Day: September 6, 2017

Fanatics, the 17-year-old, Jacksonville, Fla.-based sports e-commerce company that helps leagues and teams sell their licensed apparel and fan gear directly to customers, has closed on $1 billion in funding led by Softbank Group’s Vision Fund. National Football League and Major League Baseball, both earlier […]

Aside from the perks of privacy and security, VPNs are popular for their ability to get around geo-restricted access. This translates to the ability to access non-local content on platforms like Netflix, so for Australians, you’ll be able to see what the UK or US […]

Android Oreo’s Rollback Protection Will Block OS Downgrades Published on September 07, 2017 at 01:20AM jbernardo writes: Google is using the boiling frog method to exclude power users and custom ROMs from android. A new feature in Android 8.0 Oreo, called “Rollback Protection” and included […]

The key was a high concentration of salt that produces the same protective layer on electrodes (a solid electrolyte interphase) you’d get out of a conventional electrolyte, preserving the electrodes and letting the battery hold more energy. There’s one main problem right now: batteries with […]

By VINDU GOEL and SCOTT SHANE Facebook said that fake accounts and pages had bought 3,000 ads focused on divisive social issues, including race and immigration. Published: September 6, 2017 at 02:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/2w8nTta via IFTTT

Judge dismisses Shiva “I Invented EMAIL” Ayyadurai’s libel lawsuit against Techdirt http://ift.tt/2f5gXaN Submitted September 06, 2017 at 11:02PM by feralrage via reddit http://ift.tt/2w86wsL

Amid ongoing concern over the role of disinformation in the 2016 election, Facebook said Wednesday it found that more than 5,000 ads, costing more than $150,000, had been placed on its network between June 2015 and May 2017 from “inauthentic accounts” and Pages, likely from […]

Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More posts by this contributor: Yesterday, Symantec CEO of Symantec, Greg Clark flexed his M&A biceps, saying that Splunk could be an attractive target at a $9+ billion valuation. Clark definitely […]

Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People’s Lists — and No One Knows Why Published on September 07, 2017 at 12:40AM Twitter has silently, and without warning, deleted reams of lists users have spent months curating. These lists are used by journalists, activists, and loads of […]

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