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- Survey of 1,900 Facebook users: 12 political groups were among the top 100 recommended by Facebook in Jan., despite saying it would not recommend "civic groups" (The Markup)
- What the complex math of fire modeling tells us about the future of California’s forests
- Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capital rioters, passing the evidence to authorities (Los Angeles Times)
- Worried about your firm’s AI ethics? These startups are here to help.
- Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 (Eileen Brown/ZDNet)
- Will your neighbors get vaccinated?
- Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested .3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO (Financial Times)
- Banks need to strike the right balance for digital transformation
- Sources: Apple is discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts (The Information)
- These five AI developments will shape 2021 and beyond
- Norway's consumer protection agency details how Amazon riddles the process of canceling Prime with "dark patterns," calls on regulators to investigate (Bloomberg)
- We may have only weeks to act before a variant coronavirus dominates the US
- E-commerce optimization startup Tradeswell raises .5M Series A led by SignalFire (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language
- After an outcry, HireVue, which offers automated assessments of job applicants, will stop using facial analysis but will still analyze intonation and behavior (Will Knight/Wired)
- 2021 planning: New business models, big opportunity
- Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese companies, including contract electronics manufacturers, are moving away from China over trade tensions and rising costs (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
- Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how.
- Report: Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the US as early as 2024 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
- Users, not tech executives, should decide what constitutes free speech online
- Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
- Five ways to make AI a greater force for good in 2021
- Madrid-based digital temp staffing agency Jobandtalent raises ~8M, bringing total raised to 0M, says it helped 80K+ workers with temporary gigs last year (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- The odds of US climate progress just improved a bit
- Utah-based WeLink, which uses 5G to deliver mesh high-bandwidth wireless internet for neighborhoods, raises 5M from Digital Alpha Advisors (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)
- Without leadership on vaccine rollout, scams are inevitable
- Intel launches RealSense ID, an on-device facial authentication tool, launching in Q1 2021 for and aimed at smart locks, ATMs, and kiosks (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Singapore’s police now have access to contact tracing data
- Filing: Affirm says it plans to sell 24.6M shares at to , seeking to raise up to 4.8M and valuing the company at .22B at the top of the range (Bloomberg)
- The 11 biggest space missions of 2021 (and their chances of success)
- Oxygen, a digital banking startup that focuses on helping freelancers and others with multiple revenue streams, raises M Series A led by Runa Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
- The biggest technology failures of 2020
- Interview with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais on leveraging the Atari brand, including through hotels and virtual clothing, shipping the VCS console, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
- Friendly Gadgets That Run On Water
- A look back at our best photography of 2020
- Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering (New York Times)
- The pandemic taught us how not to deal with climate change.
- Huawei removes and then reinstates Tencent games on its app stores after a dispute over revenue sharing; source: Huawei insisted on receiving a 50% cut (Reuters)
- Our best illustrations of 2020
- Report: 10 ex-members of Apple's supplier responsibility team say it avoids or delays removing suppliers guilty of labor violations when doing so hurts business (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
- Current spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones.
- Sources: SimilarWeb is planning a Nasdaq IPO in Q2 2021, aiming for a B+ valuation; the company has raised 0M in total, including 0M in October (Golan Hazani/CTech)
- Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition
- DNA testing company 23andMe raises ~.5M Series F led by Sequoia Capital and NewView Capital; the company laid off 14% of its workforce earlier this year (Kristen V Brown/Bloomberg)
- Did Hedge Funds Make The Proper Call On Amkor Know-how, Inc. (AMKR) ?
- Joe Biden has an opportunity to bolster how we view Earth from space
- A huge drop in power prices has made Sweden and Norway lucrative for mining cryptocurrencies, giving big miners alternatives to China, Kazakhstan, and Canada (Jesper Starn/Bloomberg)
- Art has been brutalized by tech’s giants. How can it survive?
- Kuo: Apple Car's unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV/self-driving market may push the launch to 2028 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- Why some countries suspended, replaced, or relaunched their covid apps
- Apple's system status page is showing issues with "iCloud Account and Sign In" since Christmas morning, as users complain about problems with device activation (MacRumors)
- 2020 has sucked—but there are some small silver linings
- Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online (Sara Morrison/Vox)
- The year deepfakes went mainstream
- Amazon's 0 Echo Frames review: good as a BT headset with little noise bleed, good mic quality but have middling battery life, fall short as an Alexa device (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
- Don’t panic about the latest coronavirus mutations, say drug companies
- DeepMind details MuZero, revealed in 2019 and following AlphaZero, which can master games without knowing the rules and is working on YouTube video compression (Leo Kelion/BBC)
- Computers, Electronics, And Know-how
- Don’t underestimate the cheapfake
- Investigation details Amazon's campaigns over the years to steamroll rivals and partners, including those on its marketplace, sometimes with Bezos' involvement (Dana Mattioli/Wall Street Journal)
- Will you have to carry a vaccine passport on your phone?
- TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, "Year on TikTok", which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Sustaining our mission, shaping the conversation
- Apple has closed nearly 100 stores globally since December 14, including in London, California, and Tennessee, as COVID-19 cases surge (Michael Steeber/9to5Mac)
- The quinoa evangelist
- Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the "Fake News Media" is exaggerating its extent (Jacob Knutson/Axios)
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- Apple clarifies power-saving modes of AirPods Max, says they enter low power mode after 5 minutes of non-use and ultralow power state after 18 hours in the case (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
- “None of us were ready” to manufacture genetic vaccines for a billion people
- Spryker, which provides a full suite of e-commerce tools for customers like Aldi and Toyota, raises 0M Series C led by TCV, at a 0M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Guess which states saw the most election disinformation in 2020
- E-commerce marketplace Wish falls after its public debut, dropping 8%+ to under after pricing shares at (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- Effect Of Expertise On Our Lives
- An inside look at how trust accelerates transformation
- Boston-based Tive, which helps companies track sensitive shipments like food or medicine in real time, raises M Series A led by RRE Ventures (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- Pregnant in the pandemic? It helps to have good Wi-Fi.
- German Bionic raises M Series A co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and MIG AG for its exoskeleton tech targeted at industrial applications (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- AI needs to face up to its invisible-worker problem
- Sources: Facebook considers physical retaliation from Hindu extremist groups as a danger in India, which it ranks as a "Tier One" country for societal violence (Wall Street Journal)
- Kids are sick of Zoom too—so their teachers are getting creative
- Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages (Rakesh Prakash/Times of India)
- Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI
- AirPods Max sound great and are very well-made, but they're expensive, heavy, and would be amazing living room headphones if Apple TV supported spatial audio (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
- How our data encodes systematic racism
- Google, Dell, Intel, Slack, Zoom, and others form The Modern Computing Alliance to tackle security, remote work, and other enterprise issues (Nick Statt/The Verge)
- This super-energy-dense battery could nearly double the range of electric vehicles
- App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to 2B; 65¢ of every was spent on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Web scraping is a tool, not a crime
- Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for 9 (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- A capsule carrying asteroid rocks collected by Hayabusa-2 has successfully landed on Earth
- Tecton.ai raises M Series B co-led by a16z and Sequoia Capital as it releases its ML feature store, just a week after AWS debuted its Sagemaker Feature store (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- How the US, UK, and China are planning to roll out vaccines
- TikTok videos offering dubious financial advice are drawing millions of views, as young people increasingly turn to the app as a source of financial literacy (Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou/Bloomberg)
- We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
- OnlyFans says it will generate B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out 0M+ a month to its 1M+ creators (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
- Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
- This is the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way ever made
- Microsoft launches Azure Purview, a unified data governance service that automates the discovery, cataloging, mapping, and tracking of data, in public preview (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- No face, no service
- Amount, which helps banks modernize and provide mobile experiences, raises M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth, after being spun off from Avant this year (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
- China’s Chang’e 5 mission has successfully landed on the moon
- Olive, which says 600+ hospitals use its AI-powered bots to automate healthcare admin tasks, raises 5.5M led by Tiger Global, valuing it at .5B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Object storage for digital-age challenges
- Bitcoin hits a record price of ,783, with more investors seemingly buying it for the long term, unlike the 2017 spike driven by Asian investors new to crypto (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
- The Zoom-fatigued person’s guide to connecting virtually on Thanksgiving
- Report: China accounted for 23% of cross-border data flows in 2019, nearly twice the share of the US, which ranked second with 12%, followed by the UK and India (Nikkei Asia)
- How to make the next election even more secure
- A look at China's draft Personal Information Protection Law, which would significantly increase fines for companies responsible for data breaches to up to .6M (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will be tested in a new trial after questions over its data
- Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
- The apps keeping Rio’s residents safe from stray bullets
- Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level (Alex Hern/The Guardian)
- Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies
- An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)
- Building resilient supply chains
- Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is up to 90% effective, according to interim data
- China orders that streamers and gift givers on livestreaming services must use real names, and the services must limit amount of tips and ban teens from tipping (Nikki Sun/Nikkei Asia)
- Pfizer wants authorization to start distributing its vaccine by Christmas
- Experts say AI-based apps like qXR, which help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis early, could make an enormous impact on the control of the disease in India (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
- After Trump fires CISA’s director, the agency is poised to become even more powerful
- Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with M in funding (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
- How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade
- 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 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Why we should be funding more Solyndras
- 30+ major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalization in the cash-loving nation (Leika Kihara/Reuters)
- General Purpose Functions And Customized Software program
- An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI
- Research suggests Sony PS5 and Xbox Series X and S first week sales in Japan were lower than their predecessors, hinting at persistent supply bottlenecks (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
- How election results get certified
- Google Maps updates with pandemic-oriented features like takeout tracking, public transport crowd info, and additions to COVID-19 overlay like local case counts (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- Moderna says its covid-19 vaccine is nearly 95% effective
- 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 (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- The race to get Georgia’s 23,000 17-year-olds registered to vote
- A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency (Phil Vachon/Security Embedded)
- It’s not too late to cancel Thanksgiving
- Profile of Tom Alberg, an early investor in Amazon, the founder of Madrona Venture Group, and a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)
- Covid-19 vaccines shouldn’t get emergency-use authorization
- Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
- A private company has a crew going to the ISS next year
- Menlo Security, which offers a cloud-based isolation service that separates enterprise networks from the public web, raises 0M Series E at a 0M valuation (Michael Novinson/CRN)
- How Powerful Is Your 'Tough' Gadget?
- Featured Session: An Orchestrated Response to a Systemic Network Ransomware Attack at Norsk Hydro
- US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay doctors to use AI systems that diagnose eye disease in diabetics and detect strokes through brain scans (Tom Simonite/Wired)
- What Biden means for Big Tech—and Google in particular
- Cloud directory service JumpCloud raises M Series E led by BlackRock, bringing its total raised to 6M+, as the pandemic heightens need for remote IT tools (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- Robotic surgery gives doctors new savvy
- Zoom agrees to enhance its security as part of a proposed settlement with FTC, after Zoom was accused of deceiving customers over end-to-end encryption and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Florence's Duomo Introduces Self
- Why social media can’t keep moderating content in the shadows
- Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate (Corbin Davenport/Android Police)
- What Biden will and won’t be able to achieve on climate change
- CFPB issued a rule last week allowing debt collectors to send unlimited texts, emails, and social media messages to debtors, will require opt-out instructions (Irina Ivanova/CBS News)
- Half the Milky Way’s sun-like stars could be home to Earth-like planets
- Netflix is testing Direct, a linear channel with real-time, scheduled programming from its library, which is accessible only via its website, in France (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
- Why counting votes in Pennsylvania is taking so long
- Razer unveils Book 13, a productivity laptop with a 16:10 screen, RGB keyboard, and Intel's Iris Xe integrated graphics, available in Nov., starting at ,200 (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
- We just found a source for one of the most mysterious phenomena in astronomy
- Facebook and Instagram add large pop-ups atop feeds telling users that no presidential election winner has been declared, after Trump prematurely claims victory (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Five ways political groups are getting around ad bans
- Internal Facebook survey shows only 51% believe Facebook was having a positive impact in the world, down 23% from May and down 5.5% from last year (BuzzFeed News)
- It’s 2020 and anti-Semitism is an electoral tactic again
- Sources: Alibaba is in advanced talks to invest nearly 0M in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch and potentially create a Chinese JV (Juro Osawa/The Information)
- How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science
- A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him (Washington Post)
- Here is Why A Salad Shooter Is A Should
- Not finding life on Venus would be disappointing. But it’s good science at work.
- Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules (Lara O'Reilly/Digiday)
- Censored by China, under attack in America: what’s next for WeChat?
- Brazil-based payments processor Conductor raises 0M led by Viking Global Investors to expand in Latin America (Reuters)
- Voters should resist blaming every election glitch on political interference
- Travel activities booking app GetYourGuide raises 3M through a convertible note led by Searchlight Capital, bringing its total raised to 0M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- How to make restaurants safer during the pandemic
- Following social media crackdowns, QAnon content is continuing to thrive on Amazon and platforms like Parler and Telegram with limited moderation (Washington Post)
- What to expect on Election Day
- Researchers detail how link previews in messengers from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Line can leak sensitive data, consume limited bandwidth, and more (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Water on the moon should be more accessible than we thought
- Grayshift, the maker of phone hacking tool GrayKey that's popular with law enforcement, raises M led by PeakEquity Partners (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
- OSIRIS-REx collected too much asteroid material and now some is floating away
- Video games are helping veterans struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression and those adjusting to civilian life after deployment in combat zones (Alex Miller/Wired)
- Drug companies shouldn’t play favorites in granting access to experimental covid-19 treatments
- Output, which develops software and virtual instruments for musicians, composers, producers, and sound designers, raises M Series A led by Summit Partners (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
- How to make a chatbot that isn’t racist or sexist
- Political strategists say they are struggling to find enough space on YouTube for ads as campaigns flood the service, with particular shortages in swing states (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- It’s time to rethink the legal treatment of robots
- Apple says it is expanding its COVID-safe "Express" retail stores, with a counter protected by plexiglass at the front of a store, ahead of the holiday season (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- OSIRIS-REx survived its touchdown on asteroid Bennu—now we wait to see if it got a sample
- Tekion, which offers a service that connects car makers, dealers, and buyers, raises 0M Series C led by Advent at a B+ valuation (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
- Would you like “milk” with that Impossible burger?
