Apple cancels AirPower wireless charging mat, citing inability to meet its quality standards for the product
Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. — “After much effort, we've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancel...
A theory on Apple's AirPower: its overlapping multi-coil design worked in the lab but complying with FCC's rules for safe wireless emissions was too challenging
In a surprising turn of events, Apple has cancelled its long-awaited AirPower wireless charging mat.
Valve teases a VR headset called the Valve Index with a May 2019 release date; Valve previously partnered with HTC on the HTC Vive in 2016
Months of barely contained rumors have now been confirmed. — Valve Corporation's long-rumored VR headset is finally real.
Google accidentally posts information about Nest Hub Max, an unannounced 10" smart display with a built-in Nest camera, on Google Store's connected home page
A lot of Google products have “fallen off of a truck” in the last couple of years, leading to leaks ahead of official announcements.
South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says around $13M in the EOS cryptocurrency has been stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job
South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has had around $13 million in the EOS cryptocurrency stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job.
A look at Facebook's growth team, set up in 2007 to pioneer techniques to lure in new users, that has now been charged to fix the company's “integrity” problems
If you joined Facebook at any time over the past decade, Alex Schultz probably had something to do with it.
Interview with YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan about its recommendation algorithms, radicalization, violent extremism, and the rabbit-hole effect
Neal Mohan discusses the streaming site's recommendation engine, which has become a growing liability amid accusations that it steers users to increasingly extreme content.
Researchers find totaled Teslas contain unencrypted and personally revealing data about owners, including locations visited, phone contacts, and dash cam video
- Crashed Tesla vehicles, sold at junk yards and auctions, contain deeply personal and unencrypted data including info …
Counterpoint: global wireless “hearables” market hit 12.5M units in Q4 2018, with AirPods at 60% market share, but low and mid-tier brands gaining
Apple was the market leader with its AirPods as premium models continued to dominate the market. However, mid-tier brands started to gain market share.
In his interview, Neal Mohan disingenuously fails to mention that YouTube gives users a heavily weighted single recommendation after each video via autoplay
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine : Tweets: @dtunkelang Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : YouTube chose to make autoplay a default. So it is disingenuous for YouTube to deny responsibility for...
ISPs that block access to sites hosting the Christchurch shooting video set a worrisome precedent that ISPs may put up barriers between customers and content
Facebook and YouTube were right to delete the video shot by the New Zealand shooter. Internet providers were wrong to try to do it, too.
Lyft closes up 8.7% on its first day of trading after raising $2.3B in its IPO, which valued the company at over $20B
and is now valued at $27 billion Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Lyft IPO: Ride-hailing giant begins trading at $24B valuation, first of many tech companies to go public Biz Carson / Forbes : Lyft Stock Jum...
Report: a Facebook project called “Catalina”, which ended last year, explored shuttling SSDs filled with data to users in remote areas through bird-sized drones
The secretive codenamed ‘Catalina’ project was ended a year ago — Facebook has for years explored ways … Source: Business Insider .
Earl of Sandwich and Planet Hollywood restaurant franchise owner admits a breach of its PoS systems where 2M+ credit and debit card details may have been stolen
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Google updates its login system with support for FIDO2, allowing users to log into its services with hardware security keys on Firefox and Edge
Google has updated its support for hardware security keys so you no longer need to rely on its Chrome browser to log into websites like Gmail, YouTube and G Suite. Tweets: @christiaanbrand , @christia...
A look at the numbers behind Amazon's market reach in terms of dollar sales, revenue, units sold, number of visitors and users, and a snapshot of its history
In recent months, talk of regulating or even breaking up Amazon.com, Inc. has moved from the political fringes to the mainstream.
Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises a $250M Series E led by TCV and Tiger Global at a $2.7B valuation
Restaurant sales hit $825 billion last year in the US, but with margins averaging at only three to five percent per business, they're always looking for an edge …
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case review: excellent wireless performance and reliability with support for Qi charging but using “Hey Siri” can be frustrating
An iFixit teardown of Apple's second … David Carnoy / CNET : Apple AirPods 2019 review: Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : AirPods 2 Teardown: H1 Chip With Bluetooth 5.0, Same Batteries, and Water-Repellent ...
Coinbase Custody starts offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
A newly published exploit for a Magento vulnerability that can be used without authentication puts hundreds of thousands of e-commerce sites at risk
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Huawei reports ~$8.8B profit in 2018, up 25.1% YoY on revenue of ~$107.13B, up 19.5% YoY, boosted by strong revenue growth of 45.1% YoY in its consumer business
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a free ad-supported video news app for Fire TV devices, featuring digital news programming from TV networks
Jessica Toonkel / The Information :
Sources: Thailand's CP Group has acquired Omise, the Asian payments company behind the OmiseGO network token OMG, for $150M
The Block :
eMarketer expects Amazon Music will pass 35M MAUs in the US this year, up 17.7% YoY, growing faster than any other digital audio service in its forecast
Blake Droesch / eMarketer :
Google pulls “conversion therapy” app after prominent LGBTQ group Human Rights Campaign suspended Google's ranking from its influential Corporate Equality Index
but Google now needs a serious internal audit examining why it delayed so long. http://twitter.com/... @axios : Google is pulling a controversial app that LGBTQ rights groups say engages in a form of ...
Facebook says it “mistakenly deleted” some of Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts that were public and reported on, including a post about the Instagram acquisition
and his promise that Facebook would keep the app independent. Years later, he has walked back this commitment and its cofounders have quit. (Screenshot via TechCrunch article from the time.) pic.twitt...
Alibaba has acquired China-based Teambition, a project collaboration platform similar to Trello or Asana; Teambition has raised ~$17M since 2013
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
As Ukraine preps for Sunday's election, officials and candidates say Facebook, despite recent improvements, has been slow to respond to Russian disinformation
circumventing Facebook's new safeguards by paying Ukrainian citizens to give a Russian agent access to their personal pages http://www.nytimes.com/... @blmohr : “...the operation in Ukraine this year ...
Sources: cross-border money transfer startup TransferWise is raising up to $300M at a ~$4B valuation
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says the company is on track to have software and services account for 30% of its revenue over the next three years
Gina Narcisi / CRN : Tweets: @mgsiegler . Thanks: @crn Tweets: M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : It's not just Apple. Or Microsoft. Or Adobe. Services are eating the world. http://twitter.com/... Thanks: @...
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia sets US IPO price range of $13 to $16 per share, aims to raise $250M, at a valuation of $1.1B at the middle of the range
Tim Cohen / Daily Maverick : Tweets: @tim_cohen Tweets: Tim Cohen / @tim_cohen : Jumia lists for $1.1bn. Big day for African tech and e-commerce. Cudos to MTN for supporting them as a startup http://...
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