Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Milan-based buy now, pay later service Scalapay raises $155M Series A led by Tiger Global — Milan-based buy now pay later player Scalapay has raised $155 million in equity funding in a Series A round. In line with many other BNPL providers, Scalapay offers consumers the ability to spread …
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is today introducing a new flagship streaming stick that joins the Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Stick Lite. Dubbed the “Fire TV Stick 4K Max” (sigh) and priced at $54.99, the company’s latest device has improved processing power, more memory, and also adds speedier Wi-Fi 6 wireless
Read MoreAmazon’s Luna cloud gaming service didn’t exactly impress us when it debuted in early access last October, but the company’s still expanding its test. On Thursday, it’s bringing its limited catalog of games to Chromebooks and Amazon Fire tablets, and opening up some new ways to try the service without paying its $6 or $15
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is officially in the TV business. The company has announced its first lineup of Amazon-branded 4K Fire TVs, which will begin shipping in October. This is a major expansion from the company’s “Fire TV Edition” collaborations, where its popular streaming software comes preloaded on sets manufactured by other TV makers. But with
Read MoreReduce your carbon footprint with this environmentally conscious band. When choosing from the best Apple Watch bands for your Apple Watch Series 6 (or any model), you want to make a careful decision about where to spend your money. If you want to consider the impact on the planet that your purchase will make, take
Read MoreApple state their child sexual abuse filtering technology has a false positive rate of 1 in a trillion, meaning the privacy of legitimate users is protected whilst those building huge collections of extreme child sexual abuse material are caught out. They need to see through that project.” What you need to know Apple recently pumped
Read MoreThe variety of software we use daily can feel endless and overwhelming. It’s inevitable that the adoption of additional software, widgets, and plugins to complement our core tools with business growth. This can quickly lead to us getting inundated by data silos, disjointed information, additional expenses, and other problems that negatively affect the fluidity and
Read MoreGood morning! I’m off to the mountains later this afternoon, so Nick Fernandez has your back tomorrow. I’ll catch you again on Monday. Also, I’ve held off on the iPhone 14 render/leak news until… well, something more substantial comes along… Tough tablet to swallow After all these years of OnePlus, Oppo/Realme, and Vivo, all brands
Read MoreConstant tracking has compromised Americans’ sense of themselves. But we may be able to regain our freedom.
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Read MoreThis year has been the biggest yet for Lilliputian board gaming. It’s much more than Redwall nostalgia.
Read MoreJuno, a proptech startup which aims to build more sustainable and affordable apartment buildings, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. JLL Spark, Vertex Ventures, Anim,
Read MorePeople keep warning that Skynet and the great robot uprising is not that far away, what with all this recent AI and machine-learning malarky getting all the attention lately. But we think going straight for a terminator robot army is not a very smart approach, not least due to a lack of subtlety. We think
Read MoreImage: Roku Roku’s first feature-length film is Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas, a TV movie based off the NBC show Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, the company has announced. The film will be available free on the ad-supported Roku Channel in the US this holiday season, as well as in Canada and the UK. The film will be directed
Read MoreA Canadian startup called Nuula that is aiming to build a superapp to provide a range of financial services to small and medium businesses has closed $120 million of funding, money that it will use to fuel the launch of its app and first product, a line of credit for its users. The money is
Read MoreDamien Wilde / 9to5Google: Xiaomi says its upcoming 11T flagship series will get three years of OS updates and four years of security updates, matching Samsung and Google — Ahead of the release of the Xiaomi 11T Pro and 11T, the Chinese firm is promising extended support for the upcoming duo with three years …
Read MoreUnlike most companies, Tesla doesn’t have a public relations team. It has founder and CEO Elon Musk, who drops news and memes on Twitter. Musk says the company is finally set to release the Full Self-Driving (FSD) update for compatible Tesla vehicles in the US, but this isn’t the first time he’s said that. If
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Canadian startup Nuula, which offers app-based financial services for SMBs, raises $20M equity and a $100M credit facility — A Canadian startup called Nuula that is aiming to build a superapp to provide a range of financial services to small and medium businesses has closed $120 million of funding …
Read More“But we estimate their financial impact to Apple is negligible at just 1-2% of EPS, at worst.” What you need to know Apple has made some changes to its App Store. It has recently shifted policies to try and satisfy antitrust complaints and developers. A new report says the moves will only cost Apple a
Read MoreBloomberg: Resecurity: hackers gained access to UN’s proprietary project management tool Umoja from April 5 to August 7, stealing an unknown amount of data — – Attackers gained access to UN network using stolen credentials — The identity of the hackers, or their motive, isn’t yet clear
Read MoreReuters: AI ethics chiefs at Google, IBM, and Microsoft say their companies rejected client requests for developing AI for credit scoring, facial recognition, and more — In September last year, Google’s (GOOGL.O) cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to lend money to.
Read MoreGoogle has released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming Pixel 6 that includes several shots of the smartphone being used in the real world. The footage comes a little over a month after Google released its first official images of the upcoming device, which were limited to renders rather than actual photographs. Over on
Read MoreThere’s every chance they could be guessing, however… What you need to know Apple’s iPhone 13 is reportedly just days away. Ahead of the announcement listings for the device have been spotted online. They denote storage options and colors for the iPhone 13, including a bronze color option. A series of iPhone 13 listings spotted
Read MoreMusic is one of those multifaceted pursuits that can go in any direction, but all musicians need the right tools to make their art. Whether you’re a producer, a drummer, or a DJ, you’re going to need a few key accessories to create exceptional music. These are the best Mac accessories for musicians that can
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