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Apple says an upcoming software update will disable an iPhone's Lightning port if phone isn't used for an hour, closing loophole letting police crack devices — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has long positioned the iPhone as a secure device that only its owner can open.
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Snapchat launches Snap Kit developer platform, letting other apps use Snap's login, Bitmoji avatars, public Stories, and Snap Map content — Developers join the Stories war — Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch's scoop from last month about Snap Kit.
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Sources: Microsoft is working on tech that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from retail stores and has had talks with Walmart about a collaboration — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores …
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Amazon starts shipping its $249 DeepLens AI camera to developers in the US — Back at its re:Invent conference in November, AWS announced its $249 DeepLens, a camera that's specifically geared toward developers who want to build and prototype vision-centric machine learning models.
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Lidar startup Luminar says Volvo is making a “substantial” investment in the company and buying its lidar sensors — Luminar will supply lidar sensors to the Swedish auto giant — Lidar startup Luminar is on a bit of a hot streak. After announcing a major deal with Toyota …
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An overview of the new Siri Shortcuts feature in iOS 12, and the Shortcuts app, which will be available as a separate app on the App Store this fall — In my Future of Workflow article from last year (published soon after the news of Apple's acquisition), I outlined some of the probable outcomes for the app.
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Google is testing Google Sans in mobile search results; Google Sans is a size-optimized version of Product Sans, the font used in all of its product logos — Google's Material Theme is slowly creeping its way into every corner of the company's products, and that continues in part today … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Estonian-founded sales CRM startup Pipedrive raises $50M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners — While Salesforce and Microsoft have a dominant position in the world of sales software today, there are a number of startups nipping at their heels … | Camila Russo / Bloomberg: |
A look at Genesis City, built in Ethereum blockchain-based Decentraland virtual world, that is selling 90K “real estate plots”, for thousands of dollars each — Digital 1,100-square-foot plots in Genesis City are selling for as much as $200,000.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook plans to separate archives for political ads and for ads promoting news publishers' political content; publisher archive will be ready in a few weeks — Speaking at Axios' Media Trends event Monday night, Facebook's head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown formally announced …
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Comcast has disabled its “congestion management” throttling system that it deployed in 2008, but retains data caps and overage fees in 27 states — Congestion-management system was deployed after 2008 BitTorrent controversy. — Comcast has disabled a throttling system … | Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Inside the Open Markets Institute Conference attended by politicians and media execs who discussed the role of Facebook and Google in the media industry — You can't bust a trust if the trust busts you first. — Reporting From Washington, D.C. — The rising antitrust movement gathered Tuesday … | Antonio Villas-Boas / Business Insider: |
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau says over 1M people bought the OnePlus 6 in its first 22 days on sale, up from 1M in three months for previous flagships — - OnePlus sold 1 million units of its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 6, in less than a month. — It's a small number compared to Apple … | Keith Coleman / Twitter: |
Twitter says it's redesigning Moments by introducing vertical scrolling and adding multiple timelines for some US Moments — People come to Twitter to see and discuss what matters to them — from breaking news to the day's events and memes. This is because whatever is happening in the world …
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