September 2021 – Page 4 – MSI Net, Inc. & mCloudServ

Sweden’s Sinch acquires Pathwire, the cloud-based email provider behind Mailgun, for ~$1.9B in cash and stock, setting up Sinch as a competitor to Twilio (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sweden’s Sinch acquires Pathwire, the cloud-based email provider behind Mailgun, for ~$1.9B in cash and stock, setting up Sinch as a competitor to Twilio — Sinch, the Swedish company that competes with Twilio and others in the world of messaging and other communication APIs is making another big M&A play to

Wyze’s new $15 smart scale has a mode for luggage, pets, and babies

Image: Wyze Wyze, the budget-focused tech company that now sells everything from security cameras to headphones, has launched a new smart scale with four built-in electrodes capable of measuring everything from body fat percentage to body water percentage. In addition to weighing humans, there is also a dedicated mode to let you weigh your “baby,

I’ve been waiting for Pokémon Legends: Arceus my whole life

I’ve been waiting for this game since elementary school. When I first saw the trailers for Pokémon Legends: Arceus in February, I became incredibly giddy and preordered my copy as soon as possible. Watching the trainers run around that open space and fight Pokémon in the overworld without diving into a separate battle screen satisfied

Facebook Faces Backlash for Targeting Tweens via Instagram for Kids

(Photo:Luke Porter/Unsplash)For the second time in a month, Facebook has been found creeping past the boundary of what’s reasonably healthy for kids. The company has been planning versions of its product adapted for “tweens” ages 10 through 12 for the last three years, including a kids’ edition of Instagram and Facebook Messenger features that “leverages”

Source: ex-OnlