Apple product sitemap appears to confirm 5.8-inch iPhone XS, 6.5-inch XS Max, and 6.1-inch XR; XR to be available in six colors
Ahead of the unveiling of the 2018 iPhone devices, Apple has updated its product sitemap file which clearly states the name of the upcoming devices — iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max.
Apple product sitemap suggests Apple Watch Series 4 models will come in 40mm and 44mm sizes, up from 38mm and 42mm
Apple seems to have updated its sitemap a bit ahead of schedule, as spotted by AllThingsHow. The URLs include references to the upcoming Apple Watch models.
EU Parliament approves controversial internet copyright law, including Articles 11 and 13, dubbed as the “link tax” and “upload filter”
Key provisions were amended to reduce potential harm, but critics say vote is ‘catastrophic’ — The European Parliament …
Nintendo says the Switch's online service, costing $3.99/month or $19.99/year, will launch on September 18 with a free seven-day trial
The Nintendo Switch's online service is launching in less than a week. In a tweet today, Nintendo revealed that the service will be available on September 18th …
EU proposes massive fines for online tech firms of up to 4% of worldwide revenue for the previous year, if they fail to remove terrorist content within one hour
Proposed legislation would require tech firms to remove terrorist content within one hour — The European Union …
Apple's iPhone event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time
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In a letter, the FCC has told Sprint and T-Mobile that it needs more time to review their proposed merger
- The agency has paused an “informal” 180-day transaction clock “to allow for thorough staff and third-party review” of recently submitted materials.
Coinbase, Circle, and other crypto companies are forming the Blockchain Association, the first lobbying group in DC representing the cryptocurrency industry
The price of bitcoin may be down, compared with last year's meteoric heights. But industry officials aren't waiting for the next spike …
Total value of cryptocurrencies fell to under $200B, down from its high of $832B in January, as Bitcoin and the largest altcoins see 35%+ drops
Value of cryptocurrencies has slid 76% after exceeding $800 billion earlier this year — The cryptocurrency rout that began early this year …
Verizon says its wireless 5G home broadband service will launch Oct. 1 in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento starting at $50/mo after free trial
Verizon announced that, starting Thursday, customers in its four 5G launch markets will be able to sign up for Internet service.
Instagram says it will begin showing users who search for certain drug-related hashtags, such as “opioid”, info about seeking help for addiction and abuse
Instagram says people are using the platform's hashtags to find addiction support and communities as well as illegal drugs.
Under the EU's new copyright directive, streaming services like Amazon and Netflix will be forced to pay higher copyright fees to filmmakers
The European Parliament passed a wide-ranging digital copyright directive Wednesday that will give film and TV writers and directors the possibility … See also Mediagazer
Samsung has opened its biggest store worldwide in Bengaluru, India, just two months after inaugurating the world's biggest smartphone plant outside New Delhi
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd opened its biggest mobile store in the world in India on Tuesday as it tries …
Media center app maker Plex announces it's shutting down its Plex Cloud service at the end of November, citing costs
Media center app maker Plex informed its users Tuesday that it is shutting down its Plex Cloud service at the end of November. Plex Cloud was meant to simplify the management …
Researcher shows flaw to spoof URLs in Safari and Edge while visiting a malicious link; weeks after disclosure, Microsoft has patched the flaw, but Apple hasn't
Egghead says Apple has yet to patch spoofing vulnerability — A security researcher has disclosed a flaw that could be used …
Profiles of tech CEOs that mostly focus on personality, like the recent New Yorker piece on Zuckerberg, can at best shed light on platforms' problems indirectly
On the limits of tech company CEO interviews — Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy?
Sources: Senate Commerce Committee to hold a hearing on privacy practices of tech firms on Sept. 26 with execs from Apple, Twitter, Google, Amazon testifying
Hearing is to help inform consumers and to determine where the federal government may need to assert itself, committee chairman says
Bipartisan group of Senators write to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about lax State Department cybersecurity protections, including poor 2FA implementation
Senators want to know why the State Department isn't using basic cybersecurity protections. — In a letter sent to Secretary …
Some US MVNOs are defending the Sprint/T-Mobile merger even though it reduces their leverage in negotiating deals because they can't risk alienating T-Mobile
Susan Crawford / Wired : Tweets: @scrawford Tweets: Susan Crawford / @scrawford : Why the T-Mobile/Sprint deal is awful news for low- and middle-income Americans - as Canada can tell us - latest for ...
