Credit: Ryan-Thomas Shaw / Android Authority Xiaomi has announced a new, longer Android update policy. The new policy will only affect the Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro, at least for now. Xiaomi’s new smartphone series will debut on September 15. Xiaomi is set to introduce a new Android update policy alongside its forthcoming 11T series.
Read MoreWhat you need to know The second season of See has become Apple TV+’s most-watched returning drama series two weeks into season two. Season two premiered on August 27. Viewership is said to have been up 30% on the same period from season one. People really wanted to see Dave Bautista. Apple TV+ has a
Read MoreWhat you need to know HBO Max will launch in Europe on October 26. The launch countries might not be the ones you expect, with the UK and Germany potentially never seeing a launch. Six countries will go live next month with 14 more going online next year. There’s no UK or Germany on the
Read MoreThe creator economy loves merch which is great news for on-demand custom printing startups such as Latvia-based Printify — today it’s announcing a $45 million Series A round, led by Index Ventures, off the back of rising demand for its services. The mission: To keep growing its global marketplace of print shops to meet rising
Read MoreJane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: Snyk, which helps fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies and container images, raises a $300M round at a $8.5B valuation, ~2X its March valuation — Boston-Based cyber security software startup Snyk on Wednesday said it raised $300 million in fresh funds and the company was now valued at $8.5 billion.
Read MoreChinese autonomous driving company WeRide has unveiled its first cargo van, the vessel upon which it will self-drive into the world of urban logistics. WeRide will work with Chinese automobile manufacturer Jiangling Motors (JMC) and Chinese express delivery company ZTO Express to commercialize its first self-driving van at scale. The deal was signed on Wednesday
Read MoreCredit: Evan Blass / Twitter Official-looking renders of Facebook’s smart glasses have leaked. The smart glasses, co-developed by Ray-Ban, add dual cameras to classic frame styles. Facebook has been talking up its smart glasses project for quite a while, with more details finally coming through at the beginning of this year. We knew that Luxottica
Read MoreAli Watkins / New York Times: NYC police officers and critics describe the NYPD’s growing use of post-9/11 digital surveillance tools, initially used for counterterrorism, in minor cases — Two decades after the attack on New York City, the Police Department is using counterterrorism tools and tactics to combat routine street crime.
Read MoreOdanga Madung / Wired: Investigation reveals how social media influencers in Kenya are hired to spread disinformation on Twitter against Kenyan journalists, judges, and activists — It’s a lucrative gig for content creators, who can make $10 to $15 a day by smearing journalists and activists on social media.
Read MoreGoogle has put out an ad for the Pixel 6 series showing the phones in people’s hands. The devices are expected to launch in October. An image posted by the company also possibly hints at a launch date for the phones. Google stepped out of character this year to reveal the Pixel 6 series way
Read MoreCredit: Xiaomi Xiaomi is reportedly bringing the Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE model to India. The launch will take place at some point in September, according to the latest report. The phone could share similar specs to the global Mi 11 Lite 5G model. Xiaomi is set to extend its 11 series family in India
Read MoreFacebook and Ray-Ban are set to announce their smart glasses collaboration later today, September 9th, and right on cue Evan “Evleaks” Blass has posted a ton of alleged photos of the product lineup. The glasses are called Ray-Ban Stories, and other than the box it doesn’t look like Facebook branding appears anywhere on the product.
Read MoreThe dog poop avoiding feature is only available on the new Roomba j7+. | Image: iRobot Using a robot vacuum has always been a bit hazardous for pet owners. Leaving a robovac to do its thing in your absence can be a problem if your less-than-perfectly-trained dog or cat also does its thing while you’re
Read MoreThe Roomba is easily among the most ubiquitous robots in the world — but it has never been one of the smartest. On the whole, that’s not a major issue. The top-selling vacuum is good at what it does: cleaning floors. But a roboticist’s work is never done; iRobot has turned the vast majority of
Read MoreJoseph Menn / Reuters: Microsoft says it has now fixed a flaw that could have allowed hackers to access data of some Azure customers; Palo Alto Networks reported the flaw in July — Microsoft (MSFT.O) warned some of its Azure cloud computing customers that a flaw discovered by security researchers could have allowed hackers access
Read MoreYou might think it’s a bit early for us to be running Halloween hacks, but don’t worry. While this microcontroller-equipped doll that mimics a USB keyboard to type out messages in the creepiest way possible might seem like a gag gift you’d get after attending somebody’s bone-chilling holiday bash, creator [Jonathan] actually put it together
Read MoreWe often look at news out of the research community and think, “we could build that.” But the latest brain-machine interface from an international team including the Georgia Institute of Technology actually scares us. It uses an array of tiny needles that penetrate the skin but remain too small for your nerves to detect. Right.
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Aviva Links, which aims to make chips to enable low-latency data-sharing in connected cars, raises $26.5M Series A led by Marvell Technology’s founders — Automotive connectivity startup Aviva Technology Holding has driven itself into the limelight today, announcing a $26.5 million funding led …
Read MoreGareth Halfacree / The Register: Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton board in privacy advisory role, amid privacy backlash at ProtonMail, which disclosed an activist’s IP address to Swiss authorities — ‘I am a firm supporter of privacy,’ Sir Tim declares – even as the service is lambasted over IP logging
Read MoreDrew Singer / Bloomberg: Singapore-based online gaming and e-commerce company Sea announces a new secondary offering in stock and equity-linked debt, seeking to raise about $6.28B — – Offering comprised of mostly stock, plus equity-linked debt — Deal arrives during resurgence of cross-border stock sales
Read MoreEarlier today, we joined friend and former colleague Jon Fortt of CNBC in interviewing partner Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital, and it proved a wide-ranging conversation (we wound up blabbing for an hour, which was not always the plan). You can check out the video below but we thought there were some highlights worth pulling
Read MoreThomas Brewster / Forbes: Documents show Microsoft and AWS secured contracts, worth $50M total, that appear linked to the Pentagon’s Project Maven, following Google’s exit — After Google decided to quit working on Project Maven in 2018 thanks to staff protests, rivals Amazon and Microsoft quietly took on Department …
Read MoreJosh Eidelson / Bloomberg: FOIA records show Google settled with a software engineer allegedly fired for his workplace activism in 2019; settlement was approved in July by the NLRB — – U.S. Labor Board said five employees were wrongly terminated — Trial is ongoing over remaining allegations against company
Read MoreAqara’s latest smart home announcement really Matters. What you need to know Aqara has announced plans to support the upcoming Matter smart home connectivity standard. Matter is slated to launch in 2022 and is backed by Apple, Google, and Amazon. Free updates to Aqara’s latest smart hubs will bring Matter to a suite of connected
Read MoreToday, Google released the final Android 12 beta before the OS properly launches, and with it a few of the visual changes and features we saw back when Android 12 was announced. Some of the notable inclusions in Beta 5 are the lovely geometric clock widgets, a redesigned calculator, and a new lock screen shortcut.
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