MacBook Pro is a hybrid system where modified watchOS on ARM-based T1 securely runs Touch Bar, Apple Pay, Touch ID, and more, while Intel CPU handles macOS
When will Apple ship a MacBook with an ARM processor? This is a question that has been top of mind for observers of the company ever since …
AMD details the specs of Radeon Pro 450, 455, and 460 graphics cards used in 15" MacBook Pro
at a price Shawn Knight / TechSpot : AMD publishes specifications for Radeon Pro 400 Series graphics used in new 15" MacBook Pro Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Brexit hikes price of all Apple's Macs in ...
Apple's latest Macbook Pros show the company is turning its back on its core customers
Last night's Apple event was bizarre—I had been anticipating this show for a while, mostly looking forward to being able to stop telling people not to buy a Mac, because everything was so outdated.
Mozilla announces Project Quantum, an effort to develop a faster browser engine that will power Firefox beginning in 2017
Mozilla hopes to speed up its browser so much by the end of 2017 that the today's complex, interactive websites will feel completely different.
Giphy announces tool to transfer Vines to Giphy, allowing users to share their Vines as GIFs
The death of Vine was perhaps not entirely unexpected, but it's sad nevertheless. Luckily, six-second videos are pretty easy to archive for posterity, and all-purpose GIF platform Giphy wants you to ...
LG's mobile division lost $389M in Q3 on the back of poor G5 sales, its worst quarterly result in five years, reducing LG's overall profit by 61%
LG just released the company's Q3 2016 financial results, and while at large LG is still profitable, its mobile unit is turning into a truly massive drag on the greater business.
Vine struggled to monetize and compete with Instagram and Snapchat amid executive churn, while failing to find strategic benefits for Twitter
Closing the loop — The thing about Vine becoming the internet's premiere tool for making short-form videos is that it happened almost completely by accident.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg accuses Wix of copying WordPress for its mobile app, skirting GPL requirements of attribution and public release of code
Anyone who knows me knows that I like to try new things — phones, gadgets, apps. Last week I downloaded the new Wix (closed, proprietary, non-open-sourced, non-GPL) mobile app.
Facebook launches election tool with information on national, state, and local candidates and issues, lets voters choose to share choices for specific races
Report: Toyota's investment fund has invested around $10M in car-sharing startup Getaround
Toyota Motor Corp on Friday said it has invested in U.S. car-sharing company Getaround, a move that comes as global automakers seek to shore up their presence in new technology sectors amid growing co...
GoPro Karma drone review: simple controller, easy to fly, comes with a detachable camera mount, but lacks autonomous features like collision avoidance
Over the years, people have attached GoPro (GPRO) cameras to everything. Thanks to an enormous variety of mounting brackets …
UK employment tribunal rules Uber drivers are workers and are entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks, and National Living Wage
UK court. http://www.bbc.com/... Michael / @codermay : Pay attention all businesses who think disruption can be built on the backs of expendable labour. No longer. http://twitter.com/... David Feeney ...
Study: Wikipedia has moderating influence on its contributors; articles have become increasingly politically neutral in recent years
The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Consider, for instance, the Facebook chatter surrounding a recent New York Times article about Donald Trump: Tweets: @drg1985 a...
Comparing how Twitter and Slack managed their API ecosystems, and why Twitter, which let developers replicate core functionality, stumbled
Opening up an API is a big commitment, one that needs to be managed well over time in order to ensure a healthy and thriving ecosystem. Thanks: @jasoncosta
Heads of EU country data protection authorities, Article 29 Working Party, ask Facebook to stop using WhatsApp data
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ProPublica's report on Facebook's “ethnic affinity” ad targeting explored the potential for abuse, but was misleading and failed to show actual abuse
Saturday, October 29, 2016 Facebook : Driving Relevance and Inclusion with Multicultural Marketing Saqib Shah / Digital Trends : Facebook's ad-targeting options enabling ethnic exclusion are unlawful,...
At least 17 firms have marketed surveillance products to law enforcement agencies and oppressive regimes using Twitter's Firehose data
If you ignore all the self-promotion, ranting, and frog memes, it's possible to see the Twitter that Jack Dorsey likes to talk about.
IBM execs say years of huge investments in Watson, which employs 10K people, are yielding profitable opportunities in markets like healthcare and manufacturing
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Blackline up almost 40% on a first day of trading after raising $146M in an IPO
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Sources shed light on how Dubai-based surveillance firm DarkMatter is helping the UAE government track, locate, and hack its citizens
Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept : Tweets: @gregghoush , @deftechpat , @timothys , @theintercept and @benheise Tweets: Gregg Housh / @gregghoush : How the UAE is recruiting hackers to create the perf...
Premium Wi-Fi chip designer Quantenna Communications raises $107M in an IPO, closes down 3% on a first day of trading valuing company at about $508M
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