Apple unveils new 16-inch MacBook Pro starting at $2,399 with new processors, better speakers, and a new keyboard, available for pre-order now
Apple has launched a new 16-inch MacBook Pro today, available for pre-order now and in stores later this week.
Report: Google is planning to offer checking accounts to users, in partnership with banks and credit unions, starting as early as next year
Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers … Source: Wall Street Journal .
16" MacBook Pro first hands-on: while the keyboard's “de-Jony-Ive-ification” is good, we shouldn't be celebrating the return of features we shouldn't have lost
IF YOU TRY SOMETIMES, YOU JUST MIGHT FIND, YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED — Apple today is releasing its much-rumored new 16-inch MacBook Pro.
Following the introduction of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple is discontinuing the 15-inch model, which was refreshed in May 2019
Goodbye to the classic screen size — The arrival of Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with an unexpected twist: the classic 15-inch model is being phased out entirely.
Nike will stop selling its sneakers and apparel directly on Amazon, ending a pilot program that began in 2017
- Move follows naming of ex-EBay CEO as Nike's next chief — Nike Inc. is breaking up with Amazon.com Inc. — The athletic brand will stop selling its sneakers …
A district court rules the government's “suspicionless” searches of international travelers' phones and laptops at airports and US border violate 4th Amendment
In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in Boston today ruled that the government's suspicionless searches …
A look at Facebook's past views on China and how they changed as TikTok became popular; sources: Facebook held serious acquisition talks with Musical.ly in 2016
Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg considered buying the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok.
Popular health websites in UK are sharing sensitive user data with dozens of companies including Google and Facebook along with data-brokers and adtech firms
Some of the UK's most popular health websites are sharing people's sensitive data — including medical symptoms, diagnoses …
Alibaba's IPO application approved by the Hong Kong stock exchange; sources say shares to be priced on Nov. 20 with expected trading in the week of Nov. 25
Alibaba aims to sell 500 million new shares, with every eight Hong Kong-listed shares equal to one ADS traded in the US in value …
Privacy-focused open source browser Brave officially launches version 1.0, available on all major platforms
And it has a plan to pay users and publishers for ads — Today marks the official launch of Brave 1.0, a free open-source browser. The beta version has already drawn 8 million monthly users …
Source: DoorDash is raising $100M at a ~$13B valuation from T. Rowe Price Group and others
DoorDash Inc.'s $2 billion war chest is getting even bigger. The food delivery startup, backed by the likes of SoftBank Group Corp. and Sequoia Capital, is receiving a new cash infusion of $100 milli...
Apple says the updated Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will ship in December, but does not provide an exact date
Apple has officially announced that its long-awaited Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will be available starting in December. — Apple also announced that the new Mac Pro …
Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat, and Fastly announce the launch of Bytecode Alliance, which aims to take WebAssembly and other related open standards beyond the browser
Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat and Fast today announced the launch of the Bytecode Alliance, a new open-source group that focuses on …
Ping, which uses AI to track the hours lawyers work and fill out timesheets, raises $13.2M Series A led by Upfront Ventures
Counting billable time in six-minute increments is the most annoying part of being a lawyer. It's a distracting waste. It leads law firms to conservatively under-bill.
Federal judge rules Trump administration's decision to let 3D-printed gun blueprints be shared online was illegal, following lawsuits from several states
- State Department reversed an Obama policy to block publication — Some states sued claiming 3-D guns would endanger police
Amid labor tensions Google says it fired a staffer for leaking employee info to media, put two on leave for sharing internal docs and tracking staffer calendars
- Employee terminated for leaking names, details to media — Rifts with management roiling company known for openness
Africa-focused payments startup PalmPay, which has just launched in Nigeria, raises $40M seed round led by Chinese mobile phone maker Transsion
Africa focused payment startup PalmPay has launched in Nigeria after raising a $40 million seed-round led by Chinese mobile-phone maker Transsion.
Freshworks, which offers a range of customer support and sales software, raises $150M Series H led by CapitalG, Sequioa Capital, and Accel at a $3.5B valuation
Freshworks, a company that provides customer service software and automation tools for businesses, has confirmed …
Social media influencers are encouraging teens to be real in their posts instead of perfect, making them vulnerable to predators looking to take advantage
As influencers share more about anxiety and depression online, teens are following suit—and becoming targets
A look at a group of Somali immigrant warehouse workers in Minnesota who stood up to Amazon over labor and civil rights without the clout of a traditional union
How a group of Somalis became leaders in the fight to change a tech behemoth. — It was 11 days before Christmas in 2018 … Tweets: @wired , @adancabdulle , and @overdramatique Tweets: @wired : Fed up...
Google partnered with Ascension, the 2nd-largest US health-care system, to analyze personal health info of millions, sources say as part of Project Nightingale
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Interswitch, a Nigeria-based digital payments startup, says Visa has acquired a minority stake, reportedly for $200M, at a $1B valuation, plans IPO in H1 2020
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Convoy, a digital freight marketplace that matches truckers with cargo shippers, raises $400M Series D at a $2.75B valuation
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Facebook's iOS app accesses the camera as users scroll their feeds; a workaround is to revoke the app's camera permissions; a patch is “already rolling out”
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Intel has been slow to address information-leaking chip bugs, issuing an incomplete fix for “ZombieLoad” in May and another series of microcode patches today
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Facebook unveils Facebook Pay, which will work on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to let users shop, donate to causes, send money to friends, more
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Sigma Computing, which builds cloud-hosted data analytics tools, doubles its Series B to $60M, with funding from Altimeter Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures
Sigma Computing, a San Francisco-based startup developing a cloud-hosted data analytics platform, today revealed that it's nabbed $30 million …
A profile of wikiHow, which draws an estimated 125M visitors each month and views its commitment to the principles of the open web as a key differentiator
and on the better internet that we could maybe still have if we wanted it—is just! so! good! https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Cooper Fleishman / @_cooper : “It became one of th...
Tencent Q3 earnings misses estimates with net income of $2.9B, down 13% YoY, from revenues of ~$13.7B, up 21% YoY
- Net income dives 13% as it takes charges on investments — The social media giant is fighting ByteDance and the downturn — Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted quarterly earnings …
Colorado-based Liqid, which develops adaptive resource management tools for data centers, raises $28M Series B led by Panorama Point Partners
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
GuRu raises $15M Series A for developing products that can safely deliver electric power through the air for powering devices using millimeter-wave technology
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The average price Instagram influencers are paid for sponsored posts has been $1,643 in 2019, up from $1,144 in 2018, says a study from marketing firm Izea
& as Instagram Stories become more popular, more brands are requesting their use in influencer marketing campaigns. (data via @izea) https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Kami Mattioli / @kami : The av...
Intel unveils its new Movidius Myriad low-power VPU that will excel at computer vision tasks at the edge, code-named “Keem Bay”, expected to launch in H1 2020
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Chrome OS now shows a Chromebook's end-of-life date in the device's settings
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In the iOS 13.3 beta, Safari gains support for NFC, USB, and Lightning FIDO2-compliant security keys
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Disney+ spokesperson acknowledges service issues on launch day, saying consumer demand exceeded “high expectations”, as users complain that they can't connect
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A look at Walmart's attempt to unify its legacy and online store units, causing an internal culture clash, as e-commerce investments pinch the company's margins
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Automattic partners with Stripe to debut Recurring Payments for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, to let content creators collect repeat contributions
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Twitch Studio, the company's live streaming software, is now in open beta for PC users
Bijan Stephen / The Verge :
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