This three-row crossover gains a handful of styling enhancements and plenty of chassis upgrades. The new 2021 Toyota Highlander XSE looks like it means business – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreToyota is blacking out more of its lineup, bringing Nightshade editions of the Tacoma, Tundra and Sequoia to market. Toyota revels Nightshade special-edition trucks at Chicago Auto Show – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThese are the first 20-inch wheels offered for either Jeep. Jeep Wrangler, Gladiator High Altitude models enter the Dub Club – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreRobert Heaton: Software engineer finds that Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application opened on a user’s computer and send the data to Google Analytics — Chapter 1: The discovery — I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one: Software
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon launches Brand Voice, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly for letting brands work with Amazon’s engineers to build custom text-to-speech voices — If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands. Amazon launches Brand Voice, a
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Brave browser report: 198 local UK councils’ websites are using real-time bidding advertising, which is the subject of a number of data protection complaints — On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a study conducted … Brave browser
Read More{$inline_image} Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Twilio announces Q4 revenue of $331.2M, up 62% YoY, 2019 total revenue of $1.13B, up 75% YoY, ends Q4 with 179K+ active customer accounts; forecasts loss in Q1 — Twilio is posting strong revenue growth but its earnings outlook for the first quarter and fiscal 2020 fall short of expectations.
Read MoreIn an interview with CBS This Morning, Clearview AI’s founder says it’s his right to collect photos for the facial recognition app. Clearview AI hit with cease-and-desist from Google, Facebook over facial recognition collection – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChild-safety advocates say encryption will allow child predators to operate undetected on the social network. Facebook urged to halt encryption push over child abuse concerns – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis roadgoing luxury liner comes out swinging for the latest model year, loaded with more technology and a dramatically improved interior. 2021 Cadillac Escalade ups its luxury and tech game – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Sarah Jeong / The Verge An enterprising cybersquatter who is not Patrick deWitt has commandeered patrickdewitt.net in an attempt to attract attention for their own novel (via Willamette Week). And while the squatter has backed off some of his more audacious demands by scrubbing them from the website, screenshots and archived versions of
Read MoreThe facial recognition company reportedly wants to sell its app to law enforcement in 22 more countries. Clearview AI is looking to expand globally, report says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe vertical foldable arrives tomorrow with a 6.2-inch screen, a 16-megapixel camera and a truly unique hinge. Motorola Razr is almost here. We went hands-on with the foldable phone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Anna Webber/Getty Images for Xbox & Gears of War 4 Rod Fergusson announced today that he’s leaving his role as the head of The Coalition, Microsoft’s Gears of War-focused studio, to join Blizzard and oversee the Diablo franchise. Fergusson will join Blizzard sometime in March, according to his announcement tweet: Starting in March,
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Apple Watch wasn’t just the best-selling smartwatch last year, but also put the Swiss watch industry to shame, according to new sales estimates compiled by Strategy Analytics. The report estimates Apple shipped nearly 31 million units in 2019, a 36 percent jump over last year. The Swiss
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple released the first beta of iOS 13.4 today, and it apparently has an unannounced feature that might let you unlock, lock, and start your car with your iPhone or Apple Watch, as spotted by 9to5Mac. The iOS 13.4 beta has references to a new “CarKey” API, according
Read MoreThe social network is facing criticism for how encryption can allow child exploitation to flourish undetected on its services. Child-Welfare Activists Attack Facebook Over Encryption Plans Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Alex Wong/Getty Images The IowaRecorder app, the shoddy mobile software developed to tally votes in the state’s Democratic caucuses on Monday that threw the entire event into a tailspin, was just published online by Motherboard. According to editor-in-chief Jason Koebler, “Trust and transparency are core to the US electoral process,” and “that’s why
Read MorePBKReviews Motorola’s new foldable Razr doesn’t officially arrive until next month, but we’re already seeing teardowns posted online. The first is courtesy of PBKReviews, which posted a detailed teardown video of the device and its folding screen before the phone has even shipped to most customers. The hotly anticipated Razr is available for presale for
Read MoreTwo quick things: One, there were major formatting issues with Thursday’s newsletter; Revue says it was a bug. If you recoiled in horror from the formatting and skipped the (magnificent!) column, you can catch up here. Two, we’re looking forward to seeing lots of you in San Francisco on Tuesday for the second Interface Live
Read MoreIt’s because the process is “obscure and complex,” the audit said. Audit finds just 2.5M people used free tax prep in 2019, despite 104M being eligible – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA smartphone app, developed by a company called Shadow, Inc., is at the heart of a mess that’s delayed the results in Iowa. Iowa caucus app debacle: What went wrong? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou can vote via a Google search. Pokemon Day competition lets you vote for pocket monster of the year – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: ABC Some good news for Lost fans: all 121 episodes of the series will soon be available to stream for free. The only downside is that it requires using yet another streaming service — and dealing with ads. IMDb TV, a free streaming service owned by Amazon, will be the exclusive free streaming service
Read MoreThere are many ways to update an Android phone. Most people probably wait for the latest patches to arrive and let their phones run the update automatically. This is the most convenient option, but it’s also the slowest, since it depends on your carrier to roll the update out to you. There are ways to
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