- Researchers find a Telegram bot that takes a person's photo and turns it into a fake nude; by July, 100K+ images of women had been transformed, shared publicly (James Vincent/The Verge)
- Facebook’s new polyglot AI can translate between 100 languages
- Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
- A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
- China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls (Colum Murphy/Bloomberg)
- Twitter’s ban almost doubled attention for Biden misinformation
- 18% of games announced by major studios this summer had female protagonists, with Sony accounting for over a third; E3 2019 games had 5% female representation (Wired)
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- AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
- As American-run companies, Facebook and other US tech giants lack local knowledge and nuanced understanding to weigh information threats in other countries (Axios)
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- Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?
- Argyle, which allows businesses to access employment records via an API or a web interface, raises M Series A led by Bain Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
- Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time
- Microsoft details its new image captioning AI, part of Azure, that will improve accessibility for Word, Outlook, and other apps (James Vincent/The Verge)
- A man caught coronavirus twice—and it was worse the second time
- Researchers demo plugging a modified USB-C cable into a Mac to hack T2 chip; Apple has debuted six Mac models with T2 chips since the checkm8 flaw became public (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
- This spacecraft is being readied for a one-way mission to deflect an asteroid
- Snapdocs, which is used by ~130,000 real estate professionals to manage the mortgage process online, raises M Series C led by YC Continuity (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Election result delays mean “the system is working,” says cybersecurity chief
- Interview with Maulik Majmudar, Amazon Halo's principal medical officer, on the fitness band, its controversial body fat and emotional tone features, and more (Kevin McAllister/Protocol)
- Congress made a lousy case for breaking up Big Tech
- Avail Medsystems, which develops telemedicine software to let surgical teams in operating rooms collaborate with remote medical experts, raises 0M Series B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
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- Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals
- Grid AI, which helps AI researchers and engineers scale their models to match workloads needed for enterprise use, raises .6M Series A led by Index Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed
- Bloom Credit, which offers an API for businesses to integrate with all three major US credit bureaus, raises M Series A (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- The Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to the two women who pioneered CRISPR gene editing
- How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications (Bloomberg)
- Texas’s war on drop-off votes gets almost everything wrong
- Instagram says there are 900M daily emoji reactions, and 50% of users watch a video daily, but again fails to say how many users it has or what its revenue is (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)
- Trump is being given a steroid that is usually used for severe cases of covid-19
- PayPal's Venmo announces a Visa credit card, managed through its app and with a QR code on the physical card, for making online and in-store payments (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- A VR film/game with AI characters can be different every time you watch or play
- Ten US states, including NY and NJ, that account for ~21% of the US population have released a COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple and Google's API (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- Trump just got a dose of Regeneron’s unapproved antibody drug for covid
- Security researchers describe a way to fingerprint exploit writers' characteristics, which can then be used to identify other exploits written by same writers (Check Point Research)
- How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world
- New animators have moved away from YouTube to make their names on TikTok instead, where it's easier for short, catchy, and experimental video clips to succeed (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
- Podcast: How Russia’s everything company works with the Kremlin
- As Deliveroo says it will add 15,000 couriers, who it calls "heroes", by the end of 2020, some couriers say they are struggling to make enough to live on (Natasha Bernal/WIRED UK)
- How AI will revolutionize manufacturing
- Sources: Google is planning to produce as little as ~800,000 Pixel 5 handsets, taking total production of Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 to 3M units (Nikkei Asian Review)
- How democracies can claim back power in the digital world
- D-Wave launches Advantage, a cloud service that offers access to 5,000+ qubit quantum computing and a hybrid solver service that can handle 1M variables (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)
- There might be even more underground reservoirs of liquid water on Mars
- Social media platforms need to publicly declare a unified strategy to combat election misinformation, including Trump prematurely claiming victory via tweet (New York Times)
- These weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter
- FedEx CEO says the company is working with Reliable Robotics to pilot the use of an unmanned single-engine aircraft for cargo delivery (Matt Leonard/Supply Chain Dive)
- How to plan your life during a pandemic
- CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high (Sara Castellanos/Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook wants to make AI better by asking people to break it
- Colombia-based delivery app Rappi has raised over 0M from T. Rowe Price and others (Nelson Bocanegra/Reuters)
- How close is AI to decoding our emotions?
- Whitebox, which manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment across marketplaces, raises M Series B led by Noro-Moseley Partners, after M Series A in 2019 (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new m AI prize
- Shopify says two "rogue members" of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate (Bloomberg)
- AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities
- Microsoft unveils updates across Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, launches Metrics Advisor, Bot Framework Composer, Automated ML UI, more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits
- Amazon says Echo and Tile devices will become Bluetooth bridges for Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless protocol, later this year (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Letter-writing staved off lockdown loneliness. Now it’s getting out the vote.
- US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday (CNBC)
- Americans won’t be able to download TikTok or WeChat from Sunday
- The FTC and DOJ antitrust divisions are underfunded, as current and ex-staffers say tech giants use close personal ties and deep pockets to stymie regulation (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
- A patient has died after ransomware hackers hit a German hospital
- Sources: neobank Chime has raised 5M Series F at a .5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months (Hugh Son/CNBC)
- Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.
- Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, which lets SMBs manage their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger from a single interface (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Synthetic biologists have created a slow-growing version of the coronavirus to give as a vaccine
- DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)
- AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes
- Anchor says it is cracking down on copycat podcasters by improving the detection of stolen podcasts, adding new rules around monetizing shows, and more (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
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- Gas spotted in Venus’s clouds could be a sign of alien life
- YouTube says it is launching an early beta of YouTube Shorts, a 15-second video feature, in India (Chris Jaffe/YouTube Blog)
- NASA will pay for moon rocks excavated by private companies
- GitLab, which has an all remote workforce of 1,300+ employees from 67 countries, is advising companies like Twitter on its "radically transparent" working model (Julia Herbst/Fast Company)
- New standards for AI clinical trials will help spot snake oil and hype
- PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015 (Kaye Wiggins/Financial Times)
- A month after the launch of TikTok's 0M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
- North Korean hackers steal billions in cryptocurrency. How do they turn it into real cash?
- Indian food delivery startup Zomato raises 0M from Tiger Global at a .3B post-money valuation and says it plans to file for an IPO next year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Why the most controversial US internet law is worth saving
- Deel, which provides payroll, compliance tools, and other services for businesses to run remote workforces, raises M Series B, months after its M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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- New York-based Melio, a payments startup focused on small businesses, raises 4M to hire more staff and expand in the US (Yaacov Benmeleh/Bloomberg)
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- How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem
- Interview with Reed Hastings, on the future of Hollywood, the US election and social media, his new book about Netflix's aggressive company culture, and more (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)
- What’s missing from corporate statements on racial injustice? The real cause of racism.
- In court filing, Epic says Fortnite has 116M iOS users, a third of the game's 350M users, and iOS DAUs declined by 60%+ since its removal from the App Store (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
- Under shareholder pressure, Apple quietly publishes its human rights policy based on UN guiding principles, but will follow national law if the two conflict (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
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- Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own "newscaster voice" (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
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- ZTE announces 6.92" Axon 20 5G, with a camera under the display and Snapdragon 765G and 4,220 mAh battery, starting at ~2 only in China (Aamir Siddiqui/XDA Developers)
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- IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud
- China updates its export control list, adding AI tech including "personalized content recommendations based on data analysis", which may affect TikTok US sale (Coco Liu/Nikkei Asian Review)
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- Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tools to businesses, adds M led by Lightspeed and AMEX to its Series B from earlier this year (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
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- Facebook's move to require Oculus devices be linked to a Facebook login sets a dangerous precedent and deserves fierce scrutiny in light of antitrust probes (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
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- China-based online insurance and crowdfunding startup Waterdrop raises 0M led by Swiss Re, Tencent; sources: Waterdrop is now valued at B ahead of a US IPO (Reuters)
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- Imgur partners with Coil to launch Emerald, a /month ad-free service with new community features, available on web and Android now and iOS eventually (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
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- India announces National Digital Health Mission for digitizing citizens' health records; enrollment in the initiative will be voluntary (TheQuint)
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- To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce (Jacob Helberg/Foreign Policy)
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- People close to Amazon's gaming efforts claim Amazon is struggling to make good games because its structure and culture aren't optimized for creative endeavors (Seth Schiesel/Protocol)
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- Gong, which uses AI to provide insights on customer behavior and improve sales, raises 0M Series D, at a .2B valuation, led by Coatue (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Russia says it has a covid vaccine called “Sputnik-V”
- MicroStrategy buys ~0M in bitcoin, becoming the first publicly traded company to buy the currency as part of its capital allocation strategy (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
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- Apple Advertising seems to be on by default in iOS 14, while other advertisers and ad networks will have to ask for permission to track users (John Koetsier/Forbes)
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- Samsung unveils 11" Galaxy Tab S7 and 12.5" S7+ with Snapdragon 865+, Android 10, 5G, 13MP and 5MP rear cameras, from 0, coming this fall (Stephen Schenck/Android Police)
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- Yotpo, which develops e-commerce marketing tools, raises M Series E at a valuation its CEO calls "nearly a unicorn", bringing its total raised to 6M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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- Microsoft has confirmed discussions to buy TikTok's operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but hasn't commented on its European presence (Sam Shead/CNBC)
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- Researchers describe how attackers can sidestep security features of chip-based credit and debit cards from certain banks to create counterfeit cards (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
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- Sources: ByteDance has agreed to divest US operations of TikTok under a proposed new deal with the White House that would see Microsoft take over TikTok in US (Echo Wang/Reuters)
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- US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says TikTok is being reviewed by CFIUS, which will make a recommendation to Trump (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
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- Twitter temporarily locks Donald Trump Jr's account for posting a "misleading and potentially harmful" video touting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
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- OnePlus Nord review: 90Hz OLED display, sub-6GHz 5G, and great battery, but its CPU can hold the phone back and the camera is mediocre despite multiple lenses (Jon Porter/The Verge)
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- This year's Xbox Games Showcase made it clear that Microsoft's true focus for next generation Xbox gaming is not on hardware but on Xbox Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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- Researchers say the Android version of DJI Go 4, installed 1M+ times, covertly collected a range of sensitive user data and sent it to servers in mainland China (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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- Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify (Bill Ready/The Keyword)
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- Kuo: Apple is lining up periscope telephoto lens suppliers for the 2022 iPhone; periscope lenses allow manufacturers to provide higher optical zoom capabilities (MacRumors)
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- AMD unveils 7nm Ryzen 4000 series desktop processors based on its Zen 2 architecture, but says they will only come in prebuilt OEM systems first (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
- OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
- Sources: Microsoft plans to release Windows 10X for some single-screen devices in spring 2021, and dual-screen in spring 2022, with limited Win32 app support (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
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- Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world
- Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
- Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
- In a leaked bulletin from May, DHS indicated concern that the widespread use of masks could interfere with police facial recognition systems (The Intercept)
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- Uber acquires Routematch, which provides a suite of software services covering both fixed-schedule and demand-based transport to transit agencies (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
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- Broadcasting legend Larry King dies at 87 - CNET
- Italy tells TikTok to block all unverified user accounts after a 10-year-old girl dies while allegedly participating in the "blackout challenge" on the app (Crispian Balmer/Reuters)
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- Despite the pandemic, Amazon wants Alabama warehouse workers to vote in person on a proposal to form a union, objecting to NLRB's decision to allow vote by mail (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
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- Facebook sends Trump suspension to its oversight board - CNET
- Polish postal locker service InPost prices shares at €14 to €16, suggesting a valuation of €7B-€8B, as it seeks to raise as much as €3.2B in its Amsterdam IPO (Bloomberg)
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- How to Watch: Resident Evil Village gameplay and trailer to be revealed in Thursday showcase - CNET
- An in-depth look at the PDF file format, a staple since the 1990s, as Adobe says 303B PDFs were opened using its services in FY2020, a 17% rise YoY (Rob Walker/Marker)
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- SpaceX Starship SN9 reloads its Raptors ahead of high-altitude flight - CNET
- Survey of 1,900 Facebook users: 12 political groups were among the top 100 recommended by Facebook in Jan., despite saying it would not recommend "civic groups" (The Markup)
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- Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Movies, TV shows and books on systemic racism - CNET
- Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capital rioters, passing the evidence to authorities (Los Angeles Times)
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- Sunday's top 7 deals: wireless doorbell, ring light, Deadpool bundle and more - CNET
- Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 (Eileen Brown/ZDNet)
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- The best water filter pitcher of 2021 - CNET
- Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested .3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO (Financial Times)
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- Virgin Orbit will attempt to drop and ignite a rocket in mid-air Sunday - CNET
- Sources: Apple is discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts (The Information)
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- Rocket Lab begins 2021 with mission dubbed Another One Leaves the Crust - CNET
- Norway's consumer protection agency details how Amazon riddles the process of canceling Prime with "dark patterns," calls on regulators to investigate (Bloomberg)
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- Ahead of inauguration, Airbnb to cancel DC reservations - CNET
- E-commerce optimization startup Tradeswell raises .5M Series A led by SignalFire (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
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- Our CES 2021 Day 1 recap: Rollable phones, giant TVs and tech for the coronavirus era - CNET
- After an outcry, HireVue, which offers automated assessments of job applicants, will stop using facial analysis but will still analyze intonation and behavior (Will Knight/Wired)
