iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: its camera system outperforms the Pixel 3 and Note10 in bright light and, with Night mode, usually beats Pixel 3 in low light
And the best camera you can get on a phone — The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max did not arrive at the splashiest Apple event ever.
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: improved battery life, flexible triple camera system, and great performance, but ultra-wide camera sometimes lacks detail
The cheaper iPhone is Apple's top phone for 2019 Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Snapchat 3D selfie feature available exclusively on the iPhone X and up Paige Leskin / Business Insider : Reviewers are saying ...
Facebook debuts Portal TV, a TV accessory for video calling, streaming, AR gaming, and co-viewing Facebook Watch shows, shipping November 5 for $149
Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching.
Apple Watch Series 5 review: the best smartwatch with an always-on screen, a beautiful display, and new apps, but its battery life hasn't improved
There's basically no competition — The highest praise I can give the new Apple Watch Series 5 is simply this: it's an Apple Watch.
Facebook shares more on its upcoming Oversight Board for content decisions and how members are picked, says decisions will be binding even if Facebook disagrees
'The board's decision will be binding, even if I or anyone at Facebook disagrees with it,' says Zuckerberg
Google Fi debuts a more traditional unlimited plan for $70/mo. for a single line, but “may optimize” video to 480p and will throttle data past 22GB per month
Including some limits on video streaming and 100GB of cloud storage — Google is announcing a new plan for its MVNO Fi cell service: Unlimited.
How data from the victim's Fitbit and a neighbor's Ring surveillance camera played a crucial role in the arrest of a 90-year-old suspect in a murder trial in CA
Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn't see anything.
Facebook unveils second-gen 10-inch Portal for $179, and 8-inch Portal Mini for $129, with WhatsApp call support, picture-in-picture viewing, and Prime Video
The $179 Portal and $129 Portal Mini are Facebook's latest hardware products — Facebook today announced three new products …
Researchers: many streaming dongles and TVs, including those made Amazon, Roku, Samsung, and LG, are sending user data to firms such as Netflix and Facebook
The smart TVs in our homes are leaking sensitive user data to companies including Netflix, Google and Facebook even when some devices are idle …
IBM unveils a 53-qubit quantum computer, scheduled to arrive next month, making it the largest universal quantum computer available for external use
IBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network.
Instagram's Close Friends feature proves controversial as both an influencer revenue stream and superficial gateway to intimacy
Gabi Abrao, better known as @sighswoon on Instagram, is “developing a language with the invisible.” Her page is half memes, half photos of her—eating fresh fruit … Tweets: @jake_meador , @jennyearnes...
Sonos Move review: loud and full sound that is great indoors or out, reliable wireless connectivity, but too big and heavy for travel, significant setup bugs
Sonos' first portable speaker is more comfortable at home than on the go — For the past week or so, I've been listening to music …
Facebook confirms it was collecting Portal audio clips, some of which were transcribed by contractors, says 2nd-gen Portal devices will offer an opt-out option
- Company previously criticized for transcribing Messenger calls — New and old Portal devices will now offer an opt-out option
Founder of the Rookie mag reflects on being an early influencer and the effect that Instagram had on her life and career as Instagram's aesthetic keeps evolving
My senior year of high school, I had three Instagram accounts: a public one, a private one for friends and internet friends, and a private one that was just for me. Tweets: @hamishmckenzie , @mosseri ...
Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators
Google today announced an update to how it handles videos in search results. Instead of just listing relevant videos on the search results page …
HP debuts 13" Elitebook Dragonfly ultra-light business convertible with Intel Core vPro processor, 2TB storage, 16GB RAM, available Oct. 25, starting at $1,549
HP is chasing superlatives again. Last year, the company launched the Spectre Folio — the first laptop made out of leather.
Report: ~75 countries are using AI for surveillance and Huawei is providing surveillance tech in 50 countries, far more than its nearest competitor Hikvision
China leads world in facial-recognition and other new surveillance technologies, report says — WASHINGTON—China leads the world …
Researchers discover a weakness in the WS-Discovery protocol, found in over 800,000 IoT devices, that lets hackers amplify DDoS attacks
WSD is supposed to be confined to local networks. It's not, and researchers are concerned. — Hackers have found a new way to amplify the crippling effects …
Descript, which offers tools for creating podcasts, raises $15M Series A from a16z and Redpoint, and acquires Lyrebird, which built audio transcription tools
The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio.
