Sony says its next-gen PlayStation console will be backward-compatible, support 8K graphics with ray tracing, and have an SSD, but won't be released this year
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Sources: iOS 13 to include a system-wide Dark Mode, the ability for apps to have multiple windows, a new standard undo gesture for text input on iPad, and more
Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac :
Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad
It's undeniable that one of the best characteristics of every Apple product is its display. Apple ships computers …
YouTube showed a link and description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as part of its fact checking, underneath live streams of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire
A fire has broken out at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral today, and as you'd expect, many news networks are offering live coverage of the breaking situation.
Sources: Indian government has asked Apple and Google to take down TikTok from their app stores, following a Madras High Court order to ban the app
MeitY's order will stop further downloads, but people who already the app will be able to still use it. — BENGALURU: Google and Apple …
Hulu has repurchased AT&T's 9.5% stake in the business for $1.43B, giving Hulu a valuation of $15B; Disney said in November that Hulu was worth $9.26B
- Hulu bought back AT&T's 9.5 percent stake in the entity for $1.43 billion, valuing the streaming company at $15 billion.
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded
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Canalys forecasts that the global installed base of smart speakers will grow 82.4% YoY from 114M units in 2018 to 207.9M in 2019
Smart speakers' global installed base is on track to top 200 million by the end of this year, according to a report out today from analysts at Canalys.
Researcher: Adblock, Adblock Plus, uBlock browser extensions could have let providers of filtering lists run arbitrary code in sites; uBlock Origin not affected
Third-party providers of content filter rules could stiff netizens — A feature introduced last year in Adblock Plus and a few …
Google outlines new Android developer relations policies, says it will take more time to review apps by developers that don't yet have a track record
Thank you for all the feedback about updates we've been making to Android APIs and Play policies. We've heard your requests for improvement as well as some frustration.
Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics
Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. — A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google …
Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US
Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing …
Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures
Most work involving computers is highly repetitive, which is why companies regularly have developers write code to automate repetitive tasks.
Samsung Galaxy Fold hands-on: feels much more stable and polished than expected and while you can see and feel the crease, it's perhaps worth the trade-off
and that it would be hard to even hazard a guess until the company sees how real people use the device."lol this is what we in marketing call A Lie http://www.fastcompany.com/... Geoffrey A. Fowler / ...
Salesforce acquires Salesforce.org, which had been a public benefit corporation, for $300M, will integrate it as part of a new nonprofit and education vertical
Salesforce yesterday announced a move to reposition how it provides software to and works with nonprofits like educational institutions …
An NYT project using Amazon's facial recognition cloud service and New York City's cameras identified people for day without their knowledge and cost just ~$60
Most people pass through some type of public space in their daily routine — sidewalks, roads, train stations. Tweets: @nytopinion , @alexisohanian , @privacyproject , and @cwarzel Tweets: @nytopinion ...
Binance says it will delist bitcoin SV (BSV) from the exchange, after CEO Changpeng Zhao said BSV's creator Craig Wright, who claims he's Satoshi, is a “fraud”
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Facebook rolls out dark mode for Messenger globally, after previously hiding it behind an Easter egg that required users to send a moon emoji to get the feature
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in recent months but withheld the privilege from anyone without backchannel access
letting people voluntarily tie their profiles to a verified identity could enable more trust and healthier conversations, two of the company's stated priorities @byardduncan : This is a very good scoo...
6sense, which uses big data to predict in real time when people are looking to buy products, raises $27M led by Industry Ventures, bringing total raised to $63M
Manish Singh / VentureBeat :
Zoom raises its IPO list price to $33-$35 ahead of Thursday debut and says it will sell $100M in Class A shares to Salesforce Ventures at IPO price
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Satya Nadella says that Microsoft is making changes to how HR investigates incidents, creates an Employee Advocacy Team to help staff through complaint process
a key #googlewalkout demand (@Google, check it out!) http://twitter.com/... Thanks: @davegershgorn
Foxconn will mass produce iPhones in India this year, including newer models, according to Foxconn's chairman Terry Gou, who will step away from day-to-day role
Bloomberg :
Starz apologizes for “inadvertently” issuing DMCA takedown notices for tweets to stories merely reporting about TV show leak, says it suffered a security breach
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Source: Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life, which would typically be removed once reported, so law enforcement could investigate them
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @kantrowitz , @kantrowitz , @dcbigjohn , @matt_kiser , and @carnage4life Tweets: Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : On Capitol Hill, people are scratching their...
UK data watchdog proposes a 16-rule code of practice for online services to protect children's privacy that includes ending “nudge techniques” and more
Sales engagement platform Outreach raises $114M at a $1.1B valuation led by Lone Pine Capital with participation from Microsoft Ventures and others
Nico Grant / Bloomberg :
Kaspersky Lab says ~70% of the attacks its products detected in Q4 2018 targeted Office vulnerabilities, four times the percentage it saw in Q4 2016
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Some companies attacked in 2017's NotPetya ransomware plague have been denied insurance coverage over “war exclusion” clauses
New York Times : Tweets: @jckichen , @nytimesbusiness , @nicoleperlroth , @nytimesbusiness , and @puiwingtam Tweets: @jckichen : This is why the language we use to talk about what seem like abstract ...
How Binance has taken advantage of the cyclical nature of the cryptocurrency market to build a scalable and impactful business
Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk :
Locking kids out of big internet platforms is not the solution to commercial bad actors, we should optimize algorithms instead to make them safer for kids
Joi Ito / Wired : Tweets: @bjorn , @camerondare , @faeriedevilish , and @nxthompson Tweets: Bjorn Larsen / @bjorn : But until “we” can do that (probably never), we should probably keep kids off as mu...
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