Ming-Chi Kuo report: 6.5" OLED iPhone should cost ~$1K and come in three colors; 6.1" LCD model should cost ~$700 and come in five colors including blue and red
Ming-Chi Kuo released a report today that ups his estimates for the new 2018 iPhone sales, as well as detailing a few changes to expect.
European Parliament votes against controversial Article 11 and Article 13 copyright reform proposals, meaning they will now be open for debate and amendments
A 318-278 majority of MEPs in the European Parliament has voted to reopen debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal …
Wikipedia redirected all of its Italian, Spanish, and Polish pages to a statement protesting July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law
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Tinder is officially rolling out Loops, GIF-like two second looping videos that users can add to their profiles, on iOS
If you're a dating app regular, you know that a photo only says so much about yourself. But do you really want to go to the trouble of recording a whole video for people …
Israeli indictment says an employee allegedly stole source code of NSO Group's powerful smartphone hacking tools before attempting to sell it for $50M
NSO sells its potent iPhone malware to governments, including Mexico and the United Arabs Emirates. But according to a newly released indictment …
ZTE says it has named Xu Ziyang, former head of its business in Germany, as CEO alongside a new CTO, CFO, and head of HR, to comply with US demands
New CEO is 20-year veteran of company; naming new leadership is condition for the U.S. to lift a ban on buying American-made parts
Following CTO's departure in June, TiVo loses its CEO Enrique Rodriguez to Liberty Global after just eight months amid broader uncertainty about its future
After less than a year in the role, the CEO of Tivo is leaving the troubled company and jumping to Liberty Global, where he will become its CTO.
Uganda president defends new 5 cent/day tax for citizens wanting to access platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, says social media is used for “lying”
Elias Biryabarema / Reuters :
A look at how “keyword voids”, social recommendations, and paid promotions can lead to tragic misinformation in top search results for health-related queries
IN THE FIRST few hours of a newborn's life, doctors administer a vitamin K shot. This is because infants … Tweets: @marshallk , @mattcutts , @_am1t , @caseynewton , @etzioni , @wired , @noupside , an...
IBM secures AU$1B contract to be the central technology partner to Australian government over the next five years, providing automation and blockchain services
- Contract comes 2 years after playing role in bungled census — Government savings from 5-year agreement estimated at A$100m
A look at how Samba TV collects viewing data from 13.5M smart TVs in the US to make personalized show recommendations and enable ad targeting
The growing concern over online data and user privacy has been focused on tech giants like Facebook and devices like smartphones. Tweets: @sapna , @wolfiechristl , @sapna , @stevebellovin , @natashany...
Profile of Chinese online healthcare platform WeDoctor, which has created powerful marketing tools for drug makers by leveraging unfettered access to user data
- WeDoctor leverages user data for marketing to drug makers — Billion-dollar startup backed by Tencent, AIA, New World
A look at the challenges of fact-checking on China's WeChat, which has ~1B MAUs, and the handful of “guerrilla” projects trying to debunk fake news
Grace Xu doesn't make any money fact-checking. She's not a journalist and she has a day job as a computer scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tweets: @poynter , @dpfunke , @dpfunke , and @dpfunk...
VW unveils WE vehicle on-demand service, starting with car sharing, then other transport modes like scooters, launching next year in Germany, globally from 2020
Volkswagen Group is launching a car-sharing service called WE that only uses electric vehicles, following the lead of rivals …
Updated California law now requires businesses to set clear auto-renewal terms for digital subscriptions and allow customers to cancel online
Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET :
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies
Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg :
Baidu announces it's partnering with Mobileye on its Project Apollo autonomous driving project, which now has over 115 partners
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Some AI experts say fully autonomous cars may be further away than expected and that it may be years before self-driving systems can reliably avoid accidents
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
German privacy-focused organizations Zwiebelfreunde, a nonprofit that runs Tor relay servers, and Chaos Computer Club say police raided their offices and homes
and what wasn't. Tor infrastructure is believed to be unaffected. http://blog.torservers.net/... http://twitter.com/... Ramy Raoof / @ramyraoof : If you have ever donated to Torservers, or Tails or Ri...
Inside NewsDog, a Tencent-backed Chinese app aimed at entertainment, regional content, and money generating schemes, with 50M Indian users and ~200M DAUs total
Shadma Shaikh / FactorDaily : Tweets: @factordaily , @shadmashaikh , and @pankajontech Tweets: @factordaily : How did a small team build NewsDog into one of India's top content apps? Answer: a gamifi...
Led by Germany and Denmark, EU countries are expanding laws that enable immigration officials to extract data from asylum seekers' phones
Morgan Meaker / WIRED UK : Tweets: @wireduk Tweets: Wired Uk / @wireduk : Governments are using migrants' smartphones to deport them http://www.wired.co.uk/...
Dealogic: US tech IPOs, excluding Spotify's listing, raised ~$12.2B in 28 deals in the first half of 2018, nearly double the volume from the same period in 2017
Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jason , @cararlombardo , @reformedbroker , and @michaelbatnick Tweets: @jason : This is exceptional for job growth, retirement savings & trickle down ...
Under its new rules, Facebook reveals some details of the political ads about the SCOTUS nomination, but the money behind some groups buying ads remains opaque
Kevin Roose / New York Times : Tweets: @brendan_fischer , @dabeard , @profgalloway , @kevinroose , @nytimes , @nytimesbusiness , and @facebook See also Mediagazer Tweets: Brendan Fischer / @brendan_f...
Interview with Stephen Hunter, who manages the International Space Station's computer resources, on the tech they use, issues they face, AI, and more
Steve Ranger / ZDNet : Thanks: @steveranger
Inside DOD's Jyn Erso initiative that is giving technically skilled soldiers an opportunity to build tech for the Army alongside experts from the private sector
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @dinodaizovi , @doctrine_man , @alexhern , @mattcutts , @hitpol , and @caitlin__kelly Tweets: Dino A. Dai Zovi / @dinodaizovi : “According to DDS, the Jyn 1 project c...
China's large rural population and competition between JD.com and Alibaba are fueling the race to develop large-scale drone delivery systems in the country
Bloomberg :
A look at how Amazon delivers packages quickly to remote parts of India, such as Leh, by partnering with local companies
New York Times : Tweets: @refsrc , @ambermac , @puiwingtam , @govindethiraj , @juokaz , and @davehclark Tweets: Manish Singh / @refsrc : “Amazon may never make money shipping products by air to custo...
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