Etsy accidentally charged a number of seller accounts for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on Friday, leaving users without money for the long weekend boingboing.net · 38 mins ago
Sources: the UK government has concluded that it can mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, a setback for the US-led anti-Huawei campaign ft.com · 1 hour ago
DJI unveils a new 3D geofencing system that will prevent the company's drones from flying too close to major airports in the UK and 32 European countries theverge.com · 2 hours ago
While some artists whose music is used in TikTok videos are compensated through their labels' sales of blanket licenses, others forgo payment for exposure pitchfork.com · 2 hours ago
Xuexi Qiangguo, a propaganda app with Snapchat-like messaging features developed by China's Communist Party, becomes top free app on Apple's App Store in China scmp.com · 2 hours ago
Interview with GoFundMe CEO Rob Solomon on medical fundraisers, some campaigns becoming highly politicized, fighting scams, and more bbc.com · 2 hours ago
Virginia-based real estate data and analytics company Remine has closed $30M Series A led by Stripes Group, bringing its total raised to $48M bizjournals.com · 2 hours ago
A look at how the Enron Corpus, a public database of 600K+ emails that helped bring down Enron, has enabled AI researchers to train natural language models qz.com · 2 hours ago
Report by a UK parliamentary committee into fake news and disinformation, due Monday, is expected to be very critical of Facebook and its "duplicitous" CEO theguardian.com · 2 hours ago
Blippi, a YouTube star popular with kids, says he used DMCA takedown notices for years to remove Harlem Shake Poop, an embarrassing video he starred in 2013 motherboard.vice.com · 2 hours ago
Leaked images of V50 ThinQ, LG's first 5G phone, which will likely launch on Feb. 24, show a triple camera system and a rear fingerprint sensor, similar to V40 androidauthority.com · 2 hours ago
Vicarious Surgical, which is building minimally invasive surgical tech that combines VR with miniature robots, has closed $10M round led by Gates Frontiers Fund techcrunch.com · 2 hours ago
Seattle startup Xnor unveils a 100% solar-powered prototype AI camera with 320×320 resolution, an FPGA chip, and an object recognition algorithm loaded on board theverge.com · 2 hours ago
Elroy Air, a maker of delivery drones that can carry up to 500 lbs, raises $9.2M in seed funding from new and existing investors Catapult, Precursor, and others venturebeat.com · 2 hours ago
A look at the debate surrounding the economics of popular open source software like OpenSSL, as an ever-increasing workload on maintainers risks causing burnout motherboard.vice.com · 2 hours ago
Dynamic Map Platform, a Japanese map platform developer for self-driving cars, to buy Detroit-based Ushr, which provides 3D mapping data to GM, for up to $200M reuters.com · 2 hours ago
An account of the rise and untimely death of Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder Colin Kroll, based on interviews with and documents from friends, police, and others wsj.com · 2 hours ago