Apple debuts macOS 11 Big Sur with a design featuring more rounded corners, new Control Center, redesigned Notification Center with widgets, updated Messages
Over the past two years, macOS Mojave and Catalina gently evolved to aid developers in creating universal apps for Macs and iPads …
Apple unveils iOS 14, with many new features like revamped compact UIs for Siri interactions and incoming calls, which show up as banner notifications, and more
Apple says it will now allow developers to appeal specific App Store guideline violations and that it will no longer delay bug fixes for guidelines disputes
The company also says it will no longer hold up bug fixes over App Store disputes — Apple today announced two major changes …
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Apple announces iPadOS 14 with widgets, improvements for Pencil like handwriting recognition, a new universal search bar, and more
Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide :
Apple unveils iOS 14 privacy features, making it easier to control info shared with apps and sites, approximate location sharing, and privacy “nutrition labels”
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Apple says it's moving to its own Apple Silicon chips for Macs over the next two years, promising better performance, with “Rosetta 2” for app compatibility
Apple's first ARM-based Mac will be available later this year — Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware.
Microsoft to shut Mixer on July 22, move partners and gamers to Facebook Gaming, sell domain names and trademarks to Facebook but retain IP rights to Mixer tech
It's a strategic move for the future of xCloud — Microsoft is closing its Mixer service on July 22nd and plans to move existing partners over to Facebook Gaming.
Apple releases first developer betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 Big Sur, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14, with public betas coming in July
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Japanese supercomputer Fugaku is rated as the world's fastest, carrying out 2.8x more calculations/second than the second fastest, an IBM system at Oak Ridge
In the race for the most powerful computers, Fugaku, a Japanese supercomputer, recently beat American and Chinese machines.
In a letter to Sundar Pichai circulating since last Wed., 1,650+ Google employees are demanding that Google end its contracts with police forces across the US
Over 1,650 workers have signed an open letter to Sundar Pichai — Over 1,650 Google employees have signed an open letter …
Apple announces a program for developers, costing $500 to join, that loans a Mac mini powered by its A12Z chip to Mac developers to ease transition from Intel
Mac Mini with 16Gb and ARM cpu—shipping next week. THE TEMPTATION to buy one and shoe-horn it inside that G4 Cube's case is OUTRAGEOUS. (Especially as the Cube still works. Sacrilige!) Trenton Marshal...
Apple details watchOS 7: sleep tracking, new watch faces and Face Sharing feature, new workouts including dance, hand washing detection, and more
Apple is previewing watchOS 7, the new software update coming to Apple Watch later this year. The update includes new watch faces, workout types, and sleep tracking.
Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion of false accounting and market manipulation
Prosecutors accuse him of inflating German fintech company's balance sheet and revenues — Wirecard's former chief executive Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion …
Small businesses complain about Square withholding 20%-30% of their customers' payments, which it said it was doing to protect against risky transactions
Small businesses say the Twitter chief's other company is holding on to 30 percent of their customers' payments during the pandemic.
Twitch pledges to make platform “safer for everyone” in response to numerous sexual abuse allegations recently leveled at a handful of high-profile streamers
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Ex-employee, who worked at Microsoft for two years before joining the Mixer team in 2018, accuses management for failing to address alleged racism at Mixer
Over the weekend, former Mixer employee Milan Lee shared a blog describing his experiences with racism while working …
Apple introduces App Clips, launched via a visual code or NFC, intended for small, on-demand apps that can include support for Apple Pay, coming in iOS
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Apple launches the Find My Network Accessory Program to add support for 3rd-party products to Find My app, and releases a draft specification for device makers
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Facebook continues its VR game studio acquisition spree, acquiring Ready at Dawn Studios, behind the Lone Echo series of Oculus games, for an undisclosed price
Facebook has been on a game studio acquisition spree over the past year, buying up developers behind some of the most popular VR titles.
Apple says Macs with new Apple-designed chips can natively run iOS apps, thanks to the shared architecture, available through the Mac App Store
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : Tweets: @siracusa , @mishaalrahman , @mpesce , @topjohnwu , @backlon , @spencerdailey , @stroughtonsmith , and @neilcybart Tweets: John Siracusa / @siracusa : So, uh, h...
Former CEO of PlanGrid, a construction software provider that was acquired by Autodesk, details her experiences of being a female founder
Not a lot is written about being a female founder and CEO. I used to believe that my journey as a startup founder was the same as any other founder's experience … Tweets: @tracy_young , @fidrelity , ...
Apple details updates to Safari on macOS with a new Privacy button, showing insights on how websites use data, support for universal extensions, improved tabs
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors :
Rasa, which is building an open-source framework to build AI chatbots, raises $26M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz
As chatbots and other AI-based services like interactive voice apps continue to become more ubiquitous, a startup that's built software to help create and — critically …
Apple Watch Series 1 and Series 2 will not be able to update to watchOS 7
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
Apple unveils features specific to international markets, like smart downloads in India to get Indian Siri voices and Apple TV+ shows over mobile networks
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Apple debuts ARKit 4 with new depth capabilities and Location Anchors to place AR experiences throughout cities, and expands face tracking to more devices
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Sources: PayPal plans to allow buying and selling crypto directly from PayPal and Venmo in the next few months
and then you win. https://www.coindesk.com/... Monero Germany / @monerogermany : Perfect kyc tracking of bitcoin users and hodlers. You favorite surveillance agency cant wait for the roll out of bitco...
Third Wave Automation, a startup adding automation tech to forklifts that hopes to augment, instead of replace, humans, emerges from stealth with $15M
Third Wave Automation, a startup developing autonomous forklift technology, today emerged from stealth with $15 million in equity financing.
Used-car marketplace Cazoo raises £25M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to £200M+
and it hasn't even raised a penny from SoftBank: https://sifted.eu/... Amy Lewin / @amyrlewin : Cazoo - the UK's latest unicorn - is yet another online retailer to have seen a bump in sales during loc...
Researchers say that attackers have been bypassing e-commerce sites' Content Security Policy with a method using Google Analytics API, to scrape payment info
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Amazon unveils a Climate Pledge Fund, which will invest an initial $2B in startups building sustainable technologies
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal :
China launches its final satellite to complete its global navigation system Beidou, which is a rival to the widely used, US-government owned GPS system
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Microsoft begins rolling out consumer-focused features for Teams mobile apps in preview worldwide, letting users toggle between work and personal accounts
now available in mobile preview Corbin Davenport / Android Police : Skype adds Android Auto support in latest update, but only for text messages Mauro Huc / Pureinfotech : Microsoft Teams personal now...
SoftBank announces it will sell up to 198M shares of T-Mobile stock worth ~$21B, representing 65% of its stake in T-Mobile
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Apple announces new AirPods features, including automatic switching between devices, spatial audio for AirPods Pro, and more
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Nylas, which provides email, calendar, and contact APIs for app developers, has raised $25M Series B co-led by 8VC and Round13
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Responding to Sen. Wyden's letter, the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development says it “doesn't monitor or track” usage of facial recognition in public housing
Alfred Ng / CNET : Tweets: @tonyajoriley , @jakelaperruque , @techledes , @hypervisible , @alfredwkng , and @alfredwkng Tweets: Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley : “In a letter from HUD to Sen. Ron Wyden, ...
The Celsius Network, a DeFi lending platform that uses Ethereum blockchain, says it has raised $10M led by Tether
Robert Stevens / Decrypt : Tweets: @decryptmedia and @thedaomaker Tweets: @decryptmedia : Controversial stablecoin company Tether once again headed into DeFi, this time as the lead investor in Celsiu...
Apple says its Weather app in iOS 14 will show severe weather tracking in the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and next-hour precipitation chart in the US
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Tweets: @rjonesy , @karissabe , @superscientific , and @alexhern Tweets: Ryan Jones / @rjonesy : Apple's weather app is going to be legit. - dark sky rain - warmer/cooler al...
Maryland-based startup Immuta raises $40M Series C led by Intel Capital to expand its privacy and data governance services
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
Biden and Trump's campaign apps both ask for sharing contacts, but Trump's tries to fetch seemingly unrelated data such as the device's identity, location, more
Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @realsaramerica and @4thanon Tweets: @realsaramerica : See comparison of permissions requested by Trump vs Biden app below. That alone should make you...
Interview with Craig Federighi on new privacy features, like control over cross-app tracking, camera and microphone recording indicators on iOS and iPadOS, more
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company :
Apple shares that HomePod will get support for third-party streaming music services, without elaborating on stage at WWDC
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : Tweets: @markgurman and @markgurman Tweets: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : Apple sending out emails to select people regarding a private/limited AppleSeed beta for the new Home...
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