Online storage service Wasabi, which offers one terabyte of storage for $5/month, raises $68M Series B from Swiss entrepreneur Ernesto Bertarelli and others
Chances are you see a story about cloud storage, and you yawn and move on, but Wasabi, a startup from the folks who brought you Carbonite backup, might make you pause.
Amazon to sell $115 7-foot Fraser firs, per an Amazon holiday preview book, and other holiday plants, offering preorders, with some trees to have Prime shipping
and Shipping Some via Amazon Prime Marrian Zhou / CNET : Ho! Ho! Ho! Amazon will deliver real live Christmas trees starting in November Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Amazon will start selling real, larg...
Tesla's wireless smartphone charger with 6,000 mAh battery and 5W of output, which quickly went out of stock last month, is back on its US online store for $49
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A look at how AI is helping kidney patients in the US by accelerating donor matching times on paired exchanges
There used to be only three ways off of a kidney transplant waiting list. The first was to find a healthy person from within one's own pool of friends and family …
Canadian SaaS startup Integrate.ai, which uses AI to help businesses make decisions, raises $30M Series A led by Portag3 Ventures
Helping businesses bring more firepower to the fight against AI-fuelled disruptors is the name of the game for Integrate.ai, a Canadian startup that's announcing a $30M Series A today.
Facebook deploys AI system called Rosetta to extract text in real time from images and video frames to improve search, detect images with hate speech, and more
Facebook Code Tweets: Facebook Engineering / @fb_engineering : Thanks to a custom large-scale machine learning system that can extract text from more than a billion images in real time, we are now abl...
US federal judge rules that a pair of allegedly fraudulent ICOs may fall under securities laws, allowing the criminal case to proceed to trial next year
maybe a decade. It's going to be a brutal process, with people going to jail and others being banned from offering securities for life, but the end result will be a functional tokenized ecosystem. htt...
RiskIQ report on British Airways data breach links it to Magecart group, active since 2015, which used tactics similar to their recent Ticketmaster breach
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
MSRC, the Microsoft unit that receives and handles bug reports, details for first time the internal procedures it uses to prioritize and classify security bugs
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
ThinkProgress alleges censorship after its story on Kavanaugh's approach to abortion was deemed “false” by the Weekly Standard, a Facebook fact-checking partner
With help from John Hendel and Ashley Gold YouTube : A Shrubbery !!!! — Nicolas B. Tweets: Will Oremus / @willoremus : Facebook enlisting an avowedly conservative outlet to unilaterally “fact-check”...
A look at upcoming Google Cloud head of AI Andrew Moore's military ties, including leading a task force with Robert Work, who reportedly created Project Maven
Andrew Moore, Google cloud's new AI chief https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Greg Sandoval / @sandonet : The new head of AI at #GoogleCloud leads a task force with Robert Work, the man who reportedl...
Before EU's top court, the EU's executive arm joined Google in opposing expanding “right to be forgotten” beyond EU; a non-binding court opinion expected Dec 11
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal :
Comma.ai's George Hotz steps down as CEO, joins new Comma.ai research division focusing on building out AI models for cars; new CEO to be named Friday
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
eBay open sources HeadGaze, an ARKit-based tool that uses the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera to help visually impaired users interact with apps via head movements
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Interviews with 31 current and former delivery drivers for Amazon's third-party partners describe missing or late pay, no health insurance, pace pressure, more
Hayley Peterson / Business Insider :
Amazon says sales from Amazon Business, its business-to-business platform that launched in 2015, hit an annualized rate of $10B globally
equaling Office Depot. http://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology @spencersoper @amazonbusiness : We now serve millions of business customers and hundreds of thousands of business sellers. Learn mor...
Beijing-based PingCAP, which makes MySQL-compatible distributed database TiDB, raises $50M Series C and plans an expansion into North America
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Packet, a New York City-based bare metal cloud hosting startup that is taking on rivals like AWS and Azure, raises $25M Series B led by Third Point Ventures
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
California bill that would require “reasonable security” for all new IoT devices, the first of its kind in US, heads to governor's desk to be signed into law
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @erratarob and @karlbode Tweets: @erratarob : California recently passed a law attempting to improve IoT security. It's bad. It's based on a naive, superficial under...
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