BBC: Facebook agrees to pay a £500K fine to the UK for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal but makes no admission of liability — Facebook has agreed to pay a £500,000 fine imposed by the UK’s data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook agrees to pay a £500K
Read MoreJames Thorne / GeekWire: Twistle, which provides a platform to automate healthcare provider and patient communication, raises $16M Series A led by Health Enterprise Partners — Health tech startup Twistle landed $16 million to fund a platform that makes it easier for hospitals to communicate with patients. Twistle, which provides a platform to automate healthcare
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Three of Apple’s phones will release with 5G connectivity next year with Qualcomm’s X55 5G modem, Nikkei reports. This modem will reportedly be paired with a new Apple chipset — likely to be called the A14 Bionic — that’ll be the first from the company to be built
Read MoreWhat you need to know about the Mealthy MultiPot and CrispLid. Mealthy CrispLid: This game-changing add-on turns your Instant Pot into an air fryer – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn space, no one can hear you max out your conversation skills and put a lot of points into hacking and lockpicking. The Outer Worlds vs. Fallout 76: Falling forward – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOne’s a branding effort, and one’s a new type of tech. No, Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband and Apple's U1 ultra wideband chip are not related – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt looks and operates like a Bluetooth speaker, but here’s the weird part: No Bluetooth. Wait, what? It’s true, and this killer gift is on sale for $36. The Boom Brick 2.0 is a magic speaker, and I'm in love with it – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSpotify is launching a new app called Spotify Kids that’s meant to provide a safe space for kids to explore and listen to music — and finally get “Baby Shark” out of their parents’ Discover playlists. The app, which launches today in Ireland, includes around 6,000 tracks, all of which have been curated by editors
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Even the best of us can occasionally misplace an item. Even something like the Apple Watch, which is usually safe on your wrist, can be lost. You come home from a run, pull off your watch and drop it — somewhere in the living room. The band comes
Read MoreRaffi Khatchadourian / New Yorker: A profile of the defunct cybersecurity company Tiversa, whose CEO is facing federal charges for falsifying evidence about data breaches to extort clients — Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government. — I. THE FOOTBALL A profile of the defunct
Read MoreDeX turns your Note 10 into a desktop replacement. A few flaws keep it from being a must-have feature. Galaxy Note 10: How DeX is almost Samsung's killer app – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLink-Local Multicast Name Resolution could enable a man-in-the-middle attack, so it’s best to disable the protocol when setting up Windows Server 2019. How to and why you should disable LLMNR with Windows Server Source: Security
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’ve spent the past couple weeks looking at the clash of social networks and democracy in the United States. So let’s turn our attention abroad. Assam is a state in India that is home to a large population of Bengali Muslims. The ruling party of India, Bharatiya Janata
Read MoreImage: Snap Today, Snapchat is introducing a new 3D Paint feature that lets you draw in augmented reality. You can use it to draw on your own face using your phone’s front-facing camera, and it’ll also work with your rear-facing camera to let you to draw on objects in the environment. One video produced by
Read MoreApple TV Plus arrives Friday with “The Morning Show,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, as its flagship streaming program. Apple Enters Show Business With a Black-Carpet Premiere Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAmazon is always looking for ways to make you shop more on its site, and its latest move is a rather enticing one. It’s making Amazon Fresh – its $14.99/month grocery shopping and quick delivery service – available to its Prime subscribers in roughly 2,000 US cities for free. That’s a sweet deal for one-
Read More{$inline_image}A new kind of Android malware capable of reinstalling itself even after being manually removed has reportedly infected more than 45,000 Android devices over the last six months. The latest findings — disclosed by cybersecurity firm Symantec — come after a similar disclosure by MalwareBytes, which first spotted the malware in the wild in May 2019.
Read MoreSony has announced as part of its second-quarter earnings report that it sold 2.8 million PlayStation 4 consoles between July and September. Since the company hit exactly 100 million sales three months ago, the total is now at 102.8 million, meaning the PS4 has outsold the original PlayStation. The PlayStation, as you may remember, was
Read MoreJake Bright / TechCrunch: Kenya-based Twiga Foods, an online B2B marketplace for agricultural and packaged foods, raises $30M Series B led by Goldman Sachs, 11 months after a $10M raise — Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs. Kenya-based Twiga Foods, an online B2B
Read MoreWhatsApp just sued Israel-based security company, the NSO Group, in a US federal court for allegedly injecting malware into over 1,400 targets’ phones through the messaging service. The Facebook-owned company accused the NSO Group of installing malware into phones for surveillance. The court filing says the security company wasn’t able to break WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, so it
Read MoreEmily Stewart / Vox: A look at Sen. Josh Hawley’s war against Big Tech, which could portend the GOP’s future approach to Silicon Valley as he draws bipartisan support on some issues — Facebook’s biggest problem in Washington might not be Elizabeth Warren. — Tech has become one of the major issues of political debate
Read MoreMozilla recently officially released their IoT platform. This framework comes with “Gateway” software that can run on a Raspberry Pi and a framework that can run on any number of devices. As we’ve seen, IoT is a dubious prospect for consumers. When you throw in all the privacy issues, support issues, and end-of-life issues; it
Read MoreApple finally has a set of AirPods that really fits my ears. Here are my key early impressions. Seven things I learned after my first day with AirPods Pro – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBombs away. Scientists built a zombie fungus cannon to test how spores spread – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: MX Player, a streaming and offline video app popular in India, raises ~$111M Series A led by Tencent; source: MX Player has a post-money valuation of $500M — MX Player, a popular video app that offers both local playback and streaming services, said on Wednesday that it has raised $110.8 million
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