MacBook Pro 2018 teardown finds silicone layer under its quieter keys that is similar to Apple's patent application for protecting a keyboard from contaminants
BREAKING (July 13, 2018): Here's an inflammatory take for you: Apple's new quieter keyboard is actually a conspiracy to fix their keyboard reliability issues.
Special counsel Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking DNC, Clinton campaign, and others and releasing their emails during 2016 election
Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a new indictment charging 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democrats during the 2016 presidential election.
Hands-on with the top-of-the-line 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro: it's fast, keyboard is quieter with similar key travel as the 2017 model, and True Tone works well
It's a MacBook, alright — The new MacBook Pro keyboards are quieter. — We've had a top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro review unit …
True Tone feature in 2018 MacBook Pro models extends to LG UltraFine and Apple Thunderbolt Displays, according to Apple support document published today
When using certain external monitors with the new 2018 MacBook Pro models, the built-in True Tone feature that matches the color …
PC shipments in Q2 grew 2.7% according to IDC, while Gartner estimates 1.4% increase; both firms agree this quarter's YoY growth was the best since Q1 2012
Gartner and IDC agree — Shipments of PCs are definitely growing, for the first time in six years.
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for government regulation of facial recognition, says Microsoft's ICE contract did not involve facial recognition
OVER THE PAST year, Silicon Valley has been grappling with the way it handles our data, our elections, and our speech. Now it's got a new concern: our faces.
Bitcoin transactions tied to real purchases and email addresses used by Russian spies in Mueller's indictments show the limits of the cryptocurrency's anonymity
The indictment filed today against 12 Russian officials accused of, among other things, hacking the DNC and undermining Hillary …
Google's Phone app for Pixel and Nexus devices can now automatically filter calls that it detects to be spam and will send them directly to voicemail
Google's Phone app can now automatically filter out calls that it detects to be spam, sending them directly to voicemail.
Many Facebook Groups with thousands of members openly share pirated movies, but Facebook says it does not remove the videos unless contacted by rights-holders
- Business Insider found numerous groups openly advertising illegal copies of the latest blockbuster films.
Sources: Uber employees have filed complaints over insensitive comments about women and minorities by COO Barney Harford; Harford says he will work with a coach
SAN FRANCISCO — Barney Harford was hired late last year to help fix problems at Uber, the ride-hailing company. Instead, he has created new ones.
Uber will eventually dominate the scooter sector because it has the most users looking for a ride and the logistics expertise to get supply to the right spot
The Uber of scooters is going to be Uber. — This is a contributed post by Sunil Paul, who was co-founder of Sidecar. Tweets: @business901 and @gregbettinelli Tweets: Joe Dager / @business901 : Proba...
Facebook should quarantine Infowars and similar outlets instead of deleting their pages to avoid making people like Alex Jones into martyrs, prompting backlash
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US Department of Commerce on Friday officially lifted a ban on US companies selling goods to ZTE
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ACLU calls for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition tech by government agencies following Microsoft president's statement asking for its regulation
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Chinese police shut down a gambling platform that had 330K users and $1.5B in transaction volume in various cryptocurrencies over the past eight months
Muyao Shen / CoinDesk :
Uber, in partnership with Checkr, will now conduct driver background checks continuously using real-time data from Appriss
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Sources: Amazon Web Services is considering selling its own networking switches to business customers, challenging companies like Cisco, Juniper, and Arista
For Now Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch : Cisco and other networking stocks plunge amid Amazon competition fears Mitch Wagner / Light Reading : Will Amazon White Box Switches Take On Cisco, Juniper & Ar...
Living with a low-end Android phone running “lite” apps is a big compromise from a usability standpoint but it is still an upgrade from using a feature phone
I lived with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days. Nothing went smoothly. — Reporting From New Delhi Tweets: @pranavdixit , @pranavdixit , @buzzfeednews , and @akm1410 Tweets: @pranavdixit : Pre...
LA-based Octi, whose mobile AR tech can apply effects on human movement, raises $7.5M seed, announces NFLPA partnership to create and share NFL player avatars
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Comma.ai demos Openpilot 0.5 software with face-tracking for an advanced driver assist system compatible with most new Toyota and Honda cars, and some from GM
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Report: Huawei has an internal initiative to add AI to everything from consumer electronics to telecom equipment, including data center chips for China
Huawei's internal code name for its massive and systematic effort to bring AI into everything from data centers and telecom base startions to phones and surveillance cameras. Our scoop, w/ @aatilley. ...
Policy heads from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter will testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 17 about social media content moderation practices
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How Facebook, Google, and Twitter train and use AI to manage abuse on a massive scale with some human help as false positives remain a challenge for AI
Alfred Ng / CNET : Tweets: @alfredwkng . Thanks: @cauchon Tweets: Alfred / @alfredwkng : When you sign up for Facebook from a phone, it's using the gyroscope to pick up subtle movements like breathin...
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