Three former employees say that 100+ employees at Verkada could view the camera feeds of its thousands of customers via widely used super admin accounts
- Former employee said issue was raised with Verkada executives — Hackers gained access to 150,000 customer camera feeds
Kuo: all four iPhone 13 models will feature larger batteries with higher capacities, making them heavier than iPhone 12 models
Apple appears to be improving the iPhone's battery life with the iPhone 13 lineup, using a number of design changes, bigger batteries, and efficiency improvements.
Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, sold an NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's
Through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Until October, the most Mike Winkelmann — the digital artist known as Beeple — had ever sold a print for was $100.
Adobe rolls out a version of Photoshop optimized for Apple Silicon, claiming a 1.5X performance improvement over most Photoshop tasks on Intel Macs
Adobe says there are a ton of speed and performance gains — Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon …
Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on iOS and Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads
“Sometimes it's better said with a picture or a video.” — What you need to know — Twitter is testing new features that will let you see a single image in full on your timeline.
Russia says it is slowing down Twitter for not removing 3K+ posts containing “illegal content” and threatens a total block if Twitter ignores deletion demands
Experts say Russia accidentally blocked domains with the characters “t.co”, like Microsoft.com, as well as some government websites, while slowing down Twitter
Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences. — Russian internet users began noticing something strange …
Documents: Apple denied Parler reentry into the App Store, citing a lack of changes; source says Parler let its three remaining iOS developers go
- Apple's recent review found ‘Nazi symbols’ on the Parler site — Parler eliminates seven workers, most of whom were contractors
Facebook says it has filed motions to dismiss antitrust lawsuits brought by the FTC and state AGs, arguing its conduct did not harm competition or consumers
Action marks its first legal salvo since the FTC and 46 states sued the company in December — WASHINGTON— Facebook Inc …
Facebook is making in-stream ads available on one-minute videos and is testing ads that look like stickers in Stories
Ads integrated into content — Facebook introduced Stories to its platform four years ago, mostly as a way to encourage people to post content that wasn't highly produced or necessarily photogenic.
Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $350M Series D at a valuation of $3B, bringing its total raised to around $450M
If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space.
Oppo unveils Find X3 Pro with Snapdragon 888, 6.7" 120Hz display, 12GB RAM, 50 MP ultrawide camera, and a 3MP “microlens” for microscope style macro shots
The covers have now been lifted from the Oppo Find X3 series with three models — X3 Lite, X3 Neo, and X3 Pro …
How Facebook leadership weakened initiatives to clean up misinformation, sidelining AI experts, because doing so would undermine Zuckerberg's desire for growth
The company's AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
Amazon has opened 11 Amazon Fresh stores around the US, with plans for at least 28 more
As many businesses struggled to survive the pandemic, Amazon.com Inc. was quietly building a national grocery chain. — The first Amazon Fresh store opened to the public in Los Angeles in September.
Google says it will give an option to Google Pay users to share transaction data with the company to make personalized offers, starting next week
Three and a half years after launching Google Pay in India, the Android-maker is paving the way to tap its users' transaction data for monetization purposes …
Citizen Browser project's Split Screen tool shows Facebook's different News Feeds for Trump and Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the US
Facebook's recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what?
By bringing disparate parts of gaming into one place, Roblox has created the conditions for interlocking feedback loops that typify transformational products
TikTok gives users the ability to approve all new comments before they appear and adds in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments
TikTok is introducing new features meant to — reduce bullying and harassment on its platform: new comment controls and in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments.
Coupang priced its IPO at $35 per share, above its target range, to raise $4.2B and give the South Korean e-commerce giant a market value of about $60B
- South Korean e-commerce company sells shares for $35 each — Coupang shares set to begin trading Thursday on NYSE
Creators are monetizing through hyper-specific revenue streams like NewNew, which lets fans pay to vote to control a creator's day-to-day decisions
Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money. Yet fans still hold the power. — A rash of new start-ups are making it easier …
Sources: China is considering a record fine, exceeding Qualcomm's $975M fine, against Alibaba, which may face softer treatment if it distances from Jack Ma
E-commerce company to face softer treatment than its Ant affiliate, provided it distances itself from founder Jack Ma Tweets: @sofiamcfarland , @lingling_wei , and @birdyword Tweets: Sofia McFarland /...
Sources: EU regulators are struggling to gather enough evidence to bring antitrust charges against Amazon despite working on the case for nearly two years
Regulators face difficulties gathering evidence against tech giant nearly two years after probe was announced
Roblox closes at $69.50, valuing it at $38.26B, after opening under RBLX at $64.50, up 43% from its January funding round
and a reminder of the importance of patience in company building. My partner @joshk made this slide, which captures it well: https://twitter.com/... David Baszucki / @davidbaszucki : In 2004, we found...
