MacBook Air (2018) review: Retina display, great new trackpad, Touch ID, and a modest speed bump make it a nice upgrade for the owners of older MacBook Airs
Completely whelming — The fan is blowing on this brand-new MacBook Air with Retina Display. It's a familiar sound …
Mac mini (2018) review: connectivity ports galore, many CPU choices, upgradeable RAM, and varied multi-display setup options, but Intel graphics disappoint
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Facebook posts results of commissioned report on Myanmar that found Facebook wasn't doing enough to prevent it from being used to incite offline violence
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Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections
Facebook announced Monday evening that it had blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in …
Gab is back online; its domain has migrated to Seattle-area-based registrar Epik, and Cloudflare is shielding who actually hosts the site
AFTER IT WAS revealed that the suspect in the shootings at a Pittsburgh synagogue had threatened on the social media network Gab to kill Jews …
Source: Amazon plans to split HQ2 evenly between two cities, a decision driven by the need to recruit enough talent; sources: announcement could come next week
Amazon.com plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city for HQ2 …
Bird launches e-scooters in London but only on private land in Olympic Park because regulators deem e-scooters illegal under UK's Highway Act of 1835
It was only a matter of time before the electric scooters infiltrated the U.K. — Today, the well-funded startup Bird is launching …
Crypto wallet Blockchain partners with Stellar Development Foundation for XLM airdrop, will distribute $125M in Stellar lumens to all Blockchain wallet holders
Crypto wallet provider Blockchain plans to stage what it's calling the “largest crypto giveaway in history” with a $125 million airdrop.
Analysis of 250K posts and 5K political ads shows Facebook's challenges in addressing the rise of politically-motivated misinformation ahead of midterms
including properties such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. Combined.” http://medium.com/... Leighton Andrews / @leightonandrews : If you're not reading @d1gi on Facebook, then...
Barnes & Noble announces the Nook 10.1", a tablet with 32GB of storage, front and rear cameras, a headphone jack, and Bluetooth, out Nov. 14 for $129.99
Today is just another day online. It's also a day when we received news of a new Nook tablet from Barnes & Noble.
VMware acquires Heptio, a startup founded by two Kubernetes co-founders; Heptio was valued at $117M according to PitchBook when it raised $25M Series B in 2017
During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build …
iPad Pro (2018) review: very powerful with a beautiful screen, but iOS limitations like no USB-C storage support means it is still a poor laptop replacement
The thing about bullet trains is that they're always on rails — Apple introduced the new iPad Pro with a spectacular series …
UK's Information Commissioner has referred Facebook to the EU's data watchdog over issues regarding the way the social network targets and monitors its users
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Information Commissioner has referred Facebook to Ireland's data watchdog, the lead authority …
A look at VoteWithMe and OutVote, apps that show public information on how people in a users' contact list voted in past elections and their party affiliations
My dentist, a registered Republican, did not vote in the last midterm elections, in 2014. — But the owner of my local bookstore, a registered Democrat, did vote then.
Bitfury, a cryptocurrency mining technology startup, raises $80M led by Korelya Capital
Cryptocurrency mining technology firm Bitfury Group has just closed an $80 million funding round led by venture capital firm Korelya Capital. — Also participating in the private placement …
Taranis, an Israel-based startup that uses aerial scouting and deep learning to identify potential crop issues, raises $20M Series B
Taranis, an ag-tech startup that uses aerial scouting and deep learning to identify potential crop issues, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series B led by Viola Ventures.
Restaurant reservation startup Resy acquires its smaller rival Reserve, which launched from startup studio Expa, and will now serve about 4000 US restaurants
Resy is now the largest privately held restaurant reservation service in the country, and a viable competitor to OpenTable
Tencent says it will expand its age and ID verification system, used in Honour of Kings, to its entire games library by 2019
- The company started doing so for hit title Honour of Kings — It will expand to all games as the volume of criticism rises
Russia decrees that operators of messaging apps must identify all their users by verifying user data via mobile carriers; rules come into effect in 6 months
New decree means messaging services will have to check users' registration data with their mobile operator.
