Microsoft isn't just building for the future. The company is focusing on tools that will allow an ever-broader group of people to program for themselves. At the heart of this plan is Microsoft's pivot to...

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An Apple iPhone 12 Pro was saved from drowning after the butterfingered owner dropped it into a muddy canal in Berlin with about three feet of water. A makeshift magnetic fishing pole was created and...

The Snapdragon 888+, which will likely power Android flagships that will be released in H2 2021, has been spotted on Geekbench.......

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Apple sent out an email to podcast creators telling them that the launch of Apple Podcast Subscriptions is being delayed until next month to allow changes to be made to improve the platform.......

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The latest version of Outlook for Windows beefs up the speed and reliability of changes made to shared calendars. ......

Angular announced a new automated feature request process that it will implement over the next few weeks after the team found that a large portion of requests among its three main repos were feature requests. ...

Happy Friday! This week, our research team tracked more than 90 tech funding deals worth more than €3.9 billion, and about 19 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia,...

Amazon Redshift ML is now generally available. The cloud data warehouse enables users to create machine learning models and make predictions from data directly from their Amazon Redshift cluster. Users just have to use a...

In today’s show, we talk with Mark Durno, managing partner at Rockstart Agrifood, which recently raised a €22+ million fund. Rockstart has spent most of its existence as an accelerator, but for the past couple...

Docker announced new improvements to increase velocity, improve workflows, and provide trusted-content offerings to software developers at its DockerCon 2021 annual conference this week.  The Docker Collaborative Application Development Program now features three key improvements:...

The SaaS security company Detectify last week announced the general availability of its standalone application security tool: Ugly Duckling. The tool is designed to make easier for ethical hackers to share their latest findings on...

Microsoft announced the release of TypeScript 4.3, which adds many new features such as separate write types on properties, ‘override’ and the ‘–noImplicitOverride’ flag, template string type improvements and more.  With separate write types, developers...

A feature not discussed by Google at the recent Google I/O developers conference appears to be a Game Mode that will record your screen and send your video to YouTube.......

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Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – Hamburg-based fashion e-tailer About You has announced its intention to list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as of Q2 of this year. With the listing,...

Barcelona’s insomnia-fighting app Moonoa has raised €1.54 million in a seed round led by the Seedrocket 4founders fund. The raise also saw participation from K Fund and Cabiedes, alongside Angel Investors Eneko Knorr, Albert Armengol,...

Most businesses today that want an app have an app. But having one is not the entire process. The app maker and the business behind the mobile application still need to get it to actually...

A developer has discovered that Apple's M1 and A14 Bionic chips have a hardware security flaw that can't be fixed via software.......

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Serverless isn’t just a fad; it’s here to stay. According to Datadog’s State of Serverless 2021 report, AWS Lambda functions were invoked 3.5 times more often than they were in 2019. The company explained this...

Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – Parisian customer experience platform Contentsquare has raised $500 million in a Series E round led by SoftBank Vision Fund. Existing investors Bpifrance, Canaan, BlackRock, Eurazeo,...