Oppo’s Find X2 Pro abandons the no-notch display and adds a 120Hz refresh rate, super-fast charging and 5G. See Oppo's new Find X2 Pro flagship in orange vegan leather finish – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRansomware attackers are using common tools to take down big enterprise with ‘human-operated’ attacks. Ransomware: These sophisticated attacks are delivering ‘devastating’ payloads, warns Microsoft Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreAs repeatedly teased by Oppo itself, Oppo is making a watch called the Oppo Watch, and today it got revealed in full. It looks extremely similar to the Apple Watch — not just because of its curved glass and square-ish screen, but also the integrated bands and the black-heavy UI. Its 4.5mm-thick aluminum frame, however,
Read MoreTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students at the Indian Institute of Technology in November 2018 in New Delhi, India. | Photo by Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images On Tuesday I laid out Elliott Management’s case against Jack Dorsey — or at least, what we know about it so far. The activist investor has acquired
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Stephen Hawking used to say: Let’s get it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 05 2020, at a
Read MoreConnie Loizos / TechCrunch: Empower Finance, a mobile banking app that uses AI and human financial planners to help users accrue wealth, raises $20M Series A from Icon and Defy Ventures — Another afternoon, another round of funding for a mobile banking app. This time, it’s Empower Finance a San Francisco-based company that’s headed …
Read MoreOppo’s Find X2 Pro abandons the no-notch display and adds a 120Hz refresh rate, super-fast charging and 5G. Oppo Find X2 series ditches pop-up selfie camera for notch – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreI’ve been reading about all sorts of digital tools we’re meant to change the way we think, plan, and work for years. But none of them have actually come close to making me more productive. While many of my peers swear by productivity-focused apps, I like to keep my iPhone and work life separate for
Read MoreOn the Wings of Keeradaks, season 7’s third episode, feels like a bridge to the arc’s finale but includes an incredible action sequence. Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode 3 recap: Anakin Skywalker and his clone pals make an amazing escape – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePick a spec, any spec… Samsung has dialed it up in this device. Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra teardown shows new phone is a 'monster' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePrivacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has released a new service, called the Tracker Radar, to block unwanted trackers that collect your browsing data. The service is an open-sourced and continuously updated list of common trackers with details such as tracking behavior, prevalence, ownership, fingerprinting behavior, cookie behavior, and privacy policy. DuckDuckGo says anyone can make use of this tool:
Read MoreFinancial Times: Didi Chuxing’s daily active users dropped over 50% after China acknowledged coronavirus outbreak; Beijing drivers waiting up to two hours for a passenger — Disruption yet another obstacle on Chinese ride-hailing app’s long road to profitability — The streets of Baotou … Didi Chuxing's daily active users dropped over 50% after China acknowledged
Read MoreNowadays, it’s hard to browse a tech site, attend an event, or open your LinkedIn without being smacked in the face with a new ‘growth hacking’ technique promising startup founders a low-cost, high return, silver bullet to get their struggling businesses booming. The only problem is, if it seems too good to be true, it’s
Read MoreOnly 11% of all enterprise accounts use a MFA solution overall. Microsoft: 99.9% of compromised accounts did not use multi-factor authentication Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreHBO brings back all the violence, nudity and complicated storylines you could wish for, now in a new Bond-meets-Blade Runner setting. Westworld season 3 review: A small but slick upgrade – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWith many different headphones to choose from, which ones are the best of the best? Here’s a look at CNET’s top picks — from full-size models to tiny wireless earbuds. The best headphones of 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Sources: Rigetti Computing’s $71M raise was at a significant cut to valuation, because quantum computing is hard, and commercial applications are still few — The $71 million in financing that quantum computing technology developer Rigetti Computing recently raised came at a significant cut … Sources: Rigetti Computing's M raise was at
Read MoreJohn Krasinski’s alien-packed follow-up to Part I appears to be just as stomach-clenching. A Quiet Place 2 first reactions slink in: 'A masterclass in suspense' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLeah Rosenbaum / Forbes: Suki, an AI-powered voice assistant for doctors, raises $20M Series B, doubling total funding to $40M since 2017, claims 40x usage growth in the past year — How much would a virtual assistant boost your productivity at work? For doctors that are exhausted from long hours typing … Suki, an AI-powered
Read MoreWayne Ma / The Information: Investigation details Apple’s struggles to create a device manufacturing supply chain in India — Several years ago, employees at Apple investigated whether components for the iPhone could be made in India. The results weren’t encouraging. — While the employees found some companies … Investigation details Apple's struggles to create a
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: Arweave, which uses blockchain to perpetually host sites and apps, raises $8.3M seed from a16z, USV, and Coinbase Ventures, four months after raising $5M — The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter. Arweave, which uses blockchain to perpetually
Read MoreThe global tech industry is being rattled by the virus as conferences are canceled and Apple and Microsoft warn investors. The coronavirus impact: Here's how COVID-19 has affected the tech industry – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStephanie Condon / ZDNet: AMD unveils a new dedicated GPU architecture, CDNA, for data center compute workloads that it plans to launch later this year — At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD says it’s on track to achieve double-digit data center market share by the second quarter of 2020. AMD unveils a new dedicated GPU
Read MoreCompanies based in Santa Clara County, California — which includes Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose — should avoid travel and postpone or cancel mass gatherings, the county recommended on Thursday. The recommendations come after six new cases of the novel coronavirus have been identified, bringing the total number of people confirmed to
Read MoreBack in October, Sonos introduced a new ‘trade up‘ program that offers existing Sonos users a 30 percent discount to buy a new speaker if they recycle an eligible older model. Problem was, qualifying for the program required users to put their old devices in a new ‘Recycle Mode’ which would permanently prevent the devices from
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