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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max review: terrific camera, battery life, and performance, but it's close to being too big and 60Hz display lags behind the competition — Apple's biggest iPhone brings along an impressive camera — The iPhone 12 Pro Max is a big phone. The biggest iPhone ever made, in fact.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Apple iPhone 12 mini review: easy to handle, screen and performance are excellent, but battery life is lackluster and charging with MagSafe is slower — The tech industry is obsessed with size, and it's easy to see why. “Bigger” is often used as shorthand for “better,” and if you need proof just look at phones.
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Apple suspends new business with key supplier Pegatron after discovering violations of labor rules related to a student worker program — - Apple says Pegatron violated rules for student worker program — Company says new business paused until corrective action taken
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SoftBank has removed three of its most senior executives, including Vision Fund head Rajeev Misra, from its board, amid calls to improve corporate governance — Japanese conglomerate also books a $1.3bn loss on its Nasdaq trades over the summer — Japan's SoftBank has culled three … | Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's Vision Fund posts a $7.6B profit in fiscal Q2 and says original $1.35B investment is now worth $7.9B — - The unit booked a $7.6 billion profit in fiscal second-quarter — Derivative bets totaled $2.7 billion at the end of September — Masayoshi Son is making his case for SoftBank Group Corp.'s turnaround.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tim Berners Lee's Inrupt startup releases an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform, which allows organizations to build privacy-focused apps — Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today …
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| Fred Imbert / CNBC: |
Following positive COVID-19 vaccine news, Zoom's shares fell 15%+ and other “stay-at-home” stocks like Amazon and Netflix dropped 3.4%-5.4% — Shares of Zoom Video fell sharply on Monday morning as names benefitting from people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic lost …
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| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Raspberry Pi 400 review: functional $100 desktop PC that supports both Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu Desktop, but integrated keyboard is narrow and no 3.5mm jack — The Pi 400 isn't a powerful desktop PC—but it is a desktop PC, for $100 or less. — Late Friday afternoon …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's antitrust watchdog says it has opened a case against Google to investigate whether Play Store favors Google Pay over rivals — India's antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into Google for allegedly abusing the dominant position of its app store to promote its payments service …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
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 — It took a long time, but most of the web now uses HTTPS to securely transmit information, partially thanks to a push by Google.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Windows 10, iOS 14, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox were hacked in Tianfu Cup, China's largest hacking competition; winning team from Qihoo 360 got $744K in prizes — Winning hacker team pockets $744,500 at the Tianfu Cup, China's top hacking contest. — Many of today's top software programs …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian grocery delivery service Bigbasket confirms it suffered a data breach where attackers stole user email IDs, mobile phone numbers, and full addresses — - Attackers offer to sell data on millions of users on dark web — Cybercrimes on the rise as Covid forces people to shop online
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