1Password will let you create unique email address for each service. | Image: 1Password 1Password is launching a new feature to let users create unique email aliases for logins, much like Apple’s iCloud Plus Hide My Email function. 1Password is partnering with Fastmail to bring its masked email feature to the password manager, giving all
Read MoreElectron 15.0.0, the latest version of the GitHub-developed framework for building cross-platform desktop applications, is now available, featuring a string encryption API and upgrades to underlying software packages. The Electron 15.0.0 release adds safeStorage string encryption, providing a cookie encryption API to protect data stored on local disk. The API provides methods to encrypt and
Read MoreSuppose you wanted to implement a music service that would behave like Spotify, finding you songs that were similar to ones you like. How would you go about it? One way would be to classify each song by a number of characteristics, save those “vectors” in an indexed database, and search the database to find
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Image sharing service Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab, which owns Kik, Whisper, Genius, WorldStarHipHop, and other brands; Imgur says it has 300M users — The image-hosting service started life as an adjunct to Reddit — Popular image-sharing site Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab …
Read MoreJennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: Some bitcoin miners, including TeraWulf and Compass Mining, are partnering with nuclear power plant owners amid criticism from environmentalists — Some cryptocurrency miners are striking deals with operators of struggling nuclear plants, which are carbon-free and have excess power capacity to spare
Read MoreGood morning! Don’t forget Amazon’s hardware event is today at 12PM ET, especially if Alexa is your go-to. OLED Switch impressions Alright, a bunch of people from the gaming media had some hands-on time with the upcoming OLED Nintendo Switch last week, with impressions now coming out. The new Switch has few core changes
Read MoreWhether you’ve already got your iPhone 13 or you’re still waiting for yours to be delivered, the first accessories you’re going to want to buy are an iPhone 13 case and iPhone 13 screen protector. Thankfully, you don’t have to spend fortune to keep your new iPhone looking pristine with these coupon deals from ESR.
Read MoreWhen you need a little bit of a push to concentrate or go to sleep, use Background Sounds. Perhaps the most prominent new feature of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 is Focus, an enhanced Do Not Disturb tool that makes it possible to schedule which type of notifications you receive depending on the time of
Read MoreKatie Collins / CNET: Facebook-backed 2Africa consortium says its subsea internet cable will include Middle East and India when it launches in 2023, expanding on Europe and Africa — Facebook says it expects the 2Africa cable system to connect 3 billion people when it launches in 2023.
Read MoreKarissa Bell / Engadget: Nick Clegg says Facebook will release two internal slide decks central to WSJ’s story on Instagram’s impact on teens to the public “in the next few days” — Facebook will publish two internal slide decks detailing its research into how Instagram affects teens’ mental health sometime “in the next few days.”
Read MoreRichard Milne / Financial Times: Norwegian warehouse robotics maker AutoStore plans an IPO in Oslo, sources say valuing the company at ~$11.7B, up from $7.7B when SoftBank invested in April — Norwegian manufacturer of automated storage and retrieval systems set to list next month — SoftBank-backed warehouse robotics group AutoStore …
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Swan, which offers “banking-as-a-service” tools to companies, raises €16M Series A led by Accel — French startup Swan has raised an $18.7 million Series A funding round (€16 million) led by Accel. The company provides a banking-as-a-service platform for other products and services.
Read MoreBloomberg: Alibaba adds Tencent’s WeChat Pay to some of its apps, excluding its flagship e-commerce Taobao app, after Beijing called for interoperability — – Tencent had earlier allowed external links on WeChat — China pressures tech giants to dismantle ‘walled gardens’
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung has launched the Galaxy M52 5G in India. The phone brings a large, fast display, the Snapdragon 778G, and a 5,000mAh battery. Pricing starts at Rs 29,999. Samsung has officially launched the Galaxy M52 5G in India. The latest addition to the mid-range Galaxy M series brings a slew of flagship-level features
Read MorePopular image-sharing site Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab, a Santa Monica-based firm that describes itself as a “holding company of consumer internet brands.” The company owns a number of B-list tech and internet services, including messaging apps Kik and Whisper, lyrics annotator Genius, and viral video aggregator WorldStarHipHop. Imgur, which currently claims some 300
Read MoreJessica Davis / SC Media: Report: 22% of health care providers saw an increase in patient mortality following a cyberattack, driven by COVID-19 and third-party vendor security gaps — A new report from the Ponemon Institute reinforces the patient safety risks posed by ransomware attacks: 22% of surveyed providers saw …
Read MorePhoto illustration by William Joel | Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images The company’s least-bad option might also do a lot of good Continue reading…
Read MoreSince the Apollo program, astronauts making the nine mile trip from the Operations and Checkout Building to the launch pad have rode in a specialized van that’s become lovingly referred to as the Astrovan. The original van, technically a modified motorhome, was used from 1967 all the way to the first Shuttle missions in 1983.
Read MoreDespite the prevalence of true wireless audio products, the category continues to innovate at a blistering pace. Over the last year, we’ve seen premium features like active noise cancellation (ANC), transparency modes, and more make their way to affordably priced options. However, a major concern for most true wireless earphones has been battery life and
Read MoreA redesigned lock screen could make better use of horizontal space. | Image: XDA Developers Big foldable-focused improvements are on the way for Android, if leaked code analyzed by XDA Developers is to be believed. Previous reports have suggested that this year’s Android 12 is going to be followed by a minor revision, which is
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Details of a new Android 12 version update have leaked. Dubbed Android 12.1, the version brings a host of changes for large screen devices like foldable phones. These include improvements to UI layouts, a taskbar, and smarter dual-screen features. Android 12‘s official stable launch could be just a
Read MoreNintendo has confirmed plans to expand Super Nintendo World, its recently opened theme park at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, with a new Donkey Kong area. The news doesn’t exactly come as a surprise — construction already appears to have been underway for some time. Imagery released by Nintendo confirms that, as speculated, the Donkey
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Bangalore-based Capital Float, which offers a buy now pay later service on Amazon and other sites in India, raises $50M Series D led by Lightrock India — Capital Float, an Amazon-backed startup that offers its buy now, pay later service on many popular online platforms in India including …
Read MoreThe function row has dedicated emoji, voice dictation and mic mute keys. | Image: Logitech Logitech’s MX Keys Mini is a compact, platform-agnostic wireless keyboard that lacks the numpad found on the standard MX Keys. It costs the same amount at $99.99 despite its smaller size, yet there might be enough additions to make this
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