Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you’re an iPhone owner, it’s very possible you’re considering trading up to the latest model, which (when this article was last updated) is likely to be the iPhone 13. However, if your current iPhone is still in good shape, you may be wondering about what to do
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Read MoreImage: Apple Apple’s first fall event is coming up on Tuesday, September 14th, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, right around the time when the company typically introduces its latest version of the iPhone. Like last year’s iPhone event, Tuesday’s announcements will be entirely digital, in the slick, over-produced style that’s become Apple’s trademark during
Read MoreIf you don’t want to overload your pockets with the bare essentials, the Bellroy City Pouch is a good carry. As much as I love my everyday carry bags, sometimes I don’t need more than a few things when I go out and about, like on my daily walks. But I also don’t want to
Read MoreCrystal Tse / Bloomberg: Filing: Toast, which offers cloud-based restaurant management tools, seeks $717M in US IPO at a valuation of as much as $16.5B, after pricing shares at $30-$33 — Toast Inc., which helps restaurants handle payments, is seeking as much as $717 million in a U.S. initial public offering.
Read MoreMost entrepreneurs wish they had a better grasp of marketing. With better marketing, you can get more visibility for your brand, more paying customers, and you can achieve growth at a faster rate. But to an outsider with limited experience, marketing is a nebulous, complex, and intimidating field. The people who practice marketing seem like
Read MoreSecurity operations teams face a daunting task these days, fending off malicious hackers and their increasingly sophisticated approaches to cracking into networks. That also represents a gap in the market: building tools to help those security teams do their jobs. Today, am Israeli startup called Rezilion that is doing just that — building automation tools
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Weeks after forcing Groovy Bot offline, Google is doing the same to Rythm, a bot with 560M+ users that lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos — The Rythm Discord music bot is disappearing on September 15th — Just weeks after forcing the Groovy Discord music bot offline …
Read MoreGood morning! I’m back from hiking and I’ve shredded both my legs, and any perception that I might’ve been “kinda fit.” Also! I’m excited to tell you I learned many things about the Alps, including just how insanely loud the cowbells are on cows in the mountains, and that it’s always Christmas in the Alps.
Read MoreThe Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hi readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Twenty
Read MoreThese days we’re spoiled for choice when it comes to smartphone software, especially games. Official repositories for the leading handsets feature hundreds of thousands of games, and sideloading adds infinite possibilities. If you were lucky enough to be sporting a Nokia handset in the late 1990s, you probably had all of three games to choose
Read MoreFunding startups that help manufacturers and sellers distribute products and merchants access them on a single platform keeps increasing across Africa. Today, Cairo-based B2B e-commerce startup Capiter continues that trend by raising a $33 million Series A round. The investment was co-led by Quona Capital and MSA Capital. Other participating investors include Savola, Shorooq Partners,
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Billogram, which has built a service for third parties to handle recurring payments, raises $45M from Partech — Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the Covid-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses; and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person
Read MoreAs far as we can tell from modern science, there’s no upper limit to temperature. There sure is a lower limit, though. We call that absolute zero, measured as -273.15 °C (-459.67 °F). Scientists have yet to reach that limit in any experiment, but they’re getting close. A team of physicists in Germany has gotten
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple’s iPhone event isn’t likely to bring with it new Macs or iPads. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says we should expect new machines to be announced at a different event. Tomorrow will be all iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods according to reports. Apple will not announce its new MacBook Pros or
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Beijing wants to break up Ant Group’s Alipay, which has over 1B users, and create a separate app for the company’s highly profitable loans business — Chinese fintech will turn over user data to new joint venture partly owned by state — Beijing wants to break up Alipay …
Read MoreNuman, the European subscription service covering erectile dysfunction (ED) and men’s wellness/health needs more generally, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by White Star Capital, with participation from existing investors Novator, Vostok New Global, Anthemis Exponential, Colle Capital, and new investor Hanwha Group. The new round will be used to
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Commercetools, which provides e-commerce APIs that retailers can use to build customized services, raises $140M Series C led by Accel at a $1.9B valuation — E-commerce these days is now a major part of every retailer’s strategy, so technology builders and platforms that are helping …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Just as was expected, Epic Games has appealed the decision that saw it lose nine of 10 counts in a recent legal spat with Apple. The appeal was lodged late Sunday with no details offered as to why it feels the ruling was incorrect. Expect a few more months of
Read MoreSince their release earlier this year, AirTag deals have been very hard to find with most retailers maintaining their MSRP. Though the trackers aren’t particularly expensive, if you want to add a few to different valuable items then the cost can start to stack up quite quickly. AirTag | $29 at Amazon The four-pack of
Read MoreSeptember 1, 6:30 P.M. Anthony Chavez makes dinner deliveries during Hurricane Ida. Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on. Continue reading…
Read MoreFinancial Times: Analysis: Irish DPC has failed to apply EU’s privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98% of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved — Irish regulator has not resolved 98% of 164 significant data protection complaints — Ireland is failing to apply …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mozilla has quietly made it easier to switch to Firefox on Windows recently. While Microsoft offers a method to switch default browsers on Windows 10, it’s more cumbersome than the simple one-click process to switch to Edge. This one-click process isn’t officially available for anyone other than Microsoft,
Read MoreAs Chinese tech companies come under regulatory scrutiny at home, concerns and pressures are escalating among investors and domestic tech companies including China’s four big cloud companies, BATH (Baidu AI, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and Huawei Cloud), according to an analyst report. Despite a series of antitrust and internet-related regulation crackdowns, the four leading cloud
Read MoreWhat you need to know AirPods 3 are reportedly being announced during tomorrow’s iPhone 13 event. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the new AirPods will not replace the model currently on sale. That’ll mean some price point changes, too. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple will announce the new AirPods 3 alongside the upcoming iPhone 13
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