Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops
Demands for Apple customer records by federal agents in recent months underscore the privacy limitations of email.
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Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity
Today, I’m talking with Todd McKinnon, who is co-founder and CEO of Okta, a platform that lets big companies manage security and identity across all the apps and services their employees use. Think of it like login management — actually, that’s a great way to think about it because the way most people encounter Okta […]
Uber is buying Berlin startup Blacklane to bolster its ‘Elite’ offering
It’s a notable exit for Blacklane, which has raised more than $100 million from backers like Mercedes-Benz and Sixt.
Mantis Biotech is making ‘digital twins’ of humans to help solve medicine’s data availability problem
Mantis takes disparate sources of data to make synthetic datasets that can be used to build so-called “digital twins” of the human body, representing anatomy, physiology and behavior.
ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand
ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.
Xbox’s next big games showcase happens on June 7th
It may be the end of March, but gaming companies are already getting ready for the summer. First up is Xbox, which just announced that it will be holding its next major showcase event on June 7th. That’s a typical window for Microsoft – last year’s edition took place on June 8th – and fits […]
For $200 more, you can get a MacBook Air
It was January 2008, and Steve Jobs had just pulled the MacBook Air out of a manila envelope onstage at Macworld. Within minutes, Windows PC executives everywhere lost their minds. They grabbed the nearest office envelope, tried to shove in their plastic laptops, and tore straight through the paper. Engineers were summoned. Assistants were dispatched […]
The mad dash to build the future of multimedia
It’s 1989. To play a video, listen to a song, or show photos on a desktop computer requires bolting on expensive hardware, built by a different company, using different software. There are no standards, no portability, no sharing. Tyler Peppel, Apple product marketer: It should have been a natural area for Apple to be in, […]
Apple @ 50
Fifty years ago, on April 1st, 1976, Apple Computer Company was founded. Today it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, celebrated for producing ubiquitous products like the iPad and iPhone to now-nostalgia bait like the iPod Mini and PowerBook. Over the last five decades, the company has seen ups and downs but […]
The origin story of Apple’s long-running relationship with FoxConn
In 2025, Patrick McGee published Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company, a deeply-reported look at the tech giant’s investment in – and growing reliance on – China. The following excerpt, pulled from Chapter 9 of Apple in China, examines the company’s relationship with Foxconn, today the infamous builder of iPhones. Foxconn […]