A look at the iPhone's upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources say the revamped iPad Pro's Magic Keyboard coming in 2024 will have an aluminum top case
Also: The company confirms the date of its Sept. 12 iPhone 15 event and aims to overhaul device production with 3D printers.
After ADL's CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts
Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours. — Over the past 24 hours …
Q&A with Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines on releasing Starfield, working with Microsoft, Game Pass, triple-A games in 2023, debugging Starfield, and more
Head of publishing on why the developer prioritises player freedom over less buggy games, and facing expectations around its sci-fi epic
TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Mate 60 Pro uses a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by SMIC using a 7nm process, a blow to US sanctions
The company's Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC's 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News
A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet
The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider
X updated its privacy policy to let the company use collected data to train AI models; Elon Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private”
X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job …
The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of testing, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets”
Exchange operator in talks with UK government and regulators over new trading venue
A look at Optima Academy Online, an all-virtual school launched in 2022 that lets US parents opt out of public school by putting their kid in a Meta Quest 2
It's 6 a.m. A little girl, who looks to be about ten years old, hits the button on her alarm clock.
Senior YouTube staff express concerns that Shorts is drawing audiences away from longer-form videos, which produce more revenue but are “dying out” as a format
Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform's longer-form videos
The San Francisco Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise denies any fault
Current “autonomous vehicles” are not actually autonomous. They still need backup drivers, just now they sit at computer screens instead of in the vehicles. — https://www.nytimes.com/... @bikemonte...
The Huawei Mate 60 Pro's 7nm Kirin 9000s chip, made by SMIC, is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary development and shows US curbs are porous, not useless
Chinese chipmakers have done well to bypass restrictions, but that won't be repeated often. — A new smartphone …
Gala Games CEO Eric Schiermeyer sues co-founder Wright Thurston, alleging he stole 8.6B GALA tokens, worth $130M, from the Web3 gaming startup; GALA drops 13%
- The value of Gala Games' token has dropped 13% following a lawsuit filed by its CEO accusing the company's co-founder of theft of $130 million in GALA tokens.
Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as the app is no longer under development
An interview with Apple executives Susan Prescott and Steve Sinclair on building apps for the Vision Pro and how Apple is trying to lure developers to make apps
Apple's Vision Pro headset hasn't launched yet, but already it's become one of the most hotly debated devices on the planet.
Documents: Tencent, Xiaomi, and others begin enforcing China's new app store rules, which require regulatory disclosures; Apple has not yet begun checking apps
Mobile app stores in China run by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), Xiaomi (1810.HK) and others have started to bar app publishers …
EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation since 2022 and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew in 2023
X's failure to slow the spread of disinformation on the Internet would have violated E.U. social media law, had it been in effect — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Daphne Keller / @daphnehk :...
Foxconn founder Terry Gou resigns as a company board member due to “personal reasons”, less than a week after announcing his bid to be Taiwan's next president
Emails: some UK Home Office officials lobbied the ICO to act “favorably” towards Facewatch, which is rolling out facial recognition cameras across the country
Mark Townsend / The Guardian :
CCData: the stablecoin market contracted 0.4% to ~$125B in August, the 17th straight month of decline, reflecting low trading volumes and reduced DeFi activity
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers' professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups
and group chats killed it https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Amanda Perelli / @arperelli : I rarely post but I haven't broken up with Instagram. Instead, I use the app differently (DM/close friends)...
Filing: Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma became the biggest investor in the company, with a 19.42% stake, after he acquired shares from China's Ant Group
Billionaire Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and chief executive officer of India's biggest digital payments company …
How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal :
Instacart's IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% YoY in 2023, sparking an online spat between staff of rivals Snowflake and Databricks
A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China's approval, and how they deal with sensitive content
Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to fix PhonePe shareholder liabilities and buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its stake to ~80%
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
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.