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After criticism, Homeland Security drops plans to expand airport face recognition scans to US citizens Dec 06, 2019

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Homeland Security has confirmed it will not expand face recognition scans to U.S. citizens arriving and departing the country, days after it emerged the agency proposed making the scans for citizens mandatory. The department, whose responsibility is border protection and immigration checks, said in a government filingthat it it wanted to “amend the regulations to provide that all travelers, including U.S. citizens, may be required to be photographed upon entry and/or departure.

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What we know about Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 865 and 765 chips Dec 05, 2019

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Qualcomm’s holding its big annual get-together this week in Hawaii, portioning off Snapdragon news, piece by piece. Yesterday’s event was the big unveiling of the Snapdragon 865 and 765, the chips that will power most of next year’s premium and mid-tier handsets, respectively. Today, the components came into sharper focus.

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YouTube warns creators of subscriber count declines amid purge of closed accounts Dec 05, 2019

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YouTube is warning creators they may see their subscriber numbers decline this week as the result of a purge that will remove closed accounts from YouTube metrics. Closed accounts could refer to those that were willingly shut down by users or those that YouTube shut down for policy violations — like spam or abuse, for example.

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AWS announces new ARM-based instances with Graviton2 processors Dec 04, 2019

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AWS, the cloud division of Amazon, just announced the next generation of its ARM processors, the Graviton2. This is a custom chip design with a 7nm architecture. It is based on 64-bit ARM Neoverse cores. Compared to first-generation Graviton processors (A1), today’s new chips should deliver up to 7x the performance of A1 instances in some cases. Floating point performance is now twice as fast. There are additional memory channels and cache speed memory access should be much faser.

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T-Mobile opens pre-orders on two 5G phones as low-band network goes live Dec 04, 2019

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The 5G question has long been carts and horses. The next-generation wireless network has always been an inevitability, of course, but the rollout has always felt a bit piecemeal. T-Mobile, to its credit, is looking to flip the switch all at once (kind of), launching a “nationwide” deployment of 5G to a coverage area it says will reach 200 million of the U.S.’s 327 million residents.

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The UniFi Dream Machine router is a great entry point for networking nerds Dec 03, 2019

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A few weeks ago, Ubiquiti unveiled the UniFi Dream Machine, an all-in-one networking device that combines a router, a switch with four Ethernet ports and a Wi-Fi access point for $299. It has what Ubiquiti calls an integrated cloud key that lets you control your network. I’ve been using the UniFi Dream Machine on my home network for the past couple of weeks, so consider this a review of the device. Ubiquiti is a well-known networking brand.

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Week in Review: Apple’s rebirth as a content company has a forgettable debut Dec 02, 2019

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Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inboxes yet again. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. After dodging your inboxes for a couple weeks as I ventured off to China for a TechCrunch event in Shenzhen, I am rested up and ready to go. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your inbox here, and follow my tweets here.

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Google is giving away 3 months of Disney+ to new Chromebook owners Dec 02, 2019

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Google is giving away 3 months of Disney+ to new Chromebook owners Google is hoping to juice holiday sales of Chromebooks by tacking on a subscription to the hot new streaming service, Disney+. The company on Monday announced it would give Chromebook buyers three, free months of Disney+ with the purchase of new devices. Specifically, the deal is valid for Chromebooks bought between November 25, 2019 and January 21, 2020, or while supplies last.

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Simple Contacts has a new service letting users cheaply switch contact lens prescriptions Nov 29, 2019

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Simple Contacts has launched a new service letting users try out new contact lenses for as little as $3. The company launched a little over three years ago as a way for contact lens wearers to slash their refill costs, has now expanded into a service that offers users a chance to try out different lenses to see what might be a better fit. With a fresh $2 million Simple Contacts looks to cut refill costs for lenses Contact lenses are a big business. Just ask Warby Parker, href="https://www.

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Coup shuts down its electric moped scooter service Nov 28, 2019

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Coup, an electric moped scooter-sharing service that operates in Berlin, Paris and Berlin, has announced in an email that it is going to shut down in all three cities. On Twitter, the company says that operating the service is “economically unsustainable” in the long term. “We plan to discontinue our service in Berlin and Tübingen in by the middle of December 2019.

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