Author: Zach_Wilson
You can attach a 5GB file to an email thanks to this new service Email warning
Sharing large files over email is about to get a whole lot easier as Edison Software has announced the public beta of a brand new independent email service called OnMail that gives users full control over their inboxes. While the company is known for its Edison Mail app on Apple’s…
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Apple delays privacy feature that would let iPhone owners keep ad tracking at bay
Apple is delaying a controversial new privacy rule it’s implementing with iOS 14 that will require developers to ask users for permission to gather data and track them across mobile apps and websites on the iPhone and iPad, the company announced in a developer update posted Thursday. Apple originally intended…
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Facebook wants its AR glasses to give wearers superhearing
A new Facebook experiment shows how sound could play a major role in augmented reality. Chief scientist Michael Abrash and his team at FRL Research (formerly Facebook Reality Labs) released details today about what the team calls “perceptual superpowers” — AR systems that figure out what you’re trying to hear,…
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Alexa for Residential lets landlords create smart apartments
Amazon wants to make it easier to have a smart home without actually owning a home. Today, the company is unveiling its “Alexa for Residential” program that lets property managers add Alexa-enabled devices and experiences to rental properties. Landlo… Source
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Apple ordered to pay California store workers for time spent waiting for bag searches
Apple has to pay store employees in California for the time they spend waiting for their bags to be checked by security officers, an appeals court ruled this week. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued the ruling Wednesday, which reverses a summary judgment order in Apple’s…
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Oracle loses bid for $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud contract The Pentagon (US Department of Defense)
Oracle’s efforts to get a portion of the US Department of Defense’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract may finally be at an end after a US appeals court fully rejected the company’s argument that it had been wrongfully excluded from the contract. The decision comes after nearly a year…
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