| 11:00 PM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple indefinitely extends January 1, 2017 deadline requiring App Transport Security support in all apps submitted to the App Store |
| 9:20 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Zuckerberg, after saying Facebook is not a media company in August, now suggests it is a media firm, just not a “traditional” one |
| 9:05 PM • | Cao Li / New York Times: Beijing and Shanghai announce that ride-sharing services can only hire local residents as drivers |
| 8:45 PM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Uber stops San Francisco self-driving pilot as California DMV revokes registrations on its vehicles; Uber says it will look to deploy vehicles elsewhere |
| 7:05 PM • | Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi Foundation releases free experimental version of its desktop environment PIXEL for PCs and Macs |
| 5:30 PM • | Laharee Chatterjee / Reuters: Honda says it has entered into formal talks with Alphabet's Waymo to add self-driving tech to its cars, will provide modified vehicles initially |
| 5:15 PM • | Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: Interview with Paul Hunt, a type designer who helped bring gender inclusive emoji to Unicode 10, on his approach and the process |
| 5:00 PM • | Joseph Menn / Reuters: Law experts say US government is looking to loosen Constitutional protections against arbitrary governmental surveillance, such as bulk Yahoo email scanning |
| 4:30 PM • | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: GM will work with 500 Startups to give separate seed investments to five startups in each class, some of which will be outside of automotive tech |
| 4:00 PM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Open Whisper Systems, the developers behind Signal, use “domain fronting” for its Android app to bypass censorship in Egypt and UAE, with iOS update coming soon |
| 3:45 PM • | Tom Mendelsohn / Ars Technica: Subsidiary of French postal service DPDgroup cleared to start delivering mail by drone once a week along one nine-mile route |
| 3:20 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Recode: Six of ten executives in Twitter's “leadership team” have left this year, including the CTO, COO, VP of Product, VP of Engineering |
| 3:00 PM • | Facebook Media: Facebook updates Live broadcasting in its celebrity-focused Mentions app with comment moderation, broadcast status console, more |
| 2:45 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple accuses Nokia of collusion with patent trolls in anti-trust lawsuit; Nokia sues Apple for 32 patent infringements, claims Apple declined licensing deals |
| 2:35 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook says government requests for account data rose 27% YoY globally; requests to remove posts that violate local law drop 83% |
| 2:25 PM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: How Nvidia used the growing need for powerful GPUs in AI, self-driving cars, and data centers to rapidly expand, after missing out on smartphone chips |
| 2:15 PM • | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: Nokia sues Apple for infringing technology patents |
| 1:55 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook partners with 17 universities, including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins, to speed up collaboration on new projects |
| 1:40 PM • | Hannah Devlin / The Guardian: Researchers detail method for testing whether machine learning algorithms are introducing gender or racial biases into decision-making |
| 1:25 PM • | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: WhatsApp is being used by many immigrants and migrants to stay in touch with family members and friends back home, thanks to its security, simplicity, ubiquity |
| 1:07 PM • | Spencer Woodman / The Verge: Data mining firm Palantir, co-founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel, has provided help tracking immigrants for US customs and border authorities |
| 12:40 PM • | Sherisse Pham / CNNMoney: Snap Inc. opens 20+ person office in China, where Snapchat is banned, to focus on R&D |
| 12:20 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: eMarketer cuts growth forecasts for US smartwatch market in 2016 from 60% to 25% YoY, citing lack of clear use case |
| 12:05 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games on the Metaverse, VR, standardized frameworks, the future of tech, and more |
| 11:55 AM • | Steven Overly / Washington Post: White House report: AI will lead to long-term growth in productivity and efficiency but will likely lead to millions of job losses in low-skill sectors |
| 11:40 AM • | Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed: Uber updates app to let users select a friend's contact as destination, which then pings the contact's phone for GPS location; app won't track friend after ping |
