Can a Game Get Young Players Interested in Holocaust History?
The Light in the Darkness, co-written by a researcher and Holocaust survivor, aims to educate a new generation—and inspire them to learn more.
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Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s new iPhone day. And as with any new smartphone announcement these days, we have a fairly decent idea of what to expect. Leaks and rumors are more accurate than ever, and though there’s always the potential of a big surprise, the most likely scenario is the iPhone
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Ambi Robotics, which builds autonomous hardware for supply chains, raises $26M Series A led by Tiger Global — Five months ago, Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth with a $6 million raise. Today the Bay Area-based firm is back with several times that, announcing a $26 million Series A, led by Tiger
Read MoreTruepic, a digital image verification software provider, has raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. Adobe, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Hearst Ventures and individuals from Stone Point Capital also participated in the financing, which brings San Diego-based Truepic’s total raised since its 2015 inception to $36
Read MoreA new lawsuit threatens a decades-long collaboration that brought Skype, robot delivery startup Starship Technologies and encrypted enterprise messaging service Wire into the world. TechCrunch has learned that Mark Dyne, one of Skype’s founding investors, is suing billionaire Skype co-founder Janus Friis in California’s Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles for unlawful conspiracy
Read MoreImmi is putting a healthy spin on instant ramen by going plant-based and offering more bold tastes. The company announced Tuesday that it raised $3.8 million in seed funding. Co-founders Kevin Lee and Kevin Chanthasiriphan both grew up in food families from Taiwan and Thailand, respectively, and met a decade ago while working at the
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority One of the more welcome trends in the last year or two has been the push for three years of OS updates, with Samsung being the first major OEM to officially make this pledge. Since then, we’ve seen Vivo, Oppo, OnePlus, and Nokia jump on this bandwagon to varying
Read MoreMicrosoft promotes itself as the productivity company, but the new Windows 11 taskbar removes key functionality and makes me less productive as a result. Missing features include power user elements like displaying the time and date on multiple monitors, or simple things like having small icons and being able to move the taskbar around. There’s
Read MoreParallels recently ran into some trouble with Windows 11, but has managed to get round it for now… What you need to know Microsoft has issued some bad news about Windows 11 on Apple silicon. The company has confirmed it’s not officially a “supported scenario”. It could throw up some issues for Parallels users. Microsoft
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Internal docs: Facebook’s own research shows Instagram is harmful to a sizeable percentage of users, especially teen girls, but has taken few remedial steps — Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public
Read MoreCorporate gift services have come into their own during the Covid-19 pandemic by standing in as a proxy for other kinds of relationship building activities — office meetings, lunches, and hosting at events — that have traditionally been part and parcel of how people do business, but were no longer feasible during lockdowns, social distancing
Read MoreSellersFunding secured $166.5 million in a combination of Series A equity funding and a credit facility to continue developing its technology and payments platforms for e-commerce businesses. Northzone led the round and was joined by Endeavor Catalyst and Fasanara. SellersFunding CEO Ricardo Pero did not disclose the funding breakdown, but did say the company previously
Read MoreLess than six months after raising $75 million, Pacaso — a real estate platform which aims to help people buy and co-own a second home — announced today that it has raised $125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the Series C funding round for Pacaso, which essentially went from
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: Q&A with Parler CEO George Farmer, a British hedge fund partner married to Candace Owens, who says the social network is planning a relaunch after Capitol riots — George Farmer seeks to revive ‘free speech’ app that imploded after US Capitol riots — Parler, the “free speech” …
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Best Buy and Amazon are hosting a deal on Sony’s WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds that offer stellar sound quality and active noise cancellation. Originally $229, they’re available from Amazon in the black or silver colorways for $148. Best Buy has them for $150. This model includes a USB-C charging
Read MoreAMD has released new Radeon drivers with Adrenaline 21.9.1 this week, and there are a few goodies of note this time around for RDNA (RX 5000) and RDNA2 (RX 6000) owners. If you’re one of the AMD fans who bought both a Zen 2 CPU and a Radeon RDNA GPU when AMD launched both in
Read MoreImage: Sonos When Sonos announced price increases for the majority of its product lineup last week, some people noticed that the entry-level Beam soundbar was absent from the list. And indeed, that’s because the company has been at work on a follow-up. The new second-generation Beam being announced today costs $449 (a $50 increase over
Read MoreTurn your iPad into a mini iMac thanks to the magic of magnets. For a lot of folks, an iPad stand is an essential purchase. While the devices are built to be mobile and used in your hands most of the time, there are situations and use cases where you’ll enjoy the best iPad experience
Read MoreFive months ago, Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth with a $6 million raise. Today the Bay Area-based firm is back with several times that, announcing a $26 million Series A, led by Tiger Global. The new round also features participation from existing investors, including Bow Capital, Vertex Ventures US and The House Fund. The startup
Read MoreSpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 51 of its Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday night at 8:55 PM PDT (11:55 PM EDT). This was the first launch for the Starlink satellite internet constellation from the west coast, and also the first batch of a second stage of Starlink
Read More“Apple can’t just shove this horrible phone scan plan to the side in order to avoid bad press during its Apple Event” What you need to know Protests have taken place at some Apple Stores in the U.S. A group called ‘Fight For The Future’ is demanding Apple drop plans to scan iCloud Photos for
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung has announced its latest One UI 4 beta program. The new software is based on Android 12 and brings a host of new features to the table, including some design upgrades. The One UI beta program is owned, managed, and operated by Samsung to get user feedback before
Read MoreThe Tour de France legend and anti-doping crusader is building an ultralight ebike that he hopes will be fun as hell to ride—and jumpstart a US carbon-fiber boom.
Read MoreMachine learning has been around for decades, but for much of that time, businesses were only deploying a few models and those required tedious, painstaking work done by PhDs and machine learning experts. Over the past couple of years, machine learning has grown significantly thanks to the advent of widely available, standardized, cloud-based machine learning
Read MoreYou’re a new CIO. It’s 9:00 a.m. on a Wednesday and you’re in an emergency Zoom meeting with IT operations leaders. The faces on the screen are somber, and it’s clear why when they explain the purpose of the meeting. It seems that all of IT ops, which was initially budgeted at $10 million for
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