Month: October 2021

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says it is not considering the UK for its upcoming chip factories due to Brexit; the company is investing $95B to open European plants (BBC)

BBC: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says it is not considering the UK for its upcoming chip factories due to Brexit; the company is investing $95B to open European plants  —  The boss of Intel says the US chipmaker is no longer considering building a factory in the UK because of Brexit.

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Adobe announces Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements 2022

It includes new guided edits and more. What you need to know New features are coming to Adobe’s Elements software. Both Photoshop and Premiere are getting updates for 2022. They include new animated overlays and guided edits. Adobe has today announced new features for Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements for their 2022 iterations. In

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Facebook’s research on teens and mental health is not as conclusive as it appears, relying on teens’ self-reported views and a small sample size (Anya Kamenetz/NPR)

Anya Kamenetz / NPR: Facebook’s research on teens and mental health is not as conclusive as it appears, relying on teens’ self-reported views and a small sample size  —  On Tuesday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before a Senate panel.  The hearing’s focus was advertised as “protecting kids online.”

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How Alan Wake Remastered strikes a balance between new and old

“Remaster” can be a nebulous term in video games, covering anything from direct ports on modern platforms to wholesale graphical overhauls. Alan Wake Remastered, which was released this week, lands somewhere in the middle and feels like an appropriate use of the term. The Xbox 360 action thriller from 2010 hasn’t been changed all that

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Find My integration is something only Apple can do

Only Apple could do it properly, at least. Just as it promised earlier this year, via its June WWDC event, Apple has now brought true Find My support to AirPods Pro and AirPods Max, and it changes the game completely. We might not get quite the same level of location tracking as we would by

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Fiverr acquire Seattle-based CreativeLive, which offers online learning tools; CreativeLive has raised nearly $60M and employs around 35 people (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Fiverr acquire Seattle-based CreativeLive, which offers online learning tools; CreativeLive has raised nearly $60M and employs around 35 people  —  CreativeLive, the Seattle-based online learning company founded in 2010, has been acquired by Fiverr, a platform that connects businesses …

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London-based Cord, which offers a single API to add Slack-like collaboration to apps, raises $17.5M Series A led by European VC Index (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: London-based Cord, which offers a single API to add Slack-like collaboration to apps, raises $17.5M Series A led by European VC Index  —  Cord, a startup that offers a single API to add Slack-like collaboration features to any app, has bagged $17.5 million in Series A funding.

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Twitch’s security problems started long before this week’s hack

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A massive security breach at Twitch has exposed a wealth of information pertaining to the website’s source code, unreleased projects, and even how much the top streamers make. As data analysts and journalists work to decipher what exactly is contained in the hundreds of gigabytes of information, others

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Announcing Springboard: The Verge’s documentary on the forgotten history of the Treo

A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades imagined and tried to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready. In Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn talks to

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Pokémon Unite doesn’t not offer controller support on iPhone and iPad

Play your battle arena sessions much more comfortably. It took a few months after the initial Nintendo Switch release, but Pokémon Unite has finally come to iPhones, iPads, and Android phones. This is a highly competitive game, so it makes sense that you’d want to give yourself an edge. Generally speaking, the best iPhone game

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Annual EU report on social media content moderation shows companies removed 62.5% of flagged material in March and April 2021, down from 71% in late 2019 (Mark Scott/Politico)

Mark Scott / Politico: Annual EU report on social media content moderation shows companies removed 62.5% of flagged material in March and April 2021, down from 71% in late 2019  —  In a leaked Commission report, firms deleted 62.5 percent of material after it was flagged, down from 71 percent in the previous annual audit.

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UK High Court rules that Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, used NSO Group’s Pegasus to hack the phone of his ex-wife and five associates (Haroon Siddique/The Guardian)

Haroon Siddique / The Guardian: UK High Court rules that Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, used NSO Group’s Pegasus to hack the phone of his ex-wife and five associates  —  Sheikh Mohammed used spyware on Princess Haya and five associates in unlawful abuse of power, judge rules  —  The ruler of Dubai hacked the phone …

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Massachusetts-based Solo.io, which offers APIs to connect networking software, data, and hardware, raises $135M Series C at a $1B+ valuation (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Massachusetts-based Solo.io, which offers APIs to connect networking software, data, and hardware, raises $135M Series C at a $1B+ valuation  —  The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility.  Register now!

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Planet Buddies announces new volume-limited wireless headphones for kids

What you need to know Planet Buddies’ new wireless headphones are volume-limited to protect kids’ ears. Three colors are available, all with different characters on them. Planet Buddies hopes to raise awareness of endangered animals through headphones and more. The wireless headphones are available now for $44.99. Planet Buddies, a company that hopes to raise

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As Twitch grapples with the giant data leak, a look at the impact on its streamers, who had extensive revenue and personal data leaked (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/VICE)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: As Twitch grapples with the giant data leak, a look at the impact on its streamers, who had extensive revenue and personal data leaked  —  The leak of source code and some internal security files does not expose sensitive data, according to a former Twitch employee.  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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