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SF subpoenas Uber and Lyft for driver pay, benefits and classification info
May 29, 8:03PM
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has sent subpoenas to Uber and Lyft that asks them to provide information pertaining to how each company classifies its drivers (W2 employees versus 1099 contractors), as well as pay and benefits. The subpoenas also request a list of drivers who have either started or ended at least one […]
FCC asks Amazon and eBay to stop selling fake pay TV boxes
May 29, 7:27PM
On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and eBay CEO Devin Wenig asking their companies to help remove the listings for fake pay TV boxes from their respective websites. These boxes often falsely bear the FCC logo, the letter informed, and are used to perpetuate “intellectual property theft […]
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo hits Mach 1.9 in second successful test flight
May 29, 7:25PM
Virgin Galactic is celebrating a successful second test flight of SpaceShipTwo, the rocket-powered passenger spacecraft that may someday take tourists to the edge of space. Today's test took the VSS Unity, the second craft built in this class, up to 114,500 feet and Mach 1.9, or nearly 1,300 miles per hour.
GIF lord Imgur caves to video to hasten profitability
May 29, 6:41PM
Imgur is the internet’s best time sink, where 250 million monthly users silently consume an endless community-curated collection of absurd GIFs, inspiring tales, pop science explainers, and giant meme dumps. But what it’s never had is video. That was a differentiator that made it ideal for quiet browsing in class, on public transit, or in bed. […]
Facebook mistakes Kentucky woman for a Westworld bot
May 29, 4:57PM
PSA: Don’t use a popular brand name for your online accounts. Facebook’s social media team accidentally directed users to the Messenger account of a random Facebook user this morning, instead of the new HBO Westworld Messenger account it was trying to promote. On Twitter, the Messenger account instructed followers to chat with “Tes, the host of […]
Acorns hits 3.5 million users, sees 100,000 sign-ups for retirement product in its first month
May 29, 4:39PM
It looks like the investment service Acorns may turn into an oak faster than expected. Billed as an automated investment manager for the people, Acorns is off to a blistering start with its new retirement account service picking up 100,000 accounts in its first month. Unlike other investment services, Acorns takes spare change from transactions […]
This is the first look at Nvidia's wild new 750,000 sq ft building
May 29, 4:31PM
Nvidia is preparing a new, massive building in Santa Clara, CA and this is it. Called Voyager, it will be larger than the building Nvidia just finished constructing by 250,000 square feet. And just like the other building, Endeavor, Voyager will share the same wild, distinctly Nvidia design. Nvidia opened the first building, Endeavor, in […]
Apple's HomePod is coming to Canada, France and Germany June 18
May 29, 4:00PM
Buried amid the flurry of iOS 11.4 news issued by Apple today is one key piece of hardware news: the company’s high-end smart speaker will be arriving in a number of additional key markets next month. After hitting stores in February here in the States, the HomePod will be arriving in Canada, France and Germany […]
AirPlay 2 and HomePod stereo pairing arrive with iOS 11.4
May 29, 3:36PM
iOS 11.4 arrives today, and with it, a bunch of welcome upgrades. The biggest updates here are, unsurprisingly, on the streaming media front, including the arrival of AirPlay 2, and the long awaited ability to pair up two HomePods for some stereo music living room listening. Among other things, AirPlay 2 brings with it improved […]
Meet Super Anthony, the fighting robot that lands mighty blows
May 29, 3:30PM
If you’ve always wanted recreate the fighting scenes in Big Hero 6 with your own little fighting robots, now is your chance. Super Anthony is a rocking, socking robot that can punch, kick, roll, and jump and has enough torque to knock any other little robot off its little robot legs. Super Anthony costs $1,299 […]
US announces timeline for 25% tariff on Chinese tech products
May 29, 3:28PM
After significant back-and-forth over the past few months, the White House intends to follow through with a pledge to place tariffs on imported Chinese technology goods while also tightening restrictions on investments by Chinese firms into American companies. In a statement posted by the White House this morning, the administration said that it would impose […]
Apple is releasing iOS 11.4 with support for Messages in iCloud, AirPlay 2 and more
May 29, 3:18PM
Apple this afternoon will officially release the latest version of its iOS software for your iPhone and iPad, iOS 11.4, which at last adds support for Messages in iCloud, along with other new features, including most notably, AirPlay 2 and an update that allows two HomePod speakers to work together as a stereo pair. Messages […]
Zipcar plans all-electric fleet of over 300 Volkswagens in London
May 29, 2:47PM
Zipcar is rolling out a fleet of 300 Volkswagen e-Golfs in London this year — in what the company is touting as the largest rollout of electric cars in a single English city. Details from the company are still sketchy, but Zipcar said the first electric vehicles will be available over the summer, with more […]
SocialChorus raises $12.5M for its internal communications platform
May 29, 2:39PM
While organisations dedicate large budgets into marketing their services to the outside world, there’s also been a rising demand among companies to communicate their purposes to a more immediate audience: themselves. SocialChorus, a startup that has built a platform to help organizations coordinate and communicate better with their employees, is announcing today that it has […]
GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google
May 29, 2:32PM
The Great Privacy Policy Email Deluge of 2018 may have finally petered out, but we are just starting to build an understanding of who the winners and losers will be in this newly regulated data economy. Most of the attention so far has been focused on the losers post-GDPR, which can be broadly summarized as […]
Arrested Development Season 5 is now live on Netflix
May 29, 2:17PM
“I’ve made a huge mistake.” It may have been a while since you’ve heard GOB’s famous catch phrase, but there’s more where that came from. Arrested Development Season 5 dropped today on Netflix . Creator Mitch Hurwitz promised that this season would be more in keeping with the original three seasons of Arrested Development, which […]
BlaBlaCar sells car insurance products from Axa
May 29, 2:01PM
BlaBlaCar is iterating once again on its marketplace strategy for all your car needs. You can now buy your car insurance from BlaBlaCar directly with a new product called BlaBlaSure. The company is working with Axa for this insurance product. You'll be able to select an insurance product between three different tiers, from basic third-party […]
Collaborative Fund raises $100M for its fourth fund
May 29, 2:00PM
When Collaborative Fund is looking at whether to invest in a company, it’s looking for a startup that’ll be able to accomplish some kind of social good — but also actually make money and be a real business. It’s that theory that’s led the fund for eight years, and Collaborative Fund is going to keep […]
Papua New Guinea threatens to close Facebook for a month to investigate its harmful impact
May 29, 1:50PM
Facebook is proving problematic for many governments worldwide, but few would think to shut it down entirely. That’s exactly the approach that Papua New Guinea, the Pacific sea island nation located near Australia, is proposing to take with a new measure that could see the social network closed off for a month. During that period, the […]
Pandora's acquisition of audio adtech company AdsWizz is complete
May 29, 1:39PM
Pandora this morning announced it has closed on its acquisition of AdsWizz, the digital audio ad technology company whose products will be used to upgrade the streaming service’s own ad tech capabilities in the months ahead. The $145 million deal was first announced in March, with a stipulation that at least 50 percent of the […]
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