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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces iPhone 13 and 13 mini with a similar design to iPhone 12, smaller notch, A15, diagonal dual-camera system, larger battery, and five new colors — The rumors were right. The centerpiece of today's big Apple event is the latest iPhone. The latest device lands less than a year …
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Apple's iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max will feature a macro photography mode for close-up shots, a Cinematic mode for more advanced “rack focus” techniques, more — The most advanced pro camera system ever on iPhone; Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion; a massive leap in battery life …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Apple unveils iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max with ProMotion for 10Hz-120Hz refresh rates, A15, new camera system with 3x optical zoom, and more — we expected, Apple unveiled its new iPhone 13 series at its “California Streaming” event today, and they include a pair of more-premium Pro flagships.| Apple: |
Apple's A15 is a 5nm SoC with two performance CPU cores and four efficiency cores, a 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 trillion operations/second, and more — Featuring a sleek and durable design, an advanced new dual-camera system for improved photos and videos in low light, and introducing Cinematic mode| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will release iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 on September 20, with updates to FaceTime, Notifications, and more — After a summer full of beta testing, Apple today officially announced that it will release iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 to the public on Monday, September 20.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal docs: Facebook's own research shows Instagram is harmful to a sizeable percentage of users, especially teen girls, but it has taken few remedial steps — Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Interview with Will Cathcart on the criticism of humans reviewing reported WhatsApp content, encrypted backups, and the broader geopolitics of e2e encryption — After a contentious year, candid talk on encryption, privacy, and ProPublica — It has been a contentious year for WhatsApp.| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Apple refreshes iPad mini with a larger 8.3" display and rounded corners, Touch ID power button, USB-C, 5G, second-gen Pencil support; coming next week for $499 — No Mini LED, unfortunately — Apple has announced its all-new iPad Mini. It features a new enclosure with narrower bezels and rounded corners.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple refreshes entry-level iPad with A13, 12MP ultrawide front-facing camera, iPadOS 15, 64GB minimum storage; available next week starting at $329 — The ninth-generation iPad has arrived — Apple has just announced the latest version of its most popular tablet: the standard iPad.
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| Bloomberg: |
Last week's court ruling leaves the door open for Apple to still attempt to collect a 30% commission from app developers who use their own payment methods — - Judge questioned, but didn't lower iPhone maker's commission — Maximizing revenue poses logistical challenges, political risk
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Apple unveils Watch Series 7 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with five colors, thinner borders, 20% larger displays, and IPX6, starting at $399 this fall — The latest Apple Watch is a little bigger, too — The Apple Watch Series 7 looks a little different than its predecessors.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korea fines Google $177M for abusing market dominance, saying it prevented companies like Samsung from developing or using modified versions of Android — - Company said to have impeded development of competing software — Regulator orders change to Google contracts with manufacturers
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
SEC charges App Annie with securities fraud, accusing it of “engaging in deceptive practices” and misrepresenting its data; App Annie will pay a $10M settlement — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that it's charging App Annie, the mobile app data provider … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Ticketing company AXS adopts Amazon One palm scanner at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the first Amazon One partnership outside Amazon and Whole Food stores — Launching at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre — Amazon's palm-scanning technology, Amazon One, has always been about more than just fast payments.| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Solana has been suffering a network outage for around 8 hours, which its engineers say is caused by “network exhaustion”; validators can “restart if necessary” — Solana, a rival blockchain network to Ethereum and one whose native cryptocurrency has surged in value …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Amazon rolls out an OS update with a new UI for Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Oasis, the first refresh since around 2016 — Refined look and feel coming to most Kindles released since 2015. — Amazon's Kindle e-readers get new software updates regularly, and they're mostly of the nondescript … | Sun Yu / Financial Times: |
Chinese police are using a state-backed anti-fraud app, installed on 200M+ devices, to identify and question people who have viewed overseas financial news — Police identify and question people on back of software meant to prevent online scams — Chinese police are using …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sydney-based Immutable, which has developed Ethereum-based tools to monetize NFTs in games, raises $60M — A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next. — Immutable has raised $60 million for its platform that uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to help monetize games.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it is increasing its average US hourly starting wage to $18 and plans to hire 125,000 more warehouse and transportation workers — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has increased its average starting wage in the United States to more than $18 an hour and plans to hire another 125,000 warehouse …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Christine Martinez files a suit against Pinterest claiming breach of implied contract, saying she co-created Pinterest but was never compensated — In a lawsuit, a woman who said she had helped create Pinterest claimed the founders had agreed to compensate her but never did.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based SkyKick, which builds software to help SMBs with their cloud infrastructure management, raises $130M, bringing total raised to date to $200M — The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation for companies across various industries. That's good news for SkyKick …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Collaborative graphic design app Canva raises $200M led by T. Rowe Price at a $40B valuation; its founders pledge to give away 30% of Canva to charitable causes — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Canva is now one of the world's most valuable startups after raising $200 million … | Jack Poulson / American Prospect: |
A former AI research scientist at Google details how tech companies and the US government hide their surveillance projects in plain sight — Learning about the Pentagon's drone program through FOIA requests and public filings — An MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned maritime surveillance drone flies …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Intuit says it has agreed to acquire Mailchimp for $12B in cash and stock — - Intuit will buy email marketing company Mailchimp for $12 billion, the companies announced Monday. — Intuit said it will use the acquisition to accelerate growth among small business clients.
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
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