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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15% for any developer that earns less than $1M in revenue per year from their apps, starting January 1 — Any developer that earns less than $1 million in revenue per year is eligible — On Wednesday, Apple announced a reduction to its longstanding App …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Sensor Tower: Apple's move will affect ~98% of developers that pay the company a commission, but they accounted for less than 5% of App Store revenue last year — App makers bridled at the 30 percent commission, which has drawn scrutiny from regulators looking into antitrust claims.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Apple agrees to pay $113M to settle an investigation into iPhone throttling brought by 34 states and District of Columbia — Apple will pay $113 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states into the tech giant's past practice of slowing customers' old iPhones in an attempt to preserve their batteries.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a major redesign for Google Pay for iOS and Android and is partnering with 11 banks to launch Plex, mobile-first bank accounts, in 2021 — Google is launching a major redesign of its Google Pay app on both Android and iOS today. Like similar phone-based contactless payment services …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
M1 completes Steve Jobs' vision of Apple making “the whole widget” for all the devices in the company's product line — Even as Apple's final event of 2020 gradually becomes a speck in the rearview mirror, I can't help continually thinking about the new M1 chip that debuted there.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Apple debuts a forked version of TensorFlow optimized for macOS, says it trains up to 7x faster on 13" MacBook Pro with M1 than 2020 Macbook Pro 13" with Intel — Google today released a new version of TensorFlow, its AI and machine learning development environment, optimized for Intel Macs and Macs powered by Apple's new M1 chip.
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
Trump says he has fired CISA Director Christopher Krebs, baselessly calling Krebs' previous statement on the security of the 2020 election “highly inaccurate” — - President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Twitter that he has “terminated” top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs.
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Over 200 Facebook contract moderators sign an open letter criticizing Facebook, Accenture, and CPL for ending WFH policies and call for better protections — Here's what you need to know: — Facebook moderators forced back to the office raise alarms about Covid-19 protections.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google rolls out update to Chrome, with pages now loading up to 7% faster, CPU usage reduced by up to 5x by throttling background tabs, and reduced usage of RAM — The last Chrome update for 2020 is all about efficiency — Google is wrapping up 2020 with what it claims …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Marissa Mayer's Lumi Labs, now called Sunshine, unveils Sunshine Contacts, an AI-powered contact organizer app for iOS — Marissa Mayer shoves her iPhone toward her MacBook's webcam until it overwhelms the screen on the Google Meet video call we are sharing. — “I admire Apple,” she declares.
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google announces Tree Canopy Lab, which uses aerial imagery and AI to help cities decide where to plant trees and reduce temperatures, starting with LA — It's starting with Los Angeles — Google unveiled a tool today that could help cities keep their residents cool by mapping out where trees are needed most.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Google adds family-oriented features to Google Assistant devices, like dictating notes that stay on the display, family location map, and educational options — New and improved features for smart displays and Fi plans — Google has announced new family-oriented updates for Assistant and Fi …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iOS 14.3 beta 2 lets users run shortcuts from the home screen without launching the Shortcuts app, making custom app icons more seamless — Apple introduced the second developer beta of iOS 14.3 yesterday, and it includes a major change to Shortcuts.| Henny Sender / Nikkei Asia: |
Inside the collapse of Ant Group's $37B IPO as Jack Ma underestimated the extent to which he was regarded as a threat by the CCP — the date of Singles' Day, the Alibaba-led shopping extravaganza — Jack Ma released a short film. A slick, 22-minute production titled “Gong Shou Dao” … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
VMware says its blockchain platform for enterprises is commercially available, after teasing the project in 2018 — The distributed ledger technology, which aims to provide enterprises with an open-sourced, scalable trust infrastructure for decentralized apps, officially launched Wednesday.
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Fortnite now offers Houseparty video calls on PC, PS4, and PS5; users need the Houseparty app installed on an iOS or Android device, which functions as a webcam — Houseparty wants to change the way that people communicate while playing video games. The company, which offers …
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| Lauren Debter / Forbes: |
Heyday, which buys and launches Amazon businesses, raises $175M Series A from General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and others — A San Francisco-based company called Heyday has raised $175 million from General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures and other investors to buy, launch and grow Amazon businesses.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cloudbolt, which helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments, raises $15M in equity and $20M in debt, bringing its total raised to $61M — Cloudbolt, a Bethesda, MD startup that helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments, announced a $35 million Series B investment today.
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Fireblocks, a service that ensures secure movement of blockchain-based digital assets, raises $30M Series B led by Paradigm — Fireblocks has raised a $30 million Series B to continue building its crypto backend that already has handled more than $150 billion in digital asset transfers.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature, globally, and says it plans to test an audio-based social networking feature similar to Clubhouse — Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base.
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| Matt Burgess / WIRED UK: |
One month after its discovery, researchers say a Telegram bot that makes fake nudes of women continues to operate and the service has done little to stop it — A bot automated deepfake abuse online. Researchers say their warnings have been ignored and Telegram has failed to remove it| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Abacus.AI, which helps companies manage AI models, raises $22M Series B, following $13M Series A in July — AI startup RealityEngines.AI changed its name to Abacus.AI in July. At the same time, it announced a $13 million Series A round. Today, only a few months later …
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