Apple says its new M1-equipped Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro are available to order today, arriving as early as next week
A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, Apple's breakthrough chip for the Mac — Cupertino, California — On a momentous day for the Mac …
Apple debuts M1-powered 13.3" MacBook Air without a fan, claims up to 3.5x better CPU performance and up to 18 hour video playback, starting at $999
everything Apple announced at the “one more thing” event Joanna Nelius / Gizmodo : Breaking Down All of Apple's Tech Speak to Understand the New M1 Chip Bryan M Wolfe / iMore : Reasons to switch to Ap...
Apple debuts 13.3" MacBook Pro with M1, up to 2.8x faster CPU, up to 5x faster GPU, up to 11x faster ML, up to 20 hours battery, and up to 16GB RAM, from $1,299
at all? Once again feels like Apple trying to save money instead of making the best product. https://twitter.com/... HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : The old Mac Minis cap out at 64GB of RAM. The new ...
TikTok asks federal court to intervene in CFIUS order forcing sale of TikTok's US operations by Nov. 12; sources: TikTok hasn't heard from Trump admin in weeks
- TikTok hasn't heard from the Trump administration in weeks as it tries to figure out whether or not to proceed to sell a minority stake in itself to Oracle and Walmart.
Apple announces an updated Mac mini with M1, giving 3x faster CPU and 6x faster GPU, up to 16GB RAM and 2TB storage, starting at $699
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Analysis of Apple's A14 chip shows an increase in single-thread performance of nearly 3x in 5 years, suggesting M1 will be a formidable rival to x86 incumbents
From Mobile to Mac: What to Expect? — To date, our performance comparisons for Apple's chipsets have always been in the context …
Facebook says political content makes up about 6% of what is seen on its platform and says CrowdTangle measures engagement but doesn't predict reach
Facebook Tuesday said that political content makes up only about 6% of what users actually see on its platform.
Apple says macOS Big Sur will be available on November 12
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
According to a CPSC notice, Ring is recalling around 350K Ring doorbells sold between June 2020 and October 2020 after receiving reports of them catching fire
San Francisco (CNN Business)Amazon-subsidiary Ring is recalling hundreds of thousands of video doorbells after receiving reports of them catching fire.
Apple announces M1, the first Apple silicon SoC for Macs, with 5nm process, 16B transistors, 8-core CPU, up to 8-core GPU, and a 16-core neural engine
unless Apple creates speed differences. Mustapha Hamoui / @beirutspring : Disappointed that Apple didn't visually differentiate silicon macs from their intel predecessors... It could have been a small...
Joe Biden's transition team of advisors includes employees from Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, and other tech companies, as well as several outspoken tech critics
- Biden's transition agency review teams already includes several current and former tech employees from companies …
The new MacBook Air's keyboard replaces keys for Launchpad and brightness of backlit keyboard with dedicated keys for Do Not Disturb, Dictation, and Spotlight
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
Roku begins rolling out support for Apple's AirPlay 2 and HomeKit, available on the majority of Roku's 4K streaming devices
Roku says its streaming devices are now the first to support all three voice assistants — It's been a long wait, but today Roku is starting to roll out support for Apple's AirPlay 2 and HomeKit feat...
Researchers say YouTube's policy loopholes for election videos have led to an onslaught of videos aiming to undermine the legitimacy of the election
Google video site says election misinformation policies are ‘generally working as intended’ — On Monday, cable outlet One America News Network posted …
China drafts new antitrust guideline to rein in tech giants; Meituan's stock drops 10%+, JD.com is down 5%+, and Alibaba is down 8%+
Draft guideline ‘targeting tech giants’ in e-commerce, online food delivery and ride hailing, Atta Capital's Alan Li says Tech giants plunge broadly …
India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which oversees TV programming, will now regulate policies for streaming platforms and digital news outlets
India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which oversees programs beamed on television and theatres in the country …
Apple still offers higher-end Intel-based 13-inch MacBook Pros and Mac minis; however, the MacBook Air is now only available with Apple silicon chips
Apple's new MacBook Air and Pro still have 720p webcams but they're updated with better noise reduction, dynamic range, and ML-based face detection
Profile of Hasan Piker, a progressive Twitch streamer who had 225K+ concurrent viewers at the peak on election night, making him Twitch's most-watched streamer
The 29-year-old progressive political commentator has risen to the top of the platform after 80-plus hours of live election coverage.
Facebook and Google quietly extend their planned one week bans on political ads, as Trump and GOP continue their claims of voter fraud
Blackouts continue as pro-Trump US election narratives persist — Facebook and Google have quietly extended their bans on political advertising beyond …
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over its dual role as a marketplace for third-party vendors and a competitor selling its own goods
or up to $28 billion, based on 2019 numbers #tech #Antitrust #TechNews https://twitter.com/... Margrethe Vestager / @vestager : Always like the press room (better before though when it was not virtu...
SentinelOne, which develops AI-based endpoint security for all devices and services in a network, raises $267M from Tiger Global and others at a $3.1B valuation
This year, more than ever before because of the Covid-19 pandemic, huge droves of workers and consumers have been turning …
A look at China's 5G network, which dwarfs the US efforts but still only covers 8% of the population, while South Korea's 5G covers 25%
China is leading the way in the size and consistency of its 5G network — HONG KONG—By most measures, China is no longer just leading the U.S. when it comes to 5G. Tweets: @jchengwsj Tweets: Jonathan...
Palo Alto Networks says it will acquire attack surface manager Expanse in an $800M deal; Expanse raised $136M
Expanse's platform will be added to the Cortex product suite. — Palo Alto Networks has announced the acquisition of Expanse to boost the capabilities of the firm's Cortex cybersecurity product portf...
Project Taara, an Alphabet X moonshot, plans to deliver wireless internet in sub-Saharan Africa using light beams at distances up to 20km, speeds up to 20Gbps
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay doctors to use AI systems that diagnose eye disease in diabetics and detect strokes through brain scans
The artificial intelligence programs can diagnose eye disease in diabetics and complications in stroke patients. Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : One system can diagnose a complication of diabetes that...
Lyft reports Q3 revenue of $499.7M vs. estimates of $486.6M, net loss of $460M, nearly flat YoY, active riders grew 44% QoQ to 12.5M but are still down 44% YoY
rather than charging big commissions for marketplace + delivery.
Spotify to buy Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts, for $235M
A look at waning digital freedom in Indonesia, where authorities have increasingly used internet blackouts in recent years to curb dissent
by @timmerman91 https://restofworld.org/... Antonia Timmerman / @timmerman91 : https://restofworld.org/... Good morning, I put together what we know so far about Indonesia's use of technology for crus...
As the Xbox Series X and S launch, a look at the challenges Microsoft confronted while developing its next-generation console during a pandemic
including shoving giant equipment into cars and contemplating running fiber optic cable to home of star employee, etc. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Dina Bass / @dinabass : ICYMI my story from earlier...
Grab leads $100M Series B in Indonesian state-backed e-wallet company LinkAja that launched last year after merging payments services of five state-owned firms
Nikkei Asia :
Researchers disclose new remote attack method for extracting data from Intel CPUs using a power monitor interface, with Linux most at risk; Intel issues patches
this time thanks to on-chip power meter Thomas Claburn / The Register : One more reason for Apple to dump Intel processors: Another SGX, kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts SecLists.Org Securit...
Non-consensual porn images and videos, filmed by groups now facing legal action, can live on forever in machine learning datasets used to create deepfake porn
@ruchowdh https://www.vice.com/... Samantha Cole / @samleecole : this “finders keepers” attitude of entitlement in the experimentation on women's images is repeated over and over—deepfakes, deepnude, ...
Isovalent emerges from stealth to debut Cilium, its cloud-native networking and security service, after raising $29M Series A round led by a16z and Google
Take-Two Interactive agrees to acquire British game developer Codemasters for $956M in cash and stock, after disclosing negotiations last week
Internal memo: online mortgage lender Better.com has raised ~$200M Series D led by L Catterton; sources say the round values the company at $4B
Bloomberg :
Sources detail how Elliott Management helped Masayoshi Son save SoftBank from financial ruin in the spring; sources say Elliott now owns $5B+ in SoftBank shares
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @katekelly , @aridavidpaul , @wsjmarkets , and @skupor Tweets: Kate Kelly / @katekelly : What happened at @SoftBank when the activist hedge fund Elliott, known for its i...
Kinetic, which provides wearable tech and software analytics to help reduce industrial and warehouse workplace injuries, has raised $11.25M Series A
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Heroes, which wants to become Europe's largest acquirer and operator of Fulfillment by Amazon brands, raises $65M round in equity and debt
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Patreon partners with Acast, which will host creators' podcasts to simplify distribution of subscriber-only episodes and give them access to Acast analytics
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Sources: ByteDance's Chinese ad revenue will cross $27.2B this year; Bytedance overtook Baidu in 2019 to become number two in the market, behind Alibaba Group
Two US House representatives who oversee the FCC ask Ajit Pai to abandon “controversial items under consideration”, likely referencing changes to Section 230
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Strategy Analytics: in Q3, Samsung sold more smartphones in the US than Apple for the first time in three years; Samsung had 33.7% marketshare, Apple had 30.2%
Yonhap News Agency :
CipherTrace: in H1 2020, DeFi thefts accounted for 40% of all crypto thefts and hacks, amounting to $51.5M; since July, $47.7M more has been stolen from DeFi
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