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Totango, which offers subscription tools to track and improve customer engagement, raises $100M Series D led by Great Hill Partners (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Totango, which offers subscription tools to track and improve customer engagement, raises $100M Series D led by Great Hill Partners — Totango, a company that helps SaaS companies track customer engagement to find and fix user flow errors and friction, announced Wednesday that it has raised $100 million …

Rumored 2022 OLED iPad Air canceled, claims report

“iPads with OLED panels now to launch in 2023 at the earliest” What you need to know An OLED iPad planned for 2022 has reportedly been canceled. The Elec reports that Apple has scrapped plans to develop a 10.86 OLED iPad with a display supplied by Samsung. The earliest OLED iPad will now reportedly debut

Bangalore-based Vedantu, which offers an online tutoring service, raises $100M led by ABC World Asia at a $1B valuation, up from $600M last year (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times: Bangalore-based Vedantu, which offers an online tutoring service, raises $100M led by ABC World Asia at a $1B valuation, up from $600M last year — Bengaluru: Edtech startup Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new funding round led by Temasek-backed impact investing fund ABC World Asia.

You Can Go Home, and This Time Be the Hero

Visiting real-world destinations in video games is fun, and it tickles our sense of nostalgia. It can also tell us a lot about who we really are.

Apple’s New iPad Is More Than Good Enough for Most

The entry-level tablet isn’t as flashy as its siblings, but it’s proof that boring can be a good thing.

West Point Chemists Re-Create Medieval Gunpowder Recipes

Following an antique manuscript, researchers mixed up (and then blew up) some early formulations to learn how explosive-making has evolved.

Deals on Machines, Beans, and More for National Coffee Day

This gear will upgrade your at-home café. Plus, the scoop on where to get a free cup of joe today.

The easiest way to search on mobile Safari

You can now use your voice to do web searches. Here’s how. In Apple’s iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, you can use your voice to search in mobile Safari using Siri. It’s available on the best iPhones and best iPads. Here’s more about the feature and how it works. (Hint: You use your voice!) Using

Filings: General Catalyst is aiming to raise up to $300M for a fund to buy sales contracts from tech startups, one of the first and largest funds to do so (Miles Kruppa/Financial Times)

Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: Filings: General Catalyst is aiming to raise up to $300M for a fund to buy sales contracts from tech startups, one of the first and largest funds to do so — One of Silicon Valley’s largest venture capitalists gets into financial engineering — General Catalyst, one of the largest US

Is Your Movie too Loud? Can’t Hear the Dialogue? This Circuit can Help.

Everyone loves watching movies, that is, so long as you can hear what the characters on screen are saying. [GreatScott] found this second part difficult while watching through BladeRunner 2049, so he designed an automatic volume adjuster to assist. At a high level, the solution is fairly straightforward; when there is loud music playing in

Samsung mobile chief visited the US to ask for more chips, got rejected

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung’s mobile chief apparently made two trips to the US to secure more chipset volume. It’s claimed that an unnamed global chipmaker refused Samsung’s request. The global chip shortage is hurting plenty of smartphone brands, with companies like Google being forced to restrict launches to specific countries, the likes

Amazon’s automotive efforts appear to be taking a pit stop

Amazon laid out its plans to make ambient computing an even bigger part of its customers’ lives at its hardware and services event on Tuesday. But while that vision includes surveillance drones and being followed around your home by a rolling Alexa-on-wheels called Astro, it was missing products for the other place people spend a

Apple says the “jelly scroll” issue on the 6th-gen iPad mini is normal for LCD screens; the issue isn’t noticeable on other latest iPad models with LCD screens (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Apple says the “jelly scroll” issue on the 6th-gen iPad mini is normal for LCD screens; the issue isn’t noticeable on other latest iPad models with LCD screens — Apple says the issue is caused by normal LCD screen behavior. — Update, 9/28/2021: In response to our inquiry …

Valve reportedly developing standalone VR headset codenamed ‘Deckard’

