A filing with a regulator in Brazil says the iPhone 12 has a 2,815mAh battery and the iPhone 12 mini has a 2,227mAh battery
While the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro are now available for pre-order in the US, Apple is getting ready to bring its new smartphones to other countries as well.
Apple launches Apple Music TV, a free 24-hour curated livestream of popular music videos, available in the US on Apple's Music and TV apps
Apple has launched Apple Music TV, a free 24-hour curated livestream of popular music videos that will also include “exclusive new music videos and premiers …
EU is investigating Instagram's handling of children's personal data, after complaints that contact information on business accounts was publicly visible
Instagram is being investigated by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) over its handling of children's personal data on the platform.
UK to make it illegal to use a mobile phone while driving from next year, closing a loophole that let drivers use a phone to take a photo or play a game
It will become illegal for anyone to pick up and use their mobile phone while driving, under new legislation to be enacted next year.
Thoughts on Apple's “Hi, Speed” event: the iPhone 12 lineup, camera differences, missing chargers and earbuds, focus on 5G and Verizon CEO's cameo, more
Japan's Fair Trade Commission says the country will join US and Europe in challenging market abuses by Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will join forces with the United States and Europe to take on any market abuses by the four Big Tech companies …
Profile of Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang, whose VC firm Paradigm moved all $400M of its initial capital into Bitcoin in 2018
Covering venture capital, software and startups — An aggressive Bitcoin trade got crypto VC shop Paradigm flying out of the gate.
Pakistan says it is lifting the ban on TikTok after assurances that it would moderate content in accordance with societal norms and laws
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said on Monday it has lifted the ban on TikTok, 11 days after the South Asian nation's telecom authority blocked …
Twitter blocking NY Post's story, driven by unfair blaming of tech for the media's 2016 mistakes, undermined its role as a facilitator for information sharing
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — On September 8, 2004, longtime CBS anchor Dan Rather presented four documents …
Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English
Whether you're logging on from the US, Brazil, Borneo, or France, Facebook can translate virtually any written content published on its platform …
The Markup announces The Citizen Browser Project, an initiative with The NYT to analyze how the algorithms of Facebook and YouTube serve content to users
The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world's most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society …
China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls
Nick Clegg says 2.2M proposed ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected, and 120K posts withdrawn, for breaking Facebook's election ad rules
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Audio, which struggled for decades as a media category, is breaking out now, as tech enables new content formats as well as new monetization and delivery models
As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology.
Sources: Samsung's next Galaxy S flagships, the S21/S30, will be launched in January 2021 in three new models, a standard, a Plus, and an Ultra
Alex Dobie / Android Central :
Interview: Microsoft's Phil Spencer on Xbox Series S vs. Series X, Bethesda deal, cross-gen gaming, ballooning game file sizes, and the storage size trade-off
Virtual studios, where the filmmaking takes place in front of a halo of flat screen displays connected to PCs, are offering a real alternative to green screens
For as long as filmmaking has existed, there has been a need to build fantastic worlds in front of cameras.Tweets:@rebellionjasonTweets:Jason Kingsley Obe /@rebellionjason:Percival gets a mention here...
Survey of 3,023 employees at tech firms by anonymous workplace app Blind: 68% feel more burned out by WFH, including 79% at Google and 81% at Facebook
- Silicon Valley's workforce is reporting feeling more burned out than before the pandemic. — A new survey from anonymous workplace …
Facebook expands its Messenger API to Instagram, letting developers and businesses integrate messaging from Instagram into other apps
Facebook is expanding its Messenger API to support Instagram messaging, enabling developers and businesses to integrate messaging from Instagram into other business applications.
[Thread] Twitter updates Hacked Materials Policy, says it won't remove content unless shared by hackers themselves and will label tweets instead of block links
Skillsoft, which makes training software for businesses, is going public through a SPAC merger at a $1.3B valuation after emerging from bankruptcy in August
Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app Dec. 2, pointing users to Maps features instead; the app helped users check on contacts during emergencies
Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge :
TikTok expands its QAnon bans beyond hashtags, removing all content and accounts that promote videos advancing the conspiracy
Bobby Allyn / NPR :
Google Cloud launches Lending DocAI, a dedicated service for the mortgage industry that uses AI to review documents and speed up loan applications
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
A look at “neurosymbolic AI”, which combines techniques of deep neural networks and “good old-fashioned AI”, with comments from its proponents and critics
An overview on the current state of AI-driven battery research, which until recently was hampered by a lack of data but is now poised to pick up the pace
Daniel Oberhaus / Wired : Tweets: @iecstandards and @wired Tweets: IEC / @iecstandards : Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning...
A look at Excel community groups like EUSpRig, made up of accountants, auditors, and Excel power users paid to help organizations spot risky spreadsheet errors
Nicole Kobie / WIRED UK :
As Trump sags in polls, Facebook's recent moderation decisions, like banning QAnon, could be preparation for a Biden admin expected to push for more regulation
How the prospect of a “blue wave” is changing content moderation. — until two weeks ago, Facebook was a place … Tweets: @willoremus and @hypervisible Tweets: Will Oremus / @willoremus : After four y...
Yandex and TCS Group Holding, the parent company of Russia's top online bank Tinkoff, have terminated talks on Yandex's proposed $5.48B deal to buy Tinkoff
Sources: EU is finalizing a plan to toughen export controls on “dual use” technologies, including hacking software and facial recognition systems
Process mining company Celonis has acquired Czech startup Integromat to help bolster its automation services; Celonis CEO says the deal is worth more than $100M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @finlaysonconnor Tweets: Connor Finlayson / @finlaysonconnor : Well, well, well... what can you say? Those “Markdown to HTML conversions” are a $100m problem. Congra...
Cribl raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia to help companies route the data generated by their tech infrastructure to third-party monitoring and analytics tools
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.