| 11:35 AM • | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: Documents reveal how Israel-based Cellebrite works with US law enforcement across 20 states to extract data from locked phones, more |
| 11:25 AM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Nintendo says Super Mario Run was downloaded 40M+ times in its first 4 days of availability, breaking iOS App Store records |
| 11:18 AM • | Andrew J / The Verge: Uber debuts several Snapchat filters unlocked in-app which display travel time to destination, the company's logo, more |
| 11:05 AM • | Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: Verizon “supercookie” partner Turn settles with FTC over privacy violations charges that it continued tracking consumers even after they opted out of tracking |
| 10:55 AM • | Russell Brandom / The Verge: House Judiciary Committee's Encryption Working Group report says encryption backdoors pose a security threat, siding with tech experts |
| 8:50 AM • | Tali Tsipori / Globes Online: Machine learning firm Dynamic Yield raises $22M Series C led by Vertex and ClalTech, with participation from Baidu and Global Founders Capital |
| 6:55 AM • | Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: EU's top court rules “general and indiscriminate retention” of electronic communications is illegal, possibly opening UK's Snoopers Charter to legal challenges |
| 4:30 AM • | Matthew Bassiur / Recode: Alibaba exec on how company's Cloud Sword effort used big data for finding and deleting counterfeit listings and helped law enforcement apprehend counterfeiters |
| 12:25 AM • | Dan Richman / GeekWire: Microsoft wins $927M tech support contract with US Defense Information Systems Agency following company's earlier deal to move all 4M DoD employees to Win 10 |
| 12:00 AM • | Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: TPG developing a $2B social impact fund called Rise, with board members and investors including Bono, Laurene Powell Jobs, Richard Branson, Reid Hoffman |
| 11:35 PM • | Russell Brandom / The Verge: AT&T announces Call Protect, a new service for automated blocking of spam calls at network level; feature only available on postpaid iOS and Android devices |
| 11:15 PM • | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: BlackBerry posts $301M Q3 revenue, below expected $332M; declining smartphone unit made up 23% of company's revenue as software and services made up 55% |
| 10:45 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Sling TV website shows details for AirTV Player, a new Android-powered device with an interface that combines Sling TV with over-the-air broadcasts and Netflix |
| 9:50 PM • | Richard Procter / San Francisco Business Times: Uber to meet with DMV and California Attorney General's office amid autonomous vehicle testing issues |
| 7:50 PM • | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: HelloFresh raises $88M, bringing total VC funding to nearly $360M as company looks toward possible IPO |
| 7:25 PM • | Chris O'Neill / Evernote Blog: Evernote to release new privacy policy in early 2017 and create new advisory board for customer feedback; CEO to personally manage employee access to user data |
| 6:00 PM • | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: Twitter CTO Adam Messinger and VP of Product Josh McFarland to leave company; McFarland to join Greylock Partners as a general partner |
| 5:03 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Twitter's CTO Adam Messinger to leave company after five years; source says he does not plan to immediately head to a competing social network |
| 4:30 PM • | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: Facebook now allows Android apps to request phone number for login and skip SMS verification if the number matches the one in the user's Facebook profile |
| 3:45 PM • | April Glaser / Recode: 7-Eleven touts first regular commercial drone delivery service in US via partnership with Flirtey, says 77 deliveries have been made from store in Reno, Nevada |
| 3:15 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook Live Audio launches with select publishers and authors including the BBC, LBC, and Harper Collins, will open up to more next year |
| 3:00 PM • | Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: Oracle senior staffer George Polisner resigns after co-CEO Safra Catz joins Trump transition team, starts petition for colleagues to protest Catz's involvement |
| 2:45 PM • | Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: Google-owned DeepMind is hiring “a couple of dozen” people to work out of Mountain View campus, the first expansion from its London HQ |
| 2:35 PM • | Sam Shead / Business Insider: DeepMind is building a team in the US to work on Google products |
| 2:25 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook to put more public-event “Moments”, like Holiday Cards and lunar eclipse reminders, at top of News Feed to encourage sharing |
| 1:55 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Yahoo kills Radar, its chatbot travel assistant app, 6 months after launch |
