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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, access to the professional-grade video codec ProRes, and 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.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are the first to support dual eSIM, expanding on support for eSIM and regular SIM in previous iPhones — Apple introduced eSIM support on iPhone with iPhone XR and iPhone XS in 2018. However, while you can use a regular SIM and an eSIM simultaneously …
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Daring Fireball, Engadget, Wired, Apple Support, PCMag, Gizchina, iMore, and GSMArena.com
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DOJ court documents: three former US intel operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the UAE, face charges of conspiring to violate hacking laws — The US Department of Justice has fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company.
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| Keith Broni / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium launches version 14.0 with a total of 112 new emoji, including multiracial handshake, melting face, saluting face, and heart hands — Today the latest emoji list will be released by the Unicode Consortium, with additions including Biting Lip, Troll, Saluting Face …
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
Apple, in a first, reported no CPU gains for the A15, likely because of the engineer exodus to companies like Nuvia and Rivos — Apple has been long hailed for having the best CPU cores for consumer workloads for years. They have by far the highest performance per clock and efficiency driven …
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| BBC: |
Google's Grace Hopper transatlantic communications cable, measuring 4,350 miles and operational in 2022, has reached Bude in the UK and Bilbao in Spain — A new “massive” undersea transatlantic communications cable has been brought ashore on a beach in Cornwall.
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The Keyword. More:
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Tweets: @googlecloud_uki and @thomasortk
| 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 — Canva is now one of the world's most valuable startups after raising $200 million in new funding at a $40 billion valuation.
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| 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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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Microsoft fixes over 80 vulnerabilities, including 20 Chromium security bugs in Edge and a critical zero-day vulnerability in MSHTML — Azure agent in Linux guests fixed, MSHTML exploit tackled, and much more - Plus: Adobe and SAP issue updates — Patch Tuesday For its September Patch Tuesday …
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Zero Day Initiative, BetaNews, Engadget, Onapsis, AskWoody, iTnews, and The Hacker News
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Swedish caller ID and spam blocking service Truecaller seeks to raise $116M in Stockholm IPO at a valuation of about $3B — Truecaller, which operates an eponymous caller-identification service, said on Wednesday it is looking to raise $116 million in an initial public offering on Nasdaq Stockholm.| The Verge: |
Nintendo adds Bluetooth audio support to the Switch, which limits the device to two wireless controllers when in use and does not support microphones — Out of the blue(tooth) — Nintendo has surprise-announced that Bluetooth audio support has come to the Switch through a software update.
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Tweets: @nintendoamerica, @reckless, @gamingtallen, @adamtotscomix, @tomwarren, @backlon, @davegershgorn, @anildash, and @eliblumenthal
| Sanjana Shivdas / Reuters: |
Report: Uber CTO Sukumar Rathnam has resigned after a year in the position amid tensions with Uber CPO Sundeep Jain — Uber (UBER.N) Chief Technology Officer Sukumar Rathnam is stepping down as the company's head of engineering, Business Insider reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt examines Peter Thiel's support for Trump and partnership with Steve Bannon, libertarian ideology, battles with the IRS, and founding of Palantir — In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed …
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| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
Amazon is offering UK Prime members access to Deliveroo Plus, its free delivery service, for one year on orders over £25 — Amazon.com Inc. is offering its Prime members in the U.K. and Ireland access to Deliveroo Plus for one year, deepening its tieup with the British company beyond its financial investment.| 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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| 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| Alex Engler / Tech Policy Press: |
Enrollment algorithms used by colleges intentionally reduce scholarships and may lead to crises of student loan debt, college dropout, and racial inequity — As colleges look for any advantage in the fierce competition to enroll students, hundreds of institutions have turned to algorithms … | 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 …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snap hires Jacqueline Beauchere, the chief online safety officer at Microsoft, to be its first global head of platform safety — Snap Inc. has hired Jacqueline Beauchere, the current Chief Online Safety Officer at Microsoft, to be its first-ever Global Head of Platform Safety, a spokesperson tells Axios.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Irish data commissioner launches GDPR probe into TikTok over its handling of children's data and the transfer of user information to China — Irish regulator adds to scrutiny of video app that has drawn national security concerns — The Irish data commissioner has launched investigations … | Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Solana is back up after suffering a network outage for around 17 hours, which its engineers say was caused by “network exhaustion” — Solana, a rival blockchain network to Ethereum and one whose native cryptocurrency has surged in value and activity in recent months, has been down for nearly four hours as of this writing.
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Solana. More:
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bangalore-based Mobile Premier League, a gaming and esports app, raises $150M led by Legatum Capital; the company is now valued at $2.3B — - Mobile Premier League raises funds at $2.3 billion valuation — Indian startup arranges gaming competitions with money prizes
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DealStreetAsia and Entrackr
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dutch startup Sendcloud, which offers cloud-based tools for retailers to manage shipping services, raises $177M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of Covid-19 living, with people turning to the web …
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