| 5:30 PM • | TechCrunch: Twitter opens applications for its new beta program, which will have a standalone app, with its first tests to focus on fixing conversations |
| 5:10 PM • | BuzzFeed News: Investigation finds that YouTube is promoting anti-vaccine misinformation in search results and recommendations |
| 4:55 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Samsung says the Bixby button on the Galaxy S10 can be remapped to open a third-party app with either a single or double press of the button |
| 4:45 PM • | Reuters: Sources: Lyft expects to be valued at between $20B and $25B in its IPO and plans to launch its IPO roadshow during the week of March 18 |
| 4:35 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Samsung says the Galaxy S10 will include Samsung Knox alongside secure hardware-based storage for housing private blockchain keys |
| 4:10 PM • | Stefan Etienne / The Verge: Samsung says the Galaxy S10 Plus with 1TB of storage will cost $1,600, or about $53/month for 30 months |
| 4:00 PM • | Shara Tibken / CNET: Samsung's head of mobile DJ Koh says its Galaxy Home smart speaker, originally unveiled in August 2018, will launch by April |
| 3:55 PM • | Shannon Liao / The Verge: Samsung doubles Bixby's supported languages, adding British English, German, Italian, and Spanish, coming to the S10, S9, S8, Note 9, and Note 8 |
| 3:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Disney joins Nestle, Epic Games, and others in pulling ad spending from YouTube following details about a “pedophile ring” in YouTube comments |
| 3:13 PM • | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Samsung's S10 will wirelessly charge other devices placed on its back and uses the new Infinity-O screen to house the front facing camera in a hole cutout |
| 3:10 PM • | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: Samsung debuts a basic Galaxy Fit band and Galaxy Watch Active, a simpler $200 version of its watch, shipping March 8 with blood pressure tracking coming later |
| 3:04 PM • | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: Samsung unveils Galaxy S10 5G, arriving late in first half of 2019, initially just on Verizon in US, with 6.7" Infinity-O display, better 3D depth sensing, more |
| 3:02 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Samsung partners with Instagram to let users post to Stories directly from the camera app |
| 2:51 PM • | Vlad Savov / The Verge: Samsung announces $129.99 Galaxy Buds, which cost less than AirPods, and feature wireless charging and a small and curvy, pebble-like design |
| 2:51 PM • | Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Hands-on with the Galaxy S10 and S10+: in-screen fingerprint readers works well and the materials feel classy, but it doesn't feel like a huge update |
| 2:42 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Samsung says it has sold 2B+ Galaxy devices over the past decade |
| 2:39 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Samsung announces Galaxy S10E with 5.8-inch display, two rear cameras, Snapdragon 855, 6GB or 8GB of RAM, and 3,100mAh, starting at $749.99 |
| 2:33 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Samsung debuts the Galaxy S10 and S10+ with 6.1" and 6.4" displays, triple rear camera, in-screen fingerprint sensors, and bigger batteries, from $899 and $999 |
| 2:22 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Samsung's Galaxy Fold will come in both LTE and 5G versions with One UI Android skin and four colors available, starting at $1,980 on April 26 |
| 2:07 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Samsung debuts Galaxy Fold, a foldable smartphone with 4.6" folded and 7.3" unfolded displays, 7nm processor, 12GB RAM, three-app multitasking, 6 cameras, more |
| 2:05 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft launches its new Office app, preinstalled on Windows 10 and replacing My Office, to better promote the free online versions of Office to consumers |
| 1:58 PM • | YouTube: Live stream of Samsung's Unpacked event |
| 1:58 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Live blog of Samsung's Unpacked event in San Francisco, where new Galaxy S10 devices, a foldable phone, and more have been announced |
| 1:30 PM • | Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: Pinterest says it's stopped returning vaccine-related search results as most spread anti-vax disinformation, part of its broader approach against “false cures” |
| 1:20 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: WinRAR, a file compression app with ~500M users, has fixed a 14-year-old flaw that made it possible for attackers to run code when targets open a malicious file |
| 12:57 PM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Keith Rabois is leaving Khosla Ventures and joining Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to become its ninth partner |
| 12:45 PM • | Harvard Law Today: Mark Zuckerberg talks to Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain about encryption, “information fiduciaries”, and more, as part of Zuckerberg's 2019 challenge |
| 12:15 PM • | Natasha Korecki / Politico: Analysis of data from social platforms: Democratic 2020 candidates are being targeted by a coordinated campaign of misinformation focused on sensitive issues |
| 11:50 AM • | Facebook: Facebook introduces new location controls for Android, letting users limit location data collection, and will prompt iOS and Android users to check settings |