RapidSOS, which provides software for 911 response centers and an API for companies like Google, Apple, and Uber to handle emergency calls, raises $30M
Every day, there are around 650,000 emergency service callouts via 911 for medical, police and fire assistance in the US …
PredictHQ, which uses big data to predict spikes in local demand for companies like Uber, Domino's, and Booking.com, raises $10M Series A
If you've ever tried to hail an Uber in the midst of a major sports event or during a torrential downpour, you may have noticed that the price you're quoted is higher than normal.
Engineer.ai, which has developed a human-assisted AI that aims to empower everyone to build and operate bespoke software, has raised $29.5 million in a Series A
A look at the resources needed to design a chip for high-volume applications in-house, which may require ~$50M in operating costs before the first product ships
This post is an excerpt from our newsletter in which we take a deep look at the shifting trends of the semiconductor industry.
Amazon expands free shipping to all US customers during the holiday season, waiving the $25 minimum spend amount
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Chrome 71, which arrives next month, will block all ads on sites that have persistently shown abusive ads such as fake system messages
Jon Porter / The Verge :
After CNN, NBC, and Fox News remove a Trump-endorsed political ad for being racist, Facebook says it violates its ad guidelines and stops its paid distribution
including Fox News—for violating its advertising policy for after it spent $27-$94k reaching up to 5 million users http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... @qjurecic : this feels like ...
Meesho, an India-based social commerce startup, raises $50M Series C, its third raise over the last year in which it says top line revenue grew over 100x
that's nearly $65M for an intriguing business that supplies products to WhatsApp-based sellers in India https://techcrunch.com/...
After Amazon's AbeBooks drops all sellers from certain countries like Russia, 450+ antiquarian book dealers in at least 26 countries pull their books in protest
David Streitfeld / New York Times :
Apple releases watchOS 5.1.1, after pulling the watchOS 5.1 update last Tuesday following reports of Watches being bricked
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Pandora reports Q3 revenue of $417.6M, a net loss of $15.5M, 6.8M paid subscribers, and subscription revenue up 49% YoY to $124.77M
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Profile of Electronic Registration Information Center, which has used AI software to identify 26M eligible but unregistered US voters since its founding in 2012
Steve Lohr / New York Times : Tweets: @nytmedia , @nytimesbusiness , and @nytimesbusiness Tweets: @nytmedia : The mechanics of elections that attract the most attention include counting, snafus, hack...
Study: Alex Jones' videos are receiving nearly as many views on Facebook as they did before Infowars' page was banned, with new pages like NewsWars catching on
and so are his followers.” FB policy dictates that Infowars is banned but not Alex Jones; so he just starts another page. #stopthemadness http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... See ...
Investigation finds LinkedIn has had a rise in hyperpartisan political content, with fake accounts and toxic memes; LinkedIn has removed some reported posts
I started posting on LinkedIn and everybody is following me.” Folks, the MAGA meme wars have come for LinkedIn: http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Lisa Tozzi / @lisatozzi : MAGA would like to add you to...
FCC's Pai writes letter to telcos and tech companies, urging them to create a call authentication system to combat robocalls; study: 5.1B were placed last month
David Shepardson / Reuters :
Inside Samasource's office in Nairobi, Kenya, where employees from low-income backgrounds train data used for AI; Samasource's clients include Google, Microsoft
so much “innovation” is powered by the hidden labor of the poor http://reallifemag.com/... http://twitter.com/... Tim Maughan / @timmaughan : 'When Artificial Intelligence works as intended, Silicon V...
Chinese online music education platform VIP Peilian says it has raised $150M Series C led by Tiger Global
Ka Kay Lum / DealStreetAsia :
Code reveals Instagram has considered offering collaborative School Stories that are “manually reviewed” and limit the audience to a specific school's students
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Dealogic: tech startups are selling just 17% of themselves on average in IPOs this year, with ~44% raising secondary offerings within 180 days of their IPOs
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjmarkets Tweets: @wsjmarkets : Why newly public tech companies are rushing back to the market at a nearly unprecedented clip http://www.wsj.com/...
As Apple argues that unit sales are the wrong way to understand its business, it needs to start reporting the numbers of active customers and revenue per user
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Tweets: @stevesi and @shiraovide Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Apple's Social Network https://stratechery.com/... via @stratechery // Consumer internet companies ...
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