Motorola announces a new Razr phone with a 6.2" touchscreen display that folds like a clamshell, launching in January on Verizon in the US for $1,500
The Razr returns — The Razr is back, but now it's an Android smartphone that can fold in half. Motorola has officially announced its much-rumored …
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.
How Motorola created the foldable-screen Razr and why it claims it solved the problems faced by Samsung's Galaxy Fold, by focusing on a hinge design
Exclusive: Motorola, in need of a comeback, wants to reignite the excitement over foldables with a phone that's equal parts retro and cutting edge.
Sources: Apple is considering bundling News+, Apple TV+, and Apple Music as soon as 2020 to attract subscribers, meaning less money for News+ publishers
- Company keeps rights to bundle News+ service with TV+, Music — Move may woo more subscribers, but lower publishers' News+ cut
Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch; US users can enroll in three health studies
Following the announcement at the September event, the Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch. Users in the United States can sign …
Apple unveils 16" MacBook Pro with better speakers, 512GB base storage, and new keyboard with scissor switches, available for pre-order now starting at $2,399
you asked for it. And it's here. https://twitter.com/... Mark Gurman / @markgurman : The screen on the new MacBook Pro is less than 4% larger than the current 15.4 inch. So it's really going to be abo...
Apple Music launches Replay, letting subscribers look back at their favorite music in 2019, similar to Spotify's year-end review, Wrapped, but updated each week
Apple Music is taking on Spotify with the launch of a new feature, Apple Music Replay, that will allow subscribers to take a look back at their favorite music from 2019.
How startups around the world, using SoftBank funds, got contractors like drivers and hoteliers to commit via unsustainable incentives, and then cut them off
SoftBank poured money into start-ups that use armies of contractors. That has upended the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world.
Toronto-based password manager 1Password raises $200M Series A led by Accel, its first external round of funding in its 14-year history
1Password, a Toronto-based password manager, announced today it has raised $200 million in a massive Series A funding round that was led by Accel.
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
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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 .
GitHub announces improvements to code search and notifications and unveils its first native mobile app, available in beta for iOS, with Android app coming soon
At its annual Universe conference today, Microsoft -owned GitHub announced a couple of new products, as well as the general availability …
Pornhub says PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub, affecting over a hundred thousand performers using the site as a source of income
\u003Cp\u003E Late Wednesday night, Pornhub announced that PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub—a decision that will impact thousands …
Salesforce says it will use Microsoft's Azure for its Marketing Cloud service, signaling a thaw in a complicated relationship
- Salesforce will deploy its Marketing Cloud service on Microsoft's Azure public cloud infrastructure. — Salesforce already uses Amazon Web Services …
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 …
Facebook says requests from governments for user data in H1 2019 were up 16% over H2 2018 to 128,617, the highest on record, led by 50,741 demands from the US
Facebook's latest transparency report is out. — The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased …
Siren, which helps build knowledge graphs from enterprise data, raises $10M Series A led by Atlantic Bridge
Siren promises the benefits of knowledge graphs, without the hassle of reinventing your existing data management and infrastructure — Graph databases are amazing, but the knowledge graph is in your ...
Instagram says it is expanding its test making Like counts private to the rest of the world beyond Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand
Instagram is making Like counts private for some users everywhere. Instagram tells TechCrunch the hidden Likes test is expanding to a subset of users globally.
A look at how scientific experts debunk “lifestyle” misinformation and bad science on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
A lot of the hacks and diets on social media are bogus, or even dangerous. These fact-checkers are using YouTube and Instagram to battle bad info. Tweets: @wired , @alexhinojo , and @wired See also M...
Google says it is now rolling out support for RCS messages in the Android Messages app to all of its users in the US
Google today announced that it is now rolling out support for Rich Communication Services messages (you can think of it as the next generation of SMS) …
Oculus CTO John Carmack says he is stepping down but will remain as a “consulting CTO” and will work on an artificial general intelligence as a personal project
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Facebook says 80% of hate speech removed in the past quarter was identified by software, up from 68% in Q1; 4.4M drug-related posts were taken down, a big jump
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Punchh, which provides app-based loyalty cards and other analytics services for retailers and restaurants, raises $40M at an estimated valuation of $300M+
E-commerce accounts for around 11% of all retail sales in the US, but it's growing much faster than brick-and-mortar sales …
Indonesia-based accommodation-sharing platform Travelio raises $18M Series B co-led by Pavilion Capital and Gobi Partners, bringing its total funding to $24M
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Nike will stop selling its sneakers and apparel directly on Amazon, ending a pilot program that began in 2017
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Cisco reports Q1 revenues of $13.16B, up 1% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue of $7.54B, down 1% YoY; stock down 7%+ on weak Q2 guidance
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Privacy-focused open source browser Brave officially launches version 1.0, available on all major platforms
Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge :
ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based online marketplace for used cars, raises $150M Series E at a valuation of more than $1.5B
Jonathan D. Epstein / The Buffalo News :
Moveworks, which builds an AI platform to automate IT support issues, raises $75M Series B, bringing its total raised to $105M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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
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Sources: SoftBank's Yahoo Japan is in talks about merging with Naver's Line, Japan's leading chat app, creating a SoftBank subsidiary with 100M+ users in Japan
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AMP Robotics, which makes robots that recognize and sort recyclables, raises $16M Series A led by Sequoia Capital
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Canalys: global smart speaker shipments reached 28.6M, up 44% YoY, in Q3 2019 as Amazon shipped 10.4M units, up 66% YoY, and Google shipped 3.5M, down 40% YoY
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Eigen, which helps enterprises like banks parse huge documents using AI, raises $37M Series B led by Lakestar and Dawn Capital, at a ~$150M-$180M valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Wonderful backstory to this company. Founder double majored in art and physics and then wrote new X-ray laser algor...
Investigation into Huawei's Safe City program, which pairs cameras with analysis software in 50+ countries, shows Huawei has overstated drops in crime
Sheridan Prasso / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bw , @hillmanje , and @sheridanasia Tweets: @bw : Huawei's surveillance networks appear to be failing to slow the rise of violent crime rates, in contrast to th...
An in-depth look at how technology has changed the production and distribution of comics, opening up new opportunities while presenting unexpected challenges
George Gene Gustines / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesarts , @georgegustines , and @bradmeltzer Tweets: @nytimesarts : For comic books, technology can be either a superhero or a supervillain. “When...
Foxconn posts Q3 net profit of ~$1B, up 23.3% YoY, beating analyst estimates, despite Apple's declining iPhone sales, which it relies on for ~50% of its revenue
Yimou Lee / Reuters :
Interview with Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert about Spot, Handle, and Atlas, three of the company's robots, as well as AI, viral promotional videos, and more
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : Tweets: @jjvincent Tweets: James Vincent / @jjvincent : some more details here on Boston Dynamics' policy for selling to police/law enforcement. They've long said the...
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