Ring unveils Always Home Cam, an autonomous drone that can fly around inside a house, expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year
The Always Home Cam is an ambitious new home security device — Ring latest home security camera is taking flight, literally.
Amazon announces Luna cloud gaming service, going live in October for $5.99/month, with a gamepad and support for Fire TV, PC, Mac, iOS, and later for Android
Spoiler: It's not a native iOS app. — 4m ago — Luna is what happens when you take the subscription model of Prime Video …
The European Commission says it will appeal the July 2020 ruling that reversed the original $15B fine against Apple and Ireland over State Aid and taxes
It's not over until it's over for Apple and its ongoing tax headache in Europe. Today the European Commission announced that it plans …
Twitter says its test to prompt users to read articles before retweeting was a success, with users opening articles 40% more and sometimes opting not to retweet
Twitter's experiment to get people to actually read the content they're sharing is going so well the company plans to expand it to the platform at large “very soon.”
Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis
Amazon just unveiled an all-new Echo with a revamped design. It comes in three colors and features a spherical design.
Former director at Facebook, Tim Kendall, told Congress Facebook “took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset”
“At worst, I fear we are pushing ourselves to the brink of a civil war,” he added.
Apple confirms it had acquired cross-platform podcast app Scout FM, which created podcast stations for users based on listening history, before shutting it down
- Company acquired Scout FM earlier this year in podcasting push — Acquisition continues rapid pace of Apple deals this year
Facebook says it removed 200+ accounts Thursday that were associated with US election interference in the past, “including those involved in DC leaks in 2016”
Facebook on Thursday removed over 200 phony accounts and dozens of pages that originated in Russia and pumped …
Sources: Google to issue new guidelines emphasizing that developers must use Google's own billing service for in-app purchases and subscriptions in Play Store
- Google and Apple's 30% cut of purchases is under scrutiny — Google to update developer rules to emphasize requirement
CISA: a hacker accessed the network of an unnamed US federal agency using valid credentials for multiple users' Microsoft 365 accounts and domain admin accounts
An unnamed U.S. federal agency was hit with a cyber-attack after a hacker used valid access credentials, authorities said on Thursday.
A group of about 25 experts say they have formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions
Some of Facebook's most vocal critics are tired of waiting for its independent oversight board — so they're starting their own.
Apple has agreed to allow Facebook to process payments for its paid online events feature via Facebook Pay, without taking a 30% cut, until December 31
Last month, Facebook introduced support for paid online events — and since many of the businesses offering those events have struggled during …
Sources: ahead of public market debut on Sept. 30, Palantir has told investors that its shares could start trading at $10 apiece, valuing the company ~$22B
Bankers have told investors stock could start trading at around $10, sources say — Palantir Technologies Inc. is expected to fetch …
Ahead of US elections, YouTube says it is including info panels under videos about voting by mail, pointing viewers to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center
Official candidate info will also appear in searches — YouTube is stepping up its measures against misinformation around the upcoming US election.
Facebook outlines new rules for its internal Workplace, including banning profile pictures that promote specific political candidates or causes
- Facebook on Thursday outlined its new set of rules for employee communications within Workplace, the company's internal social network.
Ring announces a new line of security cameras for cars and says it is working with Tesla and others to integrate existing cameras into the Ring platform
Dan Seifert / The Verge : Tweets: @metaljesusrocks , @artemr , and @thekenyeung Tweets: Metal Jesus Rocks / @metaljesusrocks : Today Amazon announced they will be developing car security cameras w/ R...
Ring says it will offer end-to-end encryption for video feeds by the end of this year and will let Ring owners disable the controversial Neighbors feature
September 2020 Tweets: @jaysonsrage : You know That thing that you'd naturally assume they had from the start https://twitter.com/...
Amazon says Alexa will start asking users questions to improve its conversation, change intonation depending on context, detect babies crying, and more
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Amazon announces $250 Echo Show 10 with a motorized base that can move the screen, a 13MP camera that keeps the user in shot, and more, with pre-orders today
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Hootsuite says it will terminate its ICE contract after disagreements within the company spilled over into public view when an employee tweeted about the deal
After disagreements within the company spilled over into public controversy, Hootsuite says it won't go forward with a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Apple is now letting customers return only the band, instead of the entire Watch, if they bought a Watch with an ill-fitting Solo Loop band
if it's your first Apple Watch order, they'll send a replacement Sport band (traditional style) in surf blue or cactus colors. https://twitter.com/...
Ex-Cambridge Analytica head Alexander Nix banned from running limited companies for seven years over “potentially unethical” behavior linked to the scandal
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Justice Department asks a federal judge to allow the government to bar Apple and Google from offering WeChat for download in US app stores pending an appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge in San Francisco early on Friday to allow the government …
Colombia-based delivery app Rappi has raised over $300M from T. Rowe Price and others
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian all-purpose delivery app Rappi has raised over $300 million (£235.3 million) in a funding round that saw interest from T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc, among others, the com...
Interview with Dantley Davis, Twitter's chief design officer, on building diverse and inclusive design teams in tech
When Dantley Davis worked as a designer at Netflix a few years back, he had an epiphany: For ages, “Star Wars” had been marketed as a sci-fi saga. But what if it could also be a princess story? Tweet...
Apple releases iOS 14.0.1 with a fix for a bug that made the default browser or mail app settings reset to Apple's Safari or Mail when the device reboots
fixing the default browser and email client bug! But did they break #ReleaseNotes rendering? https://www.macrumors.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Vodafone scored a crucial victory in a years-long tax dispute with the Indian government, which will potentially save the UK wireless carrier almost $3B
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Amazon says it monitors internal listservs to gather feedback at scale, after an AWS employee claimed the listservs are being monitored for labor organizing
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the company monitors dozens of internal listservs but said that the program did not exist for the purposes that the employee described. Tweets: @pinboard Tweets: ...
Amazon unveiled the AZ1 Neural Edge processor, a silicon module it made with MediaTek to allow for on-device neural speech recognition in its new Echo devices
A look at Twitter's hack on July 15, the drastic changes it made in the immediate aftermath, and its plans to prevent an Election Day meltdown
US federal judge says the Trump administration must either delay a ban on TikTok or file legal papers defending the decision by Friday
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Zoom canceled a talk by a Palestinian hijacker at SFSU after threats of criminal liability for “material support”; YouTube, Facebook also stopped the talk
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he will invest €1B in European tech startups over the next decade, focused on “moonshots” in ML, biotech, and other sectors
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Amazon announces updated Eero mesh WiFi routers with support for WiFi 6 and Zigbee, available for $129.99 and $229.99
Amazon Introduces All-New eero 6 Series Mesh Wifi Systems Starting at $129 Tweets: Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : Amazon provided basically *no* details on the new Eero 6 routers other than they support W...
A malware attack on a rural Texas county's email system, sending fake emails to voters, shows a significant weakness of America's election security
ProPublica : Tweets: @propublica , @jackgillum , @mayatcontreras , and @jessicahuseman Tweets: @propublica : A ProPublica review found dozens of municipal govt. email systems rely on homebrew setups ...
EU releases a proposal for regulating crypto assets and stablecoins as part of its new Digital Finance Package
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Amazon announces updated $40 Fire TV and $30 Fire TV Stick Lite with new home screen for easier content discoverability, arriving on September 30
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Chinese startup Showmac Tech, which makes eSIMs for Xiaomi IoT devices, raises $15M Series A+ led by Addor Capital
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Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts
DHS admits that 184K photos from a facial recognition pilot program were stolen from a CBP subcontractor and at least 19 were posted on the dark web last year
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Clearview AI SEC filing revealed $8.6M in equity sales from undisclosed investors and identified two previously unknown board members
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @rmac18 , @bri_sacks , @levynews , and @rmac18 Tweets: @rmac18 : As the company faces a host of lawsuits (Illinois class action, Vermont AG, others) the fundraise shows that t...
SignalFire's in-depth report on the state of the creator economy, which has ~50M pro or semi-pro content creators across Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms
Josh Constine / SignalFire : Tweets: @joshconstine Tweets: Josh Constine -SignalFire / @joshconstine : My 1403rd Techmeme headline, but this one (co-written with @YuanlingY) hits different doing it f...
Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality
mansplaining, microaggressions, sealioning, gaslighting, endless replying etc. /1 Kia Richards / @kiarichards_ : I'm excited about this platform and the requirements for people to use their real ident...
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.