Apple sues former chief architect of the iPhone and iPad microprocessors, who quit in February to start data center chip startup Nuvia, for breach of contract
CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court — Apple is suing the former chief architect of its iPhone …
Analysis shows five cities, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, San Diego, and Boston, gained the lion's share of “innovation industry” US jobs from 2005 to 2017
Five coastal cities—San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, San Diego, and Boston—gained the lion's share of lucrative “innovation industry” jobs from 2005 to 2017.
Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week
Goes live “this week;” promising October tease has us cautiously optimistic. — 3 with Starting this week …
Report: since Apple debuted Intelligent Tracking Prevention, the cost for advertisers to reach Safari users has dropped 60%+, as such ads are less desirable
In the two years since Apple released Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature that keeps websites from tracking users around the web …
Facebook says it will not weaken end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, in response to a letter from US AG Bill Barr and UK, Australian officials
Facebook said it would not weaken end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, despite pressure from world governments …
Dog walking startup Wag says SoftBank no longer has board seats; source: SoftBank has sold its stake back to Wag at a loss after investing $300M in January 2018
SoftBank Group agreed to sell its nearly 50 per cent stake in Wag back to the dog walking company, ending a disappointing investment …
Apple Card's interest-free iPhone installment plan goes live, now with 6% back on Apple purchases through December 31
Apple is today launching a new feature for Apple Card which allows cardholders to purchase a new iPhone then pay it back over 24 months with no interest.
The differences between “platforms” and “aggregators” show that lawmakers must take different and opposing approaches when attempting to regulating the two
A prompt for writing this piece is a conference I will be participating in tomorrow entitled Antitrust …
GitHub COO says the company is considering a China-based branch as Chinese developers worry about losing access to open-source software amid US sanctions
GitHub, the world's biggest software development platform, is looking to open a subsidiary in China, as the Chinese government tries …
Google brings incognito mode for Google Maps, where users' activity is not saved to their Google Account, to iOS
Soon, iOS users will be able to tap Google Maps for navigation and location searches without revealing their personal data. In a blog post, Google today announced that Incognito Mode …
VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo, which had raised ~$38M, reached a valuation of ~$120.25M, and was backed by Sequoia Capital, among others
The photo-sharing app behind the 2019 meme craze “VSCO girls” has acquired Rylo, a video editing startup founded by the original developer of Instagram's Hyperlapse.
Facebook ads with millions of views have pushed misinfo about HIV prevention drugs; LGBT advocates say FB's refusal to take them down is harming public health
but Facebook won't remove them https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @thatshockratees : Generations will look back on it with the same disbelieving horror we now look back on medieval open sewers runnin...
Global shipments of wearable devices totaled a record 84.5M units in 3Q'19, a YoY increase of 94.6%; hearables alone accounted for almost half the shipments
FintechOS, which develops personalized automated financial technology for use by banks and insurers, raises $14M Series A
Over the last few years, we've seen the rise of FinTech startups like N26 and Monzo to challenge the incumbents with new products like challenger banks.
India proposes new data protection bill requiring companies to garner consent from citizens before collecting and processing users' personal data
India has proposed groundbreaking new rules that would require companies to garner consent from citizens in the country before collecting and processing their personal data.
Avast explains how it has been monetizing browsing habits of its users since 2013, after Mozilla and Opera removed some Avast tools from their add-on stores
Avast, the multibillion-dollar Czech security company, doesn't just make money from protecting its 400 million users' information.
Pan-African digital classifieds company Jiji raises $21M Series C and C-1 led by Knuru Capital, says it has 2M listings and had 8M unique monthly users in 2018
Pan-African digital classifieds company Jiji has raised $21 million in Series C and C-1 financing from six investors, led by Knuru Capital.
North stops selling its Focals smart AR glasses 14 months after debuting them, says it plans to launch a sleeker version with 10x higher resolution in 2020
North, an augmented reality (AR) wearables company backed by Amazon and Intel, has announced that it's pulling its current Focals smart glasses off …
In a new filing, Amazon cites President Trump's determination to “screw Amazon” as the reason for it losing its bid for the JEDI contract
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Google unveils Depth API in ARCore to enable AR depth maps and occlusion, available in its Scene Viewer dev tool and used in Houzz app and Google's AR in Search
no special sensors needed! 😎😎 Sign up to be a collaborator for the new Depth API in #ARCore. https://twitter.com/... @googledevs : Deep dive into the future of AR! 📸🌍 Introducing the ARCore Depth API....
Microsoft says it will finally shut down the to do list app Wunderlist on May 6, 2020, after years of prioritizing its own To Do app
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
752,000+ applications for US birth certificate copies are exposed on AWS; neither Amazon nor the firm that collected the data took it down after being alerted
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Iranian president says the country's intranet will be expanded so “people will not need foreign networks”, which may be a harbinger for more internet censorship
Daniel Van Boom / CNET :
Facebook adds an AR lip syncing feature to its Portal video chat devices, and Portal TV gets support for Amazon Prime Video, Sling TV, FandangoNOW, and Deezer
Karissa Bell / Mashable :
The Archive Team, which wants to save Yahoo Groups content by uploading it to Internet Archive, says Verizon has blocked the email addresses of its volunteers
and Blocking Users Trying to Archive Its Content Kate Cox / Ars Technica : Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion [update] Featheredleader / YAHOO GROUPS CRUSADE H...
Google under investigation by the US National Labor Relations Board for the “Thanksgiving Four” firings and allegedly discouraging unions
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
HBUS, the strategic partner of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi in the US, will stop trading services on Dec. 15, about a year after launching
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
TikTok posts a list of videos, makers, memes, dance trends, more that shaped the fastest-growing platform in 2019, and its North America chief talks TikTok fame
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times :
Cofounders of US bitcoin derivatives exchange LedgerX, CEO and COO Paul and Juthica Chou, placed on administrative leave by Ledger Holdings' board of directors
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Current Health, which provides a remote AI-powered patient management platform, raises $11.5M Series A led by MMC Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Cosmose AI, a Shanghai-based analytics software provider that anticipates how people shop offline, raises $12M seed led by TDJ Pitango and OTB Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Popular stock photo service Shutterstock's censoring of content to appease the Chinese government shows that some US companies choose to forget about US values
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
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