Apple has pulled watchOS 5.1 update after reports that it had bricked some Apple Watches
[Update: Apple has now pulled watchOS 5.1. Users who haven't updated should refrain from doing so if it was downloaded, but not yet installed.] — While many users are disappointed with the lack …
How Instagram has become a refuge for far-right figures who have avoided being banned from the site, including Alex Jones
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast :
Source: Rich DeVaul, a director at X, Alphabet's moonshot unit, left the company today following reports of sexual harassment, did not receive an exit package
Rich DeVaul, a director at X, the moonshot unit of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has left the company following reports of sexual harassment.
Facebook says it is banning the far-right Proud Boys and co-founder Gavin McInnes from Facebook and Instagram after violent NY attack on protesters in October
- Facebook is banning accounts and groups associated with The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group linked to political violence in the US.
Facebook reports Q3 revenue of $13.73B, up 33% YoY, DAUs of 1.49B on average, up 9% YoY, says mobile ad revenue represented ~92% of all ad revenue
Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue …
Researchers examining 135 popular kids apps on Android and iOS find 88% of paid and 100% of free apps often have manipulative and distracting ads
Popular apps for young kids, especially those available in Google's app store, are teeming with advertisements that distract them from play …
eSIM support for Apple's new iPhones will not be available from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile until later this year, but it is available in other countries
Apple today released iOS 12.1 with support for the digital eSIM that will allow for dual-SIM functionality on the iPhone XS …
The processor used in the 2018 MacBook Air is an Intel Core i5-8210Y 7W Amber Lake Y processor
Apple's newly upgraded MacBook Air is equipped with a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, a chip configuration that does not match any of the 8th-generation chips t...
Apple unveils new MacBook Air with 13.3" Retina display, 50% narrower bezel, wedge design, Touch ID, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, 8th gen Intel CPU, for $1,199+
for Now — A long-awaited new MacBook Air … Roland Moore-Colyer / Inquirer : Apple bringing AMD Vega GPUs to 15in MacBook Pros Jason Cross / Macworld : 5 things we wish we could change with the new M...
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review: supports all important formats, remote is more powerful, fast and excellent stream quality, but Alexa is limited in some apps
Amazon's latest streaming player supports all the important formats and costs just $50 — When shoppers look for a streaming player …
Google introduces “Emoji Minis” in Gboard for Android and iOS, which uses machine learning to create customizable emoji-sized stickers based on users' selfies
Last summer, Google introduced its own take on Bitmoji with the launch of “Mini” stickers in its keyboard app, Gboard …
Samsung Electronics posts Q3 operating profit of ~$15.5B, up 21% YoY, driven by strong sales of memory chips and higher demand for high-end OLED display panels
- Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it recorded an operating profit of 17.57 trillion won (about $15.5 billion) for the quarter ending in September.
Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27
Two separate parliamentary committees, in the UK and Canada, have issued an unprecedented international joint summons for Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before them.
Mark Zuckerberg says sharing is shifting to private chat, where users send 100B messages per day on Facebook's apps, and Stories, used by 1B+ people per day
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Apple unveils new iPad Pros with no home button, thinner design, smaller bezels, A12X SoC, USB-C, Face ID, no 3.5mm jack; 12.9" model for $999+, 11" for $799+
After months of rumors, Apple has today announced a completely redesigned iPad Pro with slimmed-down bezels, Face ID, a USB-C port …
Hands-on with the new MacBook Air: glossy screen is great, mostly on par with the MacBook Pro, but the third-gen butterfly keyboard remains a polarizing design
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
Google says Gmail for iOS will let users view all of their accounts in a single inbox, like Gmail for Android; feature rolling out over the next 15 days
Today, Google announced that all of the email accounts you manage in the Gmail app on iOS can be viewed in a single, universal inbox.
Facebook lost 1M DAUs in Europe and stayed flat in North America as scandals and low engagement with teens affected business; revenue also missed expectations
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
A look at how Facebook failed to develop its own voice recognition technology for Portal, source says due to chaotic rotation of staff and confused priorities
Facebook's Portal looked like a slick alternative to the Amazon Echo speaker when it launched earlier this month, but problems abounded behind the scenes. Tweets: @joshconstine and @forbes . Thanks: @...
