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Apple says an upcoming software update will disable Lightning port data transfer after an hour of inactivity, closing a loophole that lets police crack iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has long positioned the iPhone as a secure device that only its owner can open.
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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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Google refreshes its Ad Settings tool and Why this ad? feature to help users control information that is used to target ads and understand the ads that appear — Facing growing questions about how personal data is used to target advertising, Google today announced a series of updates …
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Google says App Maker, its tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web, is now generally available as part of G Suite — It's been a year and a half since Google announced App Maker, its online tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web.
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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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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 … | Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
Samsung announces second generation Chromebook Plus with 12.2-inch touchscreen, 2-in-1 form factor, Intel CPU, 32GB storage, and more for $500 — Chromebooks — laptops running on Google's browser-based Chrome OS — are generally designed for affordability, making the term “premium Chromebook” something of an oxymoron.
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Google says its Tasks app will become part of the core G Suite service on June 28 — Google has revealed that its Tasks app will graduate to become a G Suite core service on June 28. — Google Tasks, if you recall, has existed in something of an odd place for years …
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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, a size-optimized version of its product logo font Product Sans, in mobile search results — Google's Material Theme is slowly creeping its way into every corner of the company's products, and that continues in part today with Google testing its “Google Sans” font in Search on mobile.| Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: |
A look at how a team of animators at Snap create 3D Bitmoji animations for an AR Snapchat experience by overlaying them on the camera's field of view — Augmented reality may change entertainment as we know it. For Snapchat, the revolution starts with 15-second cartoons.
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European Commission names 52 experts, including researchers from Google and IBM, to its High Level Group on AI, an advisory body to draft AI ethics guidelines — The European Commission on Thursday named 52 experts to its High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence, an advisory body tasked …
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Colorado-based toy robotics startup Sphero raises $12M, with plans to raise $20M total, as it shifts focus to education after dozens of layoffs in January — This year has been a rough one for Sphero. The Colorado-based toy robotics startup kicked off the year with dozens of layoffs … Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
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Introducing Zoho TouchPoint: Every handshake deserves a next step — Here's a scene you've probably experienced. You spend a day at an event, talk to dozens of people, and come home with a stack of business cards.
Introducing Zoho TouchPoint: Every handshake deserves a next step — Here's a scene you've probably experienced. You spend a day at an event, talk to dozens of people, and come home with a stack of business cards.
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