Normally when we see blinky projects these days, it’s using addressable LED strips with WS2812Bs, or similar alternatives. However, old-school blobby round LEDs are still on the market, and can still be put to great use. These DIY LED shoes from [TechnoChic] are an excellent example of just that. The shoes use big 10mm LEDs
Read MoreWelcome again to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 158th edition rocking your inbox… I’ve been playing 12 Minutes on Xbox, and have the strangest sense of déjà vu. Wait… did we already do this? All the hottest stories of the week,
Read MorePatrick Rivera / Crypto x Creator Economy: A look at the mechanics behind Community DAOs, including Flamingo and Fingerprints, which collect blue chip NFTs to raise funds via NFT “drops” — In crypto land, 2020 was all about DeFi. So far, 2021 has been about NFTs (hot jpeg summer anyone?) — 2022 will be all
Read MoreUnless you’re sonically savvy, trying to sleep, or simply on edge, you probably don’t realize just how noisy common items can be. Pretty much everything makes enough racket to ruin a sound man’s day, or at the very least, their chance of picking up the dialogue between two characters. What you need on a set
Read MoreDownforce is a major part of modern motorsport, keeping cars glued to the track at high speeds. However, for small radio control cars, adding a fan for a little suction can achieve even greater feats, as demonstrated by this build by [DD ElectroTech]. The build began as a simple two-motor, skid-steer RC car build with
Read MoreYinka Adegoke / Rest of World: Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger — Anghami is a case study in how the music business is being gradually transformed from outside its core centers of New York,
Read MoreSony is now planning to offer a free Horizon Forbidden West upgrade from PS4 to PS5. The U-turn follows widespread criticism after the company announced there would be no upgrade path for Horizon Forbidden West PS4 players, despite an original promise of a free upgrade to the PS5 version. “It’s abundantly clear that the offerings
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Mexico-based Flat.mx, an online real estate marketplace for remodeled properties, raises $20M Series A led by Anthemis and 500 Startups — Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding.
Read MoreController vs keyboard and mouse is one of the never-ending battles in the world of gaming, with diehard proponents on both sides of the fence. [Tech Yesterday] has been working to create a controller that’s the best of both worlds. His latest Mouse Pro Controller V5 features an inverted mouse riding on ball bearings. Mouse
Read MoreQuynh Nguyen / DealStreetAsia: Vietnamese startup KiotViet, which provides cloud-based POS software for SMBs, raises $45M Series B led by KKR, after raising a $6M Series A in 2019 — Vietnamese B2B startup KiotViet, a merchant platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), has raised $45 million …
Read MoreThe Season of Mischief has arrived in Pokémon Go and with it comes a new Season specific Special Research line: Misunderstood Mischief. Players who complete this Special Research will have the opportunity to capture the Mythical Pokémon, Hoopa! This is a long research line that may take the whole season to complete, but we here
Read MoreLucas Matney / TechCrunch: Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues inside the Apple Park vacuum while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule — Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market.
Read MoreWe’ve always been delighted with the thoughtful and detailed write-ups that accompany each of [Tommy]’s synth products, and the background of his newest instrument, the Scout, is no exception. The Scout is specifically designed to be beginner-friendly, hackable, and uses 3D printed parts and components as much as possible. But there is much more to
Read MoreCredit: FX Networks Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s celebrated post-apocalyptic comic series Y: The Last Man is finally coming to the small screen at FX on Hulu. After a few aborted movie projects, production delays, and years of rumours, the Y: The Last Man series is ready to launch. Read on for everything we
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Read MoreWelcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone.
Read MoreAlong with a cadre of other TechCrunch folks, I spent this week extremely focused on one event: Y Combinator. The elite accelerator announced a staggering 377 startups as its Summer 2021 cohort. We covered every single on-the-record startup that presented and plucked out some favorites: Here are all the companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2021
Read MoreHello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market. This week, we’re talking about something that’s a little bit more impactful on the current state of the web — Apple’s NeuralHash kerfuffle. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can
Read MoreWhat Game Boy and Game Boy Color games would you like to see? Hello hello, Nintendo nerds and welcome to another weekly Nintendo news recap. There weren’t any huge game releases this last week, but some news from industry insiders has gotten the Nintendo community excited. It seems that Game Boy and Game Boy Color
Read MoreOne of the major challenges of animatronics is creating natural looking motion. You can build something with an actuator for every possible degree of freedom, but it will still be disappointing if you are unable to control it to smoothly play the part. [Mr. Volt] has developed a passion for animatronic projects, but found programming
Read MoreImage: Sony On Thursday, Sony announced that its Horizon Forbidden West game, sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, would be available for pre-order ahead of its February 2022 release date. But contrary to what Sony said last year (h/t Forbes), there’s no upgrade path for the game from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5. In a September
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: How Amazon “roll-up” businesses, which acquire third-party sellers and have raised $8B to date, make profit by improving marketing and supply chain efficiencies — Ecommerce aggregators swoop for independent merchants even as online shopping slows
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority AT&T has played second fiddle to Verizon for a while now, and T-Mobile is steadily making up ground. The Magenta carrier continues to add new wrinkles in hopes of racking up subscribers, but is it working? If so, should you make the swap? Let’s place AT&T vs T-Mobile on
Read MoreWelcome to the 396th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Kids in China can’t game as long as they probably want. A new restriction only allows for a single hour of video games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It’s an effort to quell some game addiction issues
Read MoreThese sets will spruce things up when everyone in the house is tired of screens and all caught up on Ted Lasso.
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