Apple's support document says the Pro Display XDR with the optional nano-texture glass can only be cleaned with a special Apple-provided cloth
Apple's new Pro Display XDR comes with an optional nano-texture glass, which is etched at the nanometer level to cut down on reflectivity and glare for a matte look.
YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza
The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian's homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
Apple releases more pricing details for Mac Pro, now available to order: maxed-out 4TB model costs $50K+ and wheels are $400, delivering between December 19-27
and you still have to buy the display separately. https://www.theverge.com/... The bulk of the expenses there appears to be RAM: 1.5TB of RAM will cost $25k. Jodi Beggs / @jodiecongirl : I don't know ...
Twitter will fund bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter using it as a client
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ul...
Google rolls out Chrome 79 adding security features like notifications for data breaches affecting users' passwords, new phishing prevention tools, tab freezing
Chrome 79 also ships with support for predictive phishing, for real-time Safe Browsing detections, and a built-in Password Checkup tool.
Facebook confirms that a bug caused tens of thousands of now restored ads to disappear from its political ad library, days before UK's general election
London (CNN Business)Tens of thousands of political ads went missing from Facebook's archive this week, according to researchers …
DOJ arrests 3 men behind the BitClub Network cryptocurrency mining pool, says it was a Ponzi scheme which defrauded investors of $722M since 2014
United States authorities in New Jersey have announced the arrest of three men who are accused of defrauding investors of over $722 million …
Intel's partner shares chip giant's manufacturing process technology roadmap: 7nm EUV in 2021, then 5nm in 2023, 3nm in 2025, 2nm in 2027, and 1.4 nm in 2029
One of the interesting disclosures here at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has been around new and upcoming process node technologies.
BMW will finally add Android Auto compatibility to its cars starting in July 2020, after initially focusing on Apple's CarPlay
And it will be wireless, too — BMW is finally going to start integrating Android Auto into its cars starting in July 2020, the automaker announced Wednesday.
ByteDance has been testing Resso, a new music app, in India and Indonesia, but is yet to seal rights deals with the world's three largest music companies
- India and Indonesia are first to sample ByteDance's latest — Company looking to become less dependent on advertising income
Tines, which helps enterprise security teams automate repetitive workflows, adds $11M to its $4.1M Series A round from six weeks ago, led by Accel
Tines, a cybersecurity startup that helps enterprise security teams automate repetitive workflows, has added a further $11 million to its series A funding round.
Facebook has fired a contractor who was bribed to reactivate banned ad accounts; messages show he agreed to a $5K upfront payment and a monthly retainer
A Facebook contractor was paid thousands of dollars in bribes by a shady affiliate marketer to reactivate ad accounts that had been banned due …
Sources: Netflix is testing three-month, six-month, and 12-month discounted plans for new users in India, with savings ranging from 20% to 50%
This test comes days after Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings announced that they are set to spend Rs 3,000 crore on content programming in India in 2019-2020
Oracle to move its annual OpenWorld conference from SF to Las Vegas for at least three years, citing SF's high hotel rates; move estimated to cost SF $64M/year
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Intel's US pay disclosure report shows 26% of white men are in the top tier, making at least $208K, while less than 10% of black employees are in the top tier
and it's not pretty! https://www.bloomberg.com/... pic.twitter.com/VSqQPpjsys Fatima Goss Graves / @fgossgraves : Intel shared its pay data not just with the EEOC (as companies now are required to do...
Apple releases watchOS 6.1.1 and version 13.3 for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, with updates to Screen Time, Apple News, support for physical security keys, and more
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
Interview with the co-founders of VC firm Pear, which has just announced $160M in new fundraising to focus on seed-stage startups
Pear, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Calif.-based seed-stage firm whose bets on nascent startups are closely watched by early-stage investors …
Facebook says it will not weaken end-to-end encryption, build backdoors into its messaging apps, in response to a letter from US AG and UK, Australian officials
unless it wants to outlaw whispering. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jesse Blumenthal / @jessekblum : “The ‘backdoor’ access you are demanding for law enforcement would be a gift ...
