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Verizon stealthily launched a startup offering $40-per-month unlimited data, messaging and minutes
May 10, 7:30PM
Earlier this year, Verizon quietly launched a new startup called Visible, offering unlimited data, minutes, and messaging services for the low, low price of $40. To subscribe for the service, users simply download the Visible app (currently available only on iOS) and register. Right now, subscriptions are invitation only and would-be subscribers have to get an […]
RIP Klout
May 10, 6:35PM
Remember Klout? The influencer market service that purportedly let social media influencers get free stuff is finally closing its doors this month. Perhaps, like me, you’re surprised that Klout is still running in 2018, but time is nearly up. The closure will happen May 25 — you have until then to see what topics you’re apparently an […]
Apple invests $10M in greenhouse gas-free aluminum smelting
May 10, 6:06PM
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard joined key execs from Apple and industrial manufacturers Alcoa and Rio Tinto to announce a new process for smelting aluminum that removes greenhouse gases from the equation. Alcoa and Rio Tinto are creating a joint venture in based in Montreal called Elysis, to help mainstream […]
AI startups: Apply to exhibit for free as a TC Top Pick at Disrupt SF '18
May 10, 6:00PM
Heads up, startup fans. One of the best ways to experience Disrupt San Francisco 2018 is for free — and who doesn't love free? Right now, we're hunting for the best early-stage AI startups to apply as a TC Top Pick. If your company earns that designation, you get to exhibit for free in Startup […]
Necto looks to help individuals get their own local ISP businesses off the ground
May 10, 6:00PM
If you live in a city, you’re probably deciding between a handful of major broadband or wireless carriers — maybe something like Comcast or AT&T. But there’s a good chance that there are a bunch of local carriers that are looking to get off the ground, and Benjamin Huang wants to help make sure there […]
Researchers show Siri and Alexa can be exploited with 'silent' commands hidden in songs
May 10, 5:55PM
Researchers at UC Berkeley have shown they can embed within songs stealthy commands for popular voice assistants that can prompt platforms like Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant to carry out actions without humans getting wise. The research, reported earlier by The New York Times, is a more actionable evolution of something security researchers have been […]
Medium's latest pivot leaves some independent media in the lurch
May 10, 5:53PM
Medium has abruptly pulled a feature that allowed publishers to operate paywalls on its platform, leaving some independent media scrambling for alternative options to maintain a crucial source of revenue. The company this week shuttered a two-year program that let media run paid subscription services on its site. Nieman Lab reports that Medium contacted its 21 remaining […]
House Democrats release more than 3,500 Russian Facebook ads
May 10, 5:09PM
Democrats from the House Intelligence Committee have released thousands of ads that were run on Facebook by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency. The Democrats said they’ve released a total of 3,519 ads today from 2015, 2016 and 2017. This doesn’t include 80,000 pieces of organic content shared on Facebook by the IRA, which the Democrats […]
AWS launches an undo feature for its Aurora database service
May 10, 4:28PM
Aurora, AWS’s managed MySQL and PostgreSQL database service, is getting an undo feature. As the company announced today, the new Aurora Backtrack feature will allow developers to “turn back time.” For now, this only works for MySQL databases, though. Developers have to opt in to this feature and it only works for newly created database […]
Instagram adds emoji slider stickers to spice up polls
May 10, 4:00PM
If you’ve been meaning to ask your friends just how eggplant emoji your new summer cutoffs are, you’re in luck. Today, Instagram is introducing a feature it’s calling the “emoji slider,” a new audience feedback sticker that polls your viewers on a rating scale using any emoji. The updated Instagram app is available now in […]
Net neutrality will officially die on June 11
May 10, 3:59PM
After months of tension and a variety of smaller milestones, the FCC order voiding 2015's net neutrality rules and instating its own weaker version will take effect on June 11, the agency's chairman Ajit Pai said today.
IAB says online advertising grew to $88B last year — more spending than TV
May 10, 3:13PM
Online advertising reached $88 billion last year, a 21 percent increase from 2016 and a new high, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. The report is prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade organization of online advertisers and publishers. Aside from stumbling after the financial crisis a decade ago, […]
Researchers create a real cloaking device
May 10, 1:08PM
Researcher Amanda D. Hanford at Pennsylvania State University has created a real cloaking device that can route sound waves around an object, making it invisible to some sensing techniques. From the report: Hanford and her team set out to engineer a metamaterial that can allow the sound waves to bend around the object as if […]
For ScopeAR, the market is finally catching up with the technology
May 10, 1:05PM
ScopeAR, a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2015 class, came to the augmented reality game very early, launching in 2011 when there was very little hardware and most people didn’t understand the technology. But it has managed to hang around long enough for the market and the hardware to finally catch with the founders’ […]
Free stock trading app Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with new funding round
May 10, 1:00PM
Robinhood started off as a dead-simple stock trading application that had no transaction fees — but since it’s continued to grow, and especially as it starts to dive into cryptocurrency, investors are getting pretty excited about its prospects and are pouring a ton of new funding into it. And it’s that tantalizing prospect of creating a […]
Tech devices that make for great last-minute gifts for anyone
May 10, 1:00PM
It should be easy to give a gift. But it can be hard trying to choose which gift to give. That's especially true with technology, where products tend to be more functional than emotional.
Background screening service HelloVerify eyes growth amid India's digital boom
May 10, 12:46PM
As India’s internet access continues to surge among the billion-plus population, data is becoming the new oil. Whether online commerce, ride-hailing, mobile payments and banking, or more, someone needs to verify that people are who, and what, they say they are. That’s an opportunity where HelloVerify, a verification and background screening startup that recently graduated Y Combinator […]
Hacker Kevin Mitnick shows how to bypass 2FA
May 10, 11:58AM
A new exploit allows hackers to spoof two-factor authentication requests by sending a user to a fake login page and then stealing the username, password, and session cookie. KnowBe4 Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick showed the hack in a public video. By convincing a victim to visit a typo-squatting domain liked “LunkedIn.com” and capturing the […]
Apple pulls the plug on its €850M data center project in Ireland over planning delays
May 10, 11:39AM
Dark clouds have gathered and broken over Apple’s plans to build a data center in Ireland. Three years ago, Apple announced that it would invest $2 billion into building a pair of new, green data centers in Ireland and Denmark. But today, the iPhone giant confirmed that it was cancelling the first of those two […]
Uber to pop up a service in Spain's Costa del Sol in time for summer
May 10, 10:04AM
Uber is expanding its presence in Spain by launching a licensed service on the country’s southern Costa del Sol coastline — ahead of the summer season when the region draws in millions of international tourists. Last year the tourist hotspot pulled in some 12.5M visitors. Clearly Uber wants to cut itself a chunk of that […]
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