Tech Stories

Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind

smithsonianmag.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   1 min ago

BitGo, which makes multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets, raises $58.5M Series B from Goldman, Mike Novogratz, and others, bringing total raised to $70M

bloomberg.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   10 mins ago

Atlassian makes its redesigned Jira Software tool, which includes new APIs and more, available to all Jira users, after previewing it earlier this year

techcrunch.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   10 mins ago

Samsung has figured out EUV, the holy grail of chipmaking

engadget.com   ·    Reddit   ·   10 mins ago

Why You Should Ditch Google’s Favorite Data Collection Tools

bloomberg.com   ·    Reddit   ·   10 mins ago

Microsoft and Amazon workers protest firms’ military AI contract and ‘authoritarian surveillance’ tech.

independent.co.uk   ·    Reddit   ·   10 mins ago

Samsung debuts $1,000+ Galaxy Book 2, a Windows 2-in-1 to compete with Surface, with 12-inch OLED display, LTE, 4GB RAM, Snapdragon 850, on sale from November 2

theverge.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   30 mins ago

Factcheck.org debunks less than one post per day, as human fact-checkers' primary role is seen to be helping Facebook's algorithms to understand fake news sites

wsj.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   30 mins ago

Facebook in fresh video metrics row. Legal action brought by advertisers claims the social network knew about problems in metrics in 2015.

bbc.co.uk   ·    Reddit   ·   40 mins ago

Someone took over the Australian PMs domain name and is boasting about it

satiex.net   ·    Hacker News   ·   50 mins ago

Samsung says it has started mass production of 7nm chips using an EUVL process that it claims enables 50% power and 20% performance improvements over 10nm chips

anandtech.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   1 hour ago

Adobe showcases video editing tool that isolates moving objects in seconds

thenextweb.com   ·    Reddit   ·   1 hour ago

Smartphone usage survey

goo.gl   ·    Reddit   ·   1 hour ago

Coda Packs — Connect your doc to the apps you use everyday.

producthunt.com   ·    Product Hunt   ·   1 hour ago

Idleness as Flourishing

publicbooks.org   ·    Hacker News   ·   1 hour ago

Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt

relay.nationalgeographic.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   1 hour ago

Vacation rental company Vacasa raises $64M led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total funding to $207.5M

geekwire.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   1 hour ago

Even janitors have noncompetes now. Nobody is safe

washingtonpost.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

“Poliolike” Childhood Muscle-Weakening Disease Reappears

scientificamerican.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

Beijing-based cryptocurrency startup Cobo raises $13M Series A, launches Cobo Vault, a hardware wallet featuring a self-destructing mechanism

coindesk.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   2 hours ago

NY’s AG Is Trying To Tie Major ISPs To Those Bogus Net Neutrality Comments

techdirt.com   ·    Reddit   ·   2 hours ago

Google could finally face serious competition for Android

theverge.com   ·    Reddit   ·   2 hours ago

How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town

theatlantic.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

OpenBSD 6.4 released

openbsd.org   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends

reuters.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

Chinese city to launch man-made moon to light up skies

atimes.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

China to launch artificial moon bright enough to replace city's streetlights

abc.net.au   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

A Silicon Valley startup backed by Microsoft and Dell is accusing China’s Huawei of trying to steal its semiconductor technology

wsj.com   ·    Reddit   ·   2 hours ago

Covariance and contravariance in subtyping

eli.thegreenplace.net   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

How Spammers Are Gaming the Podcast Charts

chartable.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

PostgreSQL 11 Released

postgresql.org   ·    Hacker News   ·   2 hours ago

Tim Berners-Lee's Web Foundation finds a 12% slowdown in the global growth of internet access between 2007 and 2017, with African women the least connected

theguardian.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   3 hours ago

Sources: data mining giant Palantir is weighing an IPO as soon as H2 2019; some bankers have told the firm it could IPO with a valuation of as much as $41B

wsj.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   3 hours ago

New 100-mile electric van matches diesel vans on price, Workhorse says

arstechnica.com   ·    Reddit   ·   3 hours ago

Roborace wants the future of racing to be AI plus humans, working together

arstechnica.com   ·    Reddit   ·   3 hours ago

Women and the slowing global population

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au   ·    Hacker News   ·   3 hours ago

Tricky CSS hover

codepen.io   ·    Designer News   ·   3 hours ago

Portfolio Critique requested

paulvanoijen.com   ·    Designer News   ·   3 hours ago

Refresh: Interview With Creators

phase.com   ·    Designer News   ·   3 hours ago

Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalized search, and endless artist radio, rolling out globally on iOS and Android starting today

newsroom.spotify.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   3 hours ago

Virgin CEO Richard Branson announces ‘Virgin Fest’, a multi-experiential music festival centered on innovation and new technology

forbes.com   ·    Reddit   ·   3 hours ago

Khashoggi warns in column of free rein to silence media

eu.detroitnews.com   ·    Reddit   ·   3 hours ago

Tesla set to open Gigafactory 3

techengage.com   ·    Reddit   ·   3 hours ago

AR Monster T-shirt — Your halloween t-shirt with a virtual twist. No app needed.

producthunt.com   ·    Product Hunt   ·   3 hours ago

Ask HN: Success with hacker news jobs

news.ycombinator.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   3 hours ago

Atlassian debuts new Jira Software Cloud with timeline view, configuration flow

venturebeat.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   3 hours ago

How one company spent between $1.2M and $4.6M over five months to get 45M+ impressions on Facebook political issue ads, without saying who's paying for the ads

theatlantic.com   ·    Techmeme   ·   3 hours ago

A New Facebook Lawsuit Makes ‘Pivot to Video’ Seem Even More Shortsighted

wired.com   ·    Reddit   ·   3 hours ago

Lawsuit: Facebook inflated video viewership numbers

nymag.com   ·    Reddit   ·   3 hours ago

Python's New Package Landscape

andrewsforge.com   ·    Hacker News   ·   4 hours ago