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New rules allow anyone to invest up to $2,000 a year in startups

By Ben Popper 6

Trump: Bezos and Amazon have 'a huge antitrust problem'

By Vlad Savov 56

Charter gets final approval to buy Time Warner Cable

By Adi Robertson 5

A long talk with Facebook about its role in journalism

Casey Newton May 12, 2016 01:00 pm05.12.2016

A year ago today, Facebook introduced Instant Articles — a quick-loading news format, hosted on Facebook’s own servers, that opens inside the company’s flagship app up to 10 times faster than the mobile...

Western Digital officially closes SanDisk acquisition

James Vincent May 12, 2016 08:32 am05.12.2016 4

Western Digital has now officially purchased flash memory manufacturer SanDisk after regulator approval was passed earlier this week. The agreement between the two storage companies was originally a...

memory overload

With its eyes on VR and indoor mapping, Google will expand Project Tango next week

Ben Popper May 12, 2016 12:07 pm05.12.2016

Project Tango is one of Google's stranger lines of research. At its core, the technology uses cameras to map the space around you in detailed 3D. It uses that data to create indoor maps, layering guided...

It takes I/O to Tango

Huawei sees ample business opportunity in our dystopian future

Vlad Savov May 11, 2016 09:02 am05.11.2016 3

Kevin Ho, president of Huawei's handset business, is clearly a man of fine judgment, having recently started following me on Twitter. He also appears to be a part-time futurist, as evidenced by his...

Turning cyborg immortality and robot apocalypse prevention into big business

Staples and Office Depot are calling off their merger

By Jacob Kastrenakes 14

Uber reaches a deal with major New York drivers' union

By Ben Popper

Amazon's drone program acquires a team of Europe's top computer vision experts

Ben Popper May 10, 2016 10:32 am05.10.2016

The most important attribute in today's cutting-edge drones is the ability to see and understand the world so that the drone can safely navigate to its destination and around obstacles. Last week The Verge...

I see you down there

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

Ben Popper May 9, 2016 11:39 am05.09.2016

Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple's iconic digital assistant, and one of the first modern apps to capably handle natural language queries on a smartphone....

One bot to rule them all

FCC approves Charter acquisition of Time Warner Cable

Russell Brandom May 6, 2016 03:52 pm05.06.2016 12

The Federal Communications Commission has officially approved Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable, according to a statement issued by the FCC. Together, the companies will constitute the s...

Charter will be the second largest cable company in America

Jimmyjane took vibrators from sleazy to chic — now, can it take them mainstream?

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YouTube says its primetime audience is bigger than the top 10 TV shows combined

Ben Popper May 6, 2016 02:44 pm05.06.2016

For the last three years, YouTube has put on a series of increasingly extravagant parties meant to convince advertisers that the video platform is the best place to spend their marketing dollars. The...

Now watch me whip

Tim Cook reportedly traveling to China following closure of Apple's online stores

James Vincent May 6, 2016 06:46 am05.06.2016 28

Apple CEO Tim Cook is heading to China this month, according to a report from Reuters, to meet with "high-level government officials" including those in charge of "propaganda." Such a visit would be...

iBooks and iTunes Movies were closed last month

Lawsuit challenging Facebook’s facial recognition system moves forward

Russell Brandom May 5, 2016 08:05 pm05.05.2016 1

A lawsuit alleging that Facebook photo tagging violates user privacy has cleared a crucial early hurdle. A judge in Northern California District Court today ruled against a motion by Facebook to dismiss....

Cupertino's mayor says Apple is 'not willing to pay a dime' in taxes

Nick Statt May 5, 2016 06:27 pm05.05.2016 175

Cupertino Mayor Barry Chang is not pleased with Apple, the most valuable corporation in the world and the city's largest and most economically flush resident. In an interview with The Guardian posted today,...

Apple holds $181 billion in offshore profits

The New York Times is starting a meal delivery service

Kwame Opam May 5, 2016 06:07 pm05.05.2016

The New York Times will launch a meal delivery service this summer. The Gray Lady today announced that it's partnering with food startup Chef'd to provide subscribers with ingredients from recipes pulled...

A way to bolster the paper's revenue
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