Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Apple says macOS Monterey's Universal Control feature, which was never included in betas, won't launch until "later this fall" (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple says macOS Monterey's Universal Control feature, which was never included in betas, won't launch until “later this fall”  —  Following its special event earlier today, Apple has confirmed that macOS Monterey will be available to all users next week, on October 25.



Google says its Play Store labels that detail user data collection will launch in February 2022 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says its Play Store labels that detail user data collection will launch in February 2022  —  Back in May, Google announced a new Play Store requirement to have Android apps detail how they collect and use personal information.  The Google Play “Data safety” section will go live …



[Thread] A look at Apple's history with CPUs, from PowerPC to x86 to A-series to M1, and how its vertical integration helped beat Intel, Qualcomm, and others (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)

Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi:
[Thread] A look at Apple's history with CPUs, from PowerPC to x86 to A-series to M1, and how its vertical integration helped beat Intel, Qualcomm, and others  —  Apple's M1 Pro/Max is the second step in a major change in computing. What might be seen as an evolution from iPhone/ARM is really part of an Apple story that began in 1991 with PowerPC. And what a story of innovation 💡 1/ [Quick thoughts] https://twitter.com/...



London-based Primer, which offers drag-and-drop e-commerce payment tools, raises a $50M Series B at a $425M valuation led by Iconiq Growth (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
London-based Primer, which offers drag-and-drop e-commerce payment tools, raises a $50M Series B at a $425M valuation led by Iconiq Growth  —  Primer — a UK startup that has built a drag-and-drop framework to help merchants easily build payment stacks to sell online …



UK supermarket Tesco launches its first GetGo "just walk out" store, using weight sensors and AI to track purchases, in partnership with Trigo (Sarah Butler/The Guardian)

Sarah Butler / The Guardian:
UK supermarket Tesco launches its first GetGo “just walk out” store, using weight sensors and AI to track purchases, in partnership with Trigo  —  GetGo store uses weight sensors and skeleton outlines to track shoppers, who are billed when they leave



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Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...