Ming-Chi Kuo: a MacBook Pro with a 16"-16.5" screen and all-new design, a 31.6" “6k3k” monitor, a new upgradable Mac Pro, and a new iPad mini coming in 2019
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a wide-reaching new investor note this evening.
Australia's PM says the country's parliament and three largest political parties have been hacked by a “sophisticated state actor” ahead of a federal election
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed Australia's political parties suffered cyber attacks alongside …
UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation says “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke laws, calls for antitrust, data abuse investigations
A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes …
Sources: recent leadership changes at Apple have rattled rank-and-file employees and led several projects to be put on hold as new managers reassess priorities
Apple is shaking up leadership across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions as it repositions for slowing iPhone sales.
Report details Huawei's efforts to steal Apple's IP, including pressing suppliers for Apple Watch details, copying a MacBook Pro component, debriefing new hires
Last month, the United States Justice Department announced a series of criminal charges against Chinese smartphone maker Huawei …
EU negotiators agree on regulations to curb unfair trade practices, requiring more transparency on how internet platforms list and rank products
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google, Amazon and other tech firms will have to tell companies how they rank their own or rival products on their platforms under …
Study: in 2017, ~17M US content creators, up 16.6% YoY, earned ~$6.8B, up 17% YoY, on nine leading platforms including Instagram, Twitch, Tumblr, and YouTube
A year ago, we wrote about a wonderful study that showed how the internet and its various platforms were (contrary to the stories …
Research: machine learning techniques today are designed to find patterns and always make a prediction, making a lot of ML-based scientific research unreliable
Artificial intelligence is being applied with undue haste to analyse data in some areas of biomedical research …
Gaming hardware maker Razer says it will close its digital game store on February 28, less than a year after it opened
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How AR could spark the next big tech platform, the “Mirrorworld”: a 1-to-1 map of unimaginable scope, merging our physical reality with the digital universe
EVERY DECEMBER, ADAM Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things” from the previous year. Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : Someday soon, every place and thing...
Sources: the UK government has concluded that it can mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, a setback for the US-led anti-Huawei campaign
also Five Eyes members — which last year banned telecoms providers from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks.” http://www.ft.com/... http://twitter.com/... Demetri Sevastopulo / @dimi : SCOOP - Briti...
On the uncanny similarities between Xerox's failure to commercialize PC GUI and Google's Waymo, as new self-driving startups with minimum viable products emerge
Larry Page drew the wrong lesson from Xerox bungling the PC revolution. — Everyone in Silicon Valley knows the story … Tweets: @arstechnica Tweets: @arstechnica : “[Waymo] may be drawing the wrong l...
Etsy accidentally charged a number of seller accounts for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on Friday, leaving users without money for the long weekend
Gina Loukareas / Boing Boing :
In the rivalry between Uber and Ola in India, Ola is relying on global expansion and acquisitions while Uber is using innovation to solve local problems
This post has been updated. — Six years into their fierce rivalry in India, call-taxi majors Ola and Uber are still trying …
How abrupt, disruptive policy changes due to rising nationalism and pressure from local business are making India increasingly hostile to foreign tech companies
In 2014, a year after Amazon launched its shopping site in India, CEO Jeff Bezos made a splash visit to the nation. Tweets: @campuscodi Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Nice summary on how Indi...
Japan's second-largest mobile carrier KDDI says it is investing about $800M for a 49% stake in online securities company Kabu.com
Alibaba acquires 8% stake in Nasdaq-listed Chinese anime streaming site Bilibili; Tencent paid $320M for its 12.3% stake in Bilibili in October
Rita Liao / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ritacyliao See also Mediagazer Tweets: Rita Liao / @ritacyliao : #Bilibili is one of those rare companies that have funding from both Alibaba and Tencent http://twit...
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