Wednesday, October 31, 2018
A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don’t pollute
ShareChat drags Bytedance to court over copyright row
Ola likely to hit $5.5Bn valuation with Steadview's $100M investment
Fighting fake information is a societal challenge: Chris Daniels, WhatsApp
Audit finds a US Geological Survey network in South Dakota was infected with malware after an unnamed employee visited thousands of porn pages on his laptop (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Audit finds a US Geological Survey network in South Dakota was infected with malware after an unnamed employee visited thousands of porn pages on his laptop — A U.S. government network was infected with malware thanks to one employee's “extensive history” of watching porn on his work computer, investigators have found.
The processor used in the 2018 MacBook Air is an Intel Core i5-8210Y 7W Amber Lake Y processor (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
The processor used in the 2018 MacBook Air is an Intel Core i5-8210Y 7W Amber Lake Y processor — Apple's newly upgraded MacBook Air is equipped with a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, a chip configuration that does not match any of the 8th-generation chips that Intel has announced to date.
Apple has pulled watchOS 5.1 update after reports that it had bricked some Apple Watches (Peter Cao/9to5Mac)
Apple has pulled watchOS 5.1 update after reports that it had bricked some Apple Watches — [Update: Apple has now pulled watchOS 5.1. Users who haven't updated should refrain from doing so if it was downloaded, but not yet installed.] — While many users are disappointed with the lack …
Ethos, a startup that says it can process life insurance applications in minutes, raises $35M Series B led by Accel and backed by Google Ventures (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Ethos, a startup that says it can process life insurance applications in minutes, raises $35M Series B led by Accel and backed by Google Ventures — - Ethos saw a more than 400 percent jump in revenue, customers and applications in the last four months. — Ethos, a start-up that says it …
Facebook says it is banning the far-right Proud Boys and co-founder Gavin McInnes from Facebook and Instagram after violent NY attack on protesters in October (Rob Price/Business Insider)
Facebook says it is banning the far-right Proud Boys and co-founder Gavin McInnes from Facebook and Instagram after violent NY attack on protesters in October — - Facebook is banning accounts and groups associated with The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group linked to political violence in the US.
eSIM support for Apple's new iPhones will not be available from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile until later this year, but it is available in other countries (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
eSIM support for Apple's new iPhones will not be available from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile until later this year, but it is available in other countries — Apple today released iOS 12.1 with support for the digital eSIM that will allow for dual-SIM functionality on the iPhone XS …
UK-based digital bank Monzo has raised £85M, or ~$108M, Series E from investors including General Catalyst and Accel, at a valuation of £1B, or ~$1.2B (Oscar Williams-Grut/Yahoo! Finance)
UK-based digital bank Monzo has raised £85M, or ~$108M, Series E from investors including General Catalyst and Accel, at a valuation of £1B, or ~$1.2B — Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK — Fast-growing UK startup bank Monzo is now worth £1bn ($1.2bn), just three years after launching.
Samsung Electronics posts Q3 operating profit of ~$15.5B, up 21% YoY, driven by strong sales of memory chips and higher demand for high-end OLED display panels (Saheli Roy Choudhury/CNBC)
Samsung Electronics posts Q3 operating profit of ~$15.5B, up 21% YoY, driven by strong sales of memory chips and higher demand for high-end OLED display panels — - Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it recorded an operating profit of 17.57 trillion won (about $15.5 billion) for the quarter ending in September.
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 buys eharmony, report says at $85M valuation, two years after buying majority stake in dating agency Parship (Reuters)
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 buys eharmony, report says at $85M valuation, two years after buying majority stake in dating agency Parship — FRANKFURT/MUNICH (Reuters) - Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Media said on Monday it had bought U.S. online dating site eharmony, in the first significant deal since …
Apple releases macOS Mojave 10.14.1 update with support for Group FaceTime for up to 32 people and adds more than 70 new emoji characters (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Apple releases macOS Mojave 10.14.1 update with support for Group FaceTime for up to 32 people and adds more than 70 new emoji characters — Apple today released macOS Mojave 10.14.1, the first major update to the macOS Mojave operating system available on Apple's Mac lineup. macOS Mojave 10.14.1 comes …
Facebook says it plans to invest significantly in new products like Watch and Marketplace and to improve cybersecurity in 2019, with expenses to grow 40%-50% (CNBC)
Facebook says it plans to invest significantly in new products like Watch and Marketplace and to improve cybersecurity in 2019, with expenses to grow 40%-50% — - While the company had a strong beat on earnings, it failed to reach analysts' estimates on revenue, daily active users and monthly active users.
Over 40K Audible books are marked as having been made with an AI "virtual voice", saving authors hundreds or thousands of dollars per title on narration costs (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : Over 40K Audible books are marked as having been made with an AI “virtual voice”, saving authors hundreds or ...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...