Starship Technologies launches a commercial package delivery service using its autonomous robots in Milton Keynes, UK for £7.99/month
Starship Technologies, a robotics startup created by two of Skype's founders, is launching what it's claiming to be a world's first today: a commercial …
Sources: Apple held multiple acquisition talks with Leap Motion, beginning in 2013 and most recently in spring 2018, when Apple made an offer between $30M-$50M
- Apple has offered to buy augmented reality startup Leap Motion multiple times, most recently in the spring of 2018.
A look at how Jupyter, an open source, interactive, web-based computational notebook, has emerged as a de facto standard among data scientists
An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool. — Search for this author in: — Share via E-Mail Tweets: @lorenaabarba Tweets: Lorena Barba / @lo...
iPad Pro hands-on: beautiful screen, squared off design feels more dense and “pro”, lack of 3.5mm jack is puzzling; Pencil feels nicer and better integrated
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
UK-based digital bank Monzo has raised £85M, or ~$108M, Series E from investors including General Catalyst and Accel, at a valuation of £1B, or ~$1.2B
worth £1 billion pre-money — signing up 100,000 customers a month — making £4 for every new account it opens, vs. £35 loss at the start of the year Pretty incredible for a 3-year-old startup: http://u...
DOJ charges 10 Chinese nationals for conspiring to hack and steal IP and confidential data from US and European companies between Jan. 2010 and May 2015
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 buys eharmony, report says at $85M valuation, two years after buying majority stake in dating agency Parship
Audit finds a US Geological Survey network in South Dakota was infected with malware after an unnamed employee visited thousands of porn pages on his laptop
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Ethos, a startup that says it can process life insurance applications in minutes, raises $35M Series B led by Accel and backed by GV
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
eBay reports Q3 revenue of $2.65B, up 6% YoY, total gross merchandise volume of $22.7B, up 4.8% YoY, and 177M active buyers worldwide, up 4% YoY
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
Waymo granted the first permit from California's DMV for driverless testing of autonomous cars on public roads, will start with limited tests in Silicon Valley
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle :
Reporters tried to buy fake Facebook ads on behalf of all 100 US senators and Facebook approved all of them, following other high profile fake ad approvals
and Facebook failed to catch that they were frauds BBC : Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook Cristiano Lima / Politico : The trouble with Facebook's political ads Andrew Hutchinson / Social Medi...
Sources: Microsoft to use chips from Xilinx for more than half of the co-processors used on Azure servers, which previously used Intel chips exclusively
Ian King / Bloomberg :
PwC report says that top US tech companies, led by Amazon and Google, spend more than $5 in R&D for every $1 spent by Chinese companies
Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @skupor Tweets: Scott Kupor / @skupor : Interesting data on US/China r&d spend - looks as though on a revenue-adjusted basis the gap is relatively na...
AppZen, which analyzes employee expenses to find non-compliance and fraud, raises $35M Series B, led by Lightspeed, at a ~$175M valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Baidu beats Q3 estimates with total revenue of ~$4.1B, up 27% YoY from ~$3.4B, and net income of ~$1.8B, up 56% YoY
Cate Cadell / Reuters :
One year after doubling tweet length, Twitter finds the average tweet is now 33 characters, one fewer than before the change; 5% are longer than 190 characters
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :
Deliv, a same-day delivery platform for major brands, raises $40M Series C from Google, UPS, and others
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Amazon debuts Alexa Presentation Language in public beta, a suite of dev tools for making “visually rich” skills for devices like Echo Show, Fire TV, Echo Spot
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Twitter's new dedicated page for the US midterms, meant to provide commentary and analysis, quickly surfaced tweets from conspiracy theorists and bots
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @jack , @cwarzel , @lisatozzi , @shani_o , @cwarzel , @rmac18 , @rmac18 , and @caseynewton See also Mediagazer Tweets: @jack : The midterm elections right now #Midterms2018 ht...
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