In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies. Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMichael Steinberger / New York Times: Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir’s trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel’s relationship with Trump — The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends. Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Zest AI raises $15M for its AI-powered tech that it claims can help financial institutions reduce bias in loan portfolios, bringing its total VC funding to $87M — Zest AI, a company developing AI-powered loan decisioning products, today closed a $15 million funding round led by Insight Partners. Zest AI raises
Read MoreFlash is all but gone already, but as we approach the official Adobe end-of-life date on December 31st, it’s picking up traction one last time as people reminisce about the days of Internet past. Back in July, [Jonas Richner] created an impressive website that catalogs not only almost 20 years of Flash games, but also
Read MoreDavid Nicklaus / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: FinLocker, whose software helps consumers expedite the mortgage approval process, raises $19.8M Series A and announces a commercial agreement with TransUnion — FinLocker, a Clayton-based financial technology company, has raised $19.8 million in venture capital and reached a commercial agreement with a major credit bureau. FinLocker, whose software helps
Read MoreSmart ovens for your countertop are a thing now, and there are several good options. From remote cooking to food recognition, there’s a whole new world of cooking out there. The best smart ovens of 2020: Amazon, June, Tovala and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Samsung Electronics has announced the death of its chairman, Lee Kun-hee. The company says he died on October 25th with family including his son, vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong, at his side. He was 78. A cause of death was not given, but Lee had been incapacitated for many years after suffering
Read MoreJane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: Zoom deleted events planned for Oct. 23 on alleged censorship by the company after Zoom canceled an SFSU talk in Sept.; Zoom says the events violated its TOS — Zoom shut down a series of events meant to discuss what organizers called “censorship” by the company. Zoom deleted events planned
Read MoreKun-Hee Lee has been hospitalized for years, but Samsung didn’t specify what caused his death. Samsung Chairman Lee, the man who made the company an electronics giant, dies at 78 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s a common scene: a dedicated radio amateur wakes up early in the morning, ambles over to their shack, and sits in the glow of vacuum tubes as they call CQ DX, trying to contact hams in time zones across the world. It’s also a common scene for the same ham to sit in the
Read MoreRaymond Zhong / New York Times: Lee Kun-hee, who was chairman and chief executive of Samsung Electronics from 1998 to 2008 and its chairman since 2010, has died at age 78 — Mr. Lee was convicted — and pardoned — twice for white-collar crimes, in a sign of the ills in South Korea’s relationship with
Read MoreJohn D. Stoll / Wall Street Journal: Fitbit CEO James Park says its app reached 500,000 paid subscribers this year and talks about expectations for life under Google, competing with Apple, more — Fitbit CEO James Park discusses the company’s new products and competition as it prepares to close its acquisition by Google Fitbit CEO
Read MoreA synthesizer without transistors could almost be the basis of a trick question, surely without transistors it must be using a vacuum tube or similar. Not [Dr. Cockroach]’s synth though, instead of transistors it uses coupled pairs of LEDs and light-dependent resistors as its active components. Its oscillator circuit comes courtesy of [Patrick Flett], and
Read MoreResearchers at New York University are using a browser plug-in to gather info on how political advertisements are being targeted on Facebook. The social network has insisted they stop. Facebook, NYU researchers tussle over political ads on the social network – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWith Apple not including a power adapter with all the new iPhone 12 models, here’s a look at several chargers that will juice up any iPhone extra-fast. Best iPhone 12 chargers starting at – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In its latest teardown video, iFixit took apart an iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, and found that the devices look pretty similar to each other on the inside. The displays are interchangeable, iFixit found, and so are the 10.78 Wh batteries. iFixitThe iPhone 12 is on the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games fired back against Apple yet again in a new court filing, saying the iPhone maker “has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor,” the latest salvo in the ongoing battle between the two companies. A quick recap: Back in August, Epic introduced a new direct-payment
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Food delivery platform DoorDash has partnered with a restaurant for the first time to build a new brick-and-mortar store, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Burma Bites, a spin off of Oakland, California-based Burma Superstar, was designed for delivery and takeout, and will offer versions of menu items from
Read MoreNASA bumped into a space rock this week and collected so much of it larger rocks seemed to fail to make it all the way inside its spacecraft’s sampling arm. NASA grabs sample of asteroid Bennu that's so big some bits are escaping – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAn Asus gaming laptop with RTX 2060 graphics at a $400 discount tops the list. The best deals at Best Buy's early Black Friday sale – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKeep an eye on your house with one of these do-it-yourself security systems. Best DIY home security systems for 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAnyone tackling solar power for the first time will quickly find there’s a truly dizzying amount of information to understand and digest. You might think you just need to buy some solar panels, wire them together, and just sort of plug them in. But there are a hundred and one different questions about how they’ll
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Big data analytics service Databricks is planning an IPO in H1, 2021; the company raised about $900M and was valued in 2019 at $6.2B — – Big data company is preparing IPO for first half of year — IPO plan comes on the heels of Snowflake’s successful debut Sources: Big data analytics service
Read MoreDaniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: Patreon says it will remove accounts that actively spread QAnon’s beliefs and will warn those that spread some QAnon ideas but are not dedicated to such content — – Accounts tied to QAnon-dedicated creators to be removed — Followers of conspiracy theory complain of being censored Patreon says it will remove
Read MoreTired of getting his centerpunches thereabouts but not quite there, [Uri] decided something had to be done. A common tool to solve this problem is the optical centerpunch, but models on sale were just a little too pricy for something so basic. Instead, [Uri] elected to build his own. An optical centerpunch is a simple
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