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Looking for a new job in tech? It may be your lucky day

Enlarge (credit: Vicki Been | Getty Images) Two months ago, Jacob Eiting closed the Series B for his startup RevenueCat, which makes a platform for managing in-app subscriptions. The $40 million investment was…

Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn?

Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko | Getty Images) Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people’s desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a different question: How can we make…

Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million accounts

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) T-Mobile on Wednesday said criminals obtained the personal information of almost 49 million current, former, or prospective customers in the latest mega-hack of its servers. The haul includes customers’…

T-Mobile has been hacked yet again—but still doesn’t know what was taken

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process of determining if the incident involves the theft of…

iPhone keyboard for blind to shut down as maker cites Apple “abuse” of developers

Enlarge / FlickType iPhone keyboard. (credit: FlickType) An iPhone keyboard for blind users will be discontinued, according to the app's developer, who alleges that "Apple has thrown us obstacle after obstacle for years…

WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul

Enlarge / Experts in the region said shutting down the WhatsApp numbers was "absurd" and "unhelpful." (credit: SOPA Images | Getty Images) WhatsApp has shut down a complaints helpline set up by the…

Hospitals hamstrung by ransomware are turning away patients

Enlarge (credit: health.mil) Dozens of hospitals and clinics in West Virginia and Ohio are canceling surgeries and diverting ambulances following a ransomware attack that has knocked out staff access to IT systems across…

Samsung has its own AI-designed chip. Soon, others will too

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Samsung is using artificial intelligence to automate the insanely complex and subtle process of designing cutting-edge computer chips. The South Korean giant is one of the first chipmakers to…

A simple software fix could limit location data sharing

Enlarge / Pretty Good Phone Privacy wants to minimize how much your wireless provider knows about your location. (credit: Noam Galai | Getty Images) Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a…

Excerpt: How Google bought Android—according to folks in the room

In the beginning, it took a very specialized pitch to connect Android and Google. (credit: Dan Sandler) Androids: The team that built the Android operating system is a new book from longtime Android…