| 1:25 PM • | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: Egypt blocks encrypted messaging app Signal; Open Whisper Systems says it'll debut a fix over the coming weeks, suggests Tor, VPN workarounds in the meantime |
| 12:50 PM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Prisma adds location-based social feed, doubles resolution of output images, lets iOS users apply effects to non-square images |
| 12:40 PM • | VSCO: VSCO adds support for RAW capture, importing, and editing to its iOS 10 app, available to iPhone 6S, 7, and SE users |
| 12:18 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram debuts stickers for Stories, including location, time, weather, and emoji overlays and now lets users save 24-hours of updates, again copying Snapchat |
| 12:00 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple extends discounts for USB-C adapters and other accessories from December 31 to March 31 |
| 11:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Viber now lets users send video messages and adds six in-chat commands, known as Chat Extensions, to search Wikipedia, Giphy, TheMovieDB, and more |
| 11:05 AM • | Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: Russian hackers use “Methbot” botnet to steal $3M-$5M video ad revenue per day from over 6K premium publishers in largest ad fraud uncovered to date |
| 10:55 AM • | Sam Levin / The Guardian: Uber says its self-driving cars have a problem when crossing bike lanes, is working on a fix; SF Bicycle Coalition had warned Uber about problem before launch |
| 10:40 AM • | Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: iFixit teardown finds AirPods filled with glue and a charging case that's mostly empty but houses a battery that allows for about eight full recharges |
| 9:35 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: the Mac is getting far less attention inside Apple than it once did, amid lack of clear direction from senior management and departures of key people |
| 9:15 AM • | Jon Fingas / Engadget: New York City debuts ParkNYC system in midtown Manhattan that lets drivers pay for parking via smartphone app, with plans for a citywide rollout by summer 2017 |
| 6:11 AM • | Julia Fioretti / Reuters: EU officials: Facebook gave misleading info during takeover of WhatsApp on ability to match WhatsApp, Facebook IDs; this won't affect merger, may result in fine |
| 5:15 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Indian government officials say Apple has outlined plans and sought inventives to build products in India, paving the way for official stores in the country |
| 3:01 AM • | Ben Bajarin / Tech.pinions: Apple AirPod review: seamless pairing, comfortable, and Siri in-your-ear would be great if it were voice-only, instead of voice-first and requiring a screen |
| 11:55 PM • | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: Twitter tests breaking news alerts for big events, such as Fidel Castro's death, using an algorithm to decide who gets them |
| 11:15 PM • | Glyn Moody / Ars Technica: German politicians propose legislation to fine social media sites spreading fake news, giving sites 24 hours to kill hoaxes |
| 10:00 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon rolls out its kids reading app, Rapids, and Alexa video search support to Fire tablets |
| 9:45 PM • | April Glaser / Recode: FAA says it licensed about 23K people to be commercial drone pilots between August 31 and December 9 |
| 9:30 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google open sources Project Wycheproof, security tests of cryptographic libraries for known attacks, says 40+ security bugs have already been discovered |
| 9:15 PM • | Christine Lagorio-Chafkin / Inc.com: SEC filing shows Aereo founder Chet Kanojia's new firm Starry recently raised $30M Series B |
| 9:00 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Source: Uber lost $2.2B+ in first 9 months of 2016, with $800M+ in Q3 excluding Chinese ops; firm on track to exceed $5.5B in net revenue this year |
| 8:35 PM • | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: Tim Cook says Apple has “great desktops” on its roadmap in posting to employee message board as a response to media reports |
| 8:00 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Recode: Sources: Snap acquired San Francisco-based ad tech firm Flite which has raised money from Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, more; source calls deal “acquihire” |
| 6:30 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Twitter updates search results so tweets are displayed by relevance, not in reverse chronological order |
| 5:00 PM • | John Voorhees / MacStories: Minecraft launches Apple TV Edition for $20 and updates Pocket Edition for iOS to version 1.0 |
| 4:55 PM • | New York Times: Unlike Instagram and Twitter, Snapchat does little to cater to celebrities' specific needs, which helps to keep posts authentic |
