Craig Federighi, Johny Srouji, and Greg Joswiak on how Apple designed M1, the importance of UMA, non-linear increase in performance at higher power levels, more
Craig Federighi, Johny Srouji, and Greg Joswiak tell us the Apple Silicon story. — Some time ago, in an Apple campus building, a group of engineers got together.
Apple Support page says the company is working with Microsoft on adding support for Xbox Series X controller to Apple devices
Apple and Microsoft are working on adding support for the Xbox Series X controller to Apple devices, according to an Apple Support page spotted by a Reddit user.
Crypto analytics startup Chainalysis raises $100M Series C led by Addition at a $1B valuation, says its revenue grew by around 96% over the past year
A new bitcoin unicorn is about to be born. After days of rumors flying around the cryptocurrency industry, investigation firm Chainalysis …
Apple defends its delayed IDFA changes in iOS 14 and slams Facebook, saying “its intent is to collect as much data as possible” on its users
Last month, a coalition of eight civil and human rights organizations penned an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding …
a16z closes two new funds totaling $4.5B, focused on early and later-stage investments, bringing total assets under management to $16.5B
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a pair of funds totaling $4.5 billion, the firm confirmed in a blog post this morning.
Twitter says it will transfer @POTUS to Joe Biden when he is sworn in as president, along with other official accounts; Facebook says it will do the same
which allows rule-breaking tweets to remain up, with warning labels — the moment that Biden is sworn in to office.” https://twitter.com/... Ben Pershing / @benpershing : The federal government is givi...
Sources: Amazon agrees to pull HBO from Fire TV's Amazon Channels next year; WarnerMedia wanted HBO out to maintain a direct relationship with users via its app
- Amazon has agreed to pull HBO from Amazon Channels in the Amazon Fire TV interface when that agreement lapses next year, sources say.
Facebook's Q3 transparency report: 0.1%-0.11% of what users see violates hate speech rules; 95% of hate speech takedowns are proactive, up from 24% in 2017
Sources: Trump admin is providing only limited cybersecurity assistance to Biden's transition team, which now relies on a standard, paid Google Workspace
A look at Google Pay redesign as an all-encompassing money app with P2P payments, personal finance insights, deals, and banking services, rolling out in the US
Today, Google Pay for both Android and iOS is relaunching with a giant array of new features.
Zillow usage since March is up 50%+ YoY, as surfing real estate listings on home buying websites becomes a form of escapism amid the pandemic
Scrolling through real estate listings in far-flung destinations is a way to visualize an alternate life, whether you're trying to move or not. Tweets: @westcoastbill , @taylrn , @menendezrand , @mary...
An operator of TikTok houses, West of Hudson Group, underwent a reverse takeover with Tongji Healthcare this week, creating a publicly traded company
Time to learn about reverse takeovers, kids! — A business trying to make money off mansions full of TikTok influencers has gone public on the stock market through an unusual deal.
Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (2020) review: great build quality and battery life with fast 11th-gen. Intel processor, but inadequate cooling system and a shallow keyboard
Choose your keyboard — Not only is the Dell XPS 13 one of Dell's best-known laptops, but it's one of the best-known laptops, period.
A year in, Stadia's free-to-play and added phone support are great, but it needs a successful Cyberpunk 2077 launch to be seen as a true console alternative
Firing up a big-budget modern video game inside a Chrome browser window for the first time feels like you're tapping into some arcane magic …
A look at the growing world of virtual HQs on services like Branch, Gather, and Huddle, which are using spatial tech to create a metaverse dedicated to work
‘The future of transportation is no transportation’ — In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world's last dance with spontaneity. Tweets: @azeem , @nmasc_ , @drorpoleg , @zck , and @joshelman Tw...
Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with $19M in funding
Canvas, a company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites, emerged from stealth today.
Facebook created country-specific community standards for the first time ahead of Myanmar's general election, and seemingly reduced hate speech and misinfo
sometimes damaging — of Western tech companies in the non-western world. Equally eager to see more work on the impact of Chinese tech companies in the non-Western world. In short, a non-Western centri...