Valve’s first VR headset, the Index. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Valve could have a second VR headset in development with a standalone design similar to what’s currently offered by Facebook’s lineup of Oculus Quest headsets. Evidence for the new headset was brought to light by YouTuber Brad Lynch. He found

iPhone 13 delivery times hit by COVID, new camera supply

“Assemblers can still produce the new iPhones, but there’s a supply gap [in] that the inventories of the camera modules are running low” What you need to know Apple’s new iPhone 13 is facing lengthy delivery times. A new report points to a COVID wave in Vietnam as one cause. Apple is also reportedly facing

iPhone 13 ‘unlock with Apple Watch’ bug fixed in iOS beta

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has reportedly fixed the issue that broke the “unlock with Apple Watch” feature on iPhone 13 models. The feature, which lets Apple Watch users unlock their iPhones without a password when wearing a mask, now works again as of the second iOS 15.1 beta, as reported by 9to5Mac. Apple

UFC owner Endeavor to buy OpenBet, a UK-based sports betting software maker, from Scientific Games for $1.2B in cash and stock (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: UFC owner Endeavor to buy OpenBet, a UK-based sports betting software maker, from Scientific Games for $1.2B in cash and stock — Endeavor is putting down a big bet on sports wagering: The entertainment and talent-agency company clinched a deal to acquire OpenBet, a sports-gambling company, for $1.2 billion.

Withings’ latest hybrid smartwatch poses as a luxury dive watch

The new Withings ScanWatch Horizon showing SpO2 oxygen saturation. | Image: Withings The ScanWatch Horizon is Withings’ latest hybrid smartwatch to combine a digital display with a traditional mechanical format. You buy a Withings because you hate the look of typical health-focused wearables and abhor the bombardment of notifications that plague other smartwatches. Withings says it

Samsung’s future smartwatches could include handy solar charging tech

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Samsung is working on a solar charging smartwatch. A patent describes the use of solar cells mounted in a watch strap. These would allow the wearable to charge the battery using ambient light. Power consumption has always been an issue for smartwatches, as fitting a sizeable battery within the

‘High Power Mode’ for Macs referenced in latest macOS Monterey beta

What you need to know The latest developer beta of macOS Monterey contains a reference to “High Power Mode.” The new mode would allow Macs to run at peak performance regardless of being plugged in. It looks like “Pro Mode” might still be a thing for the Mac. The latest developer beta of macOS Monterey

AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services — AngelList Stack is a new suite of workflow products for founders — AngelList this week launched AngelList Stack …

Skype reveals colorful redesign, new performance upgrades

Skype has some significant changes in the works. It offered a peek at what’s coming later this year, with a focus on speed, reliability and design, as well as other performance upgrades. Microsoft announced the addition of the latest features to Skype via a blog post on September 27. The company said that the new plans bring an “improved, faster, reliable,

Sew-able Carbon Nanotube Thread Could Spin a Lot of Awesome

Plenty of people just plain dislike wearing jewelry, even (or especially) smart watches. Nevertheless, they’d like to have biofeedback like everybody else. Well, we watch-less ones have something to look forward to, because a group of graduate students at Rice University have created extremely strong conductive thread woven from carbon nanotubes, which can be sewn

Affirm plans to debut a debit card and allow its customers to buy and sell crypto directly from Affirm savings accounts (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)

Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: Affirm plans to debut a debit card and allow its customers to buy and sell crypto directly from Affirm savings accounts — – Customers will be able to buy, sell crypto including Bitcoin — ‘We won’t let you do crazy things,’ Affirm’s Levchin says — Affirm Holdings Inc. is planning …

Apple says the ‘jelly scroll’ issue on the iPad mini is ‘normal behavior’

What you need to know Apple has responded to reports of the “jelly scroll” issue with the iPad mini. The company says that it is “normal behavior for LCD screens. Don’t look at Apple with the “jelly roll.” Look at LCD technology. When Apple launched its new 6th generation iPad mini last week to much

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