What you need to know A new iPhone 15 Pro concept imagines what we could be buying in 2023, and it’s stunning. Created by 4RMD, the concept imagines an iPhone with a retractable screen and camera situation. Just look at this thing. OK, bear with me here. I know iPhone 13 is just days old
Read MoreBloomberg: At China’s annual World Internet Conference, executives from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Tesla, Qualcomm, and others praised Xi’s “common prosperity” policy — – CEOs praise Chinese president’s new rules, ‘common prosperity’ — Pandemic controls curb international in-person attendance
Read MoreKate Park / TechCrunch: Singapore-based e-commerce logistics startup Ninja Van raises $578M Series E, reportedly at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $976.5M — Ninja Van, a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth.
Read MoreBloomberg: A senior Chinese regulator says China will increase its focus on online healthcare, smart delivery, autonomous vehicles, and platform economies — – Senior regulator vows action in speach to internet conference — Mentions shared economy, online health care and smart delivery
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Swiss brand management service Frontify raises $50M Series C led by Revaia and says it has 5,000 customers — The meteoric rise of collaborative design startup Canva — now valued at $40 billion — and conversely, the viral interest we’ve been seeing in the market for NFTs where you can …
Read MoreIt turns out the best way to do machine learning (ML) is sometimes to not do any machine learning at all. In fact, according to Amazon Applied Scientist Eugene Yan, “The first rule of machine learning [is to] start without machine learning.” What? Yes, it’s cool to trot out ML models painstakingly crafted over months
Read MoreAmong the biggest considerations companies face when selecting public cloud service providers is the level of cyber security they offer, meaning the features and capabilities they put in place to protect their own networks and services and to keep their customers’ data safe from breaches and other attacks. The three major cloud providers—Amazon Web Services
Read MoreSeveral years ago, I purchased a digital “smart” thermostat for my home. I wanted to be able to set the temperature remotely, and check on it while I wasn’t there. I set it up and connected it to the manufacturer’s cloud backend. All was fine, or so I thought. A couple weeks later, I received
Read MoreThough it only got announced a couple of weeks ago, Apple’s all-new 2021 iPad is already discounted at Amazon. With $30 off there, this is the first major discount the device has seen making it the best place to buy the 9th-gen iPad at this early stage. iPad (2021) | $299 at Amazon Act fast
Read MoreDalvin Brown / Washington Post: IBM’s Mayflower Autonomous Ship, which collects marine data, will try to sail across the Atlantic in Spring 2022, after failing its first attempt in June — The AI-powered ship will collect marine data without the expense of a human captain and crew, a money-saving boon for researchers if it succeeds.
Read MoreWhat you need to know Video shows iPhone 13 launch chaos at a Chinese carrier store. Sales had to be halted as customers ran to get to the front of the line. By contrast, Apple Stores offer 15-minute collection windows and easy online ordering. Hopefully nobody was hurt. Last Friday saw the arrival of the
Read MoreBanner ads are appearing across select channels. | Screenshot: NBCU NBC is one of several NBCUniversal channels running prominent banner ads on YouTube TV streams, warning customers that they could lose access over a carriage dispute with Google. The banner lists over a dozen channels that could disappear if a deal isn’t reached by Wednesday,
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Google begins its appeal of EU’s $5B fine, arguing Android has boosted competition; a verdict isn’t expected for months and can be appealed to EU’s top court — Regulator says the Alphabet unit abused its market dominance, while Google says it boosts competition against Apple
Read MoreIgor Bonifacic / Engadget: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law mandating light-duty autonomous vehicles emit zero emissions by 2030 — Starting in 2030, California will require all light-duty autonomous vehicles that operate in the state to emit zero emissions. Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday,
Read MoreCredit: Xiaomi Xiaomi has launched a new smartwatch alongside its new smartphone series. The Watch Color 2 packs plenty of health tracking kit and lengthy battery life with a selection of colorful bands. It goes on sale in China later this week for ~$155. As a supporting act to its new Civi smartphone series, Xiaomi
Read MoreSamuel Woodhams / Wired UK: London’s Met Police sign a £3M, four-year deal with Japan’s NEC Corporation for Retrospective Facial Recognition, which uses historical data to find suspects — The Metropolitan Police is buying a new facial recognition system that will supercharge its surveillance technology capabilities
Read MoreGood morning! German elections happened here over the weekend, and amazingly, Berlin ran out of paper voting cards for a while because the Berlin marathon was on, with loads of street closures everywhere. Classic Berlin. Power crunch? It may be too early, it may not be anything more than a blip, but China is facing
Read MoreFitbit has been a leading giant in the fitness wearable industry for a long time and offers some of the best fitness trackers on the market. Whether you need a smartwatch or an activity tracker, Fitbit offers various products to monitor every part of your day. However, not every Fitbit is built the same. Fitbit
Read MoreA virtual reality version of Resident Evil 4 will launch October 21st on Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset. Resident Evil 4 VR was announced earlier this year. But Facebook and Capcom — as well as third-party development studio Armature — have only offered glimpses of its gameplay, including a short trailer below. It adapts the
Read MoreFaiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: Tesla begins letting drivers request its “Full Self-Driving” beta, prompting criticism from regulators and safety advocates — The software update was beamed to Tesla cars over-the-air early Saturday morning. — SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla began letting owners request its …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Some users are reporting that one side of their iPad mini’s screen refreshes more quickly than the other. The ‘jelly scrolling’ issue appears to be an issue that some people find more obvious than others. Getting the iPad mini replaced isn’t necessarily going to change anything, either. Apple’s brand new
Read MoreCredit: Xiaomi/Weibo Xiaomi has launched its new Civi smartphone in China. The device seems to be a successor to the CC series. Expect a slim, light design and a focus on selfies. Xiaomi teased a new smartphone dubbed Civi earlier this month, with subsequent images showing a design-focused phone akin to the CC series. Now,
Read MoreWhat you need to know New drop tests show that iPhone 13 Pro Max doesn’t break too easily, despite its heft. Those prone to dropping things should probably still get a case. If not a case, make sure you get AppleCare+. Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro Max is a hefty bit of kit and that’s something
Read MoreThe Open Dynamic Robot Initiative Group is a collaboration between five robotics-orientated research groups, based in three countries, with the aim to build an Open Source robotics platform based around the torque-control method. Leveraging 3D printing, a few custom PCBs, and off-the-shelf parts, there is a low-barrier to entry and much lower cost compared to
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Signal not working for you? You’re not alone, as the service featured a significant outage today. The platform has largely remedied the issue, but there may still be people worldwide who can’t access the service. A “hosting outage” caused the issue. If you tried to message someone using Signal
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