iPhone XR review: competitive price for Apple's latest processor and cameras with a great battery life, but comes in only one size and the display is not great
Big screen, small compromise — Video by Phil Esposito & Becca Farsace — Here's a question: how much do you care about the display on a phone?
Phil Schiller talks about the R in iPhone XR and the choices Apple made to make it more appealing to a broader audience
it's all about making sure more people get a taste of Apple's best. (And sadly, the “R” doesn't really stand for anything.) https://www.engadget.com/... pic.twitter.com/guwZuG35Wo Nati Shochat / @nat...
AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story
‘[Tim Cook] is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too.’ — Today, executives from both Amazon and the server manufacturer, Super Micro …
HTC begins taking preorders, only in cryptocurrency, for its blockchain phone Exodus 1 for 0.15 BTC or 4.78 ETH, about ~$960, and expects to ship in December
You have to buy it in bitcoin or Ether — HTC just announced actual specs for its much-hyped blockchain phone, the Exodus 1, and is letting people sign up for preorders.
Apple says iOS 12.1 will fix a bug that resulted in smoother-looking photos taken by the iPhone XS and XR's front camera, thus improving selfie quality
Beautygate no longer — Ever since the iPhone XS came out, there's been criticism of its front camera — specifically, that it overly smooths skin.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son cancels speaking engagement at Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative, but may still attend the event
Mr. Son becomes latest executive to cancel plans after the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — RIYADH—SoftBank Group Corp.'s Chief Executive Masayoshi Son …
A critical analysis of Bloomberg's claims about the alleged compromised Supermicro motherboards and why the reported technical details are implausible
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Chrome enables Picture-in-Picture support on desktop by default on macOS, Windows, and Linux
It's a popular feature on Android, especially useful if you want to watch YouTube videos while you do other things, and now Picture-in-picture (PiP) is officially coming to the desktop.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based SOC with support for triple camera setups, promises better gaming performance
Today we're seeing a very interesting announcement from Qualcomm: The new Snapdragon 675 chipset is a direct successor …
Sources: US Cyber Command targets Russian operatives to deter them from spreading disinformation, in first known overseas cyberoperation to protect elections
WASHINGTON — The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation …
Mozilla announces ProtonVPN partnership; from Oct. 25, some Firefox users will see an ad to buy a $10/month VPN subscription when connected to unsecured WiFi
Selected Firefox users will be able to purchase a ProtonVPN version for $10. Some of the money will go to support Mozilla and Firefox.
Linus Torvalds back in charge of Linux, according to the Linux 4.19 announcement, over a month after temporarily stepping away to get help to fix his behavior
After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle.
Qualcomm announces a reference design headset based on its QCC5100 Bluetooth audio chip to make it easier for manufacturers to build Alexa-powered headphones
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Survey: Netflix and YouTube account for 70.7% of teens' daily video consumption in US, and Instagram is now teens' most-used social platform, eclipsing Snapchat
Our 36th semi-annual Taking Stock With Teens survey included results from 8,600 teens across 48 states with an average age of 16.
Brendan Iribe, co-founder and ex-CEO of Oculus, is leaving Facebook; source: move follows shakeups in Oculus' VR arm that include canceling PC-powered Rift 2
Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, announced today that he is leaving Facebook, TechCrunch has learned.
Uber will invest $260M and introduce a £0.15 per mile charge on each trip to help all of its London drivers switch to electric cars by 2025
- Uber will invest £200 million to tackle air pollution in Britain's capital, the company announced on Tuesday.
Android: a visual history of Google's OS on its 10th anniversary
Google's Android operating system has undergone a pretty incredible metamorphosis since it debuted on the T-Mobile G1 on October 22nd, 2008. A decade might seem like a long time, but on the scale of ...
Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors
A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.” Tweets: @nitashatiku , @robinwauters , @ruchowdh , @chrisalensula , @lam_barrett , @...
Verizon Q3 beats estimates with net addition of 295K subscribers, net income of $4.92B on total operating revenue of $32.61B
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for net new phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill, helped by promotional offers for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new iPho...
Repl.it, a startup letting users write and ship code from their browsers, raises $4.5M Series A led by a16z, with YC, Paul Graham, and others participating
- Repl.it is a start-up whose technology lets software engineers quickly write and ship code from a web browser.
Predictive sales tool People.ai, which tracks every communication touchpoint between sales teams and customers, raises $30M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz
Anna Escher @https://www.twitter.com/annaescher / 7 hours — Dirty data means bad business.
Taxi company Addison Lee says it is partnering with Oxbotica to produce detailed maps of London, with an aim to launch self-driving taxis in the city by 2021
Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with Infowars, some for helping Infowars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban
Lyft acquires UK-based AR startup Blue Vision Labs and unveils its first Ford test vehicle for its Level 5 self-driving initiative
The company has acquired the AR startup Blue Vision Labs and unveiled its first Ford test vehicle — Ingrid Lunden , Jonathan Shieber 7 hours Thanks: @ingridlunden
Ford says it will start testing self-driving cars in Washington, DC early next year and expects to launch commercial taxi and delivery services in 2021
intensive up-front coordination and research with city officials — strikes me as the way self-driving will roll out more broadly across the country. It's the opposite of the Airbnb model. http://www.w...
Envoy, which sells an iPad-based visitor management product, raises $43M Series B led by Menlo Ventures and plans new smart office products by end of year
Larry Gadea says he knew his startup Envoy was truly taking off when he found out WD-40 was using its software in multiple offices. Tweets: @caseynewton . Thanks: @alexrkonrad Tweets: Casey Newton / @...
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says European Union's copyright legislation, Article 13, threatens creators' livelihoods if implemented as proposed
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eBay launches eBay Instant Selling, a new trade-in service for smartphones
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India's latest generation of unicorn startups have targeted fundamental and local issues like insurance, education, logistics, and lodging
The country's latest generation of $1 billion apps have focused on local issues in education, logistics, and lodging. Thanks: @pelstrom
Pixel 3 and 3 XL owners report issues with camera not saving images, background apps being killed, and other glitches that may point to memory managment issues
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Afiniti, which uses AI and behavioral science to better match customers with customer service agents, quietly raises $130M Series D at a $1.6B valuation
Ingrid Lunden @ingridlunden / 7 hours — Artificial intelligence touches just about every aspect of the tech world these days …
Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, has resigned following report about allegations of sexual misconduct
The Unexplored Gold in Apple's Advertising Opportunities Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Uber's top dealmaker resigns Becky Peterson / Business Insider : Uber's top dealmaker and trusted adviser to the CEO...
Berlin-based e-scooter rental startup Tier raises €25M Series A led by Northzone, marking the biggest financial backing for a European company in the space
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YouTube says it will spend $20M as part of its YouTube Learning initiative to develop educational content that will be hosted on a new Learning channel
our initiative dedicated to supporting all those who use YouTube to share their knowledge with the world. Read all about it here: http://youtube.googleblog.com/ .... http://twitter.com/... Susan Wojci...
Berlin-based travel booking startup GoEuro, which offers ground and air travel tickets in 36 countries, raises $150M led by Kinnevik AB and Temasek
Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu :
Report: blockchain engineers make between $150K and $175K on average, on par with AI developers and above the typical $135K salary for software engineers
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
With tougher immigration rules for foreign-born tech experts and concerns around national security, quantum computing faces a talent shortage in the US
Cade Metz / New York Times :
Samsung launches Odyssey+, a $499 Windows Mixed Reality headset, with new light diffusion tech to address the screen door effect, available now in the US
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
Chinese cloud-based HR SaaS company Beisen raises $100M+ Series E from Matrix Partners and Hong Kong-based investment firm Genesis Capital
Eudora Wang / China Money Network :
Lobbying group for Apple, Facebook, Google, and others unveils framework proposal for user privacy regulation, including opt-ins for use of sensitive data
David McCabe / Axios :
AI-powered app security platform Wallarm raises $8M Series A led by Toba Capital
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.