Techmeme
May 20, 2019, 1:50 PM

Top News

Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
Sources: after Trump's ban, chipmakers including Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx, and Broadcom have told employees they will not supply Huawei until further notice  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google will end business relationships that involve the transfer of non-public hardware, software and technical services …
Angela Moon / Reuters:
More: CNN, The Verge, The Verge, TechCrunch, New York Times, Android Central, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Engadget, New York Times, ZDNet, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Next Web, South China Morning Post, Financial Times, The Verge, PCWorld, Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Android Authority, SecurityWeek, Roughly Drafted, CNET, Ars Technica, CyberScoop, CNET, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Hill, MacRumors, The Tech Report, CloudWedge, The Hacker News, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, Digital Photography Review, XDA Developers, Asia Times, KnowTechie, TechRepublic, Liliputing, Telecom Trends, Politico, CNBC, TechSpot, Firstpost Tech, PhoneDog, Silicon Republic, Coinspeaker, MIT Technology Review, SlashGear, The Guardian, Pandaily, Gizchina, Thurrott, iDownloadBlog.com, Fortune, Phandroid, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, Softpedia News, TalkAndroid.com, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Beyond Search, Telecoms.com, Pocketnow, MediaNama, BGR India, 9to5Google, TechNode, Android Beat, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, KrASIA, Memeburn, CNBC, AnandTech, Mashable, BGR, Bloomberg, Android Authority, iAfrikan, NBC News, Android Police, South China Morning Post, ZDNet, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo, bit-tech.net, and TechCrunch
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:
Google unveils Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 with a Snapdragon XR1 chip, an improved 8MP camera, and ~8 hours battery life; orders open today for $999  —  Six years after Google Glass was unveiled, it goes without saying that the first major augmented reality headset wasn't the massive success …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Researcher finds database, belonging to Mumbai-based Chtrbox, with contact info, including phone numbers, of millions of Instagram users exposed online  —  A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram celebrities and its most valuable users has been found online.
Paul Tassi / Forbes:
Report details how game publishers are paying top streamers, with 15K+ concurrent viewers, $25,000-$50,000 an hour to stream a new game and build buzz  —  The past few years have been full of impressive achievements in the realm of professional gaming, whether it's enormous prize pools …
Eric Niiler / Wired:
Meteorologists say interference from 5G phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30%, equivalent to the quality of predictions in the 1980s  —  IF YOU HAD a choice between a better, faster cell phone signal and an accurate weather forecast, which would you pick?

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning  —  SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds.  Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything.  Cape doesn't.  —  Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more.  Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
The hidden tax of making employees search, switch, and repeat  —  Employees lose more time to digital friction than organizations often realize.  Searching for information, switching between tools …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce 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:
Software's Epic Comeback, Meta's AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
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.
Hard Fork:
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
The Weird, Big Business of Microdramas
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.
Training Data:
Parallel's Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Neil Movva - Making AI 10x Cheaper
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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 1:50 PM ET, May 20, 2019.

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.

More News

Earlier Picks

Mike Isaac / Brain Dump:
Eliza Mackintosh / CNN: