Amid worries about demand for iPhone XR, Apple VP of product marketing Greg Joswiak says it's “been our most popular iPhone” every day since it became available
Apple's iPhone XR has been outselling the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max every day since the cheaper, colorful phone hit the market last month.
Sennheiser's HeadSetup software makes PCs and Macs vulnerable to MITM attacks due to flawed self-signed TLS certificate, which users should now manually remove
Poorly secured certificate lets hackers impersonate any website on the Internet. — Audio device maker Sennheiser has issued …
Unredacted emails from Six4Three case show Facebook staff seeking to charge devs and advertisers for user data in 2012-2014; Facebook says it decided against it
Internal emails in court filings viewed by The Wall Street Journal provide a window into a document trove a British lawmaker plans to release soon
Dell says it detected hackers “attempting to extract Dell.com customer information”, such as customer names, email addresses, and hashed passwords, on Nov. 9
Company says it detected an intrusion at the start of the month, but financial data was not exposed.
AWS announces DeepRacer, a 1/18th scale radio-controlled car with a cloud environment to train reinforcement learning models, and an autonomous racing league
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Google Assistant adds Broadcast Replies, notes and lists integration, visual lyrics, and Pretty Please on Smart Displays and Google Home
With the holiday season underway, Google is announcing a slew of new features for Assistant speakers and Smart Displays.
The US Army says Microsoft won a $480M contract for prototypes of AR systems for combat missions and training which could lead to 100K+ headset purchases
Microsoft Corp. has won a $480 million contract to supply prototypes for augmented reality systems to the Army for use on combat missions and in training, the Army said.
A summary of AWS launches, previews, and pre-announcements from AWS re:Invent 2018
As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here's a summary of the launches, previews, and pre-announcements from Andy Jassy's keynote. I have included links to allow you to sign up for previews, ...
How iOS developers game the App Store: naming apps with popular keywords, tricking users to sign up for subscriptions, buying fake ratings and reviews, and more
I've been pestering Apple for years publicly and privately about the manipulation and outright scams going on in the App Store.
AWS debuts Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, to sway customers from Microsoft, and Glacier Deep Archive as a cheaper data storage option, coming in 2019
Bloomberg :
Amazon announces new blockchain services: Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, in preview today, and AWS Managed Blockchain
And It's Eager to Tell You How Ana Alexandre / Cointelegraph.com News : Amazon Announces Two Blockchain-Related Products; Quantum Ledger and Managed Blockchain Max Moeller / Blockonomi : Amazon AWS Ad...
In the UK, Facebook exempts news outlets from political ads transparency archive as it begins enforcing political ad transparency rules
Social network to act against ‘dark adverts’ with compulsory disclaimers saying who paid — Every political advert on Facebook will now be required …
CeBIT, an IT trade show with 850K visitors per year, has been canceled for 2019, after facing declining visitor numbers and space rentals
Despite turning the trade fair into a fun fair, organizers could not save the beloved but struggling trade fair. CeBIT once boasted 850,000 visitors a year …
AWS debuts Amazon Elastic Inference, to let users add GPU-powered inference acceleration to any Amazon EC2 instance and reduce deep learning costs by up to 75%
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Following 2012 IPO, Facebook considered, but rejected, charging developers $250K/year for API access and offering Tinder extended access to users' friends' data
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Law enforcement authorities, working with Microsoft, have arrested dozens of scammers in New Delhi over fake PC virus pop-up alert ads during the past month
MUMBAI, India — You know the messages. They pop up on your computer screen with ominous warnings like, “Your computer has been infected with a virus.
Germany's Federal Cartel Office says it has opened an antitrust investigation into Amazon's “double role” as retailer and host for other stores
- German Cartel Office looking at how firm treats site's sellers — Probe focuses on terms, adding to EU scrutiny of data abuse
Asana, which provides work management and collaboration software for teams, raises $50M Series E led by Generation Investment Management at a $1.5B valuation
Asana, a service that teams and individuals use to plan and track the progress of work projects, is doubling down on its own project …
Airbnb's innovation lab Samara announces Backyard, an initiative to design and prototype new ways of building homes, starting in 2019
After launching a home-sharing revolution, Airbnb's founders started asking themselves, “What's next?” They successfully created a global network …
Amazon launches an automated data labeling service called SageMaker Ground Truth to boost its machine learning toolset, available today
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
T-Mobile quietly launches T-Mobile MONEY, a mobile banking solution with an app available now for Android and iOS; T-Mobile ended a similar offering in 2016
T-Mobile, the self-titled “Un-Carrier,” is further separating itself from the competition by getting into the booming world of mobile banking with “T-Mobile Money.”
South Korea charges nine people and two companies with illegally selling Samsung's bendable OLED screen technology to Chinese rivals
- Suspects accused of stealing tech used to bend Galaxy screens — Samsung spent 150 billion won on technology, prosecution says
YouTube begins rolling out Stories, which last for seven days on its mobile app and can be viewed by everyone, to accounts with over 10,000 subscribers
Amid some concern from the community — YouTube is expanding its Instagram-like Stories capability to more creators today …
Former colleagues of Ken Kutaragi, known as “Father of the PlayStation”, share stories about his abrasive leadership style at Sony before stepping down in 2006
Look back at the early days of PlayStation and its ambitious, innovative and complicated father Tweets: @polygon , @thekarachikid , and @lattmeone Tweets: @polygon : Innovative. Charming. Stubborn. Te...
Tidal is now available on Plex for $9.99/month, the first streaming music service to be fully integrated into Plex
Thomas Ricker / The Verge :
Bengaluru-based vehicle sharing marketplace Drivezy raises $20M Series B led by existing investor Das Capital and others including Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd.
Sindhu Kashyap / Yourstory.com :
DOJ indicts two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the SamSam ransomware, which crippled Atlanta, caused $30M in losses, and had 200+ victims
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Google rebrands Project Fi to Google Fi and adds support for iPhones, currently in beta, and the “majority” of Android devices
A phone plan built for you — iPhone Screenshots Mark Jansen / Digital Trends : How to root Android phones or tablets (and unroot them) Joan Engebretson / Telecompetitor : Google Fi is New Brand for ...
Qualcomm Ventures says it will invest up to $100M in startups building on-device AI, investing between $1M and $10M per deal
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Iran's professional currency traders seeking profit are increasingly using Telegram to spread misinformation about the Iranian rial, accelerating its crash
and make a profit for themselves. http://foreignpolicy.com/... #Iran @foreignpolicy : Iran's professional money traders are using a messaging app to exploit the black market's lack of transparency. ht...
Tron, which acquired BitTorrent in July, says it will invest $100M in blockchain games over the next three years
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Instagram begins rolling out a tool that describes photos for visually impaired users using AI or user descriptions
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Pew survey of 743 US teens: 81% feel social media makes them more connected, 69% say it helps diversify friend groups; 26% say it makes them feel worse
escaping the tyranny of geography. http://twitter.com/... Margarita Noriega / @margarita : Incredible: only 37 percent of teenagers believe that social media helps people their age find trustworthy in...
Steemit, a social network that rewards users with its own cryptocurrency, says it's laying off nearly 70% of its team, after its currency declined 96%
Steemit, Inc. is currently undergoing … Christine Kim / CoinDesk : Steemit Lays Off 70% of Its Staff, Citing Crypto Bear Market Ben Munster / Decrypt Media : District court throws out SEC ruling on ‘s...
Amazon says its own services will run 97% of Amazon's “mission critical databases” by year's end and 88% of its databases previously on Oracle by January
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Udacity says it will lay off 125 employees over the course of 2019 as part of a global restructuring plan and will close its Brazil office, losing 70 staff
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
Facebook is launching its “Today In” local news section in 400 US cities, after beginning testing it in January
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Box reports Q3 revenue of $155.9M, up 20.6% YoY, vs. $154.6M est., a net loss of $40.2M, down from $42.9M a year ago, 90K+ paying customers, up from 87K in Q2
Akanksha Rana / Reuters :
Amazon says it is phasing out sponsored product ads on baby registries, which attach a small “sponsored” label, after some users found them deceptive
Wall Street Journal :
Silicon Valley should move past its glowing perception of the Zuckerberg-Sandberg paradigm, where the challenges created by a brash CEO are tackled by the COO
and they invariably will — often a disproportionate amount of the blame falls on them, too. The fixer, it turns out, always gets the blame.” - the ever-thoughtful perspective of @jessiwrites. http://t...
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