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- Parler goes dark after Amazon pulls hosting amid concerns over violent posts - CNET
- Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese companies, including contract electronics manufacturers, are moving away from China over trade tensions and rising costs (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
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- These gadgets are back at (or near) Black Friday lows: Save on an Echo Dot, on an Echo Show 5, 0 on a Lenovo laptop and more - CNET
- Report: Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the US as early as 2024 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
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- Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
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- US records more than 4,000 COVID-19 deaths in one day for first time - CNET
- Madrid-based digital temp staffing agency Jobandtalent raises ~8M, bringing total raised to 0M, says it helped 80K+ workers with temporary gigs last year (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
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- H.G. Wells fans call out four-legged Martian machine on UK tribute coin - CNET
- Utah-based WeLink, which uses 5G to deliver mesh high-bandwidth wireless internet for neighborhoods, raises 5M from Digital Alpha Advisors (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)
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- Samsung QLED TVs take on OLED with Neo Mini-LED precision dimming - CNET
- Intel launches RealSense ID, an on-device facial authentication tool, launching in Q1 2021 for and aimed at smart locks, ATMs, and kiosks (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
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- Mazda's rotary engine will return to the US with the MX-30 EV - Roadshow
- Filing: Affirm says it plans to sell 24.6M shares at to , seeking to raise up to 4.8M and valuing the company at .22B at the top of the range (Bloomberg)
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- Oxygen, a digital banking startup that focuses on helping freelancers and others with multiple revenue streams, raises M Series A led by Runa Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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- Get Jurassic World Evolution for free in this week's Epic Games giveaway - CNET
- Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering (New York Times)
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- Chinese-built Tesla Model Y goes on sale - Roadshow
- Huawei removes and then reinstates Tencent games on its app stores after a dispute over revenue sharing; source: Huawei insisted on receiving a 50% cut (Reuters)
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- Elon Musk plans to catch SpaceX's most powerful rocket rather than land it - CNET
- Report: 10 ex-members of Apple's supplier responsibility team say it avoids or delays removing suppliers guilty of labor violations when doing so hurts business (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
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- What's Section 230? The social media law that's clogging up the stimulus talks - CNET
- Sources: SimilarWeb is planning a Nasdaq IPO in Q2 2021, aiming for a B+ valuation; the company has raised 0M in total, including 0M in October (Golan Hazani/CTech)
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- Best balance transfer credit cards for January 2021 - CNET
- DNA testing company 23andMe raises ~.5M Series F led by Sequoia Capital and NewView Capital; the company laid off 14% of its workforce earlier this year (Kristen V Brown/Bloomberg)
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- COVID-19, presidential election top Wikipedia's most-read articles in 2020 - CNET
- A huge drop in power prices has made Sweden and Norway lucrative for mining cryptocurrencies, giving big miners alternatives to China, Kazakhstan, and Canada (Jesper Starn/Bloomberg)
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- Kuo: Apple Car's unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV/self-driving market may push the launch to 2028 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
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- Apple's system status page is showing issues with "iCloud Account and Sign In" since Christmas morning, as users complain about problems with device activation (MacRumors)
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- Mercedes AMG-GT models recalled over... loose hubcaps?! - Roadshow
- Amazon's 0 Echo Frames review: good as a BT headset with little noise bleed, good mic quality but have middling battery life, fall short as an Alexa device (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
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- The best smart thermostats to buy this year - CNET
- DeepMind details MuZero, revealed in 2019 and following AlphaZero, which can master games without knowing the rules and is working on YouTube video compression (Leo Kelion/BBC)
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- Investigation details Amazon's campaigns over the years to steamroll rivals and partners, including those on its marketplace, sometimes with Bezos' involvement (Dana Mattioli/Wall Street Journal)
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- TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, "Year on TikTok", which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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- Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the "Fake News Media" is exaggerating its extent (Jacob Knutson/Axios)
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- Apple clarifies power-saving modes of AirPods Max, says they enter low power mode after 5 minutes of non-use and ultralow power state after 18 hours in the case (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
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- Spryker, which provides a full suite of e-commerce tools for customers like Aldi and Toyota, raises 0M Series C led by TCV, at a 0M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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- Boston-based Tive, which helps companies track sensitive shipments like food or medicine in real time, raises M Series A led by RRE Ventures (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
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- Apple Fitness Plus review: A workout routine that fits you - CNET
- German Bionic raises M Series A co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and MIG AG for its exoskeleton tech targeted at industrial applications (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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- NFL streaming: Best ways to watch and stream 2020 Week 14 live without cable - CNET
- Sources: Facebook considers physical retaliation from Hindu extremist groups as a danger in India, which it ranks as a "Tier One" country for societal violence (Wall Street Journal)
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- Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages (Rakesh Prakash/Times of India)
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- Google, Dell, Intel, Slack, Zoom, and others form The Modern Computing Alliance to tackle security, remote work, and other enterprise issues (Nick Statt/The Verge)
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- Here comes the Google Chrome change that worried ad blocker creators - CNET
- App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to 2B; 65¢ of every was spent on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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- Black Friday deals on Roku: Sales on Streaming Stick Plus for , Ultra for , Streambar for 0, Roku TV for 8 - CNET
- A look at China's draft Personal Information Protection Law, which would significantly increase fines for companies responsible for data breaches to up to .6M (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will be tested in a new trial after questions over its data
- Black Friday laptop savings: Deals on Dell XPS 13, HP Envy, Microsoft Surface Pro 7 and more - CNET
- Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
- The apps keeping Rio’s residents safe from stray bullets
- The best Black Friday 2020 kitchen brand sales: Vitamix, Always Pan, Staub, Riedel and more - CNET
- Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level (Alex Hern/The Guardian)
- Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies
- Black Friday vacuum deals: Sales on Bissell, Shark, Dyson, Hoover, Neato and more - CNET
- An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)
- Building resilient supply chains
- Facebook reportedly tweaked algorithm to make a 'nicer news feed' following US election - CNET
- Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is up to 90% effective, according to interim data
- AirPods Studio rumors: The release date could be pushed to 2021 - CNET
- China orders that streamers and gift givers on livestreaming services must use real names, and the services must limit amount of tips and ban teens from tipping (Nikki Sun/Nikkei Asia)
- Pfizer wants authorization to start distributing its vaccine by Christmas
- Best Black Friday 2020 deals: Big price drops on Apple Watch, DJI Mavic Mini, Roku, Fitbit, more - CNET
- Experts say AI-based apps like qXR, which help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis early, could make an enormous impact on the control of the disease in India (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
- After Trump fires CISA’s director, the agency is poised to become even more powerful
- Black Friday 2020 AirPod deals: AirPods Pro are 0 now, but dropping to 9 soon - CNET
- Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with M in funding (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
- How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade
- The best portable power stations for 2020 - CNET
- 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 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Why we should be funding more Solyndras
- iPhone 12 Pro Max camera: See my rugged Lost Coast photography adventure - CNET
- 30+ major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalization in the cash-loving nation (Leika Kihara/Reuters)
- An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI
- The best smart home gym workouts of 2020: Peloton, Mirror, Tempo and more - CNET
- Research suggests Sony PS5 and Xbox Series X and S first week sales in Japan were lower than their predecessors, hinting at persistent supply bottlenecks (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
- How election results get certified
- The cult-favorite Always Pan is off right now. Here's why that's a great deal - CNET
- Google Maps updates with pandemic-oriented features like takeout tracking, public transport crowd info, and additions to COVID-19 overlay like local case counts (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- Moderna says its covid-19 vaccine is nearly 95% effective
- Virgin Galactic spaceflight delayed due to coronavirus surge - CNET
- 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 (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- The race to get Georgia’s 23,000 17-year-olds registered to vote
- Target Black Friday 2020 ad scans: off Apple Watch and more - CNET
- A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency (Phil Vachon/Security Embedded)
- It’s not too late to cancel Thanksgiving
- Best Black Friday 2020 deals available now: Crock-Pot, 0 TCL 4K smart TV, 0 Apple Watch and 0 Beats headphones - CNET
- Profile of Tom Alberg, an early investor in Amazon, the founder of Madrona Venture Group, and a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)
- Covid-19 vaccines shouldn’t get emergency-use authorization
- iPhone 12 Mini review: Apple's smallest is a one-handed phone user's dream - CNET
- Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
- A private company has a crew going to the ISS next year
- PS5 and Xbox Series X backward compatibility: Everything we know as new consoles launch - CNET
- Menlo Security, which offers a cloud-based isolation service that separates enterprise networks from the public web, raises 0M Series E at a 0M valuation (Michael Novinson/CRN)
- Featured Session: An Orchestrated Response to a Systemic Network Ransomware Attack at Norsk Hydro
- Best cases for iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro - CNET
- US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay doctors to use AI systems that diagnose eye disease in diabetics and detect strokes through brain scans (Tom Simonite/Wired)
- What Biden means for Big Tech—and Google in particular
- First Nikola Tre electric semi prototype built, company says - Roadshow
- Cloud directory service JumpCloud raises M Series E led by BlackRock, bringing its total raised to 6M+, as the pandemic heightens need for remote IT tools (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- Robotic surgery gives doctors new savvy
- Virgin Hyperloop blasts first human passengers around test track - Roadshow
- Zoom agrees to enhance its security as part of a proposed settlement with FTC, after Zoom was accused of deceiving customers over end-to-end encryption and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Why social media can’t keep moderating content in the shadows
- Best cheap home security cameras to buy for 2020 - CNET
- Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate (Corbin Davenport/Android Police)
- What Biden will and won’t be able to achieve on climate change
- Nissan Frontier previewed with the new Navara - Roadshow
- CFPB issued a rule last week allowing debt collectors to send unlimited texts, emails, and social media messages to debtors, will require opt-out instructions (Irina Ivanova/CBS News)
- Half the Milky Way’s sun-like stars could be home to Earth-like planets
- 2021 Nissan Frontier revealed abroad, foreshadowing our new pickup truck - Roadshow
- Netflix is testing Direct, a linear channel with real-time, scheduled programming from its library, which is accessible only via its website, in France (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
- Why counting votes in Pennsylvania is taking so long
- Xbox Series X review: A console without surprises or gimmicks, but one secret weapon - CNET
- Razer unveils Book 13, a productivity laptop with a 16:10 screen, RGB keyboard, and Intel's Iris Xe integrated graphics, available in Nov., starting at ,200 (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
- We just found a source for one of the most mysterious phenomena in astronomy
- First mysterious radio burst discovered in the Milky Way reveals extreme origins - CNET
- Facebook and Instagram add large pop-ups atop feeds telling users that no presidential election winner has been declared, after Trump prematurely claims victory (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Five ways political groups are getting around ad bans
- Election Day 2020: Here's how your vote will actually be counted - CNET
- Internal Facebook survey shows only 51% believe Facebook was having a positive impact in the world, down 23% from May and down 5.5% from last year (BuzzFeed News)
- It’s 2020 and anti-Semitism is an electoral tactic again
- Ford to build a new 6.8-liter V8 engine in Canada - Roadshow
- Sources: Alibaba is in advanced talks to invest nearly 0M in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch and potentially create a Chinese JV (Juro Osawa/The Information)
- How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science
- Best home security cameras of 2020 that run on batteries - CNET
- A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him (Washington Post)
- Not finding life on Venus would be disappointing. But it’s good science at work.
- Intel Iris Xe Max GPU arrives in 11th-gen mobile chips to boost gaming, creation - CNET
- Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules (Lara O'Reilly/Digiday)
- Censored by China, under attack in America: what’s next for WeChat?
- Apple Arcade: The complete list of games for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV - CNET
- Brazil-based payments processor Conductor raises 0M led by Viking Global Investors to expand in Latin America (Reuters)
- Voters should resist blaming every election glitch on political interference
- Yahoo's first branded smartphone is here, and it's purple (and only ) - CNET
- Travel activities booking app GetYourGuide raises 3M through a convertible note led by Searchlight Capital, bringing its total raised to 0M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- How to make restaurants safer during the pandemic
- Best 75-inch TV for 2020 - CNET
- Following social media crackdowns, QAnon content is continuing to thrive on Amazon and platforms like Parler and Telegram with limited moderation (Washington Post)
- What to expect on Election Day
- Star Wars Episode 1: Racer launches on Xbox One Tuesday - CNET
- Researchers detail how link previews in messengers from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Line can leak sensitive data, consume limited bandwidth, and more (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Water on the moon should be more accessible than we thought
- Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group merger greenlit by EU - Roadshow
- Grayshift, the maker of phone hacking tool GrayKey that's popular with law enforcement, raises M led by PeakEquity Partners (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
- OSIRIS-REx collected too much asteroid material and now some is floating away
- NFL 2020: How to watch Steelers vs. Titans, Bucs vs. Raiders, RedZone and the rest of Week 7 without cable - CNET
- Video games are helping veterans struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression and those adjusting to civilian life after deployment in combat zones (Alex Miller/Wired)
- Drug companies shouldn’t play favorites in granting access to experimental covid-19 treatments
- Get the new Xiaomi Mi Band 5 fitness watch for - CNET
- Output, which develops software and virtual instruments for musicians, composers, producers, and sound designers, raises M Series A led by Summit Partners (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
- How to make a chatbot that isn’t racist or sexist
- Disney Plus: Everything you need to know about Disney's streaming app - CNET
- Political strategists say they are struggling to find enough space on YouTube for ads as campaigns flood the service, with particular shortages in swing states (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- It’s time to rethink the legal treatment of robots
- PS5 and Xbox Series X backward compatibility: Everything we know so far - CNET
- Apple says it is expanding its COVID-safe "Express" retail stores, with a counter protected by plexiglass at the front of a store, ahead of the holiday season (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- OSIRIS-REx survived its touchdown on asteroid Bennu—now we wait to see if it got a sample
- Netflix's The Old Guard, Enola Holmes were its biggest 'summer' hits - CNET
- Tekion, which offers a service that connects car makers, dealers, and buyers, raises 0M Series C led by Advent at a B+ valuation (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
- Would you like “milk” with that Impossible burger?
- iPhone 12 and 5G: All the answers to your questions about the super-fast connectivity - CNET
- Researchers find a Telegram bot that takes a person's photo and turns it into a fake nude; by July, 100K+ images of women had been transformed, shared publicly (James Vincent/The Verge)
- Facebook’s new polyglot AI can translate between 100 languages
- Peak Design's magnet-based phone case hits 0,000 crowdfunding goal in 48 minutes - CNET
- Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
- A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
- NFL 2020: How to watch Browns vs. Steelers, Packers vs. Bucs, RedZone and the rest of Week 6 today without cable - CNET
- China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls (Colum Murphy/Bloomberg)
- Twitter’s ban almost doubled attention for Biden misinformation
- Best Walmart deals still available after Prime Day: off Samsung Galaxy Watch and more - CNET
- 18% of games announced by major studios this summer had female protagonists, with Sony accounting for over a third; E3 2019 games had 5% female representation (Wired)
- AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
- iPhone 12 customers won't pay more with T-Mobile after Apple updates pricing - CNET
- As American-run companies, Facebook and other US tech giants lack local knowledge and nuanced understanding to weigh information threats in other countries (Axios)
- Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?
