Police dogs at the Connecticut State Police Department are trained to sniff out electronics. They can find anything with digital storage, such as cell phones, thumb drives, computers, and memory cards. The program started in 2012 to help investigators find digital evidence to cri … | Continue reading
FedEx has lost $25 billion in value since Amazon launched its delivery service — and Amazon has banned third-party sellers from using FedEx. | Continue reading
Quotes from Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO and chairman. | Continue reading
Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management are slated to make some of the biggest returns in the 2020 IPO parade, according to CB Insights. | Continue reading
The city banned local agencies from using gadgets equipped facial recognition technology in May, but problems with the ban quickly became apparent. | Continue reading
After the world’s worst nuclear accident, people abandoned the area around Chernobyl. In their absence, many of the animals are actually thriving. | Continue reading
The Series B deal values Imply at $350 million, and is one of the earliest deals Andreessen's growth fund has ever led. | Continue reading
Facebook AI Research's achievement signals a jump in the capability of the technology to replicate the cognitive skills of humans. | Continue reading
Cybersecurity insiders claim NDAs are being used by big businesses to flaunt data laws. Lawyers defending victims of the BA breach call for changes. | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services released a voice transcription tool that transcribes doctor-patient conversations and inputs them directly into patients' records. | Continue reading
"We make money from the reactions people have to price moves," an employee of Renaissance Technologies said. | Continue reading
Intel Corp sold its smartphone modem chip business to Apple at "a multi-billion dollar loss," the US chipmaker said in a court filing on Friday | Continue reading
Between the well-publicized company culture and its equally publicized layoffs, some employees are worried. | Continue reading
The employee-only tool, created around 2015 and 2016, used Facebook's vast collection of facial data to automatically recognize people. | Continue reading
Either you need enormous scale (in people, users, etc.) or you need to be nimble and make something valuable. The folks in the middle are the ones who falter. | Continue reading
As Pivotal prepares for its acquisition by VMware, employees learned their company will face cuts. Here's what they wrote in a letter to leadership. | Continue reading
Author Matt Stoller writes that billionaires run "tollbooths," meaning everyone who tries to pass through a certain chokepoint faces extraction. | Continue reading
Many now see their hopes of a windfall deflate as those companies' prospects for a successful acquisition or IPO have dwindled. | Continue reading
GitLab's Candice Ciresi has resigned after speaking out about its proposed block on hiring support and site reliability engineers in Russia and China. | Continue reading
The Seattle area is already the company's largest engineering outpost, and now it has enough space for an estimated 20,000 employees. | Continue reading
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is the top open source project on GitHub. Here's how it's helping Microsoft attract developers and take on AWS and Google. | Continue reading
Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute. He says that WeWork is a hilarious example of what he calls "counterfeit capitalism." | Continue reading
Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital, explains why a disregard for rules while remaining within legal bounds could lead to innovative startups. | Continue reading
Just a few months ago, WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann was being courted by Wall Street's top investment bankers in anticipation of one of this year's most high-profile IPOs. | Continue reading
The vast majority of physicians are concerned the US' prescription drug addiction epidemic won't end with the opioid crisis. | Continue reading
Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's CEO, highlighted the firm's decision to move to a private cloud on its third-quarter earnings call. | Continue reading
Goldman was reducing its own WeWork exposure even as its investment bankers were touting their services to the company. | Continue reading
WeWork employees were lured in by a non-stop party and the promise of a big payday. Then they saw some sobering signs of trouble. | Continue reading
Adam Neumann’s fall is seen as a business story, but it's a tale of social psychology. This is why startups are, in many meaningful senses, cults. | Continue reading
The US office-sharing startup is looking to curtail costs, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. It is making changes after postponing its IPO. | Continue reading
Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala says Americans are experiencing a crisis of loneliness, and it's partly a result of our desire for independence. | Continue reading
The Vision Fund is the biggest tech investor in the world with $100 billion to spend. | Continue reading
Using data inputs, Lunchclub matches users who are looking for career advice, looking for their next employee, or just looking to brainstorm a crazy idea. | Continue reading
The YouTube creator Shelby Church, who has 1.3 million subscribers, explained how much she earned in Google AdSense revenue from her top video. | Continue reading
In a 1926 interview, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla predicted that smartphones would exist today and that women would eventually become superior to men. | Continue reading
Two of SoftBank's biggest investments are struggling to find favor with public investors. But its next big fund is likely still on track. | Continue reading
Take a look at Google Earth 1.0. | Continue reading
The opportunity to enter exciting European companies and help develop their growth into the US market is a key factor in the recent spate of funding. | Continue reading
Basecamp switched from Google Cloud to Amazon Web Services. CTO David Heinemeier Hansson says Google's issues might clear up in time. | Continue reading
Huawei will release a mapping toolkit, Map Kit, to link mobile apps and services to local maps, which could be a replacement for Google Maps. | Continue reading
"It is not possible to lose, as the possibility to go back a week in time is in my favour." | Continue reading
Since NPM laid off five employees, several more have resigned, while others demanded better working conditions. Here's why there's turmoil at NPM. | Continue reading
Data analytics is a crowded space, so Thinknum took a slightly different approach to getting investors (and employees) on board with the vision. | Continue reading
Microsoft is closing a licensing loophole that's helped customers save a lot of cash. It's a smart business move, but will customers see it that way? | Continue reading
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Google's class-action settlement meant to resolve claims it invaded the privacy of millions of computer users by installing "cookies" in their browsers, but paying those users nothing for their troubles. | Continue reading