A look at how creatives, software developers, and third-party applications could take advantage of the new iMac Pro, which goes on sale today
How will creatives and pros put those specs to good use? — Apple's goal with professional hardware has always been to inspire creatives and developers to produce new things.
NY AG asks for delay in net neutrality vote at FCC because public comment process was corrupted with up to 2M comments that had used stolen identities
- Today, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released new details of his office's investigation into fake comments submitted during …
Apple's Final Cut Pro X now supports 360-degree VR and HDR video editing, advanced color grading tools, and more
Apple isn't just making the iMac Pro available to order — it's also updating the creative software you'll likely run on that iMac. A new upgrade to Final Cut Pro X adds support …
Microsoft adds more AI to Office 365, including highlighting patterns in Excel, sharing acronym definitions in Word, bringing real time traffic info to Outlook
Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — Earlier today in San Francisco …
Microsoft updates Bing with improved conversational search, Intelligent Image Search, ability to better surface different viewpoints, Reddit partnership, more
At a special AI-focused event today in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a number of feature updates to Bing that it hopes …
Sources: FCC CTO Eric Burger, appointed by Ajit Pai, emailed FCC commissioners' offices to express concerns about the consequences of repealing net neutrality
Charles Schwab's Surprising AI Adviser Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech : Net Neutrality: Former FCC Chairman and Literal Industry Shill Claims Threats Don't Exist Karl Bode / Techdirt : FCC Boss Claims Net ...
Snap launches Lens Studio, a Mac and Windows app that lets users build their own AR lenses
Let a thousand hot dogs bloom — Snap's second official app is a tool that lets you design and build augmented reality lenses for Snapchat. The company today announced Lens Studio, a design app for ...
Ookla 2017 report: global internet speeds are up 30% YoY, as average download speeds for broadband and mobile reach 40 Mbps and 20 Mbps respectively
Here are the countries with the fastest internet. — Internet download speeds grew more than 30 percent this year for both wireline …
Pandora begins letting users listen to music of their choice for free by unlocking a complimentary session of Premium after watching a 15-second ad
Pandora is giving the uninitiated a free taste of its Premium service. — According to a press release, the company is offering access …
Microsoft's Cortana gets Gmail and Google Calendar support
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Google Brain founder Andrew Ng unveils Landing.ai to bring AI to the manufacturing industry, starting with Foxconn as its first strategic partner
After helping Google and Baidu kickstart their artificial intelligence efforts, Andrew Ng wants to see AI transform more than just tech companies.
Facebook confirms it will stop subsidies for Facebook Live publishers, encouraging them to use mid-roll ads, and says pre-roll ads are coming to Watch
Everyone's least favorite ads are coming to Facebook, but pre-rolls are only coming to original Watch tab videos you purposefully view and not to the News Feed.
AT&T has started trials in Georgia state to deliver high-speed internet over power lines, says it has no timeline for commercial deployment
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Google says it's bringing Assistant to tablets running Android 6.0+ and phones running Android 5.0+ in US, UK, India, Australia, and elsewhere
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Federal judge unseals letter confirming that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation connected to Uber/Waymo allegations
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Redbox launches Redbox On Demand with 6,000+ movies and TV shows available to rent or buy, starting at $3.99 for 48-hour VOD rentals
On Disc and On Demand Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Redbox unveils its service for digital movie purchases and rentals Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire : Thinking outside the kiosk, Redbox launches new On Demand...
Apple makes iOS 11.2.1 and tvOS 11.2.1 available, fixing HomeKit vulnerability and restoring remote access for shared users in Homekit
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Facebook launches a new Click-to-WhatsApp ad unit that enables calls or messages via WhatsApp, gradually rolling out worldwide except in Europe
WhatsApp has always said that it has no plans to put ads into its own app, but this is not stopping Facebook, which now owns WhatsApp …
Unsealed court documents show three men have plead guilty to creating the 2016 Mirai botnet that disrupted access to major internet platforms
doubling every 76 minutes. http://www.wired.com/... http://twitter.com/... Chris Bing / @bing_chris : ICYMI: the dude who created the Mirai botnet ran a DDoS mitigation service: http://krebsonsecurity...
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the company will “press pause” on planned change to service fee for each pledge, set to start Dec. 18, after uproar from creators
Patreon Backing Off Its Awful Payment Policy Changes Julia Alexander / Polygon : Patreon attempts to bring back subscribers following exodus last week Stephanie Chan / VentureBeat : Patreon apologizes...
Target says it plans to acquire grocery delivery platform Shipt for $550M in cash and will run it as independent unit; Shipt has 170 staff and has raised $65M
@Shipt is a Birmingham, Alabama startup, founded only 3 years ago (2014), raised $65M and exited for $550M in cash to @Target. Incredible stuff. http://www.recode.net/... Greycroft / @greycroftvc : Co...
Source: General Atlantic to invest $200M in Squarespace, to be used for stock buybacks, at a $1.7B valuation; CEO says firm has $300M annual revenue, up 50% YoY
$200 million will mostly go toward cashing out early backers — Website builder generated $300 million in revenue this year Thanks: @tsgiles
Twitter says Russia-linked accounts spent just $1,031.99 on six Brexit-related ads during regulated campaign period before UK referendum from April to June 2016
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Microsoft makes Azure Bot Service and Cognitive Language Understanding tools generally available, says 200K devs have signed up for the Bot service
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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
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Location-based VR firm Dreamscape Immersive raises $10M more to bring Series B total to $30M; Nickelodeon invests, will let its IP be used in new VR experience
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How ad networks and publishers are using page redirects and “pop-unders” to create tons of legitimate-looking traffic, a technique commonly found on porn sites
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Nine European press agencies call for internet giants including Facebook, Google, and Twitter to be forced to pay copyright for using their news content
AFP : Tweets: @afp , @sommervilletv , and @raju See also Mediagazer Tweets: @afp : Nine European press agencies, including @AFP, called on internet giants to be forced to pay copyright for using news...
Techstars partners with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten and its chat app Viber on three-month Asia-based accelerator focused on mobile chat and related areas
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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