Google unveils Pixel 5 with a 6-inch 90Hz OLED display, ultrawide rear-facing camera instead of zoom lens, 5G, 8GB RAM, and fingerprint sensor on back for $699
It's October, so despite the weird year we're having, Google is hosting a (virtual) event to show off its latest smartphone, the Pixel 5.
Microsoft unveils $549 Surface Laptop Go with smaller 12.4-inch display, 10th-gen Intel Core i5, in three models, available for preorder today, shipping Oct. 13
This new Surface laptop is smaller, lighter, and less powerful — Microsoft is introducing a new Surface Laptop Go today …
Google says it will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany, Brazil
Google will pay publishers more than $1 billion over the next three years to create and curate high-quality journalism for a new set …
Facebook says it will ban Facebook and Instagram ads that seek to delegitimize the outcome of an election, including calling specific voting methods fraudulent
- Facebook on Wednesday announced that it will not allow any ads on its service that seek to delegitimize the outcome of an election …
Google Chromecast (2020) review: excellent value for a 4K device and Google TV is great, but performance sometimes dips and home screen isn't customizable
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Microsoft updates the Surface Pro X with a faster SQ2 processor and a new silvery platinum color, starting at $1,500
October is here, which means it's time again for Microsoft to release new hardware. While the Surface Duo may have been the talk of the town last month with its intriguing …
Google unveils Pixel 4a 5G with a 6.2" display, 6GB of RAM, 128GB storage, Qualcomm's 765G chipset, and 18W USB-C fast charging for $499
Damien Wilde / 9to5Google :
Sources: Google is planning to produce as little as ~800,000 Pixel 5 handsets, taking total production of Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 to 3M units
A designer shares how he generated $100K+ selling custom app icon sets via a simple website when iPhone home screen customization exploded after iOS 14 release
This title is a little misleading. Sure, it took me 6 days to amass 3,626 sales for a total of $101,528, but like any overnight success, it was years in the making.
The Senate Commerce Committee votes to subpoena CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify before the panel about concerns over Section 230
The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday voted on a bipartisan basis to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter to testify before the panel …
Google introduces a new Android feature called Hold for Me, which uses Assistant to monitor held phone calls and notify the user when taken off hold
Google has been pushing forward the capabilities of what a smartphone can do when it comes to one of the device's most basic — if these days often overlooked — features: phone calls.
Google announces Chromecast with Google TV streaming dongle and remote, available in the US today for $50
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
By making Instagram and Messenger interoperate, Facebook is entrenching itself, making it harder for a regulator to break it up and for rivals to unseat it
The more Facebook knits together its apps, the harder it becomes for a government to break it up. … Facebook's changes under the hood are a power grab.
Microsoft says Windows 10 on ARM will get support for x64 emulation, letting users run 64-bit Intel apps, later this year
The idea that Microsoft was going to support AMD64 (or x64) emulation on Windows on ARM has been floating around since November of last year, when we exclusively reported that the company was working ...
Facebook says, as part of its recent crackdown on QAnon and “militia” movements, it has removed 6,500 groups belonging to 300 organizations
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Sources: White House is urging Senate Republicans to increase scrutiny of social media companies it sees as biased against conservatives ahead of the election
Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Online recover after a major outage that affected users globally for several hours
Microsoft is investigating a web Outlook and Exchange Online outage that hit as Europeans began work on Thursday. — Outlook online users around the world …
Indian startups blame Google for “unfair exploitation” of Play Store's monopoly after Google began to enforce its in-app purchasing policy with 30% commission
Tech giant says companies have multiple store options, can also use websites — Indian startups are up in arms …
UK report says Huawei has failed to adequately tackle security flaws in its telco equipment despite previous complaints
Huawei has failed to adequately tackle security flaws in equipment used in the UK's telecoms networks despite previous complaints, an official report says.
Google announces a new Google TV service that brings streaming apps, a unified search, and live TV, through YouTube TV, into a single interface
Not to be confused with the smart TV platform of the same name (2010-2014, RIP) or the Android TV platform it's built on top of, Google has just taken the wraps off the new Google TV.
UK online used car marketplace Cazoo raises £240M at a £2B+ valuation, double its previous valuation in June 2020, bringing its total raised to £450M
A lot of people are opting to use cars instead of taking public transportation in the UK at the moment …
Google's Chromecast with Google TV won't support Stadia, its game streaming service, or Apple TV+ at launch; Stadia support will arrive in first half of 2021
Brian Armstrong's apolitical goal for Coinbase is wishful thinking, limiting its politics to what he deems acceptable during a time of strife in America
as an example — Ethereum is inherently exclusionary due to its premine, and is also *intentionally* designed to be unverifiable. Please stop equivocating Bitcoin with things-that-are-obviously-not- Bi...
Google is rolling out an updated Google Photos editor on Android with a Suggestions tab, recommending edits like Color Pop and Enhance
Palantir closed at $9.50 following its direct listing on the NYSE, after opening at $10, giving it a market cap of roughly $20.9B
Big Data's scariest, most secretive unicorn — got its start, and whether its proprietary surveillance technology is more smoke and mirrors than crystal ball. @weinbergersa reports https://nymag.com/.....
US judge rules that Kik violated securities law in its $100M ICO from 2017, grants the SEC's motion for summary judgment against Kik
Jeff Benson / Decrypt :
Google announces Nest Audio, a revamp to its discontinued Google Home speaker, available today for $99
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
Former US military and intel officials express concerns about Palantir, arguing its success is largely down to its software having a friendlier UI than rivals
Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies
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DOJ and CFTC charge BitMEX and its founders with allegedly operating an unregistered trading platform and violating CFTC anti-money laundering rules
Michael McSweeney / The Block :
Internal docs: EU may ban big tech companies from preferencing their own services or exclusively pre-installing their own apps as part of Digital Services Act
Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg :
French startup Sendinblue, which helps SMBs run all their marketing tasks, from email to Facebook ads, raises $160M Series B
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
GitHub begins rolling out its code-scanning tool, designed to help identify vulnerabilities before public deployment
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Twitch launches Soundtrack by Twitch, which lets creators add licensed music to streams from an initial lineup of partners including SoundCloud
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Apple and Epic Games stated in a court filing on Tuesday that their coming court battle should be decided in a bench trial by a judge, not a jury
Women founders of AI startups talk about gender disparity in tech, how they are trying to build diverse workplaces, and addressing potential biases in AI
Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @kaliouby , @textio , @carolynrodz , and @tepingchen Tweets: Rana el Kaliouby / @kaliouby : I fundamentally believe that #technology won't work if it's no...
Twitter says it is expanding voice tweets to more iOS users and plans to add transcriptions to voice tweets to improve accessibility
Jay Peters / The Verge :
As Deliveroo says it will add 15,000 couriers, who it calls “heroes”, by the end of 2020, some couriers say they are struggling to make enough to live on
Natasha Bernal / WIRED UK : Tweets: @tashabernal and @tashabernal Tweets: Natasha Bernal / @tashabernal : Deliveroo plans to add 15,000 more couriers to its systems before the end of the year. But th...
A look at the potential vulnerabilities in electronic poll books, which pollworkers use to verify voter eligibility, and have caused delays in Georgia elections
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
Asana stock closed up 6.7% at $28.80, after opening at $27/share on NYSE, valuing the company at about $5.5B
Sources: secretive options-trading giant Susquehanna International has a 15% stake in ByteDance, estimated at $15B+, making it the largest outside investor
Wall Street Journal :
Golden, which aims to map all human knowledge using AI alongside humans to collect public information, raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z
Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News :
Bird's Fleet Manager program, effectively a franchise model, has saddled some contract workers with debt on scooters they do not own amid the pandemic downturn
Twilio debuts an app for frontline workers, a free 1:1 video connection toolkit called Twilio Video WebRTC Go, and an IoT service to help keep devices updated
Papaya Global, which offers cloud-based payroll and HR services, raises $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, following $45M Series A in 2019
VTEX, which offers e-commerce tools for giant companies like Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Nestlé, raises $225M at a $1.7B post-money valuation
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.