Apple says it is working on a software fix for iPhone X screens that become temporarily unresponsive to touch in cold environments
Yesterday, a Reddit user named Darus 214 started a thread complaining about his iPhone X screen becoming unresponsive in cold weather. From the thread:
Uber must treat drivers as employees and not as independent contractors, UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal rules in appeal case
LONDON — Uber suffered a renewed blow to its operations in London — its biggest market outside the United States — when an employment tribunal on Friday rejected …
Sources: Musical.ly acquired for as much as $1B by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., maker of news app Toutiao
With 60 million monthly users, startup sells to Chinese maker of news app Toutiao — Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens …
IBM will make 20-qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service by end of 2017 and unveils 50-qubit quantum computing prototype
IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers.
YouTube says it will age-restrict flagged videos that make “inappropriate use of family-friendly characters” to logged-in users 18 or older
Videos that violate policy will now be age restricted — Earlier this week, a report in The New York Times and a blog post on Medium drew …
After backlash, Logitech says it will offer free Harmony Hubs for all Harmony Link users
WHEN LOGITECH DECIDED to intentionally brick its Harmony Link hub next March, it somehow didn't anticipate the backlash, which spread from Reddit comment threads to major tech publications and beyond.
Twitter more than doubles the characters available for display names from 20 to 50, retains 15 character limit for usernames
Twitter has been a bit preoccupied with length lately. After permanently increasing the maximum character length for tweets to 280, it's now allowing your display name to be longer too.
Interviews with Jony Ive and Stefan Behling, one of Apple Park's lead architects, on the site's design and flexibility and on the fluid nature of iPhone X
Anticipation was higher than usual - and it always runs to feverish - when the press and other interested parties …
Electronic Arts to acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315M in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140M
Electronic Arts announced it will acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315 million in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140 million.
Beijing Bytedance Technology Co. to invest $50M in Cheetah Mobile's Live.me streaming service and buy Cheetah Mobile's news aggregator News Republic for $86.6M
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US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says strong encryption that law enforcement can't break is “unreasonable”
Rod Rosenstein: We should weigh “law enforcement equities” against security. — Just two days after the FBI said it could not get into the Sutherland Springs …
How Mimikatz, a tool coded by a French government IT manager in his spare time, became a ubiquitous password stealer for hackers globally
FIVE YEARS AGO, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy's laptop. Tweets: @dalperovitch Tweets: Dmitri Alpe...
Facebook relaunches Events app as Facebook Local in the US on iOS and Android, adds restaurants, bars, and places your friends visit
Bad news for Yelp and good news for nightlife lovers. When you want to go out, it doesn't necessarily have to be to an event.
WikiLeaks publishes source code for malware control system Hive, shows examples of CIA allegedly impersonating Kaspersky via digital certificates
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Nvidia beats with Q3 revenue of $2.64B, up 32% YoY, vs $2.36B expected, net income of $838M, up 55% YoY; company expects ~$2.65B in Q4 revenue
NVIDIA Newsroom :
Alphabet says Project Loon balloons in Puerto Rico have delivered internet service to 100K people, nearly 3% of the population
Nick Statt / The Verge :
UberEATS introduces 5-star ratings for restaurants, ability to rate individual menu items with a thumbs up/thumbs down, and personalized menu recommendations
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Twitter says it has temporarily paused “all general verifications” to work on clarifying policy, after verifying white supremacist Jason Kessler
mobs and faux-oligarchs. http://twitter.com/... Jon Levine / @levinejonathan : This mistake from day one has been to politicize the verification process I the first place with people like Milo and Ass...
Hulu comes to the Nintendo Switch in the US today, becoming the first major video streaming app available on the console
Andrew Webster / The Verge :
Apple releases iOS 11.1.1 for iPhone and iPad with ‘i’ autocorrect fix
Apple is releasing an update … ABC News : WATCH: Apple releases update to fix autocorrect bug Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : iOS 11.1.1 Update Released, Fixes Autocorrect Bug Mike Murphy / Quartz : It's time...
Apple diversity report: staff is 32% female worldwide, no change YoY; in US, 54% white, down 2% YoY, 13% Hispanic, up 1% YoY, 21% Asian, up 2% YoY, and 9% black
Tony Romm / Recode :
Razer prices its IPO near the top of its range, at $0.50, raising $529M and giving it a market cap of $4.4B; will start trading in Hong Kong on Monday
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Filing and LinkedIn updates show Roku acquired Denmark-based multi-room audio startup Dynastrom ApS in September for $3.5M
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Facebook announces Community Boost program, traveling to 30 US cities during 2018, to help SMBs use the platform, provide training to unemployed, more
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Canalys: Apple shipped 11.9M iPhone 8 and 8 Plus units in Q3 2017, down from 14M iPhone 7 and 7 Plus units in Q3 2016
Todd Haselton / CNBC :
Social Finance CEO letter says company made $56.1M profit on $145.3M revenue in Q3, will sell hedge fund founded by former CEO Mike Cagney
Bloomberg :
Nest Secure review: the home security system is responsive and has a useful temporary disarm feature, but it's expensive at $499, won't work with some routers
Megan Wollerton / CNET : Thanks: @rh_brown
Chinese search engine Sogou closes up 4% on its first day of trading on the NYSE, at a market cap of around $5.3B, after raising $585M in its IPO
Katie Roof / TechCrunch :
Facebook expands its Marketplace section to include “hundreds of thousands” of housing rentals from users and partners, like Apartment List
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
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