Report: In the Middle East, $704M was invested across 564 different startups in 2019, compared to only $15M in five venture deals in 2009
The coronavirus is having an impact, but the Middle East's startup scene is showing some unexpected trends. — At the end of last year, the Middle East's startup scene was on the up and up.
Roblox files S-1 for its IPO, reports losses of $206M on $589M in revenue, 31.1M DAU, and 22.2B engaged hours, up 122% YoY, for the first nine months of 2020
here's what we learned from the most recent wave of IPO filings Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Roblox Files IPO Amid Surge in Videogame Spending Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch : What is Roblox ...
Users report that Edge browser extensions like NordVPN, TunnelBear VPN spoof legitimate add-ons and redirect Google searches; Microsoft says it's investigating
Edge users take to social media to report their Web searches are being hijacked. — For years, Google and Mozilla have battled …
Survey of post samples from 173 adult US Facebook users' feeds during October 2020 found that 54% of users saw no news within the first 10 posts of their feeds
What do people see in their Facebook feeds? How much news do they encounter there — from legitimate outlets or from those known for sowing misinformation? Tweets: @froomkin , @marklittlenews , @phmai...
Microsoft is enticing Zoom users to Teams with new free 24-hour meetings, allowing up to 300 people to join calls via the web without an account
Microsoft Teams is getting a big feature before the holidays Jon Fingas / Engadget : Microsoft hopes to win over Zoom fans with free 24-hour Teams web calls Arjun Tomar / Microsoft 365 Blog : Bringing...
Google is testing Project Guideline, an AI-powered system that enables navigation guidance for low-vision people, allowing them to run races by themselves
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Congressional staffers say Apple is among companies trying to weaken a bill that would hold US companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor in China
so we need stronger laws to hold companies accountable. Let's bring as much of this as possible into the light. Same with environmental practices. It's not enough to say, well, Apple is a bit better. ...
Facebook responds to Apple's defense of IDFA, saying Apple is using its “dominant market position to self-preference their own data collection”
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YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter say they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments, and researchers to tackle COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies from January
The CIA awards its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM; the project's expected value is in the “tens of billions”
going back to the ARPANET — was built by military contractors and privatized extensions of the National Security State. This is the way shit has always worked in Surveillance Valley. https://twitter....
Sources: Airbnb's “chief trust officer” resigned in 2019 over concerns about Airbnb's data sharing with Chinese authorities, who wanted more “real-time data”
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Snap has reportedly acquired Voisey, a UK startup that lets users create short music tracks and videos using their own voice overlayed on custom instrumentals
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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, others want to prevent Google's in-house lawyers from accessing “competitively sensitive” docs given to DOJ as part of antitrust probe
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With Twitch enforcing DMCA takedowns, CD Projekt Red is releasing its Cyberpunk 2077 game with a “streamer-friendly” mode that disables copyrighted music
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Google is loosening control over its Chromium project, welcoming a new outside dev into leadership, granting community access to its software development system
Stephen Shankland / CNET : Tweets: @auchenberg and @slightlylate . Thanks: @stshank Tweets: Kenneth Auchenberg / @auchenberg : Next step: Governance model. https://twitter.com/... Alex Russell / @sli...
Apple's AR execs on how iPhones and iPads are becoming world-mapping, object-scanning tools that are laying the groundwork for the arrival of AR headsets
CrowdStrike survey of 2,200 organizations reveals 56% were hit by ransomware at least once in the past 12 months, 27% paid the ransom at an average of ~$1.1M
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Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt steps down as co-CEO, leaving Vlad Tenev as sole CEO ahead of a rumored IPO
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Filing: Facebook files a lawsuit against a Turkish national who operated a network of Instagram clone sites that allegedly scraped 100K accounts
Stackline, an online retail intelligence and management startup with clients like Sony, Levi's, and Starbucks, raises $50M Series A from Goldman Sachs
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.