What to expect from WWDC 2019: new Mac Pro, iOS 13 with Dark Mode and updates to core apps, macOS 10.15 with Marzipan apps, and 31.6-inch 6K pro display
Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 3rd, and this year looks to be more consequential than most.
Sources: FTC and DOJ have reached an agreement to divvy up antitrust oversight of Google and Amazon, putting Amazon under FTC's watch and Google under DOJ's
Antitrust regulators have divvied up oversight of Amazon and Google, putting Amazon under the watch of the Federal Trade Commission and Google under the Justice Department.
Apple has removed all content from its iTunes pages on Facebook and Instagram
More evidence has emerged to suggest that Apple is beginning to move away from its iTunes brand after over 18 years of use. — As noted on Reddit, Apple has abruptly removed all social media content ...
Sources: DOJ began work on a possible Google antitrust investigation after brokering a deal with FTC, which considered and opted not to pursue the case in 2013
on 2nd tour of duty at agency—Delrahim previously represented corporate clients incl. Google during its purchase of DoubleClick in 2007" https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : B...
On Friday, US began requiring most visa applicants to provide information on their use of social media; the policy was announced in March 2018
The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday asking most applicants for U.S. visas to provide information on their use of social media …
Sources: Foxconn has stopped several production lines for Huawei phones in recent days as the Chinese device maker reduced orders for new phones
Huawei is now closely observing and evaluating the situation, Honor president Zhao Ming said at Shanghai event 'Too early to say whether …
Boeing changed 737 Max's anti-stall software, which initially relied on two types of sensors, to rely on just one in the last version, without disclosing to FAA
SEATTLE — The fatal flaws with Boeing's 737 Max can be traced to a breakdown late in the plane's development, when test pilots …
Beam Dental, which uses brushing stats collected by its connected toothbrush to lower dental insurance premiums, raises $55M Series D
When was your last dental checkup? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of U.S. adults haven't sat in a dentist's chair within the past 12 months.
Google rolls out its first AR in Search tab, which shows users a 3D model of the animal they searched for on an AR-enabled smartphone
At I/O 2019, Google announced a slew of AR features, including Dining and Translation filters for Google Lens. The ability to preview animals via augmented reality …
Many of the top shows and movies on Netflix, produced by upcoming streaming competitors like AT&T and Disney, have licensing rights locked in for years to come
Streaming service has many programs locked up for years to come — Hollywood studios say they're breaking up with Netflix.
Apple's Dark Mode, despite marketing claims, is at odds with the science of human visual perception and affects productivity by making it harder to read text
Dark Mode is the marquee feature of macOS 10.14 Mojave. Apple even gives it the top spot on the macOS product page, saying: Tweets: @dougscripts , @gassee , @davepolaschek , @woganmay , @stroughtonsm...
Sony's new IoT chip can transmit up to ~60 miles via Sony's low-power wide area ELTRES network, launching this fall, and work on objects moving at high speeds
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US schools are hastily adopting programs for monitoring students' social media activity to improve safety, often with little regard for effectiveness or privacy
Last December, early on a Sunday morning, Amanda Lafrenais tweeted about her cats. — “I would die for you,” the 31-year old comic book artist from Clute, Texas wrote. Tweets: @benjaminbherold , @ara...
DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III
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With no branding yet from Intel to differentiate laptops under Project Athena, PC makers have little incentive to adhere to the project's target specifications
Ultrabook was a powerful word, but Intel has forgotten why — Roughly eight years ago, Intel flexed its enormous power … Tweets: @backlon , @verge , and @tomwarren Tweets: Dieter Bohn / @backlon : In...
Astronomers fear the reflections from the thousands of internet satellites launched by companies like SpaceX and Amazon can threaten their research
@ShannonWHall/@nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Alan Thomas / @alnthomas : “Irrevocable impact on human culture”: in the name of the internet, we are to be robbed of the night sky and its constella...
Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are rethinking the display of metrics such as likes, follower and view counts, because they are no longer the drivers of growth
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The General Court of the EU agrees to hear a legal challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield data transfer legislation, sets a date of July 1 and 2 for the hearing
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Tweets: @fkarlitschek and @billmew Tweets: Frank Karlitschek / @fkarlitschek : This will be interesting. EU-US Privacy Shield complaint to be heard by Europe's top court ...
A self-described Reddit “karma whore” shares how he learned to make Reddit posts go viral and reflects on his years-long unfulfilling journey to 8M+ karma
written by one of the most-upvoted redditors of all time using his real name—is so powerfully introspective, and such a gutpunch: https://www.vice.com/... @motherboard : “As much as Reddit had helped ...
As an estimated 4B of world's 5.3B adults now have smartphones, tech industry analysis shifts from tracking adoption to analyzing use trends and emerging tech
worldwide, there are as many iPads in use as there are (roughly) consumer laptops.
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