In all likelihood, when former Uber engineer Susan Fowler authored a now-famous post about her “very strange year” at Uber and the culture of sexism she witnessed first-hand at the company, she had no clue it would have such colossal ripple effects. Yet, according to a new report in Deadline Hollywood, Fowler’s story is being made into a film that’s being pitched to… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
A WhatsApp flaw has been discovered that allows hackers to identify things like who you’re talking to and when you go to sleep. How? Simply by checking your “online” status and correlating that with the status of others.
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Source: Digital trends
Meet this season’s BB-8. Twitter can’t get enough of him.
Source: Wired
A member of South Korea’s parliament who sits on its defense committee is claiming that North Korean hackers have stolen some of his nation’s most sensitive military documents — including a plan to assassinate North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.
The South Korean Yonhap news service is reporting that Rhee Cheol-hee, a member of the country’s ruling political party and a… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Deepgram, a startup applying machine learning to audio data, is releasing its machine transcription platform this morning for free. No more will you have to pay for other services like Trint to get the dirty work of automated transcription done. Hint: it has something to do with data. Machine transcription isn’t solved. In fact, machine anything isn’t solved. And it seems like… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Medium is expanding its subscription efforts today by allowing any author or publisher to join its partner program. That’s the program where readers can pay a monthly fee (currently $5) to access content behind a paywall (plus, they get early access to new features). The writers who participate will then get a share of the revenue, based on what CEO Ev Williams said is an evolving… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
A “tabloid rumor,” is how Microsoft would describe the suggestion from some industry heads that it would bring an end to its popular line of convertible laptops by as soon as 2019.
The post Microsoft’s denies ‘tabloid’ rumors, says Surface line isn’t going anywhere appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Yandex is virtually unknown here in the States, but it’s become something approaching a Russian Google (and Amazon and Uber) in the 20 years since its founding. The company controls around 65-percent of search engine market share in its home country, and has branched out into practically every other software category imaginable, so a smart assistant was a bit of a no-brainer. The company… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Samsung’s limited-edition Powerbots turn to the dark side with custom covers designed to look like Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper.
Source: CNET
How all the smart speakers stack up, including three new ones
Source: CNET