Leaked iOS 14 code reveals upcoming Apple hardware refreshes to the new iPad Pro, iPhone 9, AirTags, and a new Apple TV remote
Leaked iOS 14 code obtained by 9to5Mac corroborates many details about what to expect from Apple's upcoming hardware refreshes, including the new iPad Pro, iPhone 9, and AirTags.
Leaked code shows iPad Smart Keyboards with a trackpad are coming, alongside sophisticated mouse cursor support including multiple cursors and “right clicking”
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Apple now says it's OK to use disinfectant wipes to clean “nonporous surfaces of your Apple product, such as the display, keyboard, or other exterior surfaces”
- Apple now says it's OK to use Clorox Disinfecting Wipes and other disinfectants to clean your iPhone and other Apple gadgets.
The iOS 14 homescreen will include a new page letting users see all of their applications in a list view, sortable by recently used, unread notifications, more
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Investigation: popular analytics platform Sensor Tower has used VPN and ad-blocking apps on iOS and Android with 35M+ downloads to quietly collect data on users
Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions …
Source: Apple will give retail and hourly workers unlimited sick leave if they show COVID-19-like symptoms and will not require a doctor's note for the time off
In addition to offering many of its employees the ability to work from home this week, Apple is also taking steps to ensure …
Facebook is testing a feature to allow accounts to cross-post Stories from Facebook to Instagram
Facebook's latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps …
Amazon tells its employees in the Bay Area, New York, New Jersey, Seattle/Bellevue, and the Lombardy region/Asti province of Italy to work from home until April
Amazon has told employees in two major markets—New York and New Jersey—to stay home until at least the end …
Apple is developing a new augmented reality app for iOS 14 codenamed Gobi and is testing AR integrations with Apple Stores and Starbucks
Apple is developing a new app as part of its work on iOS 14. The new app, codenamed Gobi, will allow users to get more information about the world around …
Iran's official app for tracking COVID-19 infections removed from Play Store; sources: app was likely removed due to misleading claims about detecting COVID-19
Google removes Iran's official COVID-19 detection app from the Play Store. — Google has removed today an Android app …
Judge's legal opinion unsealed Friday sided with Amazon in lawsuit over Trump's intervention in the JEDI contract process, saying Amazon's key argument is sound
A legal opinion unsealed Friday indicates what the ruling may be in a high-stakes lawsuit over the Pentagon's JEDI cloud
Nasdaq closes down 7.29% and S&P 500 down 7.6% extending last week's selloff, with Apple plunging 7.9%, Microsoft 6.8%, Facebook 6.4%, and Amazon 5.3%
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Australia's information commissioner sues Facebook for allegedly breaching the privacy of over 300,000 Australians caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
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Twitter says Silver Lake will invest $1B as it enters into an agreement with Elliott Management to avoid ousting Dorsey and launches a $2B share buyback program
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark … Oana Ularu / BitcoinExchangeGuide : Jack Dorsey Keeps Title As Twitter's CEO After $2 Billion Deal With Elliott Management Kevin Raposo / KnowTe...
Amazon is relaxing its attendance policy and not penalizing warehouse and store workers for missing shifts during March, in response to coronavirus concerns
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Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, which affected equities, crypto, and options trading until late in the day
Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC :
A look at the politicization of niche knitting site Ravelry, whose users, predominantly older women, were divided after its ban on pro-Trump knitting patterns
When knitting site Ravely banned all pro-Trump content it caused a schism in the community—but it also shone a spotlight on how women are using niche sites to politicize. Tweets: @techreview Tweets: @...
IBM's blockchain tech, marketed heavily as solving supply chain issues, has mostly seen limited adoption by big companies, including Walmart and Nestlé
Big Blue has been pushing the blockchain for the food supply chain for years now — are companies actually using it? Tweets: @sbmeunier and @kerrymflynn Tweets: Sebastien Meunier / @sbmeunier : It's be...
Microsoft details techniques of ransomware including REvil, Samas, Doppelpaymer, Bitpaymer, and Ryuk, which are manually controlled by humans, not automated
Ransomware attackers are using common tools to take down big enterprise with ‘human-operated’ attacks.
Everlaw, which offers ML-powered ediscovery tools to help sift through huge volumes of legal evidence, raises $62M Series C led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures
Everlaw is bringing modern data management, visualization and machine learning to eDiscovery, the process in which legal entities …
Sources: Sequoia is giving away $21M to Finix, a payments startup it recently funded, as it walks away from deal over alleged conflicts of interest with Stripe
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The ubiquitous marketing of “smart tech” hides the politics of data collection and control that is embedded in the design of modern smart devices
‘Smart tech’ is a buzzword that's been applied to everything from toothbrushes to TVs — and the cute marketing helps hide what's really going on Tweets: @jathansadowski , @ozm , @jathansadowski , and ...
Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time, after a clipped video of Joe Biden was tweeted by a White House official, retweeted by Trump
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post :
January filing shows that NBCUniversal sold its entire stake in Snap; NBCUniversal invested $500M in Snap in 2017
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter :
Reddit launches Trending Takeovers, a new ad product that lets brands buy 24 hours of placement on the site's Popular feed and within its search tab
Scott Nover / Adweek :
Overhaul, which provides its customers end-to-end real-time supply chain visibility, raises $17.5M led by Edison Partners
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Sources: Banjo, an AI-powered surveillance insights firm, used a shadow company to push benign-looking Android and iOS apps that secretly scraped social media
follow music news—but designed to harvest innocent users' data. Source said did same as Cambridge Analytica but “more nefariously” https://www.vice.com/...
Facebook names Estee Lauder's CFO, Tracey Travis, and longtime director at McKinsey & Company, Nancy Killefer, to its board; female presence on board is now 40%
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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