Apple announces a $2.5B plan to combat the housing availability and affordability crisis in California
Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California.
Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store, with full PSD editing, layers, context-aware tools, and more, for $9.99 per month and a 30-day free trial
Adobe has finally released the first version of Photoshop for iPad. The update is available as a 30-day trial …
Facebook debuts a new corporate logo with shimmering text, says it wants to further distinguish the company from the Facebook app, which will keep its branding
Facebook started as a single app. Now, 15 years later, we offer a suite of products that help people connect to their friends and family …
Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser
The new icon is a wave surfing the web — Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …
Microsoft unveils a new Office app for iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single download and with a new logo
Its new mobile app is a central hub for all things Office — Microsoft is unveiling a new Office app for iOS and Android today.
Adobe says it is developing Illustrator for iPad, which will include the core tools alongside new tools made for touch, to be released by the end of 2020
The long-awaited Photoshop for iPad is available to download today, and to keep the momentum going, Adobe is announcing that it's …
Adobe debuts Photoshop Camera app, which uses its Sensei AI to recognize subjects and suggest which filters to apply, in a limited preview on iOS and Android
Let AI edit your photos for you — Adobe is launching a free AI-powered Photoshop Camera app, available now to a select group …
Adobe releases Aero, its free iOS app to let designers build AR experiences without coding knowledge via imported files from Dimension and Photoshop
Interactive Augmented Reality — Screenshots Stefano Corazza / Adobe Blog : Introducing Adobe Aero: Step into a New Reality Oliver Haslam / iMore : Adobe's new Aero app lets you create AR experiences...
Microsoft adds Cortana to Outlook for iOS, which enables features including reading emails aloud, and adds a male voice option; Android app to follow in spring
Cortana will also schedule meetings for everyone soon — Microsoft is bringing Cortana to its Outlook for iOS and Android apps.
Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links
The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser to be generally available on Jan. 15, with new privacy features including InPrivate browsing and tracking prevention
After launching a beta test for the new Chromium Edge in September, Microsoft is now gearing up to officially launch the browser on January 15th, 2020.
Microsoft to add new features to Teams, including Outlook and Yammer integrations, pinned channels, private channels, polls, tasks, surveys, and more
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Brian Chesky says Airbnb will ban “party houses” after five people died in a shooting at a Halloween party in a California home rented through the service
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Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware
Using Firepower to defend against encrypted DejaBlue Jon Fingas / Engadget : The first in-the-wild BlueKeep cyberattack isn't as dangerous as feared Elizabeth Montalbano / Threatpost : BlueKeep Attack...
Microsoft announces Azure Arc, which extends its hybrid cloud management tech to Linux and Windows servers and Kubernetes clusters running on any infrastructure
Microsoft has long made hybrid technologies a core part of its Azure platform, letting customers run cloud technologies …
Microsoft debuts Project Cortex, a new Office 365 service for knowledge management that uses machine learning to classify documents into topics and collections
At its annual Ignite IT conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft today announced Project Cortex, its first new commercial product since the launch of Teams.
Apple is now rejecting Mac apps using modern versions of Electron, citing private API usage, warns developers repeated App Store submissions can lead to a ban
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Volterra emerges from stealth with $50M in backing from Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Itochu, Samsung, and others to automate distributed app management
Orchestrating data management across distributed apps is no easy feat. Just ask former Aruba and Juniper Networks veterans Ankur Singla …
Evan Spiegel on Facebook, Snap's turnaround, and how the controversial redesign, after some tweaking, increased the time users spent on premium content
some of which were quite controversial—start paying off.” https://www.wsj.com/... @wsj : When Snap CEO Evan Spiegel was a kid, he thought “South Park” was a park because his parents didn't let him wat...
South Korea-based autonomous transportation-as-a-service startup Code42 raises $25M pre-Series A led by Kia Motors
Quynh Nguyen / DealStreetAsia :
Study: ~50% of bitcoin's price jump from March 2017 to March 2018 was due to influence of a manipulation scheme by one entity's account at Bitfinex using tether
Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal :
How Oulu, Finland, 5+ years after Nokia's collapse in smartphones, has become an entrepreneurial tech hub and home to 1,175 new companies in 2017 alone
Natasha Frost / Quartz : Tweets: @infoecon and @marcgayle Tweets: Marshall Van Alstyne / @infoecon : Story of a city's recovery from economic collapse after @Nokia downsized. Huge credit to governmen...
Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Microsoft unveils Azure Blockchain Tokens, a platform for minting enterprise-ready crypto tokens
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
Microsoft announces the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Microsoft launches a public preview of Visual Studio Online
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Interview with Micron Technology VP Steve Pawlowski about the recent acquisition of AI startup FWDNXT and why the memory chip maker is moving into AI processing
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Tweets: @farshchi Tweets: Shahin Farshchi / @farshchi : “If I ever teach you anything, it's this. The thing that's easiest to program is the solution that wins. Every t...
A look at China-backed News Break, which was the top downloaded Android and #2 iOS news app in the US from Jan. through Sept., topping ByteDance's TopBuzz
South China Morning Post : Tweets: @scmpnews Tweets: @scmpnews : How a Chinese-backed news app minnow is beating ByteDance's efforts in more mature US news market https://www.scmp.com/...
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