Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: UK-based live events app Dice raises $122M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, source says at a $400M valuation, with Tony Fadell and others participating — Japanese group and ex-Apple designer Tony Fadell invest in Dice as ticket sales signal recovery
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is again rumored to be planning a big redesign for iPhone 14. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman points to a new-look iPhone 14 coming next year following this year’s iPhone 13 launch. “New entry-level and Pro models and a complete redesign” are to be expected. Apple’s hot new iPhone 13 might
Read MoreAlex Cranz / The Verge: Facebook ignores many issues raised by WSJ’s Instagram piece, such as addiction, instead devaluing its own research while not releasing data it repeatedly cites — The claims are in response to a damning Wall Street Journal story that prompted a Senate hearing
Read MoreWhat you need to know A new video has shown that changing an iPhone 13’s display for a non-genuine one prevents Face ID from working. An error message warns that the device is “unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple display. There’s a workaround, but it isn’t likely most repair shops will know
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple’s new iPhone 13 can’t be unlocked by an Apple Watch for a ton of people. Apple has confirmed it’s aware of the issue and plans a fix for an “upcoming update.” A fix is coming in an “upcoming update.” Early iPhone 13 buyers have seen their excitement tempered by
Read MoreA team of Korean researchers have created a display that can be folded like origami. The so-called 3D foldable display can be folded into airplanes, pyramids, and more. It has a number of downsides at this stage of development though. Foldable phones have become more popular thanks to devices like the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip
Read MoreWhat you need to know A new report by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has Apple getting ready to put the new MacBook Air into mass production in the third quarter of next year. The redesigned machine is expected to feature a thinner and lighter body with the return of MagSafe and more. Don’t expect this thing
Read MoreAimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet: Australia recognizes electronic payments system eftpos as its first private ID exchange operator, to enable online transactions requiring a digital ID — Eftpos connectID can now facilitate online transactions requiring a digital identity from Australians.
Read MoreKate Park / TechCrunch: Thailand-based Ascend Money, which operates the TrueMoney e-wallet, raises $150M Series C at a valuation of $1.5B — Ascend Money, a Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 billion.
Read MoreCredit: Adam Molina / Android Authority Samsung has reportedly canceled the launch of the Galaxy S21 FE. The chipset shortage and strong performance of its newly released phones are allegedly part of the decision. It’s now unclear if the Galaxy S21 FE will debut at all. Samsung launched the Galaxy S20 FE in September 2020,
Read MoreYour Phone software by Microsoft, which serves as a bridge between Android devices and Windows 10, is all set to get a makeover for Windows 11. While things do not seem to have changed dramatically like new functionality is on the cards in the short term, we know a bit into the app at Microsoft’s
Read MorePhoto by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Backbone Labs has acknowledged the issue that hampers the use of its excellent iPhone gaming controller with the new iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. As we noticed last week, the iPhone 13 Pro’s thicker camera bump means the phone doesn’t sit neatly in the Backbone One
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Apple suppliers like Eson Precision Engineering, Unimicron Technology, and Concraft Holding halt production as China tightens its energy consumption policy — Weeklong stoppages to hit peak season for electronics goods including latest iPhone — An Apple Store in Beijing sells the new Apple iPhone 13.
Read MoreResearchers at Columbia have used multi-wavelength lasers to cook 3D-printed chicken. Apparently, it tastes like chicken. We were not overly surprised that 3D printed chicken protein cooked up to taste like chicken, but, then again, you have to do the science. While additive manufacturing is the latest buzzword for all kinds of manufacturing, there’s also
Read MoreBen Potter / Australian Financial Review: Australia names eftpos, an electronic payments system, as its first private ID exchange, to act as a ‘broker’ between identity providers and merchants — Eftpos, the electronic payments system owned by the big four banks and Coles and Woolworths supermarkets giants …
Read MoreAnother year is about to end in the next three months, which means there is another cycle of WhatsApp’s end of support for some Android smartphones and iPhones. After November 1, 2021, the messaging app will not work on some of the Android versions. WhatsApp is used to removing the support for specific Android versions.
Read MoreFinnish software engineer [Toni] is on a quest to modernize his 1991 house, and his latest project was to automate the window blinds and control them using Home Assistant. Unless your blinds have built-in motors, most of the effort of such a project centers around how to integrate and attach the motor — and as
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has fired back nearly two weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram made body image issues worse for one in three teenage girls according to Facebook’s own data. The salvo comes courtesy of Pratiti Raychoudhury, Vice President, Head of Research at Facebook. Raychoudhury’s post on
Read MoreFinancial Times: A look at the frantic dealmaking behind Europe’s instant grocery startups like Gorillas and Flink, as investors see a classic land grab for the top position — Gorillas and Flink try to take on Getir in a merry-go-round of funding and merger talks — It was a sweltering …
Read MoreJosé Adorno / 9to5Mac: Phone Repair Guru report finds that it will be difficult for third-party repair centers to replace iPhone 13’s screen without losing access to Face ID — Yesterday, we took a closer look at how the new iPhone 13 Pro Max handles drop tests. Now, another YouTuber claims that you’ll probably …
Read MoreDealing with breakdowns is certainly nothing new for drivers; plenty of us have had our ride die in mid-flight, and experienced the tense moment when it happens in traffic. But the highly integrated and instrumented nature of the newest generation of electric vehicles can bring an interesting twist to the roadside breakdown, if the after-action
Read MorePratiti Raychoudhury / About Facebook: Facebook disputes the WSJ’s framing of Instagram’s harm to teen girls, saying internal research found using Instagram largely made difficult situations easier — – Contrary to The Wall Street Journal’s characterization, Instagram’s research shows that on 11 of 12 well-being issues …
Read MoreCory Doctorow / Communications of the ACM: To limit the power of Big Tech, regulators should look to mandate interoperability, which will empower users and could spark more competition — Tech’s market concentration—summed up brilliantly by Tom Eastman, a New Zealand software developer, as the transformation of the Internet into …
Read MoreWe’ve seen a great many Arduino synthesizer projects over the years. We love to see a single Arduino bleeping out some monophonic notes. From there, many hackers catch the bug and the sky is truly the limit. [Kevin] is one such hacker who now has an Arduino orchestra capable of playing all seven movements of
Read MoreWashington Post: Extremism researchers say the Epik hack is the “mother of all data lodes”, and will let them map the ecosystem of extremist websites and organizations — The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers.
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