Apple iMac Pro in 8-core and 10-core variants will be available to order on December 14, starting at $4,999; 14-core and 18-core models are coming later
Apple's pro-oriented all-in-one desktop, the iMac Pro, is set to launch this Thursday on December 14, 2017.
Ex-Facebook VP of user growth and Social Capital CEO says social media is “destroying how society works” and leads to “no civil discourse, no cooperation”
‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’ — Another former Facebook executive …
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who had a close relationship with the tech industry, has died of a heart attack aged 65
Ed Lee, the mayor of San Francisco who worked closely with leaders in the city's tech industry, has died after a heart attack aged 65. A statement issued by his office confirmed …
Apple announces developers can now make their apps available for pre-order
You may recall that when Super Mario Run was announced in 2016, customers could request notification of its release, which was a first at the time on the App Store. Now, all developers can do somethi...
Nintendo says it has sold 10M Switch consoles since its release 10 months ago, meaning it may top first-year sales of the Wii, its best-selling console to date
Nintendo is boasting that its Switch hybrid console has sold 10 million units worldwide in the first nine months of release, helped by Black Friday promotions.
Google launches three new photography apps for testing experimental technologies: Storyboard for Android, Scrubbies for iOS, and Selfissimo! for both
Google today is launching a trio of new photo apps - a part of new series of what it has dubbed photography “appsperiments.” (Get it? Ha ha.)
Apple's GymKit, which pairs an Apple Watch to fitness machines, makes its US debut in New York before rolling out to Equinox gyms in 2018
Apple just made connecting to treadmills and ellipticals as easy as tapping your Apple Watch on a piece of gym equipment.
SEC chairman Jay Clayton releases statement on cryptocurrencies, says ICOs effective for raising funds “whether they represent offerings of securities or not”
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton — The world's social media platforms and financial markets are abuzz about cryptocurrencies and “initial coin offerings” (ICOs).
Instagram now lets you follow hashtags and will then surface some highlights from that collection in your main feed, rolling out today
The glass facade of the SuperMoon Bakery (#newforkcity, #eatingnyc) has a pleasing symmetry to it. Two black rectangles sit on either side of a square …
Groupon founder Andrew Mason raises $5M from a16z for Descript, which lets users edit audio by directly editing its text transcription
A spin-off from Mason's last app, Detour — Andrew Mason, the co-founder and former CEO of Groupon whose most recent company produced audio-guided city walking tours …
Leaked documents show how Steve Bannon and Breitbart sought to sabotage Twitter via negative coverage, potential litigation, and stock manipulation
Steve Bannon and his associates at Breitbart News planned a broad financial, legal, and editorial campaign to damage Twitter, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. Tweets: @katienotopoulos...
Facebook says it's changed and grown in the 6 years since ex-VP of user growth Palihapitiya left, after he said he felt tremendous guilt for what he helped make
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Las Vegas resort tests Patscan CMR, a hidden weapon-sensing device that combines short-range radar with machine learning to scan guests for guns, knives, bombs
ACTIVATE SATELLITE VIEW in Google Maps and head to the Las Vegas strip, and you'll see it: a strange smattering of Y-shaped buildings. Tweets: @kharyp Tweets: Khary Penebaker / @kharyp : The Las Vegas...
Many alt-right alternatives to popular social networks are struggling to attract talent, users, and funding; a few have gone offline altogether
If you've lost sleep worrying about the growing power of the alt-right — that shadowy coalition that includes white nationalists, anti-feminists … Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @williamturton , @stevekov...
Iron Mountain to buy IO Data Center's US operations for $1.315B, plus up to $60M based on future performance
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Google's Home Max smart speaker goes on sale for $399
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Amazon is expanding its cloud computing business in China with new partner NWCD, after AWS China sold its hardware assets to Beijing Sinnet in November
Facebook says it will start booking ad revenue locally in countries where it has a local office, instead of re-routing it via its international HQ in Dublin
Julia Fioretti / Reuters :
AR Stickers launch inside the camera app on Pixel phones running Android 8.1, with animated Star Wars and Stranger Things characters, Foodmoji, more
Russell Holly / Android Central :
How companies are using AI to automate HR and workforce management tasks, a shift that could lead to narrower roles for some managers
hiring those with easily measured performance, or ability to face known, not unknown, challenges. https://www.wsj.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Companies are replacing managers with AI, writes @s...
A look at HQ-like trivia app The Q, which launched last week for iPhone and Android, and offers an average prize payout of $150 vs. HQ's $1K-$10K per game
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Source says Softbank to invest ~$500M in OneWeb, bringing its total investment in the company to $1.5B, ahead of OneWeb's internet satellite launch next year
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Restaurant review startup Munchee halts ICO after SEC investigation, which said in cease-and-desist order that the firm's tokens were unregistered securities
Stan Higgins / CoinDesk :
BitGo, maker of multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets for enterprises, raises $42.5M Series B led by Valor Equity Partners
Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk :
Financial-tech startup Affirm says it's raised $200M led by Singaporean sovereign-wealth fund GIC; source says at a valuation between $1.5B and $2B
Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal :
Samsung's plans to increase semiconductor production capex to $26B, or ~2.5X in 2018, raises competitor fears Samsung may monopolize DRAM and NAND flash markets
Robin Harris / ZDNet : Tweets: @patrickmoorhead Tweets: Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : At this investment level, Samsung Semi wants to be a dominant #1, not just #1. Reminds me of Intel's cape...
Sources: neighborhood social network Nextdoor has raised $75M in new funding at a valuation higher than previous round's $1.1B valuation in 2015
who had customer service send me a meaningless email—leaving the post up TO THIS DAY is definitely worth +$1 billion http://twitter.com/... Arik Hesseldahl / @ahess247 : I signed up for NextDoor ~3-4 ...
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