An aerial view of homes destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California on February 11, 2019, three months after the deadly wildfire. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Thousands of Californians have fled their homes this week, as the Caldor, Dixie and other fires continue to blaze across the state. Despite the best efforts
Read MoreGoogle’s Pixel manufacturing contract is reportedly the only profitable one for FIH. (Photo: Ryan Whitwam)Another day, another Pixel crisis: Riding the tail of a relatively widespread overheating issue while shooting in 4K, Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones everywhere are rendering themselves useless in perpetual emergency download (EDL) mode, according to a number of
Read MoreChallenger bank Point has raised a $46.5 million Series B funding round. The company offers an account associated with a debit card. And the startup positions itself as a premium debit card company and tries to offer credit card rewards with debit cards. Existing investor Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures is investing more money in the
Read MoreWhat on earth is going on here then… What you need to know Twitter rolled out Super Follows yesterday. It’s supposed to give people the chance to subscribe to accounts for exclusive content. In-app purchases mean the system looks a bit rubbish on iPhone. Twitter’s new Super Follows feature looks pretty terrible on devices like
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin Brands Group, which buys and scales e-commerce businesses, raises $700M in equity and debt at a $1B+ valuation led by Bain Capital — Berlin Brands Group — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell …
Read MoreThough expensive, the AirPods Max feature fantastic sound and noise cancellation. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple’s notoriously expensive AirPods Max headphones are, in some ways, more of a luxury purchase — but today you can live it up for just a little less thanks to the Woot’s ongoing “Sounds of Summer”
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission has unanimously voted to ban the spyware maker SpyFone and its chief executive Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance industry, the first order of its kind, after the agency accused the company of harvesting mobile data on thousands of people and leaving it on the open internet. The agency said SpyFone “secretly
Read MoreIt features 24 new Shortcuts! What you need to know A new beta of Pixelmator Pro is available. Version 2.2 brings Shortcuts to macOS Monterey. It’s available through the TestFlight beta now. Pixelmator Pro is now available in a new beta that brings with it Shortcut support for macOS Monetery. Version 2.2 Carmel is on
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Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been fined €225 million ($267 million) for breaking the European Union’s data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the decision in an 89-page summary (PDF), noting that WhatsApp did not properly inform EU citizens how it handles their personal data, including how it
Read MoreTom Krisher / Associated Press: NHTSA sends Tesla a letter asking for detailed information on how Autopilot detects and responds to parked emergency vehicles as part of a wider investigation — DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency wants detailed information on how Tesla’s Autopilot system detects …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Costa Rican bank BAC Credomatic is reportedly testing Apple Pay support. Both Visa and Mastercard support is expected to be enabled. While no customer has been able to use the feature, it’s now being tested in-house.. Apple Pay is on the way. Apple Pay is one step closer to coming
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is dealing with another iCloud Mail outage. Only some users are affected, although it isn’t clear how many. Again … Apple is dealing with another outage, this time relating to its iCloud Mail service. Apple has acknowledged the outage on its online status checker, saying that “some users are
Read MoreStephen Harrison / Slate: A look at Wikimedia’s Wikifunctions, expected to launch in 2022, which could help partially unify information across the 323 individual-language Wikipedias — Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. — For instance, Jasenovac …
Read MoreThat’s a pretty big slide… What you need to know A new report says Apple was fourth in Q2 phone shipments this year. Apple took a 13.7% market share, down from nearly 16% last year. The company is expected to debut a new phone later this month. A new report claims Apple’s smartphone shipment market
Read MoreImage: Fujifilm Today is Fujifilm’s September X Summit event, and the company has announced a slew of new hardware including several cameras and lenses for both the GFX and X systems. Leading the way is the new GFX 50S II, the company’s latest medium format camera. More importantly, at $3,999 body-only, it’s Fujifilm’s cheapest way
Read MoreAs live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) and Axel Ericsson sought to combine social audio and podcasting into one seamless app. The resulting app Callin launches today on iOS with an announcement of $12 million in Series A funding co-led by Sequoia, Goldcrest,
Read MoreCorelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. The round — which also includes a strategic investment from Capital One Ventures, Crowdstrike Falcon Fund and Gaingels — brings Corelight’s total raised
Read MoreIt’s been a long time coming but Facebook is finally feeling some heat from Europe’s much trumpeted data protection regime: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has just announced a €225 million (~$267M) for WhatsApp. The Facebook-owned messaging app has been under investigation by the Irish DPC, its lead data supervisor in the European Union, since
Read MorePixalate raised $18.1 million in growth capital for its fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics platform that monitors connected television and mobile advertising. Western Technology Investment and Javelin Venture Partners led the latest funding round, which brings Pixalate’s total funding to $22.7 million to date. This includes a $4.6 million Series A round raised back
Read MoreCredit: JBL The JBL Flip 6 portable Bluetooth speaker features a better battery life and durability rating over the Flip 5. The company expanded its line of Partybox speakers with the 710 and 110, the latter of which is available now. It added a host of true wireless earbuds to its portfolio, growing the Reflect
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Read MoreMany years ago, Google created one of its famous April Fools jokes suggesting it would make an 8-bit version of Google Maps for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. [ciciplusplus] decided it needed to become a reality, however, and set to work. (Video, embedded below.) It’s a suitably blocky, low-resolution implementation, but it nevertheless is a
Read MoreLast-mile logistics supplier AxleHire provides same-day and next-day delivery through a network that includes gig economy, couriers and traditional carriers. Over the past year, it has been quietly piloting automated repositioning startup Tortoise’s remote controlled delivery robots in Los Angeles and compact container delivery service URB-E’s e-bike container delivery in New York City. On Thursday,
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