Tech News update Google Chrome to start blocking downloads served via HTTP Feb 11, 2020 Google has announced a timetable for phasing out insecure file downloads in the Chrome browser, starting with desktop version 81 due out next month.…
Tech News update Popular iOS and Mac email apps scrape inboxes to profit from personal data Feb 11, 2020 A new report today dives into a few iOS and Mac email apps/services that aren’t being very transparent about selling users’ personal data. Notably,…
Tech News update Microsoft trains world’s largest Transformer language model Feb 11, 2020 Microsoft AI & Research today shared what it calls the largest Transformer-based language generation model ever and open-sourced a deep learning…
Tech News update Yahoo and Tumblr lost 33% of their web traffic in the past several years Feb 11, 2020 If there were any major sites that took a web traffic pummeling in 2019 it was Yahoo and Tumblr. That’s according to a new report from SimilarWeb.…
Tech News update Starling Bank raises another £60M from existing backers Feb 10, 2020 Starling Bank, the U.K.-based challenger bank founded by banking veteran Anne Boden, has raised another £60 million from its existing investors,…
Tech News update Saudi VC Firm Hires Google Exec To Grow Tech Unicorns Feb 10, 2020 Saudi Arabia’s STV, one of the country’s largest venture capital firms, has enlisted the help of a Google employee, Ivan Jakovljevic, with the hope…
Tech News update Worlds gets $10 million to help enterprises observe their physical environments with AI Feb 8, 2020 Worlds, whose AI helps large organizations observe their physical spaces to ensure security, safety, and productivity, has raised $10 million in a…
Tech News update Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints Feb 8, 2020 Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that’s scraped the web for three billion faceprints and sold them all (or given them away) to 600…
Tech News update Uber grows customers and revenues, but net loss widens Feb 7, 2020 On Thursday, Uber moved its target to achieve a measure of profitability forward by a year to the fourth quarter of 2020, but the ride-hailing…
Tech News update Nuro’s new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle Feb 7, 2020 Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from SoftBank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a…