The new round is $1.15 billion, and it comes from a group of institutional investors, GM, Japan's SoftBank Vision Fund, and Honda. | Continue reading
The FBI raided uBiome's headquarters and its co-CEOs were placed on leave. The startup has said it's cooperating with authorities. | Continue reading
A psychologist who grew up near the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine says she still has seizures. The nuclear disaster has informed her work. | Continue reading
Facebook has a suicide-monitoring tool that has dispatched emergency responders more than 3,500 times. But we don't know how well it works. | Continue reading
In a new interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook said privacy "has become a crisis" but it's a "fixable" problem. He also discussed concerns around screen time. | Continue reading
Researchers estimate 265,000 galaxies are in the Hubble Space Telescope image, some of which appear as they existed 13.3 billion years ago. | Continue reading
Jeff Bezos is the richest person. Worth an estimated $121 billion, the Amazon CEO has $16 billion more than the next-richest person, Bill Gates. | Continue reading
Tumblr was once worth more than $1 billion, but the site has faded in popularity and Verizon is shopping it around. | Continue reading
Experts voiced concern that using sketches would increase error rates, which could lead to false matches. | Continue reading
General Counsel John Rakow was named interim CEO, and uBiome said it plans to conduct an investigation of its billing practices. | Continue reading
The angle of attack sensor was highlighted in 216 Federal Aviation Administration reports in the last 15 years for failing or needing to be repaired. | Continue reading
May asked Williamson to leave her Cabinet on Wednesday. | Continue reading
The Citycomp hackers set up a website threatening to publish sensitive financial information. | Continue reading
Shenma Zhuanche said it was inspired by the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" to air its grievances against Elon Musk's car company. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that the company's cars will be ready to take part in an autonomous taxi service by the end of 2020. | Continue reading
Analysts and Tesla enthusiasts are entering unexplored territory — Tesla has never operated at these production and expense levels. | Continue reading
Twitter used an algorithm to crack down on ISIS-related tweets, but an employee said an algorithm targeting white supremacists could ban GOP figures | Continue reading
Hundreds of Amazon workers have been fired over productivity at just one warehouse in one year. | Continue reading
A new report from Coresight Research says US retailers have announced 5,994 store closings this year, compared with 5,864 in all of 2018. | Continue reading
Munira Abdulla was in a car with her son Omar when it crashed in 1991. Omar escaped with bruises, but she entered a deep coma which lasted 27 years. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Theresa May reportedly gave the order on Tuesday, although other ministers pushed for a complete ban on Huawei 5G kit. | Continue reading
While Apple doesn't try to get particular politicians elected, it still spend millions annually on lobbying, records show. | Continue reading
18-year-old Ousmane Bah from New York was wrongfully arrested on suspicion of stealing from a Manhattan Apple store. | Continue reading
Open source business intelligence startup Metabase had a fast-growing community, and VCs noticed. Now, it has closed $8 million in in series A funding | Continue reading
Open source business intelligence startup Metabase had a fast-growing community, and VCs noticed. Now, it has closed $8 million in in series A funding | Continue reading
The discovery of the first galaxy in March 2018 was met with praise and criticism, as it defied dark-matter theory. | Continue reading
Platform.sh CEO Fred Plais says its product runs 15,000 clones each day. It clones the applications developers build and allows them to test them. | Continue reading
Wealth shouldn't be seen as a material to be hoarded, but as a way to live a good life, according to Chelsea Fagan of The Financial Diet. | Continue reading
This debate has already reached the top of the company, even as Microsoft successfully defends itself against a lawsuit by a group of women. | Continue reading
Amazon is requiring delivery drivers to snap selfies to verify their identities. The new requirements apply to Amazon Flex drivers. | Continue reading
Japan's Softbank fund, Toyota, and DENSO Corporation are investing in Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, the company said Thursday. | Continue reading
In 2011, just over 5,500 reports feces in public were logged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works; in 2018, the number was over 28,000. | Continue reading
Financial experts told Mercury News that it could take up to $10 million to be financially comfortable living in Silicon Valley. | Continue reading
Facebook says that the new privacy issue stemmed from a code change circa May 2016. | Continue reading
Carl's Jr. is debuting a cannabis-infused burger on 4/20. | Continue reading
The car-sharing service Share Now has been hacked in Chicago, CBS Chicago reporter Brad Edwards said on Twitter. | Continue reading
Ray Dalio's hedge fund Bridgewater reports US corporate profit margins have increased while labor bargaining power and worker wages fell. | Continue reading
Microsoft researchers produced three research papers on AI and facial analysis with a Chinese military-run university last year. | Continue reading
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr took the stage at TED 2019 on Monday, where she criticized tech companies for "breaking" liberal democracy. | Continue reading
In the wake of the tragic fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, French president Emmanual Macron has promised to rebuild. | Continue reading
The financial services industry is a popular place for job seekers, but artificial intelligence could wipe away a million banking jobs. | Continue reading
Shareholders will vote on two proposals to overhaul Facebook's governance at the social network's annual shareholder meeting on May 30. | Continue reading
The Russians are hacking the global navigation... | Continue reading
Facebook says the cryptic messages were only meant to be included in prototypes of the Oculus Touch devices. | Continue reading
Uber tries to exorcize the ghosts of its past management in its IPO paperwork. The only problem is that ex CEO Travis Kalanick is still on the board. | Continue reading
Amazon has workers listening to some amount of Alexa voice recordings, according to a report from Bloomberg. | Continue reading
Whether you've just purchased a new iPad Air or are just looking for ways to master your current iPad, these tips and tricks will save you some time. | Continue reading
Walmart is bringing thousands of new robots into its stores across the US. | Continue reading