — the president-elect surprised many people, including the pollsters who predicted a Hillary Clinton victory by wide margins. Since election night, pollsters, journalists, voters, and probably the folks over at the Clinton campaign have been trying to figure out how predictions about the election went so… Read MoreFacebook suddenly says a bunch of its users are dead. Don't panic.
Nov 11, 8:51PM
Over the last half hour or so, reports have started pouring in from Facebook users that the social network has suddenly “memorialized” their pages, strongly suggesting that they are dead to everyone who stops by. Take the above profile of our own Darrell Etherington — who is very much not dead, as in I’m talking to him right now and I’m definitely not Bruce… Read MoreTencent is giving its staff $220M in shares to celebrate its 18th birthday
Nov 11, 8:44PM
November 11 — the date of the 11/11 shopping bonanza — is generally a day when Alibaba creates the headlines. While the e-commerce giant broke records again this year, selling a colossal $17.79 billion of goods inside 24 hours, its rival Tencent grabbed a share of the attention after it agreed to give its 31,500 staff company shares. Read MoreDigitalGlobe's new imaging satellite makes it to space
Nov 11, 8:38PM
This morning, the United Launch Alliance sent an Atlas 5 401 rocket loaded with DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 satellite into space. The satellite will create a new pipeline for sending high quality satellite imagery back to earth. DigitalGlobe worked with Lockheed Martin to build a satellite capable of taking crystal-clear photos from 400 miles away while moving at 17,000 mph. WorldView… Read MoreDJI says it's learned its lessons from the Mavic Pro delay
Nov 11, 8:25PM
Timing is everything. And for DJI, the timing for the Mavic Pro, the stars seemed to align perfectly. A couple of weeks after GoPro’s big unveil, the company had a folding drone of its own that was smaller and more feature packed that the Karma. And, in spite of being late to the announcement part, DJI announced that it would be first to market with its device – a decided bonus of… Read MoreGadget Story Time with EPIKGO hoverboard
Nov 11, 8:25PM
I have a love-hate relationship with hoverboards. They make me happy when I ride them but they suck to fall off of lol. The other day I saw a guy carrying his newborn baby while riding a hoverboard and I started having a minor anxiety attack. EPIKGO sent me their hoverboard to try out and they couldn’t have picked a more qualified and handsome person. At one point I had my own… Read More
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