Technology

After adamantly opposing the “sideloading” of alternative app stores onto the iPhone, Apple is reportedly looking to permit them with iOS 17, which will be released next year, in order to comply with European legislation. According to the Bloomberg story, Apple is considering making its camera and NFC (Near Field …

Flipboard, a magazine reading software, is the newest player in the fight to shift some of the online conversations happening on Twitter to its own platform. Flipboard’s curators will be able to put original content into their magazine in order to interact with their users, the business stated today. The …

By announcing a draft decision on U.S. sufficiency, the European Commission has opened the door for the adoption of a new EU-U.S. data transfer agreement the following year. You can obtain the draft adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) from this page. The EU executive body and …

After initially debuting the iPhone 14 Emergency SOS satellite feature in the United States and Canada last month, Apple has now expanded it to France, Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Users can communicate with emergency services through messaging when not within range of cellular and Wi-Fi networks thanks to …

The most recent well-funded business to experience macroeconomic difficulties is Dataiku, which raised fresh funding at a substantially lower valuation. In a Series F round led by Wellington Management, the firm raised $200 million today, valuing the company at $3.7 billion as opposed to Dataiku’s $4.6 billion estimate from August …

The “Blue Origins Space Rangers” animated space adventure series will be produced by the Jeff Bezos-led company Blue Origin, according to a press release from production companies Genius Brands and SMAC Productions. There is no definite date for the premiere. Bezos, who established his space tourism company Blue Origin in …

Tens of thousands of iPhones and Android devices, the most of whose owners are unaware that their data has been compromised, have had data taken by the little-known phone surveillance program Xnspy. Xnspy is one of many “stalkerware” apps that are marketed for spying on a spouse or domestic partner’s …

The web3 startup Nillion, which aims to create a decentralized network that is not based on a blockchain, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the firm exclusively revealed to TechCrunch. According to Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, “Nillion is a deep technical infrastructure project.” …

We paid attention when it was reported last week that activist investors were urging Coupa Software to not sell for less than $95 a share. Investors rarely write to a company requesting a delay in a sale, as is the custom. Usually, the reverse is true. However, the business declared …

On November 23, Twitter declared that it would no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy and would not take any action against any tweets that did so. Due to the inherent health dangers, the site has previously taken a strong anti-misinformation stance. However, under new guidance from Elon Musk, Twitter …