AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance
Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
Adding new DNA letters make novel proteins possible
Sources: Walmart has abandoned plans to launch a new streaming service after talks with the former CEO of Epix fell apart, will instead concentrate on Vudu
April Underwood, promoted to the role of chief product officer at Slack 10 months ago, is leaving the company to focus on investing
Facebook says it will ask its employees to take down their reviews of Portal devices on Amazon after three employees were caught leaving 5-star reviews
theverge.com · Techmeme · 14 hours ago
Facebook’s own employees appear to be leaving 5-star Amazon reviews for the Portal camera
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Guy Says He's the First Person to Attempt Editing His DNA with CRISPR
TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing officers to stay home
True Story of the 1980s, When Everyone Was Convinced Japan Would Buy America
Facebook just removed hundreds of fake accounts run by Kremlin news agency Sputnik
A bot for Starcraft in Rust, C or any other language
Exploiting Chrome V8: Krautflare
UN General Assembly adopts record number of resolutions on internet governance
Facebook manager quit after being 'harassed' over views on diversity
ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0
Mastercard updates policy to end automatic billing after free trials, will require merchants to request user authorization for recurring subscriptions
Facebook takes down 471 Facebook pages and accounts, as well as 41 Instagram accounts, for coordinated inauthentic behavior originating in Russia
Tim Cook calls on Congress to pass privacy legislation and on the FTC to create a "data-broker clearinghouse", enabling users to track and control their data
Alation, which indexes a company's databases to build a data search catalog, raises $50M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell's X2 Games announces plans to launch 6 new voice-controlled, Alexa-centric games in 2019, the first of which will arrive in March
cnet.com · Techmeme · 15 hours ago
Personio, a cloud-based software platform for HR and recruiting, raises $40M Series B led by Index Ventures
CEO of Palantir France says the company generated almost $1B in revenue last year; sources say half of the revenue was from corporate clients like Airbus
ScaleFactor, which develops finance software that automates bookkeeping tasks, raises $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners
Houseparty says the popular mobile game Heads Up will now be available inside its app with "packs" of words costing $0.99 or more
Spell, a collaborative platform that lets anyone run machine learning experiments, raises $15M Series A led by Eclipse Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures
In an internal post, Sophie Alpert, a Facebook manager who oversaw React, says she quit after being harassed for criticizing Facebook's lack of diversity
Jeff Bezos announces re:MARS, a public extension of the invite-only MARS conference focused on forward-looking tech, taking place in Las Vegas on June 4 to 7
theverge.com · Techmeme · 15 hours ago