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Hackathons are a great way for companies like Facebook or Twitter to get their developers together to find the next great feature. For Y Combinator, it’s a way to find the next developers to add to its incubator. For the developers, it’s a place to build the future via apps and friendships. Y Combinator is in an unremarkable commercial park located in Mountain View. Nestled in the middle of buildings erected in the late 1970s to early 1980s, an orange Y and the meandering developers clutching notebooks (mostly MacBook Pros) are the only signs alerting you that behind the dark…
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Sunday is the quietest news day of the week for the tech industry, but Evan Blass — the man behind @evleaks, a Twitter account that regularly breaks news of upcoming phones and announcements — picked today to announce his “retirement” from reporting phone scoops. That’s great news for Samsung, HTC, LG, Microsoft and the host of other companies who, at some point or another, have had word of a new product get out early, and without permission, via @evleaks. All good things must come to an end. Thank you for an amazing two years. [RETIREMENT] — Evan Blass (@evleaks) August…
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Google helped police arrest a man after finding explicit images of a child in his Gmail account
Aug03
Google helped US police arrest a man in Houston, after the internet giant tipped the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) off about explicit images of a child in his email account, Business Insider reports. The man, who was formerly convicted of sexually assaulting a child 20 years ago, was caught after police were alerted to the fact that he had emailed images to a friend. Google hasn’t commented on the report, but police told TV news station KHOU Channel 11 that they weren’t given access to the images in question, but did use them to issue an arrest warrant that subsequently found further images for…
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