|
April 7, 2017, 6:40 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Twitter sues the Trump administration after Customs and Border Protection tries to compel the social network to reveal the identity behind @alt_USCIS account — So remember how President Donald Trump (a.k.a. @realDonaldTrump) loves Twitter and credits it with helping him win the election?
More:
The Verge, BuzzFeed, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, The Intercept, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Recode, Refinery29, Tech Times, Quartz, Fox News, The Hill, Washington Post, New York Times, Adweek, Wired, USA Today, CNNMoney, Snopes.com, CNET, Newser, Associated Press, VentureBeat, The FADER, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Business Insider, The Register, Nextgov, Forbes, Vanity Fair, Silicon Republic, New York Magazine, Consumerist, International Business Times, PCWorld, Engadget, Financial Times, Fortune, Gizmodo, Tech Narratives, NPR, TheStreet, Softpedia News, Breitbart, and Variety
Tweets: @aclu, @alt_uscis, @alt_uscis, @jamiemccall, @danprimack, @amish_drive_by, @protestcards, @reuterstech, @alleenbrown, @bcappelbaum, @rickhasen, @samfbiddle, @thelastword, @tonyromm, @samfbiddle, @josephfcox, @tonyromm, @samfbiddle, @mikeisaac, @backlon, @digiphile, @nattgarun, and @bfriedmandc. Thanks:@kerrymflynn
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will only allow channels with 10K lifetime views to monetize videos, to help make sure revenue flows only to those who play by the rules — The rule change is meant to weed out bad actors — Five years ago, YouTube opened their partner program to everyone.
More:
YouTube Creator Blog, TechCrunch, Reuters, Social Media Today, Wall Street Journal, Trak.in, Tech2, International Business Times, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, Fortune, USA Today, SlashGear, Marketing Land, Tubefilter, CNET, Mashable, GamesIndustry.biz, MediaNama, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, The Next Web, Business Insider, and 9to5Google
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung forecasts $8.8B Q1 profit, an almost 50% jump YoY, expects sales of $44.2B, which won't include Galaxy S8 sales which hit market April 21 — The South Korean giant's latest quarterly likely benefited from its business supplying chips, displays and other components.
More:
Samsung Global Newsroom, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Reuters, Yonhap News Agency, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, Pocketnow, Android Central, Associated Press, PCWorld, Axios, and Engadget
Tweets: @neiltwitz and @samkimasia
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Project Zero finds serious Broadcom WiFi chipset flaw that allows hacking of many Android devices; Google releasing patch this month; iOS was patched in 10.3.1 — Broadcom chips allow rogue Wi-Fi signals to execute code of attacker's choosing. — A broad array of Android phones are vulnerable … | Ev Williams: |
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says he's selling up to 30% of his Twitter shares, so he can continue to invest in other causes and companies — A note for Twitter shareholders and employees — If you're not a Twitter shareholder or employee (or reporter who covers such things) …
More:
Business Insider, Recode, Softpedia News, The Register, Forbes, Motley Fool, Breitbart, Tech Trader Daily, USA Today, CNBC, CNNMoney, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, CNET, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @stevetweedie
| Google Research Blog: |
Google's testing Federated Learning, a new approach to machine learning that keeps user data as well as model training on users' devices, with Gboard on Android — Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research Scientists — Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: FCC Chairman tells trade groups of plans to update net neutrality rules created under Obama, wants to keep basic principles but move enforcement to FTC — The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is moving quickly to replace the Obama administration's landmark net neutrality rules …
More:
PCWorld, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Verge, and Tech Narratives
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook Messenger opens its M assistant to all US users, easing the process of sending money in chats, sharing locations, making plans, starting a poll — Starting on iOS and Android in the US — Facebook's AI assistant, known simply as M, will now pop into your Messenger chat windows …
More:
Inquirer, BetaNews, Facebook, Tech Times, Tech2, SiliconANGLE, Adweek, Android Police, CNNMoney, USA Today, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Engadget, and Tech Narratives. Facebook: David Marcus
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet says Fiber president Dennish Kish and VP of Access division Milo Medin are leaving the division but remaining at the company — Fiber President Dennis Kish to remain at holding company — Veteran Googler Milo Medin is also leaving broadband effort
More:
9to5Google
| Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net: |
Project Scorpio, which is at least six months away from release, shows impressive performance based on a game demo and detailed look at the tech inside the box — Digital Foundry has the specs, has seen it running, and has talked to the people who built it.| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
More:
Eurogamer.net, VG247, Digital Trends, Tech Narratives, Engadget, On MSFT, Polygon, destructoid, and Tom's Guide. Tweets: @str8sixer
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
More powerful Galaxy S8+ with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage for about $1,020 may be available in South Korea and China, according to new listing on website — When Samsung announced the new Galaxy S8, it only talked about a single model of the device with 64GB of internal storage and 4GB of RAM.
More:
Yonhap News Agency, Inquirer, The Next Web, Engadget, Android Authority, Tech Narratives, Mashable, Android Beat, BGR, Forbes, and HYPEBEAST
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crunchbase raises $18M led by Mayfield, debuts Enterprise business intelligence service, and plans to add complementary data from third parties — Crunchbase — the database spun out from TechCrunch that charts startups, other tech companies, the people who work for them, and those who fund them …
More:
Business Wire, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, PE Hub Blog, The Diversity Blog, and The Tech Portal. Thanks:@stephandenise
| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Sources: Lyft raises $500M at a $6.9B valuation, a 50% increase over its January 2016 valuation — Read next … Lyft has raised more than $500m at a valuation of $6.9bn, according to three people familiar with the matter, as investors back the Uber rival's continued expansion across the United States.
More:
CNBC, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Quartz, CNET, Tech Narratives, Recode, VentureBeat, Fortune, Reuters, Mashable, Axios, and Business Insider. Tweets: @film_girl
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho:
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control — Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control — Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What's Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Saam Motamedi from Greylock Partners
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Invest Like the Best:
Henry Ellenbogen - Man Versus Machine
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Grit:
How Evan Spiegel Is Building the Future of Computing
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:40 AM ET, April 7, 2017.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Axios:Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Raphael Minder / Financial Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Rafia Shaikh / Wccftech: |
More:
MacRumors, Softpedia News, Silicon UK, BGR, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @roothawg and @seamusphan
| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Softpedia News, Tech Narratives, CNET, and The Verge
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
| Stefan Etienne / TechCrunch: |
More:
Engadget, Inquirer, The Next Web, Sebastiaan de With, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Macworld, Digital Trends, Network World, BetaNews, AppleInsider, TechConnect, VentureBeat, Blue's News, The Verge, and Yahoo! Finance
Tweets: @dancounsell, @jeffbenjam, @stroughtonsmith, @danstapleton, and @whatthebit
Earlier Picks
| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
More:
App Store, SiliconANGLE, Macworld, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, New York Magazine, InvestorPlace, International Business Times, CNET, AppAdvice.com, Tech Narratives, The Mac Observer, iMore, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @pamelalamela, @appleedu, @ashleyrcarman, @michaelsteeber, and @theapplepost
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
The Twitter Blog, ZDNet, The Register, Tech Narratives, SiliconANGLE, ProgrammableWeb.com, Adweek, MacStories, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @jonrussell, @jimray, @twitterdev, @twitterdev, and @rrhoover
| Patrick Traughber / The Twitter Blog: |