Despite strong headwinds, from a trade war to regulatory scrutiny, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Facebook have seen their stocks soar in 2019
Giant tech stocks have posted a remarkable year, shrugging off the trade war, bipartisan political hostility and regulatory threats. Tweets: @stevelohr and @nytimes Tweets: Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : A...
Ordr, a network-level cybersecurity platform that flags suspicious events in real time, raises $27.5M Series B, after emerging from stealth in Feb. with $16.5M
Woe be the enterprise that pinches pennies and opts for a lax cybersecurity policy. Kaspersky Lab reported a threefold year …
Secure Code Warrior, which offers gamified coding security training for developers, raises $47.6M led by Goldman Sachs
Secure Code Warrior, the global cybersecurity training company with a base in Belgium, has raised a Series B funding round of $47.6 million led by Goldman Sachs.
Berlin-based insurance tech startup Wefox Group adds $110M to the $125M Series B it raised in March; sources say its pre-money valuation is now $1.65B
Wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurtech startup behind the consumer-facing insurance app and carrier One and the insurance platform Wefox …
US-Indian startup Observe.ai, which uses natural language processing to analyze speech for call centers, raises $26M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners
Countless tech platforms are setting out to help call centers automate conversations with their customers.
Glassdoor: Google and Facebook drop out of top 10 of US “best places to work” list, Google to 11, Facebook to 23; Microsoft only tech giant to jump in rankings
- Facebook fell 16 places, Google drops out of the Top 10 — Microsoft one of the only tech giants to jump in the rankings
Microsoft is bringing its first Office app to Linux with Microsoft Teams, now in public preview
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Mexican branchless banking platform Albo, which offers a Mastercard debit card and app, adds $19M to its $7.4M Series A led by Valar Ventures
Another startup hoping to capitalize on the fintech opportunity in Mexico has closed on a new sum of funding. Mexican challenger bank Albo … Tweets: @annaescher Tweets: Anna Escher / @annaescher : Me...
Researchers find Facebook's ad targeting tools, which charge less for ads to users already interested in the content, have worsened polarization in US politics
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post :
Google brings Android 10 to Android TV, with performance and security improvements, and unveils the ADT-3, a tiny full-fledged Android TV device for developers
Technology has changed the way media … Karandeep Singh / Android Police : Google Assistant on Android TV gains support for Hindi and Vietnamese (Update: Swedish) Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers : Goog...
Paris-based Outsight, which is developing a 3D Semantic Camera for autonomous vehicles, raises $20M seed round led by Demeter Partners, SPDG, and BNP Paribas
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu :
How White House veterans helped the UAE build a surveillance unit in 9/11's wake that would go on to target activists and journalists as well as terrorists
Reuters : Tweets: @reuters , @kimzetter , @campuscodi , @fpwellman , @attackerman , @sherifmnsour , @bing_chris , @stephennellis , @bing_chris , @dr_ulrichsen , @dnvolz , @reuters , @josephfcox , @ev...
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
Shaun Nichols / The Register :
Iterable, which offers SMS, email, and app notification growth marketing services, raises $60M Series D led by Viking Global Investors
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
France's proposed copyright law weakens the already inadequate user protections from abusive infringement claims in EU's Copyright Directive
Mike Masnick / Techdirt :
India proposes new data protection bill requiring companies to garner consent from citizens before collecting and processing users' personal data
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
CyberGRX, which provides cyber risk assessment and management tools to enterprises, raises $40M Series D led by ICONIQ Capital, bringing total raised to $100M
Nick Greenhalgh / AmericanInno :
Passport, a permitting, parking, ticketing management, and mobile payments platform for cities, office parks, and campuses raises $65M Series D
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Analysis find that at least 14 known startups working on AI-driven healthcare chatbots have collectively raised $800M+, with Babylon Health accounting for $635M
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News :
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