A month after an Uber driver in Delhi was charged with the rape of a female passenger, Uber beefed up its background checks for prospective…
BLOCK PARTY
India has lifted its online porn ban—but ISPs are going to keep blocking it anyway
Usually a divided country, India came together in its outrage over the latest ban. On Monday, Aug 4, India woke up to discover that the…
6X
There are now more than 24,000 different Android devices
For the past four years, London startup OpenSignal, which tracks networks and sensors, has released an annual report on fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. Where…
DISLIKE
In Facebook’s world, you can agree with Mark Zuckerberg now or you can agree with him later
What would you do if you ran an advertising platform with the power to reach 1.4 billion people? Would you take a public policy defeat…
DATA DUMP
Why three German car makers just bought a mapping company from Nokia
Last year, some 17 million cars rolled off production lines with navigation systems built into them. That’s about one in four of all cars sold…
TALL ORDER
Europe wants to be the world’s leading tech power. Andrus Ansip is tasked with making it happen
BRUSSELS—It is easy to get lost in European bureaucratese, with its byzantine designations and overlapping commissioners, vice presidents, and directorates-general. But when it comes to…
GAMING THE SYSTEM
The end of China’s ban on video game consoles won’t change anything
This week, China said it will lift a ban on selling video game consoles and games in the country, the latest in a series of…
RADIO ON THE TV
There’s an app to listen to silent TVs in public places—and it might just help TV take on the web
It seems obvious in retrospect. We can watch television on our phones, so why not listen to television on our phones? In airport terminals, at…
CHIPPING AWAY
Qualcomm is now the latest US tech company under European antitrust investigation
In the past three months alone, Europe’s antitrust enforcer, Margether Vestager, has filed formal charges against Google, opened an investigation into Google’s Android operating system,…
CHIP OFF THE AD BLOCK
Online ad-blockers can reduce data consumption by up to 40%
Even free services come with a cost. On the web, where things often are free because advertisers are willing to pay to target specific users…
DOT MARKET
Twitter isn’t being sold, despite what this well-crafted, fake Bloomberg webpage says
Nevermind what this very realistic-looking Bloomberg webpage says. Twitter is not, in fact, “working closely with bankers after receiving an offer to be bought out…
VIDEO GAME VIDEO
500 million people are watching videos of video games
Felix Kjellberg is a 25-year-old Swedish man who made $7 million last year playing video games. Known on YouTube at PewDiePie, Kjellberg records videos of…
