Iranian activists smuggle Starlink receivers into the country for a backup internet, citing “no Starlink donation” from SpaceX nor US government participation
Starlink receivers have begun to arrive inside Iran, smuggled into the country in hopes of providing a backup internet …
Interpol unveils a metaverse for law enforcement worldwide, allowing users to tour the virtual version of its HQ, take training courses in VR, and more
Attempted revival of virtual reality is only just beginning and already the cops just want to take a look around
The Wire retracts its recent stories on Meta and says it is using “independent external experts” to conduct an investigation into its Meta coverage
Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta …
Podcast app Pocket Casts, which WordPress parent company Automattic acquired in July 2021, releases its mobile clients on GitHub under an open-source license
Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license.
In his memoir, Bono details making a deal with Steve Jobs for the U2 iPod in October 2004 and convincing Tim Cook to give away an iTunes album in September 2014
In an exclusive extract from his memoir, the singer looks back — nything strange or startling? " That's how my da, Bob, opens our conversations.
Sources: 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max, M2 Mac mini are coming soon; Apple is testing Mac Pro with 24 CPU cores, 72 graphics cores, 192 GB RAM
Apple's latest iPad lineup and software strategy is its most confusing to date, but here's how the company could ultimately fix it.
Apple plans to expand ads to the App Store's main Today tab and the “You Might Also Like” section of app listings globally on October 25, except for China
In an email to developers this week, Apple announced that app-related ads will begin appearing in the App Store's main Today tab and in a …
Canalys: smartphone shipments in India fell 6% YoY to 44.6M units in Q3 2022; Xiaomi shipped 9.2M units, down 18% YoY, for a 21% share, followed by Samsung
Xiaomi Corp held onto the top of the leaderboard in India 's vast smartphone market, despite the sector's overall decline … Source: Canalys .
McAfee security researchers found 16 clicker apps in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in total; Google removed the adware apps after McAfee reported them
Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a set of 16 malicious clicker apps that managed to sneak into Google Play, the official app store for Android.
Brazil's elections chief gets unilateral power to order tech companies to remove posts and videos ahead of the October 30 election, to combat misinformation
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Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid
Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @green_footballs , @carnage4...
LG Gram 17 review: under three pounds, even with a huge 17", 2560 x 1600 display, but the graphics are weak, the chassis is flimsy, and it's pricey at $1,600+
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Chicago-based Tempus, which uses AI for drug discovery, clinical trials, and diagnostics, raised $275M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to $1.3B+
This is not your average raise. — Biotech upstart Tempus announced on Thursday it raised $275 million through equity …
A profile of e-commerce company Meesho, which accounts for ~7% of India's online sales; Apptopia: Meesho was the world's most downloaded shopping app in H1 2022
Startup makes gains in world's biggest developing digital market, with users drawn to its prices on clothing, household goods
Interviews with over three dozen creators about going viral on TikTok show how the app's vast reach plus tools like “duet” and “stitch” can amplify harassment
at real cost to the people involved. https://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : TIL... Roughly 40,000 TikTok accounts have 1+ million followers, compared with 23,000 on Instagram, even thou...
Experts: India's TikTok clones like Moj and Josh haven't replicated TikTok's success, and Instagram and YouTube will take over the country's short-video segment
be it the biggest celebrities or your neighbor next door.” @Adnanmbhat for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : “Some may even call that cringe content.” When India ban...
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.
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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.