- QAnon: What you need to know as this unhinged, pro-Trump conspiracy theory grows - CNET
- Argyle, which allows businesses to access employment records via an API or a web interface, raises M Series A led by Bain Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
- Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time
- iPhone 12 and 5G: All of your questions answered - CNET
- Microsoft details its new image captioning AI, part of Azure, that will improve accessibility for Word, Outlook, and other apps (James Vincent/The Verge)
- A man caught coronavirus twice—and it was worse the second time
- Apple's iPhone 12 launch event is today: How to watch it live - CNET
- Researchers demo plugging a modified USB-C cable into a Mac to hack T2 chip; Apple has debuted six Mac models with T2 chips since the checkm8 flaw became public (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
- This spacecraft is being readied for a one-way mission to deflect an asteroid
- 2021 Ford Bronco came close to co-opting Jeep Wrangler's folding windshield - Roadshow
- Snapdocs, which is used by ~130,000 real estate professionals to manage the mortgage process online, raises M Series C led by YC Continuity (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Election result delays mean “the system is working,” says cybersecurity chief
- NBA Finals: How to watch Lakers vs. Heat Game 6 tonight on ABC - CNET
- Interview with Maulik Majmudar, Amazon Halo's principal medical officer, on the fitness band, its controversial body fat and emotional tone features, and more (Kevin McAllister/Protocol)
- Congress made a lousy case for breaking up Big Tech
- Disney Plus will premiere Pixar's Soul on Dec. 25, skipping theaters - CNET
- Avail Medsystems, which develops telemedicine software to let surgical teams in operating rooms collaborate with remote medical experts, raises 0M Series B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals
- NFL 2020: How to watch Raiders vs. Chiefs, Colts vs. Browns, RedZone and the rest of Week 5 without cable - CNET
- Grid AI, which helps AI researchers and engineers scale their models to match workloads needed for enterprise use, raises .6M Series A led by Index Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed
- The Pathless launches on Apple Arcade, PS5 on Nov. 12. We got an early look at the game - CNET
- Bloom Credit, which offers an API for businesses to integrate with all three major US credit bureaus, raises M Series A (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- The Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to the two women who pioneered CRISPR gene editing
- Slack teases a slew of updates that aim to make remote work easier - CNET
- How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications (Bloomberg)
- Texas’s war on drop-off votes gets almost everything wrong
- Chrome now can find hacked passwords on Android and iPhones - CNET
- Instagram says there are 900M daily emoji reactions, and 50% of users watch a video daily, but again fails to say how many users it has or what its revenue is (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)
- Trump is being given a steroid that is usually used for severe cases of covid-19
- Elon Musk and SpaceX plan a Starship update for October - CNET
- PayPal's Venmo announces a Visa credit card, managed through its app and with a QR code on the physical card, for making online and in-store payments (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- A VR film/game with AI characters can be different every time you watch or play
- 8 products that inspired today's smart home - CNET
- Ten US states, including NY and NJ, that account for ~21% of the US population have released a COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple and Google's API (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- Trump just got a dose of Regeneron’s unapproved antibody drug for covid
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate adds Steve from Minecraft on Oct. 13 - CNET
- Security researchers describe a way to fingerprint exploit writers' characteristics, which can then be used to identify other exploits written by same writers (Check Point Research)
- How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world
- NFL 2020: How to watch Browns vs. Cowboys, Patriots vs. Chiefs, RedZone and the rest of Week 4 without cable - CNET
- New animators have moved away from YouTube to make their names on TikTok instead, where it's easier for short, catchy, and experimental video clips to succeed (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
- Podcast: How Russia’s everything company works with the Kremlin
- Mulan's Disney Plus exclusive ends Tuesday, going on sale via Amazon, Vudu, others - CNET
- As Deliveroo says it will add 15,000 couriers, who it calls "heroes", by the end of 2020, some couriers say they are struggling to make enough to live on (Natasha Bernal/WIRED UK)
- How AI will revolutionize manufacturing
- YouTube TV is about to lose 21 Fox Regional Sports Networks: report - CNET
- Sources: Google is planning to produce as little as ~800,000 Pixel 5 handsets, taking total production of Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 to 3M units (Nikkei Asian Review)
- How democracies can claim back power in the digital world
- Prime Day deal: 5 ways to spend at Amazon and get from Amazon - CNET
- D-Wave launches Advantage, a cloud service that offers access to 5,000+ qubit quantum computing and a hybrid solver service that can handle 1M variables (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)
- There might be even more underground reservoirs of liquid water on Mars
- Motorola One 5G review: Incredible value with Frankensteined features - CNET
- Social media platforms need to publicly declare a unified strategy to combat election misinformation, including Trump prematurely claiming victory via tweet (New York Times)
- These weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter
- NFL streaming: Best ways to watch 2020 football live today without cable - CNET
- FedEx CEO says the company is working with Reliable Robotics to pilot the use of an unmanned single-engine aircraft for cargo delivery (Matt Leonard/Supply Chain Dive)
- How to plan your life during a pandemic
- LG Wing hands-on: Here's what it's like to actually use the weird swiveling phone - CNET
- CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high (Sara Castellanos/Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook wants to make AI better by asking people to break it
- Great cheap accessories for all Apple Watch models - CNET
- Colombia-based delivery app Rappi has raised over 0M from T. Rowe Price and others (Nelson Bocanegra/Reuters)
- How close is AI to decoding our emotions?
- 2020 Audi SQ8 flies under the radar - Roadshow
- Whitebox, which manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment across marketplaces, raises M Series B led by Noro-Moseley Partners, after M Series A in 2019 (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new m AI prize
- Tesla Battery Day recap: Major announcements include Model S Plaid and a ,000 EV - Roadshow
- Shopify says two "rogue members" of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate (Bloomberg)
- AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities
- Amazon's Prime Day 2020 will start on Oct. 13 - CNET
- Microsoft unveils updates across Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, launches Metrics Advisor, Bot Framework Composer, Automated ML UI, more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits
- Still no iPhone 12. But we think we figured out when Apple will announce it - CNET
- Amazon says Echo and Tile devices will become Bluetooth bridges for Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless protocol, later this year (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Letter-writing staved off lockdown loneliness. Now it’s getting out the vote.
- Sony and Microsoft are using nostalgia to sell the PS5, Xbox Series X - CNET
- US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday (CNBC)
- Americans won’t be able to download TikTok or WeChat from Sunday
- NBA playoffs: How to watch Celtics vs. Heat Game 3 tonight on ESPN - CNET
- The FTC and DOJ antitrust divisions are underfunded, as current and ex-staffers say tech giants use close personal ties and deep pockets to stymie regulation (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
- A patient has died after ransomware hackers hit a German hospital
- T-Mobile offers first responders up to 25% off Samsung 5G phones - CNET
- Sources: neobank Chime has raised 5M Series F at a .5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months (Hugh Son/CNBC)
- Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.
- NBA playoffs: How to watch Heat vs. Celtics Game 2 tonight on ESPN - CNET
- Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, which lets SMBs manage their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger from a single interface (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Synthetic biologists have created a slow-growing version of the coronavirus to give as a vaccine
- TikTok users rejoice over Oracle deal, but saga with Trump isn't over - CNET
- DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)
- AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes
- The Mandalorian season 2 trailer is now live - CNET
- Anchor says it is cracking down on copycat podcasters by improving the detection of stolen podcasts, adding new rules around monetizing shows, and more (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
- Gas spotted in Venus’s clouds could be a sign of alien life
- LG teases phone with extendable, pull-out display after LG Wing announcement - CNET
- YouTube says it is launching an early beta of YouTube Shorts, a 15-second video feature, in India (Chris Jaffe/YouTube Blog)
- NASA will pay for moon rocks excavated by private companies
- A street artist in India is searching for his toilet masterpiece - CNET
- GitLab, which has an all remote workforce of 1,300+ employees from 67 countries, is advising companies like Twitter on its "radically transparent" working model (Julia Herbst/Fast Company)
- New standards for AI clinical trials will help spot snake oil and hype
- In India, an indestructible toilet may be the key to saving lives - CNET
- PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015 (Kaye Wiggins/Financial Times)
- HBO Max: Everything to know about HBO's bigger, new streaming app - CNET
- A month after the launch of TikTok's 0M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
- North Korean hackers steal billions in cryptocurrency. How do they turn it into real cash?
- NASA wants to buy moon rocks from private companies - CNET
- Indian food delivery startup Zomato raises 0M from Tiger Global at a .3B post-money valuation and says it plans to file for an IPO next year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Why the most controversial US internet law is worth saving
- Mint Mobile's new unlimited plan includes 5G for per month - CNET
- Deel, which provides payroll, compliance tools, and other services for businesses to run remote workforces, raises M Series B, months after its M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Designing the essential and the unseen
- Best massage gun for 2020: Theragun, Hypervolt, TimTam and more compared - CNET
- New York-based Melio, a payments startup focused on small businesses, raises 4M to hire more staff and expand in the US (Yaacov Benmeleh/Bloomberg)
- In defense of California
- Motorola Moto G9 Plus leak reveals 64-megapixel camera - CNET
- How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem
- Trump sics Twitter followers on Lauren Powell Jobs over Atlantic story - CNET
- Interview with Reed Hastings, on the future of Hollywood, the US election and social media, his new book about Netflix's aggressive company culture, and more (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)
- What’s missing from corporate statements on racial injustice? The real cause of racism.
- 2021 Infiniti QX80 gets an updated smart rearview mirror, pricing - Roadshow
- In court filing, Epic says Fortnite has 116M iOS users, a third of the game's 350M users, and iOS DAUs declined by 60%+ since its removal from the App Store (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
- VW ID 4 interior keeps it minimal but isn't low on style - Roadshow
- Under shareholder pressure, Apple quietly publishes its human rights policy based on UN guiding principles, but will follow national law if the two conflict (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets
- James Bond movies: Watch these first ahead of No Time to Die - CNET
- Sources: SoftBank is exploring assembling a group of bidders for TikTok's India assets and is looking for local partners like Reliance Jio and Airtel (Bloomberg)
- Podcast: How a 135-year-old law lets India shutdown the internet
- The Mandalorian Season 2 kicks off on Disney Plus Oct. 30 - CNET
- Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own "newscaster voice" (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
- California’s air conditioner-driven blackouts are only the start
- Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime with -a-year membership fee - CNET
- ZTE announces 6.92" Axon 20 5G, with a camera under the display and Snapdragon 765G and 4,220 mAh battery, starting at ~2 only in China (Aamir Siddiqui/XDA Developers)
- Explainer: What do political databases know about you?
- Apple HomePod smart speaker is back down to 0 at Best Buy - CNET
- Apple says App Store policy changes, including not delaying bug fix updates over guideline violations and letting developers challenge guidelines, are now live (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater
- Best coffee grinder for 2020: Oxo, Breville, Cuisinart, Baratza and more - CNET
- Okta, which provides identity management service for companies, has been a big beneficiary of remote work during lockdown with its stock rising 106% since March (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)
- IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud
- EV maker Canoo shows running, driving skateboard platform for the first time - Roadshow
- China updates its export control list, adding AI tech including "personalized content recommendations based on data analysis", which may affect TikTok US sale (Coco Liu/Nikkei Asian Review)
- Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 price reportedly leaks on its UK site - CNET
- Sources: Comcast is pitching X1 software powering its set-top boxes and Flex streaming hardware as a potential operating system to smart TV manufacturers (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)
- The scientists who swab subways for coronavirus
- Amazon's Halo fitness tracker will measure your body fat... and tone of voice? - CNET
- Restream, a service that helps creators stream to around 30 platforms simultaneously, raises M Series A co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.
- Fall Guys becomes most downloaded PS Plus game of all time - CNET
- Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tools to businesses, adds M led by Lightspeed and AMEX to its Series B from earlier this year (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Participation-washing could be the next dangerous fad in machine learning
- Jeep Grand Wagoneer coming Sept. 3 - Roadshow
- Emboldened by Hong Kong's new security law, police are targeting the social media accounts of media executives, pro-democracy politicians, and activists (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
- The UK exam debacle reminds us that algorithms can’t fix broken systems
- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg reportedly warned Trump, lawmakers about rise of TikTok - CNET
- Black VCs discuss systemic issues within the industry, where only 4% of VCs are African-American and investment rates are low, and wonder about the future (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)
- Facebook is training robot assistants to hear as well as see
- 9 must-have classic car accessories - Roadshow
- A detailed look at some key developments/breakthroughs in robotics, amid an increasing interest in robots during the pandemic, and what to expect in the future (David Berreby/National Geographic)
- GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
- Get this 2-in-1 cordless stick vacuum with detachable battery pack for 38% off - CNET
- Tech for Campaigns, a volunteer group of ~13,500 tech employees, have worked on 468 election-related projects, flipping 3 state chambers Democratic since 2018 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
- E-learning? There’s a database for that. Real-time data? That, too
- Amazon's head of consumer operations to retire - CNET
- Facebook's move to require Oculus devices be linked to a Facebook login sets a dangerous precedent and deserves fierce scrutiny in light of antitrust probes (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
- Yes, climate change is almost certainly fueling California’s massive fires
- Sony's newest PS5 teaser focuses on immersion - CNET
- China-based online insurance and crowdfunding startup Waterdrop raises 0M led by Swiss Re, Tencent; sources: Waterdrop is now valued at B ahead of a US IPO (Reuters)
- Health misinformation pages got half a billion views on Facebook in April
- Facebook Portal to add Zoom and other conferencing apps to its video chat devices - CNET
- Imgur partners with Coil to launch Emerald, a /month ad-free service with new community features, available on web and Android now and iOS eventually (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
- Anova's new Wi-Fi oven combines convection, steam and sous vide - CNET
- Samsung Note20 Ultra review: has fast performance, multiday battery life, big display is great for streaming games, but camera bump is huge, and it's expensive (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
- The 5 best places to explore in the solar system—besides Mars
- How to watch Bruins vs. Hurricanes, Blues vs. Canucks, 2020 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs - CNET
- During a dire UK job market, LinkedIn has become riddled with fake vacancies and improbable hiring stories that go viral (Emily Beater/New Statesman)
- TikTok made him famous. Now he’s imagining a world without it
- Biden and Trump set to receive nominations in historic virtual DNC, RNC - CNET
- India announces National Digital Health Mission for digitizing citizens' health records; enrollment in the initiative will be voluntary (TheQuint)
- There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US
- Boom ready to roll out its first jet en route to carbon neutral supersonic travel - CNET
- To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce (Jacob Helberg/Foreign Policy)
- Unmade in America
- Apple Arcade's Next Stop Nowhere takes you on an intergalactic road trip - CNET
- A legal analysis and risk evaluation of the US antitrust cases against Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook shows the cases won't be a slam dunk (Bloomberg)
- Every country wants a covid-19 vaccine. Who will get it first?