| 11:35 AM • | K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: Investigation: YouTube is monetizing sexualized videos of minors, many with comments from predators; Epic Games pauses all pre-roll ads following inquiry |
| 11:20 AM • | Chloe Bryan / Mashable: A look at “Reply Guys”, a mostly harmless but annoying Twitter phenomenon where one or two men reply to every tweet from a woman |
| 11:00 AM • | Nicole Kobie / WIRED UK: Citymapper announces a £30-£40/month subscription service for London transport with access to its Ride car-sharing service, TfL trains, and Santander bikes |
| 10:50 AM • | Dani Deahl / The Verge: SoundCloud adds a self-distribution feature to its Premier tier, currently in beta, that lets artists publish and monetize their songs on other platforms |
| 10:35 AM • | eMarketer: eMarketer predicts that US digital ad spending will surpass traditional in 2019, growing 19% YoY to $129.34B, of which mobile will account for ~$87B |
| 10:10 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: ThousandEyes, which provides a network intelligence platform to monitor performance, raises $50M Series D led by GV |
| 9:55 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Arm unveils two new products for cloud and edge applications, the Neoverse N1, which focuses on compute speed, and the Neoverse E1, focusing on throughput |
| 9:40 AM • | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Binance launches Binance DEX, a decentralized trading platform built on its own blockchain network, for public testing |
| 9:05 AM • | Wall Street Journal: The DoD will investigate some of the complaints raised by Oracle in a lawsuit over the JEDI cloud computing contract, which is expected to be won by Amazon |
| 8:30 AM • | Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: Dutch startup Aidence, which works on early recognition of lung cancer using AI in medical imaging, raises €10M Series A led by INKEF Capital and Rabo Ventures |
| 8:05 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: German insurance giant Allianz increases the size of its VC fund, Allianz X, from €430M when it launched in 2016, to €1B, making it one of the largest in Europe |
| 7:40 AM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Xiaomi debuts Mi 9 with three rear cameras, 6.39" AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, and 20W wireless charging, for ~$446 in China, shipping on Feb. 26 |
| 7:15 AM • | Brian Fung / Washington Post: Cisco Visual Networking Index: by 2022, 5G will power as much as 9% of mobile data connections in North America, versus 6.5% in Western Europe and 4% in Asia |
| 6:45 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Fabless semiconductor company Peraso, which is developing wireless networking chips based on WiGig, has raised $42M Series D, bringing total raised to $79.3M |
| 6:15 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac using a new SDK that will be released as early as June at WWDC |
| 6:00 AM • | James Vlahos / Wired: The rise of voice computing is transforming web search by shifting the objective from providing links to providing a single correct response to any query |
| 4:00 AM • | Karen Weise / New York Times: Microsoft says Russia-linked Fancy Bear targeted European research groups and think tanks that work on issues including election security and nuclear policy |
| 2:20 AM • | Ashley Carman / The Verge: Sphero is crowdfunding RVR, a new robot that can connect to accessories like Raspberry Pi through its universal expansion port, starting at $199 on Kickstarter |
| 12:55 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: GN Group, which makes connected hearing aids that work with iOS and Android, is acquiring videoconferencing device and software provider Altia Systems for $125M |
| 11:50 PM • | Nick Bastone / Business Insider: Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was “never intended to be a secret” |
| 11:10 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: IFTTT's Linden Tibbets resigns as CEO, will stay as chief design officer; Chris Kibarian, ex-CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, named IFTTT CEO |
| 10:45 PM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Huawei sends invitations for its next flagship P30 series launch event in Paris on March 26 |
| 10:20 PM • | Chris Morris / Fortune: Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19 |
| 9:55 PM • | Reuters: Report: Amazon's China unit in merger talks with NetEase's Kaola, one of the biggest Chinese shopping sites for imported goods |
| 9:00 PM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Alan, which makes a SaaS platform for the private health insurance market in France, raises $45M Series B after raising a $28M Series A in April 2018 |
| 8:05 PM • | Makena Kelly / The Verge: Regulators globally increasingly view “loot boxes”, which provide random in-game items for real money, as a form of gambling, and are considering regulations |
| 6:40 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researchers: India's state gas company allowed a sensitive part of its website to be indexed by Google, exposing 5M+ customer records, including Aadhaar numbers |
