BMW makes Apple CarPlay an $80/year subscription service for new car owners
From the 2019 model year onward any new BMW sold will require the owner to pay an $80 annual fee in order to connect their Apple iTelephone device to their premium luxury automobile.
Inside the complex negotiations over the deal that is about to transform Dish into the fourth national wireless carrier in the US
Charlie Ergen, the poker-playing billionaire who co-founded Dish Network, has been hoarding airwaves for years. Now the U.S. government is handing him the cards he needs to make his play.
Source: TikTok owner ByteDance has acquired UK-based AI startup Jukedeck, whose software can autonomously compose music, for an undisclosed amount
Deal raises potential for TikTok to make AI-powered music composition widely accessible around the world The initiative raises the potential …
Leaked report: UK harvested info from EU databases, including 54K files on criminals, terrorists, and missing persons, likely in preparation for no-deal Brexit
NCA harvesting EU crime databases in attempt to mitigate loss of access to data, leaked report suggests
How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry
If you want to know who the biggest TikTok star is right now, who is in Emma Chamberlain's squad, or where Baby Ariel grew up … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @glenngabe , @theatlantic , @taylorlorenz , and ...
Since last year, UK and Netherlands police have been pushing young first-time accused cybercriminals into ethical computer training, instead of threatening jail
European authorities are testing out the idea that not every cybercrime investigation has to end with a hacker in handcuffs.
Benchling, which provides software for managing biotech research, raises $34.5M Series C led by Menlo Ventures
In a field where the laboratory notebook is still considered the state of the art, it's no wonder a company like Benchling, which provides software for managing life sciences research was able to nab ...
Q&A with Satya Nadella on fostering Sony's success with Azure, the role of Xcloud in Microsoft's strategy to expand games beyond the living room, and more
Satya Nadella has never considered himself a “gamer,” but Civilization did manage to capture the attention of the Microsoft CEO for a stretch when he was younger.
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for writing and selling the Kronos banking malware
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How the tactics used by porn bots on Instagram keep evolving to avoid detection, including use of intermediary accounts and literary quotes in photo captions
Incentivized by affiliate programs, scammers are evolving how they utilize fake Instagram accounts to target users on the popular social media platform. Tweets: @halfrebel Tweets: Himanshu Gupta / @ha...
Microsoft is rolling out a new chat-based Cortana UI for Windows 10 as a beta to Windows Insiders in the US, with support for text and voice queries
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Drip Capital, an online lending platform which provides small and medium-sized exporters access to working capital, raises $25M Series B led by Accel
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Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on quarantining /r/The_Donald, a decision he says was intended to give the community a chance to change
/r/The_Donald was punished for hosting “violent content,” and Huffman isn't convinced the community's moderators are taking that problem seriously enough. Tweets: @voxdotcom Tweets: @voxdotcom : “Poli...
Israel-based vCita, which is developing a business management app and CRM system for very small businesses, raises $15M
The Israeli company has developed a business management app and CRM system for very small businesses. — Israeli business management app developer for small businesses vCita …
A developer based in Crimea and one based in Iran say that GitHub has “restricted” their accounts “due to US trade controls”
Tip: You can use this extension … Troy Wolverton / Business Insider : GitHub is reportedly blocking access to its site for users in places like Crimea and Iran, which are under US sanctions Joe Fay / ...
Spectral MD, a Dallas-based startup developing an AI-powered burn and wound imaging system, raises $27M in research funding from the US Department of Health
Spectral MD, a Dallas, Texas-based startup developing an AI-powered burn and wound imaging system, today announced that it's secured $27 million …
How both sides in Hong Kong's protests use facial recognition as a weapon, with police using it for repression, and protesters using it to doxx police officers
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Inside Spotify's Project Magneto, its failed multiyear effort to create Spotify TV, a highly personalized video streaming service, and the hardware to run it
Many young Instagram users have turned their accounts into “business” profiles to get detailed analytics by providing their phone number or email to the public
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Profile of Oliver Schusser, who spent 15 years at Apple building iTunes' worldwide operations from the ground up and took charge of Apple Music 15 months ago
Micah Singleton / Billboard : Tweets: @bill_fischer , @iansherr , @theapplepost , @timothycookothy , and @micahsingleton . Thanks: @freshfruitblog Tweets: @bill_fischer : “why the service he oversees...
A look at Earnin, an app to access money before payday with a suggested ~10% “tip”; critics say it effectively acts as a payday lender but avoids regulations
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News : Tweets: @yoda , @oneunderscore__ , and @nbcnews Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @yoda : These companies absolutely disgusting and prey on the weakest of moments for people. Just awf...
Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, for monitoring online abuse
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.