- Fortnite direct payment option lets you dodge iOS and Android app store fees - CNET
- People close to Amazon's gaming efforts claim Amazon is struggling to make good games because its structure and culture aren't optimized for creative endeavors (Seth Schiesel/Protocol)
- Covid-19 “long haulers” are organizing online to study themselves
- Xbox Series X launches this November, without Halo Infinite - CNET
- Gong, which uses AI to provide insights on customer behavior and improve sales, raises 0M Series D, at a .2B valuation, led by Coatue (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Russia says it has a covid vaccine called “Sputnik-V”
- The best wireless car charger and mount for 2020 - CNET
- MicroStrategy buys ~0M in bitcoin, becoming the first publicly traded company to buy the currency as part of its capital allocation strategy (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- Is a successful contact tracing app possible? These countries think so.
- All the best headphones for working at home in 2020 - CNET
- Apple Advertising seems to be on by default in iOS 14, while other advertisers and ad networks will have to ask for permission to track users (John Koetsier/Forbes)
- “Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” Inside the disturbing online world of gangstalking
- The best home security camera to buy in 2020 - CNET
- As Zynga buys Istanbul-based Rollic Games for 8M, a look at the rapid growth of hyper-casual mobile games, where publishers may launch a new title every week (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
- Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was
- MLB is back: How to watch Yankees vs. Rays, Giants vs. Dodgers this weekend without cable - CNET
- Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture (Elamin Abdelmahmoud/BuzzFeed News)
- Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy
- Best streaming device of 2020: Roku, Apple TV, Fire Stick, Nvidia Shield and more compared - CNET
- Qualcomm patches six security flaws in Snapdragon DSP chip that allowed attackers to take over an Android phone without any user interaction required (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- A guide to the TikTokish apps that want to be the next TikTok
- UV light and Big Ass Fans combine for a potential coronavirus killer - CNET
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review: balanced sound with a bold, unconventional design but noise cancellation isn't good and there is occasional signal interference (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- The UK is dropping an immigration algorithm that critics say is racist
- Watch: Galaxy Z Fold 2, Note 20 launch is today at Samsung Unpacked - CNET
- Samsung unveils 11" Galaxy Tab S7 and 12.5" S7+ with Snapdragon 865+, Android 10, 5G, 13MP and 5MP rear cameras, from 0, coming this fall (Stephen Schenck/Android Police)
- Climate change-fueled heatwaves could kill millions
- The best video doorbell camera of 2020 - CNET
- Yotpo, which develops e-commerce marketing tools, raises M Series E at a valuation its CEO calls "nearly a unicorn", bringing its total raised to 6M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- The quest for quantum-proof encryption just made a leap forward
- The best DIY home security systems to buy in 2020 - CNET
- Microsoft has confirmed discussions to buy TikTok's operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but hasn't commented on its European presence (Sam Shead/CNBC)
- How an EU tax could slash climate emissions far beyond Europe
- Best smart speakers of 2020: Amazon, Google and Apple offer hands-free help - CNET
- Researchers describe how attackers can sidestep security features of chip-based credit and debit cards from certain banks to create counterfeit cards (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
- The best blenders of 2020: NutriBullet, Ninja and more - CNET
- Sources: ByteDance has agreed to divest US operations of TikTok under a proposed new deal with the White House that would see Microsoft take over TikTok in US (Echo Wang/Reuters)
- The problems AI has today go back centuries
- Amazon's Project Kuiper gets FCC approval for over 3,200 internet satellites - CNET
- Twitter permanently bans the account of white supremacist David Duke (Steven Musil/CNET)
- A new neural network could help computers code themselves
- Here are the best used cars for teens according to Consumer Reports and IIHS - Roadshow
- A look at Muslim matchmaking apps like Muzmatch, which are trying to "disrupt" the tradition of arranged marriages while adhering to Islamic cultural values (Yasmin Hai/Rest of World)
- Canada’s narwhals skewer Silicon Valley’s unicorns
- PlayStation documentary trailer shows how far games have come since 1994 - CNET
- US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says TikTok is being reviewed by CFIUS, which will make a recommendation to Trump (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
- The US needs a green stimulus – but must provide immediate relief first
- Amazon now selling its in-house-designed face shield at cost - CNET
- Twitter temporarily locks Donald Trump Jr's account for posting a "misleading and potentially harmful" video touting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
- Why Congress should look at Twitter and Facebook
- MLB is back: How to watch Angels vs. A's, Mets vs. Red Sox today without cable - CNET
- OnePlus Nord review: 90Hz OLED display, sub-6GHz 5G, and great battery, but its CPU can hold the phone back and the camera is mediocre despite multiple lenses (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans
- Can herd immunity help stop coronavirus? What we know now - CNET
- Despite smartphone sales in China declining 17% YoY in Q2, Huawei grew 14%, capturing 46% of the market, as Apple grew 32%, becoming the fastest growing OEM (Mengmeng Zhang/Counterpoint Research)
- An AI hiring firm promising to be bias-free wants to predict job hopping
- Hands-on with Vivo X50 Pro: Camera's buttery smooth, but with some tradeoffs - CNET
- This year's Xbox Games Showcase made it clear that Microsoft's true focus for next generation Xbox gaming is not on hardware but on Xbox Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Lockdown was the longest period of quiet in recorded human history
- Garmin app, website go offline after reported ransomware attack - CNET
- Researchers say the Android version of DJI Go 4, installed 1M+ times, covertly collected a range of sensitive user data and sent it to servers in mainland China (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Amazon unveils boxes that can be transformed into cat condos and rocket ships - CNET
- China’s Tianwen-1 mission is on its way to Mars
- Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify (Bill Ready/The Keyword)
- Astronomers capture first images of multiplanet system around sunlike star - CNET
- Here’s one way to make daily covid-19 testing feasible on a mass scale
- Kuo: Apple is lining up periscope telephoto lens suppliers for the 2022 iPhone; periscope lenses allow manufacturers to provide higher optical zoom capabilities (MacRumors)
- Amazon's Jeff Bezos adds billion to his net worth in a single day - CNET
- The Oxford covid-19 vaccine candidate has produced promising early trial results
- AMD unveils 7nm Ryzen 4000 series desktop processors based on its Zen 2 architecture, but says they will only come in prebuilt OEM systems first (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
- Galaxy Fold 2 leak appears to show bronze color, cover display - CNET
- OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
- Sources: Microsoft plans to release Windows 10X for some single-screen devices in spring 2021, and dual-screen in spring 2022, with limited Win32 app support (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
- The 7 best phones you can get for 0 or less: Galaxy A50, Moto G Power and more - CNET
- Covid-19 data is a public good. The US government must start treating it like one.
- Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- The best sports bras to buy in 2020 - CNET
- A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world
- Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
- Android and iOS will soon get 117 new emoji - CNET
- Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
- In a leaked bulletin from May, DHS indicated concern that the widespread use of masks could interfere with police facial recognition systems (The Intercept)
- Best RV rental companies in 2020 - Roadshow
- Vivo X50 Pro hands on: A slick phone with 60x zoom and a gimbal - CNET
- These are the closest images of the sun ever taken
- Uber acquires Routematch, which provides a suite of software services covering both fixed-schedule and demand-based transport to transit agencies (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
- Internet Services
- Legal
- Nano Technology
- Italy tells TikTok to block all unverified user accounts after a 10-year-old girl dies while allegedly participating in the "blackout challenge" on the app (Crispian Balmer/Reuters)
- Despite the pandemic, Amazon wants Alabama warehouse workers to vote in person on a proposal to form a union, objecting to NLRB's decision to allow vote by mail (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
- Polish postal locker service InPost prices shares at €14 to €16, suggesting a valuation of €7B-€8B, as it seeks to raise as much as €3.2B in its Amsterdam IPO (Bloomberg)
- An in-depth look at the PDF file format, a staple since the 1990s, as Adobe says 303B PDFs were opened using its services in FY2020, a 17% rise YoY (Rob Walker/Marker)
- Survey of 1,900 Facebook users: 12 political groups were among the top 100 recommended by Facebook in Jan., despite saying it would not recommend "civic groups" (The Markup)
- Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capital rioters, passing the evidence to authorities (Los Angeles Times)
- Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 (Eileen Brown/ZDNet)
- Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested .3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO (Financial Times)
- Sources: Apple is discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts (The Information)
- Cosi
- Norway's consumer protection agency details how Amazon riddles the process of canceling Prime with "dark patterns," calls on regulators to investigate (Bloomberg)
- E-commerce optimization startup Tradeswell raises .5M Series A led by SignalFire (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- After an outcry, HireVue, which offers automated assessments of job applicants, will stop using facial analysis but will still analyze intonation and behavior (Will Knight/Wired)
- Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese companies, including contract electronics manufacturers, are moving away from China over trade tensions and rising costs (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
- Report: Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the US as early as 2024 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
- Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
- Madrid-based digital temp staffing agency Jobandtalent raises ~8M, bringing total raised to 0M, says it helped 80K+ workers with temporary gigs last year (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- Utah-based WeLink, which uses 5G to deliver mesh high-bandwidth wireless internet for neighborhoods, raises 5M from Digital Alpha Advisors (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)
- Intel launches RealSense ID, an on-device facial authentication tool, launching in Q1 2021 for and aimed at smart locks, ATMs, and kiosks (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Filing: Affirm says it plans to sell 24.6M shares at to , seeking to raise up to 4.8M and valuing the company at .22B at the top of the range (Bloomberg)
- Oxygen, a digital banking startup that focuses on helping freelancers and others with multiple revenue streams, raises M Series A led by Runa Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
- Interview with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais on leveraging the Atari brand, including through hotels and virtual clothing, shipping the VCS console, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
- Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering (New York Times)
- Huawei removes and then reinstates Tencent games on its app stores after a dispute over revenue sharing; source: Huawei insisted on receiving a 50% cut (Reuters)
- Report: 10 ex-members of Apple's supplier responsibility team say it avoids or delays removing suppliers guilty of labor violations when doing so hurts business (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
- Sources: SimilarWeb is planning a Nasdaq IPO in Q2 2021, aiming for a B+ valuation; the company has raised 0M in total, including 0M in October (Golan Hazani/CTech)
- DNA testing company 23andMe raises ~.5M Series F led by Sequoia Capital and NewView Capital; the company laid off 14% of its workforce earlier this year (Kristen V Brown/Bloomberg)
- A huge drop in power prices has made Sweden and Norway lucrative for mining cryptocurrencies, giving big miners alternatives to China, Kazakhstan, and Canada (Jesper Starn/Bloomberg)
- High 7 Finest Wi-fi Portable Printers For Journey In 2020
- Kuo: Apple Car's unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV/self-driving market may push the launch to 2028 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- Apple's system status page is showing issues with "iCloud Account and Sign In" since Christmas morning, as users complain about problems with device activation (MacRumors)
- Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online (Sara Morrison/Vox)
- Amazon's 0 Echo Frames review: good as a BT headset with little noise bleed, good mic quality but have middling battery life, fall short as an Alexa device (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
- DeepMind details MuZero, revealed in 2019 and following AlphaZero, which can master games without knowing the rules and is working on YouTube video compression (Leo Kelion/BBC)
- Investigation details Amazon's campaigns over the years to steamroll rivals and partners, including those on its marketplace, sometimes with Bezos' involvement (Dana Mattioli/Wall Street Journal)
- TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, "Year on TikTok", which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Apple has closed nearly 100 stores globally since December 14, including in London, California, and Tennessee, as COVID-19 cases surge (Michael Steeber/9to5Mac)
- Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the "Fake News Media" is exaggerating its extent (Jacob Knutson/Axios)
- Phone Insurance
- Apple clarifies power-saving modes of AirPods Max, says they enter low power mode after 5 minutes of non-use and ultralow power state after 18 hours in the case (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
- Spryker, which provides a full suite of e-commerce tools for customers like Aldi and Toyota, raises 0M Series C led by TCV, at a 0M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- E-commerce marketplace Wish falls after its public debut, dropping 8%+ to under after pricing shares at (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- Boston-based Tive, which helps companies track sensitive shipments like food or medicine in real time, raises M Series A led by RRE Ventures (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- German Bionic raises M Series A co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and MIG AG for its exoskeleton tech targeted at industrial applications (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Facebook considers physical retaliation from Hindu extremist groups as a danger in India, which it ranks as a "Tier One" country for societal violence (Wall Street Journal)
- Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages (Rakesh Prakash/Times of India)
- AirPods Max sound great and are very well-made, but they're expensive, heavy, and would be amazing living room headphones if Apple TV supported spatial audio (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
- Google, Dell, Intel, Slack, Zoom, and others form The Modern Computing Alliance to tackle security, remote work, and other enterprise issues (Nick Statt/The Verge)
- Troubleshooting Archos a hundred and one Issues
- App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to 2B; 65¢ of every was spent on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for 9 (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- Tecton.ai raises M Series B co-led by a16z and Sequoia Capital as it releases its ML feature store, just a week after AWS debuted its Sagemaker Feature store (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- TikTok videos offering dubious financial advice are drawing millions of views, as young people increasingly turn to the app as a source of financial literacy (Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou/Bloomberg)
- OnlyFans says it will generate B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out 0M+ a month to its 1M+ creators (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- Computer systems, Electronics, And Know-how
- Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
- Microsoft launches Azure Purview, a unified data governance service that automates the discovery, cataloging, mapping, and tracking of data, in public preview (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Amount, which helps banks modernize and provide mobile experiences, raises M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth, after being spun off from Avant this year (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
- Olive, which says 600+ hospitals use its AI-powered bots to automate healthcare admin tasks, raises 5.5M led by Tiger Global, valuing it at .5B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Bitcoin hits a record price of ,783, with more investors seemingly buying it for the long term, unlike the 2017 spike driven by Asian investors new to crypto (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
- Report: China accounted for 23% of cross-border data flows in 2019, nearly twice the share of the US, which ranked second with 12%, followed by the UK and India (Nikkei Asia)
- Oracle Java Technologies
- A look at China's draft Personal Information Protection Law, which would significantly increase fines for companies responsible for data breaches to up to .6M (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)
- Presale
- Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
- Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level (Alex Hern/The Guardian)
- An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)
- Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Addicted To Materials Possessions? How To Let Go.