Studies that try to place a monetary value on consumer privacy have such varying results that researchers are beginning to conclude that it's the wrong approach
No one knows. And it might be time to stop asking. — For big tech platforms, this was the year when violating users' privacy got expensive. Tweets: @privacyproject , @willoremus , @profcarroll , @w...
London's Gatwick to become the UK's first airport to use facial recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks for passenger boarding
Gatwick has become the UK's first airport to confirm it will use facial-recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks before passengers board planes.
Amazon says it is bringing Amazon PayCode, which allows customers to checkout using cash at Western Union locations, to the US
Amazon is making it easier for customers to pay with cash for their online purchases. The retailer today announced the U.S. arrival of Amazon PayCode …
HTC names former Orange exec Yves Maitre as its new CEO; HTC had $770M in revenue in 2018, the first time its annual revenue fell below $1B as a public company
it's a challenging road ahead, but the industry needs strong competitors like HTC. https://twitter.com/...
Salesforce announces Sustainability Cloud, a platform that helps companies track and analyze their environmental footprint, which began as an in-house tool
Taking business emissions into account — Companies looking to reign in their contributions to climate change will soon …
As Google develops more powerful AI and proliferates it across the tech world, its real-world ethical ramifications become more consequential and murky
Google has more computing power, data, and talent to pursue artificial intelligence than any other company on Earth—and it's not slowing down. Tweets: @jeanyvesgonin and @harrymccracken . Thanks: @tec...
Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to help make “Orion” AR smart glasses designed to replace smartphones, with 2023-2025 launch timeframe
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
Documents found on an unprotected backup drive of a Nokia Networks employee shed light on Russia's secret network surveillance system, known as SORM
collecting calls, messages, and data — on the country's largest cell network. https://techcrunch.com/...
Toronto-based TouchBistro, which offers a payments platform and more for restaurants globally, raises $158M Series E led by OMERS Growth Equity
Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail :
Facebook says it has updated its definition of “terrorist organizations” and changed its counterterrorism team's structure to curb white supremacist violence
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Facing mounting antitrust pressure, Google and Facebook have been cozying up to publishers, offering oft-requested fees and news-ranking changes
Facing mounting antitrust probes, tech platforms offer fees, news-ranking changes media outlets have pursued for years Tweets: @buzzfeedben Tweets: Ben Smith / @buzzfeedben : Didn't necessarily expect...
Sources: Google plans “Nest Wifi” with a different design from Google's routers, featuring Eero-like satellite units with built-in Assistant-enabled speakers
Stephen Hall / 9to5Google :
PlayVS, a platform that provides esports infrastructure for US schools, raises $50M Series C led by NEA, bringing its total raised to $96M
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch :
Judge in California certifies lawsuit against Apple for offering refurbished replacement devices under AppleCare and AppleCare+, as a class action
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Trulioo, a Vancouver-based electronic identity and address verification startup, raises ~$53M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, bringing its total raised to $96.6M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Mike Muller, who has served as ARM's CTO for nearly 20 years and was one of about 16 founders, is retiring at the end of the month
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg :
As Amazon's spend on One Day shipping aligns with its customer-centric focus, its product selection policies stressing profitability risk its “Day One” culture
Ben Thompson / Stratechery :
FarmWise, which is developing autonomous farming robots for removing weeds, raises $14.5M Series A, following a $5.7M seed round in 2017
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Acronis, which provides backup software and data protection tools, raises $147M round led by Goldman Sachs at a $1B+ valuation
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Facebook to give body cameras to UK Met for firearms training exercises and will use the footage to train algorithms on real-life first person shooter incidents
Financial Times :
A look at how Facebook's AI researchers are trying to build smart chatbots using unsupervised training of neural networks for natural language processing
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company :
Sources: as Amazon gets ready to add linear TV channels to IMDb TV, partners push back against its plans to sell all ads with 55% revenue share to publishers
Tim Peterson / Digiday : Tweets: @tvrev Tweets: @tvrev : Inside Amazon's pitch to programmers for IMDb TV: “Amazon's basically saying, 'Here's some money you didn't have yesterday for basically doing...
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