iPhone 8 and 8 Plus review: wireless charging works well, great cameras and performance in a familiar design, good for those not ready to forgo home button
It's no secret that smartphones have tended to get sleeker and less obtrusive over time. Screens are growing, but bezels are shrinking.
iPhone 8 and 8 Plus review: wireless charging is good but slow, Portrait Lighting is fun, but design is getting dated and it's not worth upgrading from iPhone 7
It's an iPhone — I was at a party the other night with several people who knew I'd just been to Apple's annual iPhone launch event.
iOS 11 review: a major stepping-stone towards a full-fledged productivity OS, benefits iPad the most, has a more versatile and useful Control Center
Wide-ranging update is full of changes, but iPad benefits the most. — The iPad is having a great year.
Equifax discovered major breach in March but says it's unrelated to recently disclosed hack affecting 143M people; source says both involve the same intruders
New timeline could have implications for executive stock sales — The company is the subject of multiple investigations
Amazon updates the Fire HD 10 tablet with a quad-core processor, 1080p display, hands-free Alexa, and cuts the entry-level price of $230 to $150
To date, Amazon's devices with hands-free voice control have been decidedly static. At last, though, they can go where you do.
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint are in active talks about a stock-for-stock merger in which T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom would emerge as the majority owner
- T-Mobile and Sprint are in active talks about a merger, according to people close to the situation.
Sources: DoJ has opened a criminal investigation into three Equifax executives' stock sales that occurred days after the historic data breach was discovered
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Samsung rolls out update to let Galaxy S8, S8+, and Note8 owners disable the Bixby button but still does not let the button be remapped to another purpose
to an extent Eric Chiu / International Business Times : Samsung Bixby App Opening? How To Disable Frustrating Galaxy Phone Window Alex Wagner / PhoneDog.com : Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 owner...
EFF says it's resigning from W3C after the standards org voted for browser DRM, a move hostile to archiving, accessibility, security research, more
In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” …
Fitbit Ionic smartwatch review: best fitness tracking, incredible battery life, stores music and credit card numbers easily, but ugly design and buggy software
The “Your Fitbit Ionic is running low on battery” notification arrived on my phone and in my inbox at the same time around …
The National Venture Capital Association sues the Trump administration for delaying immigration program meant to help foreign-born startup founders stay in US
Association claims DHS illegally delayed program meant to help foreign-born founders of startups stay in U.S.
W3C votes to make the contentious Encrypted Media Extensions specification, a system for HTML5 DRM, an official W3C Recommendation
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Uber files lawsuit against Fetch Media, owned by Japanese ad firm Dentsu, for click fraud; sources say Uber plans to seek $40M in damages
Uber is said to seek at least $40 million from ad agency — The ride-hailing company says Fetch sold Uber ‘fake’ clicks — Uber Technologies Inc. is accustomed to getting sued.
Gift card marketplace Raise raises $60M Series C from Accel, PayPal, and others, will focus on building a mobile wallet for gift cards
Raise, which lets consumers buy and sell gift cards online, has raised $60 million in its pursuit to become a mobile payments company.
Real-time data analytics startup Incorta raises $15M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins
Incorta, the startup that wants to speed up big data analytics by eliminating the need for data warehouses, has raised a $15 million Series B led by new investor Kleiner Perkins.
iOS 11 has many cases of inconsistent UI design, possibly due to new elements like Large Title and Search Bar with which Apple engineers may be unfamiliar
Few days ago, Apple had their fall special event at Steve Jobs Theater located inside Apple Park, unveiling the all screen iPhone X …
Apple File System will be limited to Macs with only flash storage in the initial release of High Sierra, which means it won't work on iMacs with Fusion Drives
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Subscription art crowdfunder Patreon confirms it's raised $60M Series C, led by Thrive Capital
Patreon upgrades content creation from a passion to a profession by paying artists 95% of subscription payments from fans instead of 55% of skimpy ad revenue like Facebook and YouTube.
Hackers hid backdoor in Avast-owned system cleanup tool CCleaner for Windows from August 15 to September 12; affected software was run by 2.27M users
Here's How to Fix It Inquirer : CCleaner hack: ‘Supply-chain attack’ saw app install malware on users' machines Mahit Huilgol / Technology Personalized : CCleaner Found to be Injecting Malware that St...
Job offers and documents show Roku's doubling down on voice, with a smart speaker as a possible outcome
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
AWS says that beginning October 2, it will start charging EC2 customers by the second, not hour; competitors Azure and Google Cloud charge by the minute
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Keybase launches alpha version of Teams, an open source and end-to-end encrypted Slack-like tool for collaboration amongst groups
and it's free Tweets: Patrick O'Neill / @howelloneill : Keybase launches an encrypted alternative to Slack/Discord http://keybase.io/... Chris Coyne / @malgorithms : BIG ANNOUNCEMENT RIGHT NOW: Keybas...
Sources: Google has offered to auction off shopping ad spaces to rivals, to comply with EU's antitrust order; Google would set price cap for its own bids
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal :
Geekbench benchmarks: Apple's A11 Bionic is 25% faster in single core and 80% faster in multicore than A10 Fusion, beats i5 MacBook Pro and all other phones
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider :
Intel announces it has invested over $1B in AI startups through its Intel Capital arm
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
London transportation regulator introduces private hire licenses based on fleet size, making Uber's licensing costs rise from £3K to £3M for a five-year license
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times :
Former Facebook and Snap ad exec Sriram Krishnan announces he is joining Twitter as senior director of product
Kurt Wagner / Recode :
Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers will not stand for re-election in December; CEO Chuck Robbins will assume the role
Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg :
JD.com and Thai retail giant Central Group sign $500M deal to set up e-commerce and fintech joint ventures in Thailand
Yukako Ono / Nikkei :
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