- China orders that streamers and gift givers on livestreaming services must use real names, and the services must limit amount of tips and ban teens from tipping (Nikki Sun/Nikkei Asia)
- Experts say AI-based apps like qXR, which help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis early, could make an enormous impact on the control of the disease in India (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
- Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with M in funding (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
- 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 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- 30+ major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalization in the cash-loving nation (Leika Kihara/Reuters)
- Research suggests Sony PS5 and Xbox Series X and S first week sales in Japan were lower than their predecessors, hinting at persistent supply bottlenecks (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
- Google Maps updates with pandemic-oriented features like takeout tracking, public transport crowd info, and additions to COVID-19 overlay like local case counts (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- 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 (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- Georgia Tech
- A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency (Phil Vachon/Security Embedded)
- Profile of Tom Alberg, an early investor in Amazon, the founder of Madrona Venture Group, and a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)
- Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
- Menlo Security, which offers a cloud-based isolation service that separates enterprise networks from the public web, raises 0M Series E at a 0M valuation (Michael Novinson/CRN)
- Fascinating Information About Nanotechnology
- US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay doctors to use AI systems that diagnose eye disease in diabetics and detect strokes through brain scans (Tom Simonite/Wired)
- Cloud directory service JumpCloud raises M Series E led by BlackRock, bringing its total raised to 6M+, as the pandemic heightens need for remote IT tools (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- Zoom agrees to enhance its security as part of a proposed settlement with FTC, after Zoom was accused of deceiving customers over end-to-end encryption and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate (Corbin Davenport/Android Police)
- CFPB issued a rule last week allowing debt collectors to send unlimited texts, emails, and social media messages to debtors, will require opt-out instructions (Irina Ivanova/CBS News)
- Netflix is testing Direct, a linear channel with real-time, scheduled programming from its library, which is accessible only via its website, in France (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
- Razer unveils Book 13, a productivity laptop with a 16:10 screen, RGB keyboard, and Intel's Iris Xe integrated graphics, available in Nov., starting at ,200 (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
- Facebook and Instagram add large pop-ups atop feeds telling users that no presidential election winner has been declared, after Trump prematurely claims victory (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Internal Facebook survey shows only 51% believe Facebook was having a positive impact in the world, down 23% from May and down 5.5% from last year (BuzzFeed News)
- Expertise And Want
- Sources: Alibaba is in advanced talks to invest nearly 0M in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch and potentially create a Chinese JV (Juro Osawa/The Information)
- A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him (Washington Post)
- Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules (Lara O'Reilly/Digiday)
- Brazil-based payments processor Conductor raises 0M led by Viking Global Investors to expand in Latin America (Reuters)
- Travel activities booking app GetYourGuide raises 3M through a convertible note led by Searchlight Capital, bringing its total raised to 0M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Following social media crackdowns, QAnon content is continuing to thrive on Amazon and platforms like Parler and Telegram with limited moderation (Washington Post)
- Researchers detail how link previews in messengers from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Line can leak sensitive data, consume limited bandwidth, and more (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Grayshift, the maker of phone hacking tool GrayKey that's popular with law enforcement, raises M led by PeakEquity Partners (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
- Video games are helping veterans struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression and those adjusting to civilian life after deployment in combat zones (Alex Miller/Wired)
- Output, which develops software and virtual instruments for musicians, composers, producers, and sound designers, raises M Series A led by Summit Partners (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
- Political strategists say they are struggling to find enough space on YouTube for ads as campaigns flood the service, with particular shortages in swing states (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Apple says it is expanding its COVID-safe "Express" retail stores, with a counter protected by plexiglass at the front of a store, ahead of the holiday season (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- Tekion, which offers a service that connects car makers, dealers, and buyers, raises 0M Series C led by Advent at a B+ valuation (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
- Researchers find a Telegram bot that takes a person's photo and turns it into a fake nude; by July, 100K+ images of women had been transformed, shared publicly (James Vincent/The Verge)
- Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
- Technology Articles, Technological Information
- China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls (Colum Murphy/Bloomberg)
- 18% of games announced by major studios this summer had female protagonists, with Sony accounting for over a third; E3 2019 games had 5% female representation (Wired)
- As American-run companies, Facebook and other US tech giants lack local knowledge and nuanced understanding to weigh information threats in other countries (Axios)
- Argyle, which allows businesses to access employment records via an API or a web interface, raises M Series A led by Bain Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
- Microsoft details its new image captioning AI, part of Azure, that will improve accessibility for Word, Outlook, and other apps (James Vincent/The Verge)
- Researchers demo plugging a modified USB-C cable into a Mac to hack T2 chip; Apple has debuted six Mac models with T2 chips since the checkm8 flaw became public (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
- Snapdocs, which is used by ~130,000 real estate professionals to manage the mortgage process online, raises M Series C led by YC Continuity (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Interview with Maulik Majmudar, Amazon Halo's principal medical officer, on the fitness band, its controversial body fat and emotional tone features, and more (Kevin McAllister/Protocol)
- Avail Medsystems, which develops telemedicine software to let surgical teams in operating rooms collaborate with remote medical experts, raises 0M Series B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Grid AI, which helps AI researchers and engineers scale their models to match workloads needed for enterprise use, raises .6M Series A led by Index Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Bloom Credit, which offers an API for businesses to integrate with all three major US credit bureaus, raises M Series A (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications (Bloomberg)
- Instagram says there are 900M daily emoji reactions, and 50% of users watch a video daily, but again fails to say how many users it has or what its revenue is (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)
- PayPal's Venmo announces a Visa credit card, managed through its app and with a QR code on the physical card, for making online and in-store payments (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Ten US states, including NY and NJ, that account for ~21% of the US population have released a COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple and Google's API (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- Security researchers describe a way to fingerprint exploit writers' characteristics, which can then be used to identify other exploits written by same writers (Check Point Research)
- New animators have moved away from YouTube to make their names on TikTok instead, where it's easier for short, catchy, and experimental video clips to succeed (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
- As Deliveroo says it will add 15,000 couriers, who it calls "heroes", by the end of 2020, some couriers say they are struggling to make enough to live on (Natasha Bernal/WIRED UK)
- Bloomberg
- Sources: Google is planning to produce as little as ~800,000 Pixel 5 handsets, taking total production of Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 to 3M units (Nikkei Asian Review)
- D-Wave launches Advantage, a cloud service that offers access to 5,000+ qubit quantum computing and a hybrid solver service that can handle 1M variables (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)
- Social media platforms need to publicly declare a unified strategy to combat election misinformation, including Trump prematurely claiming victory via tweet (New York Times)
- FedEx CEO says the company is working with Reliable Robotics to pilot the use of an unmanned single-engine aircraft for cargo delivery (Matt Leonard/Supply Chain Dive)
- CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high (Sara Castellanos/Wall Street Journal)
- Colombia-based delivery app Rappi has raised over 0M from T. Rowe Price and others (Nelson Bocanegra/Reuters)
- Hulman Institute Of Technology
- Whitebox, which manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment across marketplaces, raises M Series B led by Noro-Moseley Partners, after M Series A in 2019 (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- Shopify says two "rogue members" of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft unveils updates across Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, launches Metrics Advisor, Bot Framework Composer, Automated ML UI, more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Amazon says Echo and Tile devices will become Bluetooth bridges for Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless protocol, later this year (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday (CNBC)
- The FTC and DOJ antitrust divisions are underfunded, as current and ex-staffers say tech giants use close personal ties and deep pockets to stymie regulation (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
- Sources: neobank Chime has raised 5M Series F at a .5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months (Hugh Son/CNBC)
- Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, which lets SMBs manage their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger from a single interface (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)
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- Anchor says it is cracking down on copycat podcasters by improving the detection of stolen podcasts, adding new rules around monetizing shows, and more (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
- YouTube says it is launching an early beta of YouTube Shorts, a 15-second video feature, in India (Chris Jaffe/YouTube Blog)
- GitLab, which has an all remote workforce of 1,300+ employees from 67 countries, is advising companies like Twitter on its "radically transparent" working model (Julia Herbst/Fast Company)
- PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015 (Kaye Wiggins/Financial Times)
- A month after the launch of TikTok's 0M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
- Indian food delivery startup Zomato raises 0M from Tiger Global at a .3B post-money valuation and says it plans to file for an IPO next year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Deel, which provides payroll, compliance tools, and other services for businesses to run remote workforces, raises M Series B, months after its M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- New York-based Melio, a payments startup focused on small businesses, raises 4M to hire more staff and expand in the US (Yaacov Benmeleh/Bloomberg)
- How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
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- Under shareholder pressure, Apple quietly publishes its human rights policy based on UN guiding principles, but will follow national law if the two conflict (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- Sources: SoftBank is exploring assembling a group of bidders for TikTok's India assets and is looking for local partners like Reliance Jio and Airtel (Bloomberg)
- Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own "newscaster voice" (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
- ZTE announces 6.92" Axon 20 5G, with a camera under the display and Snapdragon 765G and 4,220 mAh battery, starting at ~2 only in China (Aamir Siddiqui/XDA Developers)
- Apple says App Store policy changes, including not delaying bug fix updates over guideline violations and letting developers challenge guidelines, are now live (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
- Okta, which provides identity management service for companies, has been a big beneficiary of remote work during lockdown with its stock rising 106% since March (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)
- China updates its export control list, adding AI tech including "personalized content recommendations based on data analysis", which may affect TikTok US sale (Coco Liu/Nikkei Asian Review)
- Sources: Comcast is pitching X1 software powering its set-top boxes and Flex streaming hardware as a potential operating system to smart TV manufacturers (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)
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- Restream, a service that helps creators stream to around 30 platforms simultaneously, raises M Series A co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tools to businesses, adds M led by Lightspeed and AMEX to its Series B from earlier this year (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Emboldened by Hong Kong's new security law, police are targeting the social media accounts of media executives, pro-democracy politicians, and activists (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
- Black VCs discuss systemic issues within the industry, where only 4% of VCs are African-American and investment rates are low, and wonder about the future (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)
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- A detailed look at some key developments/breakthroughs in robotics, amid an increasing interest in robots during the pandemic, and what to expect in the future (David Berreby/National Geographic)
- Tech for Campaigns, a volunteer group of ~13,500 tech employees, have worked on 468 election-related projects, flipping 3 state chambers Democratic since 2018 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
- Facebook's move to require Oculus devices be linked to a Facebook login sets a dangerous precedent and deserves fierce scrutiny in light of antitrust probes (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
- China-based online insurance and crowdfunding startup Waterdrop raises 0M led by Swiss Re, Tencent; sources: Waterdrop is now valued at B ahead of a US IPO (Reuters)
- Imgur partners with Coil to launch Emerald, a /month ad-free service with new community features, available on web and Android now and iOS eventually (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
- Samsung Note20 Ultra review: has fast performance, multiday battery life, big display is great for streaming games, but camera bump is huge, and it's expensive (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
- During a dire UK job market, LinkedIn has become riddled with fake vacancies and improbable hiring stories that go viral (Emily Beater/New Statesman)
- India announces National Digital Health Mission for digitizing citizens' health records; enrollment in the initiative will be voluntary (TheQuint)
- To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce (Jacob Helberg/Foreign Policy)
- A legal analysis and risk evaluation of the US antitrust cases against Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook shows the cases won't be a slam dunk (Bloomberg)
- People close to Amazon's gaming efforts claim Amazon is struggling to make good games because its structure and culture aren't optimized for creative endeavors (Seth Schiesel/Protocol)
- Gong, which uses AI to provide insights on customer behavior and improve sales, raises 0M Series D, at a .2B valuation, led by Coatue (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- MicroStrategy buys ~0M in bitcoin, becoming the first publicly traded company to buy the currency as part of its capital allocation strategy (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- Apple Advertising seems to be on by default in iOS 14, while other advertisers and ad networks will have to ask for permission to track users (John Koetsier/Forbes)
- As Zynga buys Istanbul-based Rollic Games for 8M, a look at the rapid growth of hyper-casual mobile games, where publishers may launch a new title every week (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
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- Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture (Elamin Abdelmahmoud/BuzzFeed News)
- Qualcomm patches six security flaws in Snapdragon DSP chip that allowed attackers to take over an Android phone without any user interaction required (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review: balanced sound with a bold, unconventional design but noise cancellation isn't good and there is occasional signal interference (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- Samsung unveils 11" Galaxy Tab S7 and 12.5" S7+ with Snapdragon 865+, Android 10, 5G, 13MP and 5MP rear cameras, from 0, coming this fall (Stephen Schenck/Android Police)
- Yotpo, which develops e-commerce marketing tools, raises M Series E at a valuation its CEO calls "nearly a unicorn", bringing its total raised to 6M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Microsoft has confirmed discussions to buy TikTok's operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but hasn't commented on its European presence (Sam Shead/CNBC)
- Researchers describe how attackers can sidestep security features of chip-based credit and debit cards from certain banks to create counterfeit cards (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- Sources: ByteDance has agreed to divest US operations of TikTok under a proposed new deal with the White House that would see Microsoft take over TikTok in US (Echo Wang/Reuters)
- Twitter permanently bans the account of white supremacist David Duke (Steven Musil/CNET)
- A look at Muslim matchmaking apps like Muzmatch, which are trying to "disrupt" the tradition of arranged marriages while adhering to Islamic cultural values (Yasmin Hai/Rest of World)
- US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says TikTok is being reviewed by CFIUS, which will make a recommendation to Trump (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
- Twitter temporarily locks Donald Trump Jr's account for posting a "misleading and potentially harmful" video touting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
- OnePlus Nord review: 90Hz OLED display, sub-6GHz 5G, and great battery, but its CPU can hold the phone back and the camera is mediocre despite multiple lenses (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- Despite smartphone sales in China declining 17% YoY in Q2, Huawei grew 14%, capturing 46% of the market, as Apple grew 32%, becoming the fastest growing OEM (Mengmeng Zhang/Counterpoint Research)
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- This year's Xbox Games Showcase made it clear that Microsoft's true focus for next generation Xbox gaming is not on hardware but on Xbox Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Researchers say the Android version of DJI Go 4, installed 1M+ times, covertly collected a range of sensitive user data and sent it to servers in mainland China (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify (Bill Ready/The Keyword)
- Kuo: Apple is lining up periscope telephoto lens suppliers for the 2022 iPhone; periscope lenses allow manufacturers to provide higher optical zoom capabilities (MacRumors)
- AMD unveils 7nm Ryzen 4000 series desktop processors based on its Zen 2 architecture, but says they will only come in prebuilt OEM systems first (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
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- Sources: Microsoft plans to release Windows 10X for some single-screen devices in spring 2021, and dual-screen in spring 2022, with limited Win32 app support (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
- Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- Why Apple's IPad Is The Gadget Of The Pandemic
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- In a leaked bulletin from May, DHS indicated concern that the widespread use of masks could interfere with police facial recognition systems (The Intercept)
- Uber acquires Routematch, which provides a suite of software services covering both fixed-schedule and demand-based transport to transit agencies (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
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- EV maker Canoo shows running, driving skateboard platform for the first time - Roadshow
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 price reportedly leaks on its UK site - CNET
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- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg reportedly warned Trump, lawmakers about rise of TikTok - CNET
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- Amazon's head of consumer operations to retire - CNET
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- Facebook Portal to add Zoom and other conferencing apps to its video chat devices - CNET
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- How to watch Bruins vs. Hurricanes, Blues vs. Canucks, 2020 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs - CNET
- Biden and Trump set to receive nominations in historic virtual DNC, RNC - CNET
- Boom ready to roll out its first jet en route to carbon neutral supersonic travel - CNET
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- Fortnite direct payment option lets you dodge iOS and Android app store fees - CNET
- Xbox Series X launches this November, without Halo Infinite - CNET
- The best wireless car charger and mount for 2020 - CNET
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- MLB is back: How to watch Yankees vs. Rays, Giants vs. Dodgers this weekend without cable - CNET
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- Amazon's Project Kuiper gets FCC approval for over 3,200 internet satellites - CNET
- Here are the best used cars for teens according to Consumer Reports and IIHS - Roadshow
- PlayStation documentary trailer shows how far games have come since 1994 - CNET
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- We could know soon whether vaccines work against a scary new coronavirus variant
- Italy tells TikTok to block all unverified user accounts after a 10-year-old girl dies while allegedly participating in the "blackout challenge" on the app (Crispian Balmer/Reuters)
- The Biden administration’s AI plans: what we might expect
- Despite the pandemic, Amazon wants Alabama warehouse workers to vote in person on a proposal to form a union, objecting to NLRB's decision to allow vote by mail (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
- Transforming the energy industry with AI
- Polish postal locker service InPost prices shares at €14 to €16, suggesting a valuation of €7B-€8B, as it seeks to raise as much as €3.2B in its Amsterdam IPO (Bloomberg)
- Cisco Indonesia
- Why Trump’s last-minute cyber order could have limited impact
- 10 Causes To Concern Know-how
- An in-depth look at the PDF file format, a staple since the 1990s, as Adobe says 303B PDFs were opened using its services in FY2020, a 17% rise YoY (Rob Walker/Marker)
- Police are flying surveillance over Washington. Where were they last week?
