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- The iPhone 13 hits shelves
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 01:14 PMApple officially launched its next-generation iPhone 13 line on Friday, with four new smartphones hitting shelves and shipping to customers who secured their orders early.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alibaba was building a media empire. Now it's dumping Chinese TV shares
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 07:57 AMAlibaba is dumping its shares in one of China's largest TV broadcasters just months after it bought them, as the company comes under growing pressure from a government campaign to rein in Big Tech's power and influence.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'It must stop now.' Marc Benioff says Facebook doesn't care about disinformation
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 10:03 AMFrom the climate crisis to Covid, Marc Benioff sees a common thread for what ails America today: deception that is allowed to spread like wildfire on Facebook.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Microsoft built 'The Frankenstein' device during the pandemic
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 05:09 PMWhen Microsoft closed its Redmond, Washington offices in March 2020 due to the pandemic, the Surface team grabbed what they could for their home offices.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Elizabeth Holmes moved ahead with Walgreens rollout despite internal concerns, former Theranos scientist testifies
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 01:43 PMA longtime Theranos scientist depicted Elizabeth Holmes as prioritizing a business partnership over the possible well-being of patients in testimony capping off the first full week of witnesses taking the stand in the criminal trial of the disgraced founder.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A startup says its software can spot racial bias within companies. Will this surveillance scare employees?
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 03:54 PMEmployees at Telhio Credit Union are already used to having their internal communications monitored to ensure compliance with US financial rules.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - He pushed Uber out of China. Then he got too big for Beijing
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 10:36 AMCheng Wei built a world-class ride-hailing app that not even Uber could keep up with in China.
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Saturday - 09/18/2021 - 08:36 PMFour people returned to Earth from a three-day extraterrestrial excursion aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, marking the end of the first-ever flight to Earth's orbit flown entirely by tourists or otherwise non-astronauts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Clive Sinclair, an inventor who helped popularize personal computers, dies at 81
Friday - 09/17/2021 - 05:06 PMSinclair created affordable computers including the ZX Spectrum, which prompted a generations of coders to create computer games, as well as famous flops like the C5 electric vehicle.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple's iPhone 13 secret weapon is, surprisingly, its price
Wednesday - 09/15/2021 - 09:15 PMApple's new iPhone 13 and 13 Pro lineup features all of the predictable upgrades: faster performance, longer lasting battery life, better screen and new colors.
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- Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou expected to plead guilty to US charges
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 01:14 PMHuawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is expected to appear in a Brooklyn court Friday to plead guilty to US charges as part of a deal that would allow her to return to China, a person briefed on the matter told CNN.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden official reveals the failure behind America's epic chip shortage
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 07:57 AMThe shortage of computer chips is raising the price of new and used cars, delaying shipments of electronics and holding back the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Defense Secretary James Mattis testifies in trial of Elizabeth Holmes
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 10:51 PMJames Mattis, the former US Secretary of Defense and onetime Theranos board member, recounted how he lost confidence in the failed blood-testing startup during his testimony Wednesday in the criminal trial of the company's founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - They took a stand against Amazon for their drivers. They say it cost them their businesses
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 11:52 AMRyan Schmutzer and Tracy Bloemer, owners of businesses that deliver packages for Amazon in Portland, Oregon, hit their breaking point this spring.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SpaceX just brought the first all-tourist crew back from space. Here's what's next
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 09:36 PMFour people, all of whom just six months ago had no formal spaceflight training, strapped themselves into a SpaceX capsule atop a 200-foot-tall rocket and took a three-day spin around Earth.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Apple iOS 15 is now available for download
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 03:54 PMApple's latest major software update -- packed with features to help people better focus, connect with others on FaceTime and keep track of medical records, including vaccine status and test results -- is now available for download.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here's when you can download iOS 15
Sunday - 09/19/2021 - 12:57 PMApple is releasing iOS 15, its eagerly anticipated operating system for iPhone and iPads, on September 20.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SpaceX capsule to return from orbit, capping off first tourism mission
Saturday - 09/18/2021 - 02:59 PMFour people are set to return from a three-day extraterrestrial excursion aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday evening, the final, and perhaps most dangerous, stretch of their mission.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft will now let its users log in without passwords
Thursday - 09/16/2021 - 07:09 PMMicrosoft has a solution for the familiar problem of needing to remember too many passwords: doing away with them altogether.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SpaceX launches four people to orbit in company's first-ever tourism mission
Wednesday - 09/15/2021 - 09:15 PM
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- Stop making employees turn on webcams during meetings
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 01:14 PMThe latest battle in office life may be over whether or not to keep the camera on during virtual meetings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Europe will require USB-C chargers. Apple isn't happy
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 03:45 PMThe European Union proposed new rules on Thursday that will make USB-C ports standard on smartphones, tablets, cameras, phones, portable speakers and handheld video game systems.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple denies Fortnite a return to the App Store
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 10:51 PMApple will not allow Fortnite back on its devices until its legal battle with the video game's maker, Epic Games, has fully concluded, potentially delaying the game's return to iPhones by several years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 12:48 AMLithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Google expands in New York with $2.1 billion office purchase
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 01:43 PMGoogle is dramatically expanding its office presence in New York City with a $2.1 billion purchase on Manhattan's West Side.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Elon Musk takes shots at Joe Biden after SpaceX sends civilians to space
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 03:54 PMElon Musk mocked President Joe Biden over the weekend after Saturday's successful splashdown of SpaceX's Inspiration4 flight carried four tourists on a three-day orbital mission.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Chinese version of TikTok is limiting kids to 40 minutes a day
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 05:14 AMChina's version of TikTok, Douyin, limits usage to 40 minutes per day for users under 14.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google and Apple said to have removed Navalny voting app as Russian elections begin
Friday - 09/17/2021 - 05:06 PMA voting app created by allies of prominent Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was removed from Google and Apple's online stores in Russia just as polls opened for parliamentary elections, according to a series of tweets from Navalny's team on Friday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This mobile app is helping Afghans navigate Kabul following the Taliban takeover
Friday - 09/17/2021 - 11:42 AMAs the Taliban entered Kabul last month, the team behind the crowdsourced news alert app Ehtesab deserted their office in the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Theranos lab worker details concerns about company's ability to conduct blood tests
Wednesday - 09/15/2021 - 09:15 PMErika Cheung, a former Theranos lab worker turned whistleblower, testified Wednesday during the trial of founder Elizabeth Holmes about how she grew increasingly uncomfortable about the startup's ability to accurately conduct blood tests on patients.
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