| 4:20 PM • | Alastair Sharp / Reuters: BlackBerry to spend $75M on a Ottawa-based autonomous vehicle testing hub over several years, doubling down on its BlackBerry QNX subsidiary |
| 4:15 PM • | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Messaging app Kik adds the ability to video call with up to six people |
| 4:00 PM • | Chris Pereira / GameSpot: Nintendo says no plans to launch additional content for Super Mario Run as Nintendo stock falls steeply amid user complaints about the game's business model |
| 3:25 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook starts letting users choose background color for status updates on Android, amid reports of decreased personal sharing |
| 2:35 PM • | Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company: Mark Zuckerberg talks about progress and challenges building his home assistant Jarvis, a project he's spent 100-150 hours on this year |
| 2:00 PM • | Colin Lecher / The Verge: House committee publishes report urging Congress to pass legislation to regulate cell surveillance devices like Stingrays |
| 1:25 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Wearable AR display maker Lumus raises $30M, completing $45M round led by Quanta Computer, with participation from HTC and others |
| 12:45 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Airbnb is building a flight-booking tool, which is in early development but will likely debut before the firm IPOs |
| 12:30 PM • | Ryan Carter / L.A. Daily News: Los Angeles County says email phishing scam from May exposed personal data of 756K people, possibly including home addresses, financial, and medical information |
| 12:19 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook Messenger debuts group video chat supporting 6 users on a split screen who can utilize selfie masks and up to 50 voice/text secondary participants |
| 10:50 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: OneWeb raises $1.2B, of which $1B is from SoftBank, to build high volume satellite production facility for affordable satellite-based internet service |
| 9:15 AM • | Gavin Clarke / The Register: Oracle expands audits of Java SE customers and partners over non-payment for Advanced Desktop, Suite, and Advanced layers, issuing some bills upward of $100K |
| 8:30 AM • | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: HyperScience exits stealth with $18M in Series A funding, will use AI to tackle back-office problems, like data extraction from hand-filled forms |
| 4:30 AM • | Tas Bindi / ZDNet: Conversica raises $34M Series B for its AI-based conversational email sales assistant |
| 10:35 PM • | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Adobe reports Q4 revenue of $1.61B, up 23% YoY, bringing total revenue for the year to $5.85B |
| 8:55 PM • | Kara Swisher / Recode: Inside Trump's tech summit: Nadella talks immigration, Sandberg brings up STEM, and Bezos raises China; execs say Trump's kids involvement was inappropriate |
| 8:40 PM • | Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: Oracle reports $9B Q2 revenue, with SaaS and PaaS revenue up 81% YoY to $878M, IaaS up 6% YoY to $175M; firm says it beats Salesforce in cloud computing revenue |
| 8:25 PM • | Lauren Hirsch / Reuters: Source: Expedia-owned Trivago raises $287M in IPO, pricing 26.1M shares, instead of planned 28.5M at $11/ADS, below indicated $13-$15 range |
| 7:00 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Source: Apple to begin selling AirPods in its retail stores on Monday, December 19 |
| 5:15 PM • | Peter Henderson / Reuters: Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz to join executive committee of Donald Trump's transition team while remaining at the firm |
| 4:35 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: General Motors CEO Mary Barra says the automaker will immediately begin testing self-driving vehicles on public roads in Michigan |
| 4:30 PM • | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: 30+ companies including Quora, WebMD, Dominos Pizza, and Product Hunt add Google Home support |
| 4:05 PM • | Russell Brandom / The Verge: Under pressure from the ACLU in California, Twitter cuts off geospatial intelligence data being sold by Dataminr to police, prohibiting its use for surveillance |
| 3:50 PM • | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Source: Amazon is building an Uber-like app that connects shipments with truck drivers, slated to launch summer 2017 |
| 3:45 PM • | Samit Sarkar / Polygon: Microsoft says Xbox One software update will improve download speeds by up to 40% on sub-100 Mbps internet connections, up to 80% on over 100 Mbps connections |
| 3:40 PM • | Oliver Darcy / Business Insider: Prominent conservatives express alarm at Facebook's move against fake news, worrying their voices will be suppressed and fact checking won't be applied evenly |
| 3:33 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Verizon will roll out update for Galaxy Note 7 that disables device on January 7, after previously saying it would not |