- Survey of 1,900 Facebook users: 12 political groups were among the top 100 recommended by Facebook in Jan., despite saying it would not recommend "civic groups" (The Markup)
- What the complex math of fire modeling tells us about the future of California’s forests
- Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capital rioters, passing the evidence to authorities (Los Angeles Times)
- Worried about your firm’s AI ethics? These startups are here to help.
- Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 (Eileen Brown/ZDNet)
- Will your neighbors get vaccinated?
- Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested .3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO (Financial Times)
- Banks need to strike the right balance for digital transformation
- Sources: Apple is discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts (The Information)
- These five AI developments will shape 2021 and beyond
- Norway's consumer protection agency details how Amazon riddles the process of canceling Prime with "dark patterns," calls on regulators to investigate (Bloomberg)
- We may have only weeks to act before a variant coronavirus dominates the US
- E-commerce optimization startup Tradeswell raises .5M Series A led by SignalFire (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language
- After an outcry, HireVue, which offers automated assessments of job applicants, will stop using facial analysis but will still analyze intonation and behavior (Will Knight/Wired)
- 2021 planning: New business models, big opportunity
- Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese companies, including contract electronics manufacturers, are moving away from China over trade tensions and rising costs (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
- Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how.
- Report: Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the US as early as 2024 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
- Users, not tech executives, should decide what constitutes free speech online
- Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
- Five ways to make AI a greater force for good in 2021
- Madrid-based digital temp staffing agency Jobandtalent raises ~8M, bringing total raised to 0M, says it helped 80K+ workers with temporary gigs last year (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- The odds of US climate progress just improved a bit
- Utah-based WeLink, which uses 5G to deliver mesh high-bandwidth wireless internet for neighborhoods, raises 5M from Digital Alpha Advisors (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)
- Without leadership on vaccine rollout, scams are inevitable
- Intel launches RealSense ID, an on-device facial authentication tool, launching in Q1 2021 for and aimed at smart locks, ATMs, and kiosks (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Singapore’s police now have access to contact tracing data
- Filing: Affirm says it plans to sell 24.6M shares at to , seeking to raise up to 4.8M and valuing the company at .22B at the top of the range (Bloomberg)
- The 11 biggest space missions of 2021 (and their chances of success)
- Oxygen, a digital banking startup that focuses on helping freelancers and others with multiple revenue streams, raises M Series A led by Runa Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
- The biggest technology failures of 2020
- Interview with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais on leveraging the Atari brand, including through hotels and virtual clothing, shipping the VCS console, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
- A look back at our best photography of 2020
- Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering (New York Times)
- The pandemic taught us how not to deal with climate change.
- Huawei removes and then reinstates Tencent games on its app stores after a dispute over revenue sharing; source: Huawei insisted on receiving a 50% cut (Reuters)
- Our best illustrations of 2020
- Report: 10 ex-members of Apple's supplier responsibility team say it avoids or delays removing suppliers guilty of labor violations when doing so hurts business (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
- Current spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones.
- Sources: SimilarWeb is planning a Nasdaq IPO in Q2 2021, aiming for a B+ valuation; the company has raised 0M in total, including 0M in October (Golan Hazani/CTech)
- Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition
- DNA testing company 23andMe raises ~.5M Series F led by Sequoia Capital and NewView Capital; the company laid off 14% of its workforce earlier this year (Kristen V Brown/Bloomberg)
- Joe Biden has an opportunity to bolster how we view Earth from space
- A huge drop in power prices has made Sweden and Norway lucrative for mining cryptocurrencies, giving big miners alternatives to China, Kazakhstan, and Canada (Jesper Starn/Bloomberg)
- Art has been brutalized by tech’s giants. How can it survive?
- Kuo: Apple Car's unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV/self-driving market may push the launch to 2028 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- Why Apple's IPad Is The Gadget Of The Pandemic
- Why some countries suspended, replaced, or relaunched their covid apps
- Apple's system status page is showing issues with "iCloud Account and Sign In" since Christmas morning, as users complain about problems with device activation (MacRumors)
- 2020 has sucked—but there are some small silver linings
- Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online (Sara Morrison/Vox)
- The year deepfakes went mainstream
- Amazon's 0 Echo Frames review: good as a BT headset with little noise bleed, good mic quality but have middling battery life, fall short as an Alexa device (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
- Don’t panic about the latest coronavirus mutations, say drug companies
- DeepMind details MuZero, revealed in 2019 and following AlphaZero, which can master games without knowing the rules and is working on YouTube video compression (Leo Kelion/BBC)
- Don’t underestimate the cheapfake
- Investigation details Amazon's campaigns over the years to steamroll rivals and partners, including those on its marketplace, sometimes with Bezos' involvement (Dana Mattioli/Wall Street Journal)
- Will you have to carry a vaccine passport on your phone?
- TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, "Year on TikTok", which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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- Apple has closed nearly 100 stores globally since December 14, including in London, California, and Tennessee, as COVID-19 cases surge (Michael Steeber/9to5Mac)
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- Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the "Fake News Media" is exaggerating its extent (Jacob Knutson/Axios)
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- Apple clarifies power-saving modes of AirPods Max, says they enter low power mode after 5 minutes of non-use and ultralow power state after 18 hours in the case (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
- “None of us were ready” to manufacture genetic vaccines for a billion people
- Spryker, which provides a full suite of e-commerce tools for customers like Aldi and Toyota, raises 0M Series C led by TCV, at a 0M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Guess which states saw the most election disinformation in 2020
- E-commerce marketplace Wish falls after its public debut, dropping 8%+ to under after pricing shares at (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- An inside look at how trust accelerates transformation
- Boston-based Tive, which helps companies track sensitive shipments like food or medicine in real time, raises M Series A led by RRE Ventures (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- Pregnant in the pandemic? It helps to have good Wi-Fi.
- German Bionic raises M Series A co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and MIG AG for its exoskeleton tech targeted at industrial applications (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- AI needs to face up to its invisible-worker problem
- Sources: Facebook considers physical retaliation from Hindu extremist groups as a danger in India, which it ranks as a "Tier One" country for societal violence (Wall Street Journal)
- Kids are sick of Zoom too—so their teachers are getting creative
- Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages (Rakesh Prakash/Times of India)
- Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI
- AirPods Max sound great and are very well-made, but they're expensive, heavy, and would be amazing living room headphones if Apple TV supported spatial audio (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
- How our data encodes systematic racism
- Google, Dell, Intel, Slack, Zoom, and others form The Modern Computing Alliance to tackle security, remote work, and other enterprise issues (Nick Statt/The Verge)
- This super-energy-dense battery could nearly double the range of electric vehicles
- App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to 2B; 65¢ of every was spent on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Web scraping is a tool, not a crime
- Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for 9 (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- A capsule carrying asteroid rocks collected by Hayabusa-2 has successfully landed on Earth
- Tecton.ai raises M Series B co-led by a16z and Sequoia Capital as it releases its ML feature store, just a week after AWS debuted its Sagemaker Feature store (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- How the US, UK, and China are planning to roll out vaccines
- TikTok videos offering dubious financial advice are drawing millions of views, as young people increasingly turn to the app as a source of financial literacy (Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou/Bloomberg)
- We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
- OnlyFans says it will generate B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out 0M+ a month to its 1M+ creators (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
- Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
- This is the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way ever made
- Microsoft launches Azure Purview, a unified data governance service that automates the discovery, cataloging, mapping, and tracking of data, in public preview (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
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- Amount, which helps banks modernize and provide mobile experiences, raises M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth, after being spun off from Avant this year (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
- China’s Chang’e 5 mission has successfully landed on the moon
- Olive, which says 600+ hospitals use its AI-powered bots to automate healthcare admin tasks, raises 5.5M led by Tiger Global, valuing it at .5B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
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- Bitcoin hits a record price of ,783, with more investors seemingly buying it for the long term, unlike the 2017 spike driven by Asian investors new to crypto (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
- The Zoom-fatigued person’s guide to connecting virtually on Thanksgiving
- Report: China accounted for 23% of cross-border data flows in 2019, nearly twice the share of the US, which ranked second with 12%, followed by the UK and India (Nikkei Asia)
- How to make the next election even more secure
- A look at China's draft Personal Information Protection Law, which would significantly increase fines for companies responsible for data breaches to up to .6M (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will be tested in a new trial after questions over its data
- Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
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- Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level (Alex Hern/The Guardian)
- Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies
- An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)
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- Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is up to 90% effective, according to interim data
- China orders that streamers and gift givers on livestreaming services must use real names, and the services must limit amount of tips and ban teens from tipping (Nikki Sun/Nikkei Asia)
- Pfizer wants authorization to start distributing its vaccine by Christmas
- Experts say AI-based apps like qXR, which help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis early, could make an enormous impact on the control of the disease in India (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
- After Trump fires CISA’s director, the agency is poised to become even more powerful
- Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with M in funding (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
- How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade
- 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 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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- 30+ major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalization in the cash-loving nation (Leika Kihara/Reuters)
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- Research suggests Sony PS5 and Xbox Series X and S first week sales in Japan were lower than their predecessors, hinting at persistent supply bottlenecks (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
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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 (Jon Porter/The Verge)
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- Moderna says its covid-19 vaccine is nearly 95% effective
- 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 (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- The race to get Georgia’s 23,000 17-year-olds registered to vote
- A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency (Phil Vachon/Security Embedded)
- It’s not too late to cancel Thanksgiving
- Profile of Tom Alberg, an early investor in Amazon, the founder of Madrona Venture Group, and a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)
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- Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
- A private company has a crew going to the ISS next year
- Menlo Security, which offers a cloud-based isolation service that separates enterprise networks from the public web, raises 0M Series E at a 0M valuation (Michael Novinson/CRN)
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- US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay doctors to use AI systems that diagnose eye disease in diabetics and detect strokes through brain scans (Tom Simonite/Wired)
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- Cloud directory service JumpCloud raises M Series E led by BlackRock, bringing its total raised to 6M+, as the pandemic heightens need for remote IT tools (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- Robotic surgery gives doctors new savvy
- Zoom agrees to enhance its security as part of a proposed settlement with FTC, after Zoom was accused of deceiving customers over end-to-end encryption and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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- Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate (Corbin Davenport/Android Police)
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- CFPB issued a rule last week allowing debt collectors to send unlimited texts, emails, and social media messages to debtors, will require opt-out instructions (Irina Ivanova/CBS News)
- Half the Milky Way’s sun-like stars could be home to Earth-like planets
- Netflix is testing Direct, a linear channel with real-time, scheduled programming from its library, which is accessible only via its website, in France (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
- Why counting votes in Pennsylvania is taking so long
- Razer unveils Book 13, a productivity laptop with a 16:10 screen, RGB keyboard, and Intel's Iris Xe integrated graphics, available in Nov., starting at ,200 (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
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- Facebook and Instagram add large pop-ups atop feeds telling users that no presidential election winner has been declared, after Trump prematurely claims victory (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Five ways political groups are getting around ad bans
- Internal Facebook survey shows only 51% believe Facebook was having a positive impact in the world, down 23% from May and down 5.5% from last year (BuzzFeed News)
- It’s 2020 and anti-Semitism is an electoral tactic again
- Sources: Alibaba is in advanced talks to invest nearly 0M in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch and potentially create a Chinese JV (Juro Osawa/The Information)
- How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science
- A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him (Washington Post)
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- Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules (Lara O'Reilly/Digiday)
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- Brazil-based payments processor Conductor raises 0M led by Viking Global Investors to expand in Latin America (Reuters)
- Voters should resist blaming every election glitch on political interference
- Travel activities booking app GetYourGuide raises 3M through a convertible note led by Searchlight Capital, bringing its total raised to 0M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- How to make restaurants safer during the pandemic
- Following social media crackdowns, QAnon content is continuing to thrive on Amazon and platforms like Parler and Telegram with limited moderation (Washington Post)
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- Researchers detail how link previews in messengers from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Line can leak sensitive data, consume limited bandwidth, and more (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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- Grayshift, the maker of phone hacking tool GrayKey that's popular with law enforcement, raises M led by PeakEquity Partners (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
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- Video games are helping veterans struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression and those adjusting to civilian life after deployment in combat zones (Alex Miller/Wired)
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- Output, which develops software and virtual instruments for musicians, composers, producers, and sound designers, raises M Series A led by Summit Partners (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
- How to make a chatbot that isn’t racist or sexist
- Political strategists say they are struggling to find enough space on YouTube for ads as campaigns flood the service, with particular shortages in swing states (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
