Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, 10th-gen Intel CPUs, double the SSD storage, and faster RAM, available to order today starting at $1,299
Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever …
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been …
PE firm Silver Lake announces it will invest $747M in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, giving it a valuation of $65B, weeks after Facebook invested $5.7B
Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit.
Tokopedia, Indonesia's largest e-commerce site, is investigating the alleged leak of 91M account details, which are being sold online for as little as $5,000
A hacker is selling a database containing the information of 91 million Tokopedia accounts on a dark web market for as little as $5,000.
Filipino Onel de Guzman, author of the Love Bug worm that infected millions of PCs in May 2000, talks about his creation and claims he regrets writing it
The man behind the world's first major computer virus outbreak has admitted his guilt, 20 years after his software infected millions of machines worldwide.
Flaws in Salt, a server automation and management tool, have been exploited to breach servers belonging to Ghost blogging platform, DigiCert, and LineageOS
Ghost platform got hacked via the same vulnerability that allowed hackers to breach LineageOS servers hours before.
Sources: Elliott Management is financing a patent lawsuit by interactive-video company Eko, which it will take an equity stake in, against Quibi
Elliott, run by billionaire Paul Singer, will fund the suit by interactive-video company Eko and take an equity stake
Poynter Institute launches a COVID-19 chatbot on WhatsApp that uses information from 100+ independent fact-checkers in 70+ countries to debunk falsehoods
You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . — Poynter Institute …
Amazon, Flipkart, Ola, and Uber say they are resuming some services in India's “green” and “orange” zones, covering 82% of the country's 733 districts
E-commerce firms Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart, and ride-hailing giants Ola and Uber are partially resuming …
Investigation by BBC and ISD think tank into the COVID-19 “infodemic” on Facebook finds right-wing misinformation had far more interactions than the WHO and CDC
“What if [they] are trying to kill off as many people as possible” reads one Facebook post. Tweets: @carljackmiller , @bbcclick , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller ...
An article in the European Heart Journal argues that in addition to atrial fibrillation, Apple Watch's ECG function may also detect myocardial ischemia
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The pandemic forced many restaurants to pivot to food delivery, which will make them more reliant on services like DoorDash, GrubHub even after lockdowns lift
Social distancing is pushing restaurants toward delivery-only models powered by tech platforms — Bua Vanitsthian says she's always been passionate about food. Tweets: @modestproposal1 , @ozm , and @...
TikTok stars, many of them young and holding down other jobs, are struggling to make money, despite millions of views, due to a lack of monetization tools
This story is part of the VICE guide to 2030. Reach more here. — Keondra is 20 years old, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota … Tweets: @laurenkgurley and @jason_koebler Tweets: Lauren Kaori Gurley / @lau...
Uber to require masks or face coverings for drivers and passengers in certain markets and is developing technology to detect drivers' usage of face coverings
Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN :
Anti-quarantine protesters, who are being kicked off Facebook, are moving to freemium social site MeWe that became a refuge for conspiracy theorists and others
- Protests against lockdown orders taking place in several states are being organized in groups and events on Facebook … Tweets: @ajreid and @noupside Tweets: Alastair Reid / @ajreid : The hardest thi...
Magic Keyboard finally transforms iPad into a personal computing device that easily shape-shifts between media consumption and white collar professional uses
But I Can't Wait for the Next Version Tweets: Ricardo J Salvador / @cadwego : “After a decade of iPad evolution, we now have a shape-shifting personal computing device whose personalities range from m...
Sensor Tower raises $45M; the mobile app market research company, which had only raised $1M seed, says it has been profitable since its founding in 2013
Mobile app market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, which provides data-driven insights about the app economy, has raised $45 million in new funding from Riverwood Capital.
Indian startup Classplus, which lets coaching centers accept fees digitally and deliver study material online, raises $9M Series A led by RTP Global
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Sources: Intel is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Moovit, which makes a journey planner app and provides transit data APIs to cities and companies, for ~$1B
Omri Zerachovitz / Globes Online :
London-based cash deposit marketplace Flagstone raises £12M led by OMERS Ventures and plans to expand within the UK market
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu :
US travel reservations giant Sabre abandoned a $360M deal to acquire Florida-based Farelogix on Friday after a UK anti-trust watchdog prohibited it
Diane Bartz / Reuters :
The pandemic could make the economic power of Facebook, Google, and Amazon more visible, making them an even bigger target for antitrust hawks in Washington, DC
and their risks of an antitrust collision with Washington https://www.politico.com/...
An analysis of privacy policies of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex finds that the services may be collecting more data than many consumers realize
Allen St. John / Consumer Reports : Tweets: @justinbrookman Tweets: Justin Brookman / @justinbrookman : Zoom took a lot of heat for having a vague and confusing privacy policy (they've since improved...
China's biannual report says it has 904M internet users, 897M of those via mobile; education and live streaming services see growth as food delivery apps suffer
South China Morning Post :
Ransomware was mentioned in 1,000+ SEC filings over the past year, up from 749 mentions in 2018, as more companies recognize it as a significant risk factor
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
KlearNow, which wants to digitize customs clearance, raises $16M Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures to expand in Europe
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
The pandemic brought tech-enabled behaviors previously considered on the fringe into the mainstream and compressed years of digital transformation into months
Om Malik / On my Om : Tweets: @om , @perezbox , @amirulabu , @stevesi , @christysandhoff , @natbullard , and @photomatt Tweets: @om : 2008 financial crisis is when the big banks got bigger. The curre...
Tencent buys a 5% stake, worth about AU$390M, in Australia-based buy-now-pay-later company Afterpay
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.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.