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Apple says an upcoming software update will disable Lightning port data transfer after an hour of inactivity, closing a loophole that lets police crack iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has long positioned the iPhone as a secure device that only its owner can open.
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Snapchat launches Snap Kit developer platform, letting other apps use Snap's login, Bitmoji avatars, public Stories, and Snap Map content — Developers join the Stories war — Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch's scoop from last month about Snap Kit.
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Sources: Microsoft is working on tech that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from retail stores and has had talks with Walmart about a collaboration — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores …
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Amazon starts shipping its $249 DeepLens AI camera to developers in the US — Back at its re:Invent conference in November, AWS announced its $249 DeepLens, a camera that's specifically geared toward developers who want to build and prototype vision-centric machine learning models.
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Lidar startup Luminar says Volvo is making a “substantial” investment in the company and buying its lidar sensors — Luminar will supply lidar sensors to the Swedish auto giant — Lidar startup Luminar is on a bit of a hot streak. After announcing a major deal with Toyota …
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An overview of the new Siri Shortcuts feature in iOS 12, and the Shortcuts app, which will be available as a separate app on the App Store this fall — In my Future of Workflow article from last year (published soon after the news of Apple's acquisition), I outlined some of the probable outcomes for the app.
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Google is testing Google Sans, a size-optimized version of its product logo font Product Sans, in mobile search results — Google's Material Theme is slowly creeping its way into every corner of the company's products, and that continues in part today with Google testing its “Google Sans” font in Search on mobile.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Estonian-founded sales CRM startup Pipedrive raises $50M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners — While Salesforce and Microsoft have a dominant position in the world of sales software today, there are a number of startups nipping at their heels … | Camila Russo / Bloomberg: |
A look at Genesis City, built in Ethereum blockchain-based Decentraland virtual world, that is selling 90K “real estate plots”, for thousands of dollars each — Digital 1,100-square-foot plots in Genesis City are selling for as much as $200,000.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast has disabled its “congestion management” throttling system that it deployed in 2008, but retains data caps and overage fees in 27 states — Congestion-management system was deployed after 2008 BitTorrent controversy. — Comcast has disabled a throttling system … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook plans to separate archives for political ads and for ads promoting news publishers' political content; publisher archive will be ready in a few weeks — Speaking at Axios' Media Trends event Monday night, Facebook's head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown formally announced …
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