Temperature and blood glucose tracking could arrive as soon as 2022.
Humane, a stealthy hardware and software startup co-founded by an ex-Apple designer and engineer, raises $100M
A stealthy startup co-founded by a former senior designer from Apple and one of its ex-senior software engineers has picked up a significant round funding to build out its business. Humane, which has ambitions to build a new class of consumer devices and technologies that stem from “a genuine collaboration of design and engineering” that […]
Apple Bans Pay Equity Slack Channel
Apple has barred employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity. The Verge reports: A member of the employee relations team, Apple’s version of HR, said that while the topic was “aligned with Apple’s commitment to pay equity,” it did not…
Apple’s rumored iPhone satellite support may be for emergency calls and messages
The rumored satellite features for future iPhones are reserved for emergency uses only, Bloomberg says, after an initial analyst report sparked speculation about carrier-free calls and messaging.
US giants top tech industry’s $100M+ a year lobbying blitz in EU
The scale of the tech industry’s spending to influence the European Union’s tech policy agenda has been laid out in a report published today by Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobbycontrol — which found hundreds of companies, groups and business associations shelling out a total of €97 million (~$115M) annually lobbying EU institutions. The level of […]
Apple buys classical music service, Primephonic
In a bid to expand its classical music offering, Apple today announced that it has Primephonic. The Amsterdam-based service, which launched in 2014, will bring a laser focus on a music genre that’s been sorely lacking in Apple Music’s generalized approach to streaming. The service will effectively be discontinued as a standalone offering, as it’s […]
A majority of tech workers support antitrust legislation enforcement
The survey asked professionals: Do you believe antitrust legislation should be used to break up Big Tech companies like Amazon and Google?
CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week we dove into Bezos’s Blue Origin suing NASA. This week, I’m writing about the unlikely and triumphant resurgence of the NFT market. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your inbox from the newsletter page, and follow my […]
This Week in Apps: Developers sound off on App Store settlement, OnlyFans’ flip-flop, Snap’s new camera
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]
iPhoneの防御を回避する「ゼロクリック攻撃」が発生、アップルはどう対処するのか？
アップルのメッセージサーヴィス「iMessage」用いて、ユーザーの操作を必要としない「ゼロクリック攻撃」をiPhoneに仕掛けられる危険性があることが明らかになった。攻撃を検知すべくiOSに搭載された防御機能「BlastDoor」を回避できてしまうことから、アップルには新たな対策が求められている。
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