Sources: Apple to unveil high-end water resistant AirPods with noise-cancellation, studio-quality over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod as early as next year
- High-end AirPods and over-ear headphones coming next year — Foxconn to build AirPods; Inventec may lose some HomePod work
Amazon's Whole Foods to expand 10% discount on some items for Prime members to all stores across US starting June 27
Amazon said Monday that its Prime membership discounts are coming to all Whole Foods across the US. — From Wednesday, Prime members can get a 10 percent discount …
Details of Qualcomm SDM1000, likely Snapdragon 1000, leak showing bigger, 20×15mm sized chip for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to compete with Intel Core Y and U CPUs
Design goes head to head with Intel's Y and U series Core-branded processors. — Details of the SDM1000 …
AT&T confirms it will buy AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges
Another legacy carrier built on offering phone services is now taking a deeper dive into the world of advertising and specifically ad tech to help catapult itself into the next generation of tech and ...
Sources: Trump admin planning rules to block firms with >25% Chinese ownership from buying firms with “industrially significant” tech, plus new export controls
Treasury is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying companies involved in ‘industrially significant technology’
As Trump admin prepares for $200B in new tariffs on Chinese goods, small US gadget makers fear that price increases on key parts may put them out of business
Trump's tariffs could spell doom for small hardware startups — As the White House barrels toward $250 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports …
Google says it is adding a file signature to the header of Android app metadata, helping users determine the authenticity of an app not from the Play Store
Google is changing how the Play Store app is verifying the authenticity of Android apps before installation.
Experts say domestic abusers increasingly use connected home devices like smart locks, security cameras, and lighting to scare or spy on victims
SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy.
Enterprise sales intelligence startup Tact.ai raises $27M Series C led by Amazon's Alexa Fund, Microsoft's M12, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast Ventures
Tact.ai, a Redwood City, California-based enterprise intelligence startup, announced today that it closed a $27 million funding round led …
PayPal's Venmo follows Square by officially launching its own MasterCard-branded debit card in the US, following beta tests of a now-discontinued Visa card
Venmo today is officially introducing its own debit card in partnership with MasterCard, following beta tests of a Visa-branded debit card last year.
As chain restaurants increasingly deploy tabletop tablets, servers find they have to contend with inaccurate rankings, unfair scores, and inappropriate comments
In data-hungry, tech-happy chain restaurants, customers are rating their servers using tabletop tablets, not realizing those ratings can put jobs at risk. Tweets: @cavni Tweets: @cavni : The ratings t...
India-based PolicyBazaar, a digital insurance brand that runs a lending marketplace, raises $200M led by Softbank's Vision Fund, bringing total raised to ~$350M
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Machine learning may become a ubiquitous and fundamental enabling layer, similar to how relational databases impacted society in the eighties
We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it. Tweets: @ryanspoon , @stevenjluck , @graph_zahl , @ethanhays , @abhijitbhaduri , ...
California lawmakers have allocated $100M plus $20M annually for a new online community college that aims to help workers whose jobs may be eliminated by tech
those in jobs that will likely be eliminated because of #automation & have no real opportunity for #economicmobility because all new jobs will require some type of credential,” -@EloyOakley of @Calcom...
Microsoft and Ernst & Young announce blockchain-based content rights and royalties management network, first to be deployed for Microsoft's gaming partners
Thomas Claburn / The Register :
Survey of 2,021 US adult internet users: 61% are somewhat or very uncomfortable with robots; 52% say robots will perform most human activities within 30 years
Darrell M. West / Brookings :
Interview with Danny Sullivan, who founded Search Engine Land and is now Google's “search liaison”, which entails giving explanations for company's errors
Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC :
Acer Chromebook Tab 10 review: the education-only tablet may be fine for students, but Chrome OS' Android app UX is unpolished, stylus lacks tilt detection
Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica : Tweets: @arstechnica Tweets: @arstechnica : “The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 is a solid start for the education sector, and after using it, I'm intrigued to see what c...
Recently-restructured robotic toy maker Sphero acquires Specdrums, which on Kickstarter sold $175K worth of rings that make music by tapping on colored surfaces
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Online dating apps like Tinder are struggling to sign-up female users in markets like India, where dating isn't yet mainstream and carries a social stigma
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @sajithpai , @benedictevans , @wsj , @b50 , and @wsj Tweets: Sajith Pai / @sajithpai : Good piece on Tinder in India. “One woman saw her family driver on an app which ma...
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