Apple says an upcoming software update will disable Lightning port data transfer after an hour of inactivity, closing a loophole that lets police crack iPhones
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has long positioned the iPhone as a secure device that only its owner can open.
Sources: Microsoft is working on tech that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from retail stores and has had talks with Walmart about a collaboration
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores …
Lidar startup Luminar says Volvo is making a “substantial” investment in the company and buying its lidar sensors
Luminar will supply lidar sensors to the Swedish auto giant — Lidar startup Luminar is on a bit of a hot streak. After announcing a major deal with Toyota …
Amazon starts shipping its $249 DeepLens AI camera to developers in the US
Back at its re:Invent conference in November, AWS announced its $249 DeepLens, a camera that's specifically geared toward developers who want to build and prototype vision-centric machine learning mod...
Comcast has disabled its “congestion management” throttling system that it deployed in 2008, but retains data caps and overage fees in 27 states
Congestion-management system was deployed after 2008 BitTorrent controversy. — Comcast has disabled a throttling system …
Snapchat launches Snap Kit developer platform, letting other apps use Snap's login, Bitmoji avatars, public Stories, and Snap Map content
Developers join the Stories war — Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch's scoop from last month about Snap Kit.
Google refreshes its Ad Settings tool and Why this ad? feature to help users control information that is used to target ads and understand the ads that appear
Facing growing questions about how personal data is used to target advertising, Google today announced a series of updates …
An overview of the new Siri Shortcuts feature in iOS 12, and the Shortcuts app, which will be available as a separate app on the App Store this fall
In my Future of Workflow article from last year (published soon after the news of Apple's acquisition), I outlined some of the probable outcomes for the app.
Google says its Tasks app will become part of the core G Suite service on June 28
Google has revealed that its Tasks app will graduate to become a G Suite core service on June 28. — Google Tasks, if you recall, has existed in something of an odd place for years …
Google says App Maker, its tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web, is now generally available as part of G Suite
It's been a year and a half since Google announced App Maker, its online tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web.
Taiwan-based live-streaming platform and dating app maker M17 says it has raised $35M from existing investors after calling off NYSE IPO
- M17 defers U.S. listing, opts for private funding round — Live-streaming platform cites unspecified ‘settlement issues’
Google is testing Google Sans, a size-optimized version of its product logo font Product Sans, in mobile search results
Google's Material Theme is slowly creeping its way into every corner of the company's products, and that continues in part today with Google testing its “Google Sans” font in Search on mobile.
Facebook plans to separate archives for political ads and for ads promoting news publishers' political content; publisher archive will be ready in a few weeks
Speaking at Axios' Media Trends event Monday night, Facebook's head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown formally announced …
Ring opens preorders for Ring Alarm, its DIY home security system shipping July 4; base package costs $199 with optional professional monitoring for $10/month
Kris Holt / Engadget :
Epic Games says Fortnite now has 125M registered players under a year after launch; last week, Epic investor Tencent said 40M play the game once a month or more
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Records and sources say China will begin using electronic identification system to track cars nationwide on July 1; compliance will be compulsory from Jan. 2019
Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal :
Colorado-based toy robotics startup Sphero raises $12M, with plans to raise $20M total, as it shifts focus to education after dozens of layoffs in January
This year has been a rough one for Sphero. The Colorado-based toy robotics startup kicked off the year with dozens of layoffs …
Etsy says it will increase transaction fees charged to sellers from 3.5% to 5% in mid-July and spend the extra revenue on marketing
Pavithra Mohan / Fast Company :
Over 70 internet experts and pioneers pen letter opposing proposed EU copyright provision to require internet platforms filter content, before next week's vote
Electronic Frontier Foundation :
A look at Genesis City, built in Ethereum blockchain-based Decentraland virtual world, that is selling 90K “real estate plots”, for thousands of dollars each
Camila Russo / Bloomberg :
Estonian-founded sales CRM startup Pipedrive raises $50M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
A look at how a team of animators at Snap create 3D Bitmoji animations for an AR Snapchat experience by overlaying them on the camera's field of view
every user's experience is different. Here's a storyboard from early on in the development of a 3D Bitmoji animation. (4/5) pic.twitter.com/63GNJuX4Ds Reggie Ugwu / @uugwuu : Companies like Apple, Goo...
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau says over 1M people bought the OnePlus 6 in its first 22 days on sale, up from 1M in three months for previous flagships
Antonio Villas-Boas / Business Insider : Tweets: @getpeid . Thanks: @stevetweedie Tweets: Carl Pei / @getpeid : OnePlus 6 is our most successful product yet! Thanks to our community for the overwhelm...
Twitter will soon offer users in US personalized news updates, alerting them to events or breaking news based on their interests, like the accounts they follow
Rachel Kaser / The Next Web :
Oracle debuts Internet Intelligence Map, a free real-time visualization of internet threats, so hijacks, submarine cable breaks, and more can easily be spotted
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Musical.ly to pull its standalone live streaming app Live.ly, launched in 2016, and roll its features into the main app
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Inside the Open Markets Institute Conference attended by politicians and media execs who discussed the role of Facebook and Google in the media industry
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @kantrowitz , @buzzfeednews , @rishad , @mat , and @joshconstine See also Mediagazer Tweets: Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : May this @nickbilton quote live on in histo...
Facebook will require businesses using its Custom Audiences ad tool to declare whether contact information was gained with user consent starting July 2
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Uber hires Daniel Danker from Facebook to serve as a senior director and head of driver product, filling a role that has been vacant since December
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : Facebook: Daniel Danker . Tweets: @mrdanieldanker , @joshconstine , and @dkhos Facebook: Daniel Danker : I'm happy to share that next month I'll be joining Uber as th...
Q&A with Pocket CEO Nate Weiner as Firefox tests offering personalized feeds by analyzing articles and videos in users' browsing history and Pocket saved list
Casey Newton / The Verge :
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