iOS 13 beta includes an ARKit-based FaceTime feature that makes it look as if users are looking into the camera even when looking at the image on the screen
Fake eye contact for improved intimacy — iOS 13's third developer beta includes a new feature that makes it look …
Sources: HP and Dell plan to shift up to 30% of notebook production out of China; Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Nintendo also want to move some production
Production shift to create new rivals for world's consumer tech factory — TAIPEI/HONG KONG/CHONGQING— Global consumer electronics makers HP …
House subcommittee sends letter requesting Facebook halt Libra's development until Congress and regulators can investigate potential risks to the global economy
‘These vulnerabilities could be exploited and obscured by bad actors’ — House Democrats are requesting Facebook halt development …
In a letter to Senator Chris Coons, Amazon says it keeps Alexa transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, only removing them if manually deleted by users
If you have hangups about Amazon and privacy on its smart assistant, Alexa, you're not alone. Even after Amazon sent answers …
Contradicting Trump's surprise Huawei announcement, an internal memo says Commerce Department staff should still treat the company as blacklisted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official told the Commerce Department's enforcement staff this week that China's Huawei should still …
Facebook says it is working to fix outages across News Feed, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that are causing issues loading images and more
Facebook has had problems loading images, videos, and other data across its apps today, leaving some people unable to load photos in the Facebook News Feed …
In its latest transparency report, Apple says it received 80 requests from 11 countries to pull 634 apps from its app stores from July 1 to December 31, 2018
For the first time, Apple has published the number of requests it's received from governments to take down apps from its app store.
200+ companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, have called on SCOTUS to allow existing sex discrimination laws to cover LGBTQ workers
More than 200 large businesses, including most of the big technology companies, are calling on the Supreme Court to find …
Uber Eats launches Dine-In, which lets users order food before going to a restaurant and then eat it there, in Austin, Dallas, Phoenix, San Diego, and more
Tired of cleaning up after take-out or getting hangry waiting at your table in restaurants? Well Uber Eats is barging into the dine-in business.
D-Link agrees to implement a new security program to settle a 2017 FTC complaint that alleged D-Link left thousands open to well-known attacks
Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats. — Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement …
Superhuman, an email app that raised $33M in June, adds read receipt tracking pixels to outgoing mail and doesn't let users stop image loading on incoming mail
Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters …
Paris-based Cubyn, which lets e-merchants outsource fulfillment and delivery logistics, raises €12M Series B led by DN Capital
Cubyn, the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised €12 million in new funding.
Intel says Baidu is contributing to the development of its 16nm Nervana Neural Network Processor for AI training, which is optimized for image recognition
At Baidu's Create conference in Beijing this week, Intel corporate vice president Naveen Rao announced that Baidu is collaborating …
Microsoft rolls out a Your Phone update in Windows 10 allowing users to receive and manage Android notifications on a PC; complete rollout expected by July 9
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PE firm KKR acquires Canadian software company Corel, which bought virtualization software company Parallels in Dec., in a deal sources say worth $1B+
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Nvidia unveils new RTX Super series of graphics cards with more power for the same price as RTX; 2060 Super, 2070 Super launch July 9; 2080 Super on July 23
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Grubhub denies allegations that it created websites for restaurant partners without their permission, says the service was included in their contracts
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China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...
Facebook updates News Feed ranking algorithm to reduce the distribution of sensational health claims or promotion of products with health-related claims
such as baking soda injections—which sometimes gets viewed millions of times, a @wsj examination finds. https://www.wsj.com/... @vranicawsj : Tech platforms are tweaking their algorithms and cutting o...
Metronome says its MET tokens can now be moved between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic blockchains, a feature that started rolling out last week
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk :
Xiaomi announces Mimoji as part of its CC9 phone series launch, a feature that appears very similar to Apple's Memoji
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Myanmar's government forces an internet blackout on parts of the country “for the benefit of the people”, raising fears that atrocities will now go unreported
Hannah Beech / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @kenroth , and @billfrelick Tweets: @nytimes : An internet blackout has all but severed parts of Myanmar from the outside world, in a dramatic displ...
UK says it began an investigation into TikTok's data privacy practices for young users shortly after the FTC fined the app $5.7M for child privacy violations
Amrita Khalid / Engadget :
Google Lens launches the ability to identify select local art in San Francisco, in partnership with art-cataloging startup Wescover
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
CBP suspends a border-surveillance subcontractor from federal contracting after it was hacked and had data, including images of travelers' faces, posted online
Drew Harwell / Washington Post :
Twitch streamers are struggling to understand the precedent set by a mere two-week ban of popular streamer Dr Disrespect for streaming in a public bathroom
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Facebook open sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model that can be used for benchmarking the speed and accuracy performance of recommendation engines
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
MobiTV, which lets pay-TV companies provide streaming video services without a set-top box, raises $50M, bringing its total raised to $213.8M, per Crunchbase
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
After more than a year, Facebook reinstates reach estimates to its Custom Audiences ad tool after fixing a flaw that could enable profiling of customers
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