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- Apple says it is expanding its COVID-safe "Express" retail stores, with a counter protected by plexiglass at the front of a store, ahead of the holiday season (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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- Tekion, which offers a service that connects car makers, dealers, and buyers, raises 0M Series C led by Advent at a B+ valuation (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
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- Researchers find a Telegram bot that takes a person's photo and turns it into a fake nude; by July, 100K+ images of women had been transformed, shared publicly (James Vincent/The Verge)
- Facebook’s new polyglot AI can translate between 100 languages
- Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
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- China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls (Colum Murphy/Bloomberg)
- Twitter’s ban almost doubled attention for Biden misinformation
- 18% of games announced by major studios this summer had female protagonists, with Sony accounting for over a third; E3 2019 games had 5% female representation (Wired)
- AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
- As American-run companies, Facebook and other US tech giants lack local knowledge and nuanced understanding to weigh information threats in other countries (Axios)
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- Argyle, which allows businesses to access employment records via an API or a web interface, raises M Series A led by Bain Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/FinLedger)
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- Microsoft details its new image captioning AI, part of Azure, that will improve accessibility for Word, Outlook, and other apps (James Vincent/The Verge)
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- Researchers demo plugging a modified USB-C cable into a Mac to hack T2 chip; Apple has debuted six Mac models with T2 chips since the checkm8 flaw became public (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
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- Snapdocs, which is used by ~130,000 real estate professionals to manage the mortgage process online, raises M Series C led by YC Continuity (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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- Avail Medsystems, which develops telemedicine software to let surgical teams in operating rooms collaborate with remote medical experts, raises 0M Series B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals
- Grid AI, which helps AI researchers and engineers scale their models to match workloads needed for enterprise use, raises .6M Series A led by Index Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed
- Bloom Credit, which offers an API for businesses to integrate with all three major US credit bureaus, raises M Series A (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- The Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to the two women who pioneered CRISPR gene editing
- How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications (Bloomberg)
- Texas’s war on drop-off votes gets almost everything wrong
- Instagram says there are 900M daily emoji reactions, and 50% of users watch a video daily, but again fails to say how many users it has or what its revenue is (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)
- Trump is being given a steroid that is usually used for severe cases of covid-19
- PayPal's Venmo announces a Visa credit card, managed through its app and with a QR code on the physical card, for making online and in-store payments (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- A VR film/game with AI characters can be different every time you watch or play
- Ten US states, including NY and NJ, that account for ~21% of the US population have released a COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple and Google's API (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- Trump just got a dose of Regeneron’s unapproved antibody drug for covid
- Security researchers describe a way to fingerprint exploit writers' characteristics, which can then be used to identify other exploits written by same writers (Check Point Research)
- Info Technology In Day To Day Life
- How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world
- New animators have moved away from YouTube to make their names on TikTok instead, where it's easier for short, catchy, and experimental video clips to succeed (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
- Podcast: How Russia’s everything company works with the Kremlin
- As Deliveroo says it will add 15,000 couriers, who it calls "heroes", by the end of 2020, some couriers say they are struggling to make enough to live on (Natasha Bernal/WIRED UK)
- How AI will revolutionize manufacturing
- Sources: Google is planning to produce as little as ~800,000 Pixel 5 handsets, taking total production of Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 to 3M units (Nikkei Asian Review)
- How democracies can claim back power in the digital world
- D-Wave launches Advantage, a cloud service that offers access to 5,000+ qubit quantum computing and a hybrid solver service that can handle 1M variables (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)
- There might be even more underground reservoirs of liquid water on Mars
- Social media platforms need to publicly declare a unified strategy to combat election misinformation, including Trump prematurely claiming victory via tweet (New York Times)
- Why We Want Sensible Home Electronic Appliances Or Devices?
- These weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter
- FedEx CEO says the company is working with Reliable Robotics to pilot the use of an unmanned single-engine aircraft for cargo delivery (Matt Leonard/Supply Chain Dive)
- How to plan your life during a pandemic
- CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high (Sara Castellanos/Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook wants to make AI better by asking people to break it
- Colombia-based delivery app Rappi has raised over 0M from T. Rowe Price and others (Nelson Bocanegra/Reuters)
- How close is AI to decoding our emotions?
- Whitebox, which manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment across marketplaces, raises M Series B led by Noro-Moseley Partners, after M Series A in 2019 (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new m AI prize
- Shopify says two "rogue members" of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate (Bloomberg)
- AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities
- Microsoft unveils updates across Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, launches Metrics Advisor, Bot Framework Composer, Automated ML UI, more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits
- Amazon says Echo and Tile devices will become Bluetooth bridges for Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless protocol, later this year (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Letter-writing staved off lockdown loneliness. Now it’s getting out the vote.
- US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday (CNBC)
- Americans won’t be able to download TikTok or WeChat from Sunday
- The FTC and DOJ antitrust divisions are underfunded, as current and ex-staffers say tech giants use close personal ties and deep pockets to stymie regulation (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
- A patient has died after ransomware hackers hit a German hospital
- Sources: neobank Chime has raised 5M Series F at a .5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months (Hugh Son/CNBC)
- Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.
- Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, which lets SMBs manage their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger from a single interface (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Synthetic biologists have created a slow-growing version of the coronavirus to give as a vaccine
- DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)
- AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes
- Anchor says it is cracking down on copycat podcasters by improving the detection of stolen podcasts, adding new rules around monetizing shows, and more (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
- Gas spotted in Venus’s clouds could be a sign of alien life
- YouTube says it is launching an early beta of YouTube Shorts, a 15-second video feature, in India (Chris Jaffe/YouTube Blog)
- NASA will pay for moon rocks excavated by private companies
- GitLab, which has an all remote workforce of 1,300+ employees from 67 countries, is advising companies like Twitter on its "radically transparent" working model (Julia Herbst/Fast Company)
- New standards for AI clinical trials will help spot snake oil and hype
- PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015 (Kaye Wiggins/Financial Times)
- A month after the launch of TikTok's 0M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
- North Korean hackers steal billions in cryptocurrency. How do they turn it into real cash?
- Indian food delivery startup Zomato raises 0M from Tiger Global at a .3B post-money valuation and says it plans to file for an IPO next year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Why the most controversial US internet law is worth saving
- Deel, which provides payroll, compliance tools, and other services for businesses to run remote workforces, raises M Series B, months after its M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Designing the essential and the unseen
- New York-based Melio, a payments startup focused on small businesses, raises 4M to hire more staff and expand in the US (Yaacov Benmeleh/Bloomberg)
- In defense of California
- How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem
- Interview with Reed Hastings, on the future of Hollywood, the US election and social media, his new book about Netflix's aggressive company culture, and more (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)
- What’s missing from corporate statements on racial injustice? The real cause of racism.
- In court filing, Epic says Fortnite has 116M iOS users, a third of the game's 350M users, and iOS DAUs declined by 60%+ since its removal from the App Store (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
- Under shareholder pressure, Apple quietly publishes its human rights policy based on UN guiding principles, but will follow national law if the two conflict (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets
- Sources: SoftBank is exploring assembling a group of bidders for TikTok's India assets and is looking for local partners like Reliance Jio and Airtel (Bloomberg)
- Podcast: How a 135-year-old law lets India shutdown the internet
- Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own "newscaster voice" (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
- California’s air conditioner-driven blackouts are only the start
- ZTE announces 6.92" Axon 20 5G, with a camera under the display and Snapdragon 765G and 4,220 mAh battery, starting at ~2 only in China (Aamir Siddiqui/XDA Developers)
- Explainer: What do political databases know about you?
- Apple says App Store policy changes, including not delaying bug fix updates over guideline violations and letting developers challenge guidelines, are now live (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater
- Okta, which provides identity management service for companies, has been a big beneficiary of remote work during lockdown with its stock rising 106% since March (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)
- IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud
- China updates its export control list, adding AI tech including "personalized content recommendations based on data analysis", which may affect TikTok US sale (Coco Liu/Nikkei Asian Review)
- Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird
- Sources: Comcast is pitching X1 software powering its set-top boxes and Flex streaming hardware as a potential operating system to smart TV manufacturers (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)
- The scientists who swab subways for coronavirus
- Top 5 Helpful Devices For A Development Worker
- Restream, a service that helps creators stream to around 30 platforms simultaneously, raises M Series A co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.
- Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tools to businesses, adds M led by Lightspeed and AMEX to its Series B from earlier this year (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- Participation-washing could be the next dangerous fad in machine learning
- Emboldened by Hong Kong's new security law, police are targeting the social media accounts of media executives, pro-democracy politicians, and activists (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
- The UK exam debacle reminds us that algorithms can’t fix broken systems
- Black VCs discuss systemic issues within the industry, where only 4% of VCs are African-American and investment rates are low, and wonder about the future (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)
- Facebook is training robot assistants to hear as well as see
- A detailed look at some key developments/breakthroughs in robotics, amid an increasing interest in robots during the pandemic, and what to expect in the future (David Berreby/National Geographic)
- GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
- Tech for Campaigns, a volunteer group of ~13,500 tech employees, have worked on 468 election-related projects, flipping 3 state chambers Democratic since 2018 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
- Music Production Software program
- E-learning? There’s a database for that. Real-time data? That, too
- Facebook's move to require Oculus devices be linked to a Facebook login sets a dangerous precedent and deserves fierce scrutiny in light of antitrust probes (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
- Yes, climate change is almost certainly fueling California’s massive fires
- China-based online insurance and crowdfunding startup Waterdrop raises 0M led by Swiss Re, Tencent; sources: Waterdrop is now valued at B ahead of a US IPO (Reuters)
- 5 House Safety Gadgets To Maintain You Protected
- Health misinformation pages got half a billion views on Facebook in April
- Imgur partners with Coil to launch Emerald, a /month ad-free service with new community features, available on web and Android now and iOS eventually (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
- Samsung Note20 Ultra review: has fast performance, multiday battery life, big display is great for streaming games, but camera bump is huge, and it's expensive (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
- The 5 best places to explore in the solar system—besides Mars
- During a dire UK job market, LinkedIn has become riddled with fake vacancies and improbable hiring stories that go viral (Emily Beater/New Statesman)
- TikTok made him famous. Now he’s imagining a world without it
- India announces National Digital Health Mission for digitizing citizens' health records; enrollment in the initiative will be voluntary (TheQuint)
- There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US
- To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce (Jacob Helberg/Foreign Policy)
- Unmade in America
- A legal analysis and risk evaluation of the US antitrust cases against Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook shows the cases won't be a slam dunk (Bloomberg)
- Every country wants a covid-19 vaccine. Who will get it first?
- People close to Amazon's gaming efforts claim Amazon is struggling to make good games because its structure and culture aren't optimized for creative endeavors (Seth Schiesel/Protocol)
- Covid-19 “long haulers” are organizing online to study themselves
- Gong, which uses AI to provide insights on customer behavior and improve sales, raises 0M Series D, at a .2B valuation, led by Coatue (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Russia says it has a covid vaccine called “Sputnik-V”
- MicroStrategy buys ~0M in bitcoin, becoming the first publicly traded company to buy the currency as part of its capital allocation strategy (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- Is a successful contact tracing app possible? These countries think so.
- Apple Advertising seems to be on by default in iOS 14, while other advertisers and ad networks will have to ask for permission to track users (John Koetsier/Forbes)
- “Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” Inside the disturbing online world of gangstalking
- As Zynga buys Istanbul-based Rollic Games for 8M, a look at the rapid growth of hyper-casual mobile games, where publishers may launch a new title every week (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
- Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was
- Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture (Elamin Abdelmahmoud/BuzzFeed News)
- Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy
- Qualcomm patches six security flaws in Snapdragon DSP chip that allowed attackers to take over an Android phone without any user interaction required (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- A guide to the TikTokish apps that want to be the next TikTok
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review: balanced sound with a bold, unconventional design but noise cancellation isn't good and there is occasional signal interference (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- The UK is dropping an immigration algorithm that critics say is racist
- Samsung unveils 11" Galaxy Tab S7 and 12.5" S7+ with Snapdragon 865+, Android 10, 5G, 13MP and 5MP rear cameras, from 0, coming this fall (Stephen Schenck/Android Police)
- Climate change-fueled heatwaves could kill millions
- Yotpo, which develops e-commerce marketing tools, raises M Series E at a valuation its CEO calls "nearly a unicorn", bringing its total raised to 6M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- The quest for quantum-proof encryption just made a leap forward
- Microsoft has confirmed discussions to buy TikTok's operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but hasn't commented on its European presence (Sam Shead/CNBC)
- How an EU tax could slash climate emissions far beyond Europe
- Researchers describe how attackers can sidestep security features of chip-based credit and debit cards from certain banks to create counterfeit cards (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
- Sources: ByteDance has agreed to divest US operations of TikTok under a proposed new deal with the White House that would see Microsoft take over TikTok in US (Echo Wang/Reuters)
- The problems AI has today go back centuries
- Twitter permanently bans the account of white supremacist David Duke (Steven Musil/CNET)
- A new neural network could help computers code themselves
- A look at Muslim matchmaking apps like Muzmatch, which are trying to "disrupt" the tradition of arranged marriages while adhering to Islamic cultural values (Yasmin Hai/Rest of World)
- Canada’s narwhals skewer Silicon Valley’s unicorns
- US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says TikTok is being reviewed by CFIUS, which will make a recommendation to Trump (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
- The US needs a green stimulus – but must provide immediate relief first
- Twitter temporarily locks Donald Trump Jr's account for posting a "misleading and potentially harmful" video touting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
- Why Congress should look at Twitter and Facebook