Webkit'S New Anti-Tracking Policy Puts Privacy On A Par With Security
Microsoft tweaks privacy policy to admit humans can listen to Skype Translator and Cortana audio: Natasha Lomas
Microsoft is the latest tech giant to amend its privacy policy after media reports revealed it uses human contractors to review audio recordings of Skype and Cortana users. A section in the policy on how the company uses personal data now reads (emphasis ours…
Huawei pushes back launch of 5G foldable, the Mate X: Natasha Lomas
If you were desperately ripping days off of your calendar until you could get your hands on Huawei’s $2,600 5G foldable, the Mate X — which was originally slated to launch next month — it sounds like you’re going to have to wait a bit longer, per TechRadar wh…
Southern California athletic brand, Vuori, raises $45 million from Norwest Venture Partners: Jonathan Shieber
The four-year-old, Southern California athletic brand Vuori has picked up a $45 million growth equity investment from the investment firm Norwest Venture Partners. The company, which says it’s profitable, will now join a stable of consumer startup brands that…
Launching out of YC, Blair is aiming to reshape the financing of college tuition: Mike Butcher
It’s generally agreed that Higher Education in the United States has gradually become more and more unaffordable. Students are dependent on external financial resources for which many of them do not even qualify. Students that are able to secure a loan, often…
WebKit's new anti-tracking policy puts privacy on a par with security: Natasha Lomas
WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple’s Safari browser, has announced a new tracking prevention policy that takes the strictest line yet on the background and cross-site tracking practices and technologies which are u…
Apply to the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin 2019: Leslie Hitchcock
Hey hackathon fans, get ready to pack your bags and book your tickets to Berlin. That’s right, baby, the TC Hackathon returns to Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. We’re looking for creative code warriors of every stripe to compete in a grueling, exhilara…
YC-backed Eden Farm wants to cut out the middlemen between farmers and restaurants in Indonesia: Catherine Shu
Eden Farm is a startup with the ambitious goal of building a food distribution network for Indonesia, where many restaurants currently rely on markets for fresh ingredients. But this means high markups and unreliable supplies for restaurant owners and lower p…
Energy Vault raises $110 million from SoftBank Vision Fund as energy storage grabs headlines: Jonathan Shieber
Imagine a moving tower made of huge cement bricks weighing 35 metric tons. The movement of these massive blocks is powered by wind or solar power plants and as a way to store the energy those plants generate. Software controls the movement of the blocks autom…
Racial bias observed in hate speech detection algorithm from Google: Devin Coldewey
Understanding what makes something offensive or hurtful is difficult enough that many people can't figure it out, let alone AI systems. And people of color are frequently left out of AI training sets. So it's little surprise that Alphabet/Google-spawned Jigsa…
VMware says it's looking to acquire Pivotal: Frederic Lardinois
VMware today confirmed that it is in talks to acquire software development platform Pivotal Software, the service best known for commercializing the open-source Cloud Foundry platform. The proposed transaction would see VMware acquire all outstanding Pivotal …
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