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Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for $549 — The first over-ear headphones with an Apple logo on them — It turns out Apple has one more major hardware announcement …
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| Washington Post: |
An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with an “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs — An internal report claims the face-scanning system could trigger a “Uighur alarm,” sparking concerns that the software …
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The Verge, IPVM, Engadget, Telecoms.com, and Noahpinion
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare and Apple say they have developed a new protocol called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, which decouples DNS queries from internet users for more privacy — Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they've developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes …
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The Cloudflare Blog, 9to5Mac, HotHardware.com News, BleepingComputer, Apple Terminal, Computerworld, iPhone Hacks, Apple Must, CyberScoop, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, and The Mac Observer
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| BBC: |
China bans TripAdvisor from its app store along with 104 apps it said were violating cyber-laws aimed at fighting pornography, gambling, and violence — China has removed 105 apps from its app stores as part of a campaign to get rid of content related to pornography, prostitution, gambling and violence.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more — On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that's taken … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day — - Company has been developing autonomous vehicle tech for years — AI executive Giannandrea takes lead after Bob Mansfield leaves
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung's SmartThings will support Google Nest devices starting in January 2021 — Support for Nest products through the SmartThings app arrives next month — Google and Samsung are bringing their smart home platforms together for the first time. Samsung's SmartThings … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In a private 2018 meeting between UK's digital chief and Zuckerberg, minutes show Zuckerberg said the UK was “anti-tech” and threatened to end UK investment — Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — which fought for two years to obtain details …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Florida police raid home of former state employee and COVID whistleblower, claiming she breached a messaging system despite all its users sharing one password — This is insane. Earlier this year, we wrote about Rebekah Jones, the data scientist working for Florida, who put together …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers detail vulnerabilities found in four open source TCP/IP stacks used in millions of embedded IoT devices, collectively called Amnesia:33 — Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices. — YES, AT THIS point it's a cliche that cheap …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is opening up its open source Fuchsia OS to outside developers, the first formal announcement about the project — For the past four years, Google has been developing a new operating system, Fuchsia, from the ground up. Starting today, Google's Fuchsia OS is now being developed more openly …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google says Stadia users will be able to live stream directly to YouTube starting December 8 — Finally fulfilling its biggest original promise — From the very beginning, Google Stadia and YouTube were supposed to work together — thanks to the magic of cloud computing …
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9to5Google, Android Police, Engadget, XDA Developers, New blog articles in Community, Thurrott, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, AndroidGuys, Input, Neowin, MakeUseOf, Android Central, and SlashGear
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Google announces Look to Speak, an experimental project for Android that helps users with speech and motor impairments by selecting phrases with their eyes — The Android app is designed to make communication easier for people with motor and speech impairments
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The Keyword, CNET, Android Police, Releases, Engadget, TechSpot, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Android Central, and Phone Scoop. Tweets: @backlon
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds carts to WhatsApp, allowing users to add multiple items from a business to the cart then send the order request as a message to the business — WhatsApp said on Tuesday it is adding a new shopping feature to its business app as the Facebook -owned instant messaging service looks …
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WhatsApp.com, Android Police, Social Media Today, Neowin, and The Verge
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| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Senate votes 49-47 to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC for a five-year term, which could mire the FCC in partisan gridlock — Nathan Simington's was chosen to attack free speech and net neutrality. He could gridlock internet policy for the next five years.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based NextMind says its wearable $399 Dev Kit, offering a claimed real-time brain computer interface, will begin shipping — NextMind has started shipping its real-time brain-computer interface Dev Kit for $399. The device translates brain signals into digital commands … | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Calm, maker of a meditation, sleep, and relaxation app, raises $75M at a $2B valuation, bringing its total raised to $217M — - Insight, Marc Benioff also participated in $75 million round — San Francisco-based firm's app has 4 million paying users| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
GitHub expands its Sponsors program to let companies directly fund open source projects, starting with Amazon, AmEx, Daimler, Stripe, and others — Amazon.com Inc., American Express Co., Daimler AG and Stripe Inc. are among those joining a new GitHub program that will let companies directly …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salt Security, which develops tools that discover APIs and detect vulnerabilities, raises $30M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Salt Security, which is developing a threat protection solution that discovers APIs and detects vulnerabilities, today raised $30 million.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple says Fitness+, its workout class subscription service, will launch on December 14 in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand — Apple has today announced that its fitness subcription service, Apple Fitness+, is set to launch on Monday, December 14.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Orca Security, which provides security for multi-cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, and GCP, raises $55M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth — Israeli cloud security firm Orca Security today announced a $55 million Series B funding round led by ICONIQ Growth.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Beyond Identity, which uses certificates to provide passwordless identity management, raises $75M Series B, bringing its total raised to $105M — Beyond Identity, a New York-based startup developing passwordless identity management solutions, raised $75 million in venture capital.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoHenry, which offers a pre-paid card and finance app for 6-18 year olds, raises $40M led by Edison Partners — Young people have long been a prime, if especially careful, target for financial services companies: find the right and responsible way to connect with them, and you could have a good customer for many years.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Thumbtack, a marketplace for hiring local professionals, is acquiring Setter, which offers video checkups by experts and raised $12M since its founding in 2015 — Thumbtack, a marketplace where you can hire local professionals for home improvement and other services, is announcing that it has acquired Setter.
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FinSMEs and Thumbtack Blog
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia researchers have created an augmentation method for training generative adversarial networks that they say enables results with 10 to 20 times less data — Nvidia researchers have created an augmentation method for training generative adversarial networks (GANs) that requires less data.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, Engadget, Synced, AI News, and SlashGear
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity insurance startup At-Bay raises $34M Series C led by Qumra Capital, as regulatory regimes like GDPR fuel the industry's growth — Cybersecurity insurance startup At-Bay has raised $34 million in its Series C round, the company announced Tuesday. — The round was led by Qumra Capital, a new investor.| New York Times: |
Driven by the shift to e-commerce during the pandemic, Etsy shares are up over 250% this year, following a rocky few years as a public company — Shares of Etsy, the online marketplace, are up 250 percent this year, a rise fueled by skyrocketing pandemic mask sales and a push by investors to run its business better.
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