Data center operator OVH says a fire destroyed some of its sites in France, affecting cyber threat intelligence company Bad Packets, game maker Rust, and others
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Q&A with Chris Sacca on his brief retirement, Trump and Biden, investing in climate startups, how investing has changed, NFTs, and more
In 2015, venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Silicon Valley's most influential investors, No. 3 on the Midas List with more than one million Twitter followers … Tweets: @sacca , @alexrkonrad , @...
Sources: Apple cuts iPhone 12 mini orders by 70%, targets producing 75M iPhones in H1 and 230M units for all of 2021, reschedules new MacBook production to H2
Device Replacement No More PYMNTS.com : Apple iPhone Mini Production Cut By 20 Pct Max Freeman-Mills / Pocket-lint : Apple to cut iPhone 12 mini production, putting question mark on small phone future...
Cowbell Cyber, which uses AI to assess risk and offer cyber insurance to companies with less than $1B in revenue, raises $20M Series A
Pleasanton, California-based Cowbell Cyber raised a $20 million Series A as more small and medium-sized enterprises look for insurance against the growing number of cyberattacks.
Tetrate, which develops an app management platform for hybrid and multicloud environments, raises $40M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures
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Twitter says it aims to let anyone start hosting Spaces in April, after testing with a select few
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Oracle reports Q3 revenue of $10.1B, up 3% YoY and beating estimates, and cloud services and license support revenue of $7.3B, up 5% YoY
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Facebook launches Instagram Lite, an Android app that takes up just 2MB of storage space, in 170 countries, and says Facebook Lite has 200M+ MAUs
not just on high-end phones with super fast connections https://about.fb.com/... Thanks: @ingridlunden
License plate scanning is ubiquitous in the US, with few privacy protections; one company, Vigilant Solutions, promotes a database of 9B+ license plate scans
you're right. Tow trucks, garbage trucks, telephone poles, police cars, parking garages and more are all outfitted with a network of internet-connected license plate scanners, recording everyone's tra...
Filing: Facebook pulls out of the Hong Kong-Americas undersea fiber project amid US pressure, after putting its Pacific Light Cable Network on hold in August
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Apple says it will invest €1B in Germany over the next three years and will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center
Bumble reports Q4, its first earnings since its IPO in February: $165.6M revenue beats estimates, net loss of $26.1M, and paying users increased to 2.7M
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Cloudera beats with Q4 revenue of $226.6M, up 7% YoY, subscription rev. of $206.8M, up 14% YoY, and ARR of $778M, up 10% YoY
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Amazon is the only major publisher that withholds its digital books from public libraries, preventing people from downloading over 10,000 e-books and audiobooks
Epic Games sues Google in Australia, arguing Google forces developers to use its payments system, expanding on lawsuits in US and UK against Google and Apple
Rural Sweden is getting cashierless shops thanks to BankID, a national ID app operated by Sweden's banks, and barcodes that bill pre-registered bank cards
Asana beats with Q4 revenue of $68.4M, up 57% YoY, net loss of $61.5M, up from $25.2M in Q4 2020, and says it has 93K paying customers
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Interview with Vitalik Buterin on ETH2, scaling plans and timelines, NFTs, the Ethereum Name Service, quadratic funding, more
Dependency confusion attacks, where package managers override local packages with global ones, are flourishing, impacting Microsoft, Zillow, Lyft, and others
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @llkkat , @ckstechnews , @naupliustrevor , @adam_baldwin , and @sambreed Tweets: Ilkka Turunen / @llkkat : So by our calculations Dependency Confusion copycats num...
Big data integrator Talend says it has been acquired by PE firm Thoma Bravo for $2.4B; Talend went public in 2016
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As part of the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, Congress voted to give $1B to the Technology Modernization Fund, focusing on improving government IT systems
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @issielapowsky , @birnbaum_e , @brfreed , and @birnbaum_e Tweets: @protocol : The American Rescue Plan just injected an unprecedented sum of $1 billion...
Flatfile, which helps businesses with onboarding customer data, raises $35M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners at a $185M valuation
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To ease its dependence on US, China's new five-year plan calls tech development a matter of national security and pledges to raise R&D spending by 7% annually
YouTube says more than 120M Americans streamed YouTube and YouTube TV on their TVs in December 2020, up from 100M in March 2020
London-based Wefarm, which offers a social network for farmers that is popular in East Africa, extends its Series A by $11M to $24M and says it has 2.5M users
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.