Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple's OCSP service being unable to validate certificates
Even Macs that didn't upgrade to Big Sur had problems. — Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues …
Interviews with Apple's Greg Joswiak, Craig Federighi, and John Ternus on the development of M1, the future of Macs, buying version one hardware, and more
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Apple releases macOS 11 Big Sur with a redesigned interface, new Control Center, redesigned Notification Center with widgets, and more
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Sources: top US cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs told associates he expects to be fired, after CISA refused to delete content debunking election misinfo
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs has told associates he expects to be fired …
At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation
As false claims declaring that Joe Biden isn't the president-elect flourish on his platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees …
Twitter says it labeled 300K election-related tweets from Oct. 27 to Nov. 11 as disputed, accounting for 0.2% of all messages about the election
Twitter said on Thursday that it labeled as disputed 300,000 tweets related to the presidential election, or .2 percent of the total number …
Commerce Department stays its TikTok shutdown order, citing a federal court's ruling last month in Philadelphia
Commerce Department retreat follows federal court ruling, which the U.S. appealed Thursday — WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department said Thursday it wouldn't enforce its order …
iOS 14.3 beta code indicates Apple may suggest third-party apps to users during the iPhone or iPad setup process, likely to appease antitrust concerns
As Apple has been investigating for anti-competitive practices, the company is working on new ways to avoid these accusations and even sanctions from governments around the world.
DoorDash files for IPO, says it had revenue of $1.9B and loss of $149M in the first nine months of 2020, vs. revenue of $587M and loss of $533M a year ago
- DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the U.S., filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era
Yes, you read that right—Mac OS X (or macOS 10?) is no more. — The era of Mac OS X is over. Kind of. — For the first time in almost two decades, Apple has decided to bump up the version number of...
DHS says US election was the most secure, with “no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised”
“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” — The November 3rd election was the …
Facebook brings Vanish Mode, its Snapchat-like feature for disappearing messages, to Messenger and Instagram
Facebook today announced its new Snapchat-like feature for disappearing messaging, Vanish Mode, is arriving on Messenger and Instagram. The feature, meant for more casual conversations …
Q&A with Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, who says ads will come to Reels eventually and defends Facebook's work during the 2020 election season
- Instagram is redesigning its app to make Reels, its TikTok competitor, and shopping more prominent. — CEO Adam Mosseri confirmed ads …Tweets:@yodaTweets:Drew Olanoff /@yoda:it's just sad that the h...
Thursday's OCSP service-related issues highlighted the fact that macOS sends a hash of every app that users run along with the users' IP, unencrypted, to Apple
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Disney says Disney+ had 73M+ paid subscribers at the end of September, up from 57.5M at end of June and 60.5M in early August
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Insurance software provider Vertafore discloses breach after data of 27.7M Texas drivers on an unsecured external storage service was accessed by external party
Vertafore blames incident on human error after user data was stored on an unsecured external storage service.
Apple HomePod mini review: has a compact design, is affordable, and Siri is fast, but doesn't sound as good as similarly priced competitors
” me to an office full of iPhones and a homepod: nononoNO STOP @scmpnews : Apple's HomePod Mini is said to support Chinese language recognition ability. We put it to the test with several dialects. ht...
Trump signs an EO prohibiting US companies and individuals from owning shares in 31 Chinese companies previously listed as enabling the PLA, effective Jan. 11
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Total PC market, including tablets, grew to 124.5M units in Q3, up 23% YoY; Lenovo shipped 23.5M devices, up 11.6% YoY, Apple shipped 22.1M, up 41% YoY
The total PC market (including tablets) enjoyed a second successive quarter of stellar growth, with total shipments of 124.5 million units, up 23% year-on-year.
Sundar Pichai apologizes to Thierry Breton for an internal Alphabet document outlining a plan to attack the EU commissioner, saying it “was never shown to me”
Sundar Pichai says he was unaware of plan for ‘pushback’ against the regulator — The chief executive …
YouTube defends choice to leave up election misinformation videos, saying such videos are “not being surfaced or recommended in any prominent way”
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Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, says he has come out of retirement to join Microsoft's Developer Division
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Palantir reports post-IPO earnings with Q3 revenue of $289.4M vs est. of $279.4M, up 52% YoY, and says it has secured new contracts with the US Army and NIH
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Sources: Chinese President Xi Jinping, furious about Jack Ma's criticisms of regulators, personally made the decision to stop Ant Group's IPO
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Retailers are using employee influencers on TikTok to garner organic reach, compensating them according to leaderboards built into employee advocacy platforms
Brands and retailers are desperate to get their employees to post on TikTok. — Last week, GameStop encouraged store workers … Tweets: @kendallostrow , @techwontsaveus , @megancgraham , @devmachette_...
YouTube cancels Rewind, its annual end-of-year tribute to creators, trends, and moments, for 2020, the first cancellation since Rewind began in 2010
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A look at how COVID-19 has accelerated development of tech that tracks workers, and how physically tracing employees could be mainstream even after the pandemic
A boom in contact tracing devices could herald a new era of worker surveillance — Before April, Radiant RFID … Tweets: @davegershgorn , @sarahnemerson , @bcmerchant , @davegershgorn , and @medium Tw...
Facebook redesigns Instagram's layout to add dedicated tabs for shopping and Reels in the navigation bar, after testing the change in September
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Cisco beats with Q1 revenue of $11.93B vs. $11.85B est., down 9% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue of $6.34B, down 16% YoY; stock up 8%+ after hours
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
PayPal says it is opening up cryptocurrency services to all eligible US users and increased its weekly cryptocurrency purchase limit from $10,000 to $20,000
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Austrian Supreme Court makes a final ruling in a long-running Facebook speech takedown case, ruling it must remove defamatory posts about a politician worldwide
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a possible Biden pick for AG, says a “breakup remedy” for Google should be “on the table” and praises DOJ's antitrust suit against Google
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Google's free unlimited Photos storage offer is an object lesson in anticompetitive behavior that helped drive startups like Everpix and Loom out of the market
@WillOremus https://onezero.medium.com/... Sachin Rekhi / @sachinrekhi : Thinking today about all the photo startups that were previously crushed by Google Photos giving away unlimited storage https:/...
Amazon says it is expanding its in-garage delivery program for Prime members to around 4,000 US cities, up from 50
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Livestorm raises $30M Series B for its browser-based video meeting and webinar service, says it now has 3,500 customers including Shopify, Honda, and Sephora
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Google adds support for PyTorch to Android's Neural Networks API, which would enable developers to run computationally intensive AI models on-device
Pipedrive, a sales CRM startup that was founded in Estonia and is now based in NYC, takes a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners at a $1.5B valuation
Singapore unveils Tech.Pass, a new visa program launching in January that initially aims to attract 500 highly accomplished tech entrepreneurs and experts
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.
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