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
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Early reviews from videographers and other creative professionals find iMac Pro has much improved performance, is decent value, and looks good in Space Grey
- Apple's iMac Pro goes on sale on Thursday starting at $5000. — Early reviews, from professional photographers and programmers, are positive.
T-Mobile has acquired Denver-based TV tech company Layer3 TV and says it will launch its own wireless TV service to compete with Comcast, others, in 2018
T-Mobile says it will launch its own TV service in 2018, expanding its competitive focus beyond the U.S. wireless giants to target major cable …
French government moves to ban smartphone use in primary, junior, and middle schools, affecting children age 6-15, starting in September 2018
Pupils, teachers and parents seem less than convinced by measure prohibiting use in primary, junior and middle schools
Apple awards $390M from its $1B Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Finisar, which makes laser chips used in iPhone X and AirPods for depth and proximity sensing
- Apple is investing $390 million into Finisar, which makes chips used by Apple products for depth and proximity sensing.
Google says it's opening an artificial intelligence research center in Beijing, its first in China
Google has officially announced that it is opening an AI center in Beijing, China. — The confirmation comes after months of speculation fueled by a major push to hire AI talent inside the country.
Twitter makes it easier to tweetstorm by adding a threads feature, letting you easily add linked tweets from the compose screen, rolling out in coming weeks
Time for some game theory — A few months after being spotted in tests, Twitter's tool for creating tweestorms is now an official part of the app.
Target says it plans to acquire grocery delivery platform Shipt for $550M in cash; Alabama-based Shipt has 170 staff and has raised $65M
Target will offer same-day delivery from half of its stores by summer. — Another domino just fell in the wake of the Amazon - Whole Foods acquisition.
Facebook says Russia's Internet Research Agency spent just $0.97 on three ads seen ~200 times by UK users over four days in May 2016, shortly before Brexit vote
LONDON — Facebook, confounding expectations, said on Wednesday that the company had found no evidence of a significant Russian effort …
Google and Tamasek report: Southeast Asia's internet economy growth has exceeded expectations by 35%, now estimated to reach $50B in 2017 and $200B by 2025
Southeast Asia is now the world's third largest region for internet users — with more people online than the entire U.S. population …
David Marcus, VP of messaging products at Facebook and a former president of PayPal, will be joining Coinbase's board
Coinbase, a popular site for buying cryptocurrencies, is soaring. In the last week, Coinbase's app shot to No. 1 in the iTunes store, while a flood of interest …
Western Digital drops arbitration claims aimed at halting $18B sale of Toshiba's flash memory unit; Toshiba ends legal claims against Western Digital
Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal :
Swedish payments startup iZettle raises $47M Series D, reportedly at a $950M valuation, led by Dawn Capital
iZettle — the commerce platform based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets …
South Korea says it may tax capital gains from cryptocurrency trading and ban minors from opening accounts on exchanges
How activist Ma Jun aggregates data on China's worst water polluters, causing some to be banished from Apple's supplier list, in an effort backed by Alibaba
Online database records at least 830,000 cases of pollution — Western brands among customers using app to monitor suppliers
Algoriddim releases djay Pro 2 for macOS with better song library management and AI-powered features like Automix for smooth transitions
Open the Mac App Store to buy and download apps. Jon Turi / Engadget : Algoriddim's djay Pro 2 adds AI for DJ cruise control Rene Ritchie / iMore : djay Pro 2 for Mac: More for pros, AI for the rest o...
Unsealed court documents show US DoJ charged Paras Jha with co-creating the 2016 Mirai botnet that disrupted access to major internet platforms
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Lightroom CC for iPhone, iPad, and desktop gets updated with new auto settings powered by Adobe's Sensei machine learning technology
Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac :
Instagram now lets you follow hashtags, surfacing highlights from that collection in your main feed, rolling out today
Ben Popper / The Verge :
Trump signs US government ban on Kaspersky Lab software into law, as part of broader defense policy spending legislation
Dustin Volz / Reuters :
US biometrics company Synaptics says it has perfected an in-display fingerprint sensor that is now in mass production in partnership with “a top five OEM”
Oliver Cragg / Android Authority :
As net neutrality protests take center stage on Reddit, Kickstarter, and others, tech giants including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix keep a low profile
New York Times :
Indiegogo starts listing a select number of initial coin offerings, linking to First Democracy VC, an SEC-registered crowdfunding portal
Anna Hensel / VentureBeat :
Adobe is shutting down Storify's standalone service on May 16, 2018, with new signups halted today
Storify is an online service that lets … Facebook: Xavier Damman : Storify is no more. Adobe is finally pulling the plug. Tweets: Josh Stearns / @jcstearns : For almost two years I tracked more than ...
Sources: Nintendo is looking to form new partnerships with developers to produce mobile games faster, after a 2015 partnership with DeNA fell behind schedule
Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal :
Clubhouse raises $10M Series A from Battery Ventures to expand its management tool for developers working on bugs and features
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
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
Steve Kovach / Business Insider :
Fraud detection startup Simility raises $17.5M Series B led by Accel with PayPal among investors participating
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Sources and court documents shed light on Uber's massive data scraping program to monitor its competitors, spearheaded by its Marketplace Analytics team
Kate Conger / Gizmodo :
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