| 5:40 PM • | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: CrowdStrike: Russian state-sponsored hackers take less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally in a targeted organization's network after an initial breach |
| 4:45 PM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: London-based Entrepreneur First, a “talent investor” backing people pre-team and pre-idea so they can found startups, raises $115M fund to keep scaling globally |
| 3:35 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: GitHub expands its bug bounty program by upping reward amounts, removing a maximum reward limit, adding Legal Safe Harbor terms; GitHub paid out $250K+ in 2018 |
| 3:18 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber and GM's Cruise open source their self-driving car visualization software, a rare move in the hyper-competitive autonomous world |
| 2:20 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Strategy Analytics: in Q4 2018, shipments of smart speakers grew 95% from 22.6M units in Q3 to 38.5M units, with Amazon shipping 13.7M units and Google 11.5M |
| 1:50 PM • | Kevin Roose / New York Times: For YouTube, curbing misinformation on its platform may mean punishing some of its stars, a step it's not shown it can broadly take, despite recent policy shift |
| 1:40 PM • | Colin Lecher / The Verge: House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could be leaked by joining closed groups |
| 1:00 PM • | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: Hands-on with Varjo VR-1 headset, out now for $6K with $995/year service fee, which uses 3,000 pixel/inch resolution and dual screens to fix “screen door” issue |
| 12:11 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: YouTube updates community guidelines with a new system for rule-breaking channels, which now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation |
| 11:55 AM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Google announces plans to acquire cloud migration startup Alooma, which has raised around $15M to date |
| 11:30 AM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Loom, which equips enterprises with instant video messaging tools, raises $11M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it's signed up 1.1M users from 18,000 firms |
| 11:20 AM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Samsung's One UI is thoughtfully designed and the best software Samsung's ever put on a smartphone, but getting major software updates quickly is still doubtful |
| 10:30 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Walmart reports US e-commerce sales rose 43% YoY in Q4, thanks to its growing online grocery business, including the expansion of grocery pickups and deliveries |
| 9:50 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: SendBird, which helps developers integrate chat and messaging features in their apps, raises $52M Series B led by Iconiq Capital |
| 9:35 AM • | Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: Palo Alto Networks is buying Demisto, an Israeli firm that provides an automated incident response platform, for ~$560M; Demisto had raised $69M to date |
| 9:20 AM • | Twitter: Twitter expands its policy for political ad transparency to the EU, India, and Australia, will show billing information, ad spend, impressions per tweet, more |
| 9:05 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Redis Labs, which offers commercial services around the Redis in-memory data store, raises $60M Series E led by private equity firm Francisco Partners |
| 8:50 AM • | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Sources: Bitmain posts a net loss of ~$500M in the third quarter of 2018; the company had disclosed profits of $1B in the first half of 2018 |
| 8:25 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: NsKnox, which provides real-time payment fraud detection services, raises $15M Series A co-led by Viola Ventures and Microsoft's M12 |
| 8:10 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Coinbase buys Neutrino, which helps monitor, analyze, and track cryptocurrency flows, for an undisclosed sum |
| 7:45 AM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X55, its second generation 5G modem, with a maximum download speed of 7 Gbps, up 40% from the X50's 5 Gbps |
| 7:15 AM • | Ole Begemann: Q&A with Chris Lattner, developer of Swift, on its origins and evolution, the original team, Craig Federighi, and community feedback |
| 6:20 AM • | BBC: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says there is “no way the US can crush us” and that “our company will never undertake any spying activities” |
| 6:05 AM • | Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter: Q&A with Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salke on her content acquisition strategy, potentially broadcasting a ceremony such as the Oscars one day, and more |
| 4:10 AM • | Dami Lee / The Verge: As emoji become a critical part of communication, unprepared courts are increasingly having to interpret their myriad meanings in criminal cases |
| 2:15 AM • | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A deep dive on the widespread and ongoing DNS hijacking attacks, which the DHS issued an emergency directive about last month |
| 1:20 AM • | Amy Webb / Wired: The Pentagon needs Silicon Valley's brightest minds to work on AI but struggles to attract them because of job instability, poor compensation, and more |
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