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Timed to coincide with Safer Internet Day, Google today introduced a handful of new product features across various apps and services, including Google Assistant, Google Fi, Google One and more, as well as partnerships aimed at expanding access to information about staying safe online. Notably, the

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, February 7, 2022! Welcome back to the working week, team. Here's hoping you got some sleep over the weekend beca

The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. Like almost every sector, international development has attracted the attention of technologists who believe they can code away problems — and development pr

It's been said that many of the world's harmful practices and problems are too difficult to fight and too complex to end. Often problems like extreme poverty, food insecurity, gender-based violence and other humanitarian crises feel insurmountable. These problems are exacerbated by the exi

The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. The timeless quest for national competitive advantage has accelerated with globalization. During the Cold War, the United States and the U.S.S.R. fought an ideolog

The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. On November 15, 2021 Russia launched an anti-satellite missile into low-earth orbit without warning, successfully destroying a Russian satellite. Projectile debris

Apple will host its next hardware event sometime on or around March 8th, according to Bloomberg. At the event, the company will reportedly announce the third-generation iPhone SE, a refresh of the 2020 iPad Air and a new Mac computer that will feature an Apple Silicon chip. The date aligns with the

Meta is rolling out a feature called Personal Boundary in its Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues virtual reality spaces to combat harassment. Each avatar will have a bubble with a radius of two virtual feet, so they won’t be able to come within around four feet of each other. Meta If someone

If you own stocks, bad news, you probably just lost money. Social networking giant Meta, better known as Facebook, is off more than 20% in after-hours trading. And Spotify, music streaming impressario and podcasting middleweight, is off more than 15% after the close of trading today. Both sharp dec

The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. As Russian troops stand poised to yet again invade Ukraine, much attention has been focused in recent days on how to avoid escalation of the conflict. Recent (and

A few years ago, GitHub introduced sponsorships that allowed anybody to make direct financial contributions to open source developers. Today, it is taking this concept a bit further by launching sponsor-only repositories, that is, private repositories that only sponsors will get access to. In some

Bird is teaming up with Nashville with the aim of filling certain public transit gaps in the community with electric scooters. The company and the city’s public transit agency hope to boost adoption of public transportation and eco-friendly transit options. The two sides will harness WeGo Pub

??Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,”

It’s surely been a turbulent couple of years for Docker, the open source containerization company that launched in 2013, but it seems to have found its financial footing again. Today, it announced that over the last fiscal year, annual recurring revenue (ARR) has jumped 4x to over $50 million