| 3:25 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Amino Apps raises $19.2M round led by GV to build mobile interest-based communities, has over 250K communities in its network, up from 90 two months ago |
| 3:15 PM • | Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: Apple's HealthKit suite has the potential to aid medical research, but early studies have had low participation rates over time |
| 3:00 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: AOL integrates Slack and Alexa with its Alto mail app, which uses a card-based interface to show important information first |
| 2:30 PM • | Kevin Dallas / The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft partners with TomTom to expand Azure location services and expands HERE maps deal, bringing data and services to “productivity scenarios in cars” |
| 2:15 PM • | April Glaser / Recode: The departure of FCC chairman Tom Wheeler likely signals the end of net neutrality, as Donald Trump has publicly opposed the rules |
| 1:50 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Fake stories flagged by two or more unpaid third-parties like Snopes and AP will get warning labels, lower ranking on News Feed, but will remain shareable |
| 1:45 PM • | Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: Twitch looks to expand beyond gaming videos with introduction of “IRL” section |
| 1:40 PM • | Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: BlackBerry gives China's TCL exclusive rights to sell BlackBerry-branded phones in most countries |
| 1:07 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: To fight fake news, Facebook tests easier hoax reporting, uses third-party fact checkers to flag stories, punishes stories shared less after being read, more |
| 12:50 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple will charge $69 to replace individual AirPods in or out of warranty |
| 12:40 PM • | Associated Press: California DMV threatens legal action if Uber continues testing autonomous vehicles on San Francisco's public roads without a permit |
| 12:35 PM • | Rhea Mahbubani / NBC Bay Area: Uber says one of its self-driving cars ran a red light in San Francisco “due to human error” |
| 12:20 PM • | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: Twitter's rule against inciting harassment means it could ban President-Elect Trump, but free speech advocates argue his tweets have value |
| 12:00 PM • | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Big data firm Databricks, built on top of the Apache Spark open source project, raises $60M Series C led by NEA, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz |
| 11:45 AM • | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Wordpress adds support for 360-degree photos and video to all its hosted blogs, viewable on desktop, mobile, and VR headsets |
| 11:18 AM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook Messenger adds Snapchat-like photo filters, including “3D masks”, special effects, stickers, more |
| 11:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Source: Verizon is looking to get a price cut or exit the $4.8B Yahoo deal after company discloses 1B accounts hacked in 2013; Yahoo stock down 5%+ |
| 10:50 AM • | Will Greenwald / PC Magazine: Onvocal introduces OV Bluetooth headphones, the first headphones that allow access to Amazon's Alexa via a smartphone app |
| 10:25 AM • | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: Facebook tests context-based actions in Messenger via its “M” assistant, such as sending location or stickers |
| 9:50 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Docker open sources critical infrastructure component “containerd”; cloud vendors including Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM, and Microsoft sign on to work on it |
| 9:20 AM • | Politico: Democratic FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says he will resign on January 20, which will allow a new Republican majority to begin dismantling Obama-era regulations |
| 9:12 AM • | Natt Garun / The Verge: Instagram doubles its monthly active user base in two years to 600M, adding 100M in six months |
| 8:35 AM • | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: Sources: Twitter spent over a year developing a standalone messaging app in India, aimed at on-boarding new users, but killed it in September after trial runs |
| 6:10 AM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tweetbot maker Tapbots launches Pastebot 2.0 for Mac, a $20 clipboard manager that can sync across multiple Macs, available now |
| 3:35 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Delivery startup Just Eat acquires rival Delivery Hero's UK business for $251M cash, plus $50M based on performance, buys Canadian rival SkipTheDishes for $83M |
| 1:55 AM • | Claire Reilly / CNET: Australian federal court orders ISPs to block torrenting sites, including The Pirate Bay, within 15 business days under new site-blocking law |
| 12:25 AM • | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: California adopts energy standards requiring idle computers to draw less power; energy commission estimates 6% of desktops, 73% of laptops meet standards |
| 11:40 PM • | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Chinese selfie app maker Meitu closes flat on first day of trading after raising $629M at a $4.6B valuation in an IPO in Hong Kong |
| 11:20 PM • | Jon Barlow / Pebble Developers: Fitbit to keep Pebble software and services running through 2017, but smart features dependent on third-party services will be reevaluated |
| 10:10 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Logicworks raises $135M round led by Pamplona Capital for its cloud automation and management platform |
| 9:00 PM • | Jason Del Rey / Recode: Online wedding registry Zola confirms it received $25M investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners; Lightspeed partner Alex Taussig to join board |
| 8:05 PM • | Dan Levine / Reuters: Jury rules Arista did not infringe Cisco patent and owes no damages over Cisco's 2014 claim of copyright infringement |
| 7:00 PM • | NBC News: Two senior US officials say new intel shows Vladimir Putin directed how hacked DNC material was leaked to discredit US as global leader |
| 6:05 PM • | Russell Brandom / The Verge: Google settles privacy suit, tentatively agrees to only scan emails for ads after they arrive in your inbox, which should have little effect on users or privacy |
| 5:30 PM • | Kif Leswing / Business Insider: Palantir CEO Alex Karp was the only Trump summit attendee from a private firm, showing Peter Thiel's influence |
| 5:22 PM • | Jessica Misener / BuzzFeed: 13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit |
| 5:06 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Yahoo reveals another hack where an “unauthorized third party” in Aug. 2013 stole data from 1B+ accounts including names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdates |
| 5:03 PM • | Ginger Gibson / Reuters: Trump transition official says Twitter was too small to be included in tech summit and that #CrookedHillary emoji ordeal had nothing to do with excluding them |
| 4:35 PM • | Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: Meeting with tech leaders, Trump says they can call him or his team any time, Thiel is “ahead of the curve”, and administration will work on “fair” trade deals |
| 4:15 PM • | Peter Kafka / Recode: Magic Leap's VP of communications Andy Fouche leaves firm for Andy Rubin's new startup |
| 4:05 PM • | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: Cisco confirms it won't offer its Intercloud public cloud infrastructure beyond March 2017, shifting existing clients to other services |
| 3:39 PM • | Nancy Scola / Politico: Source: Twitter was left out of Donald Trump's tech summit over refusal to create #CrookedHillary emoji, which was part of a larger $5M deal with the campaign |
| 3:25 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Next version of Microsoft Edge blocks Flash plugin by default, loads HTML5 content if available; Microsoft will exempt popular websites, hasn't said which ones |
| 2:55 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sources: secure messaging app Symphony, used by 14 of biggest banks on Wall Street, is raising up to $200M at a $1B+ pre-money valuation |
| 2:35 PM • | Janko Roettgers / Variety: Virtual reality startup WEVR launches Netflix-style subscription service for cinematic VR titles, available on HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR initially |
| 2:25 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Commenting platform Disqus lays off 20% of its workforce, or 11 people, as it shifts business models to focus on data services for publishers and advertisers |
| 2:10 PM • | Reuters: FTC orders owner of Ashley Madison to pay $1.66M fine, as remainder of $17.5M settlement gets suspended due to inability to pay |
| 2:00 PM • | Associated Press: Ad tech firm Neustar bought for $1.83B by private investment group led by Golden Gate Capital, pending shareholder approval |
| 1:50 PM • | Kate Conger / TechCrunch: Evernote's new privacy policy, set to take effect on Jan. 23, would let some employees read user notes to aid with machine learning, although users can opt-out |
| 1:35 PM • | John Cook / GeekWire: Wynn Resorts to put Amazon Echo in 4.7K+ Wynn Las Vegas rooms, starting summer 2017 |
| 1:15 PM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: California's Dept. of Motor Vehicles says Uber needs a permit for its self-driving cars in SF; Uber disagrees, as drivers are present during rides |
| 1:00 PM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: 150 prominent filmmakers sign an open letter to major camera makers, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others, asking for default storage encryption |
