Twitter is changing the way it processes uploaded images, and the new way of doing things will be much-appreciated by any photographers sharing their work on the platform. Twitter engineer Nolan O’Brien shared that the platform will now preserve JPEG encoding when they’re uploaded via Twitter on the web, instead of transcoding them, which results…
Good morning, and welcome to another Disrupt! Today, we come to you from beautiful (and cold) Berlin, Germany, for Day 1 of Disrupt Berlin. On the Main Stage, we’ll hear from European tech leaders like Hiroki Takeuchi (GoCardless), Sebastian Siemiatkowski (Klarna) and the senior partners at Atomico, including Sophia Bendz, Siraj Khaliq, Hiro Tamura and…
It was just a couple of months ago that Tines, the cybersecurity automation startup, raised $4.1 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital, and now the Dublin-based company is disclosing an $11 million extension to the round. This additional Series A funding is led by venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Index…
Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors has completed the $1.76 billion acquisition of the wireless connectivity assets of Bermuda chip firm Marvell Technologies. The cash deal, agreed at the end of May, completed last week; it sees NXP augment its industrial IoT, automotive and communication portfolio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ‘combo solutions’ from Marvell. Marvell posted $300…
Today, Microsoft announced a public preview of Microsoft Teams for Linux, the first Office 365 tool that’s available for the open-source operating system. The hope is that by making it available for preview, the company can get feedback from the community and improve it before it becomes generally available. “Starting today, Microsoft Teams is available…
Apple’s Mac Pro is available for purchase today, and several people have noticed something curious about it. Namely that, if you choose the correct options during the purchasing process, it will cost you more than a Cybertruck. The Mac Pro slides in just at the end of 2019, technically fulfilling the company’s promise to be…
The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey was an online survey published in The Hacker News and created to provide insight into the details related to cybersecurity compensation. There were over 1,500 security professionals who completed the survey. Today you can access the aggregated and analyzed 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results and gain insight to the main…
As Disney’s first original series for its streaming service, Disney+, The Mandalorian is one of the hottest shows in streaming land. Set in the Star Wars universe a few years after the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi, the show follows the escapades of a gunslinging member of an elite bounty hunter…
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A very reliable source came to us with some insight around Realme’s upcoming Buds Air – direct competitors to Apple’s AirPods, Samsung’s Galaxy Buds and Huawei’s FreeBuds 3. Most of it was already known but it’s good to get a confirmation from someone familiar with the product itself. First off, the buds will indeed support…
