Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users: Lucas Matney
As Slack reportedly readies itself for an entry to the public markets, the high-flying startup is ready to brag a little bit about what it has accomplished in the past year. In a blog post, the company shared that it now has 10 million daily active users on t…
State Farm sponsors popular Fortnite streamer DrLupo: Jordan Crook
DrLupo, one of the biggest names and most recognizable voices in Fortnite streaming, has closed a sponsorship deal with State Farm. Bejanmin “DrLupo” Lupo has nearly 3 million Twitch followers and often plays with the world’s most popular streamer, Tyler “Nin…
Apple partners with Aetna to launch health app leveraging Apple Watch data: Jonathan Shieber
In its clearest move yet to woo the healthcare industry, Apple has collaborated with the health insurance provider Aetna to launch a new app called Attain that uses Apple Watch data to provide a window into users’ health. The launch stems from a 2016 collabor…
Mozilla streamlines Firefox tracker blocking controls: Natasha Lomas
Mozilla has rolled out what it bills as enhanced and simplified controls for Firefox users to manage how they block trackers. An update to its browser software, released today, offers a redesigned interface which includes new controls that let users choose fr…
Gmail on mobile gets a fresh coat of Material Design paint: Frederic Lardinois
Gmail on mobile will soon get a new look. Google today announced that its mobile email apps for iOS and Android are getting a redesign that is in line with the company’s recent Material Design updates to Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Docs and Site. Indeed, the n…
Figma's design and prototyping tool gets new enterprise collaboration features: Frederic Lardinois
Figma, the design and prototyping tool that aims to offer a web-based alternative to similar tools from the likes of Adobe, is launching a few new features today that will make the service easier to use to collaborate across teams in large organizations. Figm…
Apple unveils new in-store sessions covering photography, Garage Band, health and more: Megan Rose Dickey
Apple is launching 58 new Today at Apple sessions to beef up its in-store education offerings for people who want to explore Apple’s products. The sessions, which cover video, photography, accessibility, coding, music, health and more, are free to attend and …
IBM builds a more diverse million-face dataset to help reduce bias in AI: Devin Coldewey
Encoding biases into machine learning models, and in general into the constructs we refer to as AI, is nearly inescapable — but we can sure do better than we have in past years. IBM is hoping that a new database of a million faces more reflective of those in …
Report: Apple's video streaming service to launch this spring: Sarah Perez
Apple’s new streaming service is poised to launch this spring, according to The Information, citing three unnamed sources. Tucked away in a report about Amazon’s plans to dial down its efforts with its subscription video offering, The Information noted that A…
Daily Crunch: FaceTime bug allows eavesdropping: Anthony Ha
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