| 12:50 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Kickstarter open sources code for its native iOS and Android apps, making it available on GitHub, as part of the company's commitment to helping startups |
| 12:25 PM • | Reuters: Sources: Google has ramped up hiring of Republican lobbying firms and in-house lobbyists, in an effort to gain a foothold in Trump's White House |
| 12:10 PM • | Peter Kafka / Recode: Facebook is in talks with TV shows and video producers about licensing content including original, licensed, scripted, unscripted, and sports programming |
| 11:50 AM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Amazon rolls out new shopping app for Apple TV, but Prime Video is still not available |
| 11:31 AM • | Instagram Blog: Instagram introduces bookmarking for posts, letting users save them for later in a private tab |
| 11:20 AM • | Patrick Frater / Variety: Amazon Prime Video's absence in China reflects other internet giants' struggles to break into that market where web services are governed by strict regulation |
| 11:05 AM • | Brian Fung / Washington Post: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla CEO Elon Musk taking on strategic advisory roles with Trump, will “meet with the president frequently” |
| 10:50 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple's standalone support app for accessing product docs, scheduling Genius Bar appointments, more, comes to US App Store, rolling out to more countries later |
| 9:40 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Amazon tests Prime Air drone delivery in UK with two shoppers, will later add hundreds living near Cambridge warehouse; first order took 13 minutes to deliver |
| 9:20 AM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Twitter adds live video broadcast to its iOS and Android apps; Periscope will continue as a standalone app |
| 8:50 AM • | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: AMD announces Ryzen brand for Zen processors, available in Q1 2017 with neural net prediction and 8-core CPU running at 3.4GHz+ |
| 7:55 AM • | Tony Romm / Politico: IBM announces plan to hire 25K new workers in the US over the next four years, including 6K the next year, and a $1B investment for training and development |
| 7:00 AM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Google Drive for iOS updated with ability to back up contacts, calendar, and camera roll, to make switching from iPhone to Android easier |
| 6:05 AM • | April Glaser / Recode: Uber debuts self-driving cars in San Francisco, each staffed with a backup driver and a data collector; a ride in a self-driving Volvo costs same as an Uber X |
| 5:30 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Amazon Prime Video is now in 200+ countries, excluding China, at no additional cost for Prime members, and $5.99/month in countries with no Prime option |
| 4:30 AM • | Tinder: Tinder launches a standalone Apple TV app, complete with swipe support and more, available now |
| 1:55 AM • | MSPoweruser: Microsoft launches Calendar.help in preview, an AI service for letting users CC Cortana on emails to schedule meetings |
| 12:45 AM • | New York Times: Russian hackers gave reporters and bloggers access to documents on Democratic House Candidates from DCCC hack, trying to influence nearly a dozen House races |
| 11:05 PM • | Oriana Schwindt / Variety: BBC and ITV partner for US streaming service BritBox, which will target US fans of British shows, launching 2017 |
| 10:10 PM • | Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: Facebook spokesperson calls Muslim registry “attacking a straw man” in accidental reply to reporter's email; company refuses to comment further |
| 9:15 PM • | Microsoft: Microsoft officially introduces Zo Chatbot, available on Kik now, coming to Facebook Messenger and Skype in future |
| 8:05 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple temporarily pulls 3.1.1 watchOS update after reports of it bricking some Series 2 Watch models |
| 6:25 PM • | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Salesforce announces LiveMessage, which brings bot conversations, SMS, Facebook Messenger, and more to Service Cloud |
| 5:40 PM • | Karissa Bell / Mashable: Microsoft reveals Cortana-enabled Harmon Kardon speaker to be released in February 2017, taking aim at Amazon's Echo |
| 5:30 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: US Department of Transport proposes rule requiring vehicle-to-vehicle communication tech in new cars; proposal open to comment for 90 days before NHTSA reviews |
| 5:15 PM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: IEEE puts out 136-page first draft guide for how tech industry can achieve ethical AI design, covering topics like transparency, respect for human rights, more |
| 5:05 PM • | Michael Simon / PCWorld: Facebook launches standalone Events app for Android, two months after iOS launch |
| 4:55 PM • | Don Reisinger / Tom's Guide: Synaptics debuts new line of optical fingerprint sensors that work under glass, a feature expected to be included in next generation smartphones |
| 4:45 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: VR game studio Survios raises $50 million led by MGM, Lux Capital |
| 4:35 PM • | Dara Kerr / CNET: Source: Uber plans to let San Francisco customers hail a self-driving ride “very soon” |
| 4:30 PM • | Nat Levy / GeekWire: New Microsoft Translator feature enables real-time, in-person, multi-language translations for conversations across multiple devices |
| 4:10 PM • | Kara Swisher / Recode: Sources: Donald Trump did not invite Jack Dorsey to his tech summit in NYC tomorrow despite his love for Twitter |
| 4:05 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Improbable teams with Google and opens SpatialOS alpha for virtual world development with a beta version expected Q1 2017 |
| 3:55 PM • | Windows Blog: Microsoft announces Cortana Devices SDK for OEMs, in private preview, and Cortana Skills Kit preview for developers to publish Bot Framework bots to Cortana |
| 3:47 PM • | New York Times: How Russia executed an effective, hard-to-trace offensive on the DNC, aided by an FBI response that lacked speed, urgency, comprehensiveness |
| 3:25 PM • | Stephen Nielson / Photoshop Blog: Photoshop updates its Mac app with Touch Bar support, providing clearer, contextual controls |
| 3:15 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Imgur matures into a meme social network with the launch of new following and chat features; anyone can message anyone, which raises spam and abuse concerns |
| 3:05 PM • | Russell Brandom / The Verge: Google publishes 8 NSLs from FBI, in keeping with the USA Freedom Act's new classification guidelines |
| 2:25 PM • | Nat Levy / GeekWire: Postmates ordered to pay 2+ years of workers' comp premiums for 3K+ couriers in WA state following audit by state regulator; the company is appealing decision |
| 2:15 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: First HMD devices are Nokia 150 and Nokia 150 Dual SIM feature phones with 2.4" screen, up to 22 hours of talk and 31 days standby time, starting at $26 |
| 2:01 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Uber expands partnership with WageWorks, which lets UberPool users pay for commutes with pretax funds, to more US cities, including San Francisco, Boston, more |
| 1:38 PM • | Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: Hundreds of Silicon Valley engineers at major tech firms sign pledge refusing to help build a Muslim registry |
| 1:25 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple releases macOS update for 2016 MacBook Pro, which removes “battery remaining” readout, fixes graphics problems, more |
| 1:15 PM • | David Jagneaux / UploadVR: Oculus splits into two divisions: PC VR, with co-founder Iribe stepping down as CEO to lead, and mobile VR, led by an ex-Qualcomm exec; Luckey not mentioned |
| 12:55 PM • | Several People Are Typing: Slack adds video calling to Mac and Windows 10 apps as well as Google Chrome, with up to 15 participants on paid accounts; mobile users can join with audio-only |
| 12:50 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts Android Things, a platform for building IoT devices with Google services and Android APIs, available today in developer preview |
| 12:37 PM • | James Vincent / The Verge: Judge clears Backpage.com CEO and co-founders of pimping charges, says the listing site is not liable for user-generated content |
| 12:30 PM • | TechCrunch: Google to spin off its self-driving car unit as a new company within Alphabet called Waymo; ex-Hyundai North America executive Jon Krafcik to be CEO |
| 12:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Alphabet plans ride-sharing service with Fiat Chrysler, will deploy semi-autonomous version of the Chrysler Pacifica minivan as early as end of 2017 |
| 11:45 AM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple says the BeatsX wireless earphones, which were originally slated for Fall and use the same Apple W1 chip as AirPods, are delayed until February |
| 11:20 AM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Snapchat adds 16-person ephemeral group messaging to its app, Shazam support, and new creative tools including paintbrush and scissors features |
| 11:15 AM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Cloudflare acquires app platform Eager, will sunset service in Q1 2017 |
| 10:50 AM • | Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: Personal information of 34K patients hacked from Quest Diagnostics medical laboratory app; company investigating, no financial or insurance data stolen |
| 9:20 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Snapchat rolls out Groups, letting you chat with up to 16 friends at once |
| 9:08 AM • | Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: Apple starts selling AirPods online in 100 countries, with units available in retail stores over the coming weeks; shipping times slip to 4+ weeks in US |
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