Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: incredibly fast performance with no fan noise, decent gaming performance, and a great keyboard and trackpad
Apple's new MacBook Air is stunningly fast. It's raring to go the instant you open its lid. Want to browse the web?
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, letting customers in the US order prescription medications for home delivery, including free delivery for Prime members
- Amazon is making its biggest move yet into the pharmacy space. — Amazon Pharmacy is designed to make it easy and convenient to order prescription medicines online.
Apple MacBook Pro with M1 review: great performance, display, and battery life but only two USB ports, RAM limited to 16GB, and a miserable webcam
Apple's M1 processor has many upsides, with few downsides — The easiest, best way to think about the new entry-level MacBook Pro is that it is a MacBook Air with a fan.
Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature, globally, and says it plans to test an audio-based social networking feature similar to Clubhouse
Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base.
Huawei is selling its Honor smartphone unit to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers for an undisclosed sum; buyers are creating a new company for purchase
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers …
Microsoft announces Pluton, its new project with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, to create x86 and ARM CPUs that integrate a dedicated security component
Microsoft teamed up with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm to create a T2-like co-processor — The next Windows PC you buy could come …
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
Detailed look at M1-based 13" MacBook Pro's performance shows huge gains that make Intel's chips look obsolete and battery life that far exceeds previous Macs
Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you're learning the ropes, understanding systems.
Security researcher demonstrates how Apple's apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs, an issue first brought to light in October
DON'T WORRY THOUGH, APPLE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CARES ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY — For all of Apple's talk of being privacy-first, often its marketing speak … Source: @patrickwardle .
Adobe releases Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS in beta, which users can run natively on Surface Pro X or Apple M1 Macs
Just in time for Apple's new M1-powered Macs — Adobe is releasing Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS today.
Internal Facebook data shows that labels on Trump's election misinformation posts only decreased shares by ~8%, and failed to slow their spread across the site
Internal data shows that labels on President Trump's posts decrease reshares by about 8%. They still account for some of the most engaging posts on the platform.
Barack Obama says today's online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”
Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.
Airbnb releases public IPO filing, seeks Nasdaq listing under ticker ABNB, reports $219M in net income on revenues of $1.3B last quarter, down nearly 19% YoY
- Airbnb has released its prospectus to debut on public markets. — Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb
Apple Mac mini with M1 review: existing apps run well and the price is appealing, but RAM, limited to 16GB, can't be upgraded and doesn't support external GPUs
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Google Maps updates with pandemic-oriented features like takeout tracking, public transport crowd info, and additions to COVID-19 overlay like local case counts
Updates to COVID overlay, takeout tracking, and public transport crowds — Google has announced a handful of improvements coming …
Livestream of testimonies of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey before the Senate Judiciary Committee on their companies' actions around the 2020 election
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday to question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters
Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one? Tweets: @benthompson , @cliomiso , @asymmetricinfo , @can , @bdomenech , @maxwellstrachan , @dandre...
TikTok expands Family Pairing parental controls for kids age 13 or older to include commenting, account privacy, and the ability to access the search bar
TikTok today announced it's expanding its parental control feature set known as Family Pairing to give parents additional tools …
Twitter names Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, veteran of Stripe, Google, and DARPA, to the new position of head of security
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches …
OpenPhone, which offers businesses a single phone number that entire teams can access through its iOS, Android apps, raises $14M Series A led by Craft Ventures
OpenPhone, a company setting out to replace “antiquated” business phone systems, has raised $14 million in a series A round of funding led by David Sacks' Craft Ventures.
Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode, pinch-to-zoom support, up to 15% better page load performance, and memory usage reduced by up to 8%
Mozilla today launched Firefox 83 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox 83 includes an HTTPS-Only Mode, performance improvements, and a handful of new developer features.
Apple responds to privacy concerns over checking macOS apps' Developer ID certs over OCSP, ceases logging IP addresses, will launch encrypted protocol in 2021
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Walmart says its US e-commerce sales grew 79% YoY in Q3
- Walmart's U.S. e-commerce sales soared by 79% in the third quarter, as customers continued to shop online during the coronavirus pandemic. — Instead of browsing store aisles, more customers are shi...
London-based Paddle, which developing a service to help companies manage their revenue infrastructure, raises $68M Series C, bringing its total raised to $93M
Paddle, the London-based company behind a revenue platform for B2B SaaS companies, has raised $68 million (£52 million) in Series C funding.
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claiming Apple breaks EU law by letting advertisers track users via IDFA
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Cato Networks, a cloud-based security service to protect remote workforces, raises $130M Series E at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $332M
The global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of a wide range of sectors. While consumers and businesses continue …
EdgeQ, which is developing software-programmable 5G and AI chips for both devices and edge infrastructure, comes out of stealth with $51M in funding
EdgeQ, a startup developing 5G systems-on-chip, today emerged from stealth with $51 million in funding. The 90-employee company …
It's hard to believe Craig Federighi's claim that Apple wasn't “remotely considering” touch for Macs, given Big Sur's large controls and iOS apps coming to Macs
Levels raises $12M seed round led by a16z to help it bring to market its biowearable metabolic sensor that features continuous glucose monitoring
Levels today is announcing a large seed round to help bring its biowearable metabolic sensor to market. The innovative platform pairs …
Autodesk buys Spacemaker, which uses AI to help architects, urban planners, and developers make design decisions, for $240M in a mostly all-cash deal
Autodesk, the U.S. publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway's Spacemaker …
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more
Twitch is testing “multiplayer ads” that are chosen by the streamer and seen by everyone in the audience; creators can run polls after, earning them Bits
The ads will be chosen by the streamer, and everyone in the audience will see the same thing
Apple Podcasts now lets anyone create an embeddable web player for shows or individual episodes
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Telkomsel, Indonesia's biggest telecom network, invests $150M in ride-hailing giant Gojek; Gojek raised $3B+ to date and was valued at ~$10B earlier this year
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Hover, whose tool uses 8 smartphone photos to make a 3D image of a home that can be used to asses repairs, raises $60M Series D at a $490M post-money valuation
The US property market has proven to be more resilient than you might have assumed it would be in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic …
CVS now supports PayPal and Venmo QR codes at checkout, the first US national retailer to do so, as more customers turn to touch-free transactions amid pandemic
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Sources: Facebook's 3rd-party content mods were never instructed to enforce its “call to arms policy” from 2019, meant to prevent real-world armed intimidation
but never instructed third-party content moderators to enforce the rule https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Muslim Advocates / @muslimadvocates : For 5 years, we warned Facebook that militias were organ...
Researchers say that, after first appearing in 2017, now more than 25 ransomware-as-a-service portals currently rent ransomware to other criminal groups
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Microsoft expands third-party app integration support for Teams meetings and launches low-code tools like Power Apps for Teams and the Power Virtual Agents app
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Squarespace now lets customers charge for access to exclusive content like podcasts, video series, and newsletters, by adding “Members Areas” for $10 to $40/mo.
Monetize your content with Member Areas. Nicole Lee / Engadget : Squarespace now lets customers add paywalls to their sites Tweets: Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : Squarespace launches membership an...
Baidu says it will buy Joyy's Chinese livestreaming business, YY Live, which touts 4M paying users who can tip their favorite performers, for ~$3.6B
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Facebook now lets any page admin submit images and videos for rights protection, which helps creators monetize their content and may lead to more takedowns
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
A look at new wearable gadgets that aim to detect and track COVID-19 and have been adopted by some sports leagues, factories, nursing homes, and colleges
AliveCor, which makes heart-monitoring hardware and is developing algorithms to flag heart issues, raises $65M Series E led by Omron Healthcare
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Chinese semiconductor companies have raised an estimated $38B so far in 2020, up 100%+ from 2019, through public offerings, private placements, and asset sales
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mattschrader_dc and @jchengwsj Tweets: Matt Schrader / @mattschrader_dc : As Jonathan points out in his thread, not dissimilar to pushes we've seen in other ...
Zoom unveils At-Risk Meeting Notifier, a feature that scans the net for posted Zoom meeting links and alerts meeting organizers to potential Zoombombing attacks
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Chooch.ai, which seeks to help companies adopt computer vision more broadly, raises $20M Series A led by Vickers Venture Partners
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
China-based Zilliz, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, raises $43M Series B led by Hillhouse Capital
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Sources: DataRobot, which helps companies train and deploy ML models, is in talks to raise ~$300M at a valuation of $2.5B+, bringing its total raised to $700M+
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.