Last week, Mozilla said its Firefox browser would block third-party trackers for everyone by default and yesterday, Mozilla announced a new product that could give Firefox users even more privacy on the web: the Firefox Private Network, which claims to be “a secure, encrypted path to the web” — essentially, a Firefox-made VPN (though Mozilla […]
Explorium, a data discovery platform for machine learning models, received a couple of unannounced funding rounds over the last year — a $3.6 million seed round last September and a $15.5 million Series A round in March. Today, it made both of these rounds public. The seed round was led by Emerge with participation of […]
Apple kicked off its annual fall product launch on Tuesday where it unveiled new iPhones, Apple Watches and an iPad, as well as new details about Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade. The company debuted a trio of new smartphones, including the $699 iPhone 11, the $999 iPhone 11 Pro and the $1,099 iPhone 11 Pro […]
Apple’s annual major public releases of iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS will arrive by the end of this month, Apple revealed on its website as it unveiled new hardware products in a live-streamed event today. iOS 13 will hit iPhones and watchOS 6 will reach Apple Watches on September 19. iPadOS will ship a few days […]
As a part of Android 10 leaving beta and arriving on Pixel devices as a stable build with official dark theme, Google told us that Gmail would get its darker makeover later on this month. Today, it looks like the rollout of the darker side of Gmail may have begun. The update to version 2019.08.18.267044774 […]
Less than two weeks before a likely iOS software update that will give iPhone users regular pop-ups telling them which apps are collecting information location in the background, Facebook has published a blog post about how the Facebook app uses location data. The blog post appears to be a way to get out in front […]
After its announcement four months ago at Google I/O 2019, the Google Nest Hub Max has finally gone on sale. As of today, it is available from the Google Store and other retailers like Best Buy in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Coming in at $229 in the US and £219 in the […]
Last month SNK promised some “next gen” Neo Geo hardware on the way and it might be here. The company just unveiled details on its Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro which is actually a combination device. It’s design is based on the Neo Geo CD controller, but expanded to the size of a fight stick. […]
LG has announced its bringing Nvidia G-Sync to its range of 2019 OLED TVs – promising to reduce tearing and smooth out the picture when using an LG television as a gaming monitor for your PC. LG TVs – like many premium sets – already have low input lag and premium audio capability that makes […]
After a number of first-party apps were found to have unusually high rankings, Apple has finally updated the App Store’s search algorithm to “handicap” itself and help make apps from other developers easier to find. Just don’t call this change a mistake, because according to a recent statement given to the New York Times by […]
Gauging a person’s emotion from their intonations is the bread-and-butter business of startups Affectiva, Beyond Verbal, Cogito, and Realeyes, not to mention an area of acute study for tech giants like Amazon. The potential upside is enormous: Knowing the precise moment someone becomes frustrated or saddened, say, could inform an intelligent assistant’s response or a […]
According to comments that someone inside Google passed along to Reuters late last month, it appears that Huawei will not be able to license the Google Play services version of Android for its upcoming Mate 30 line. This means that it will have to turn to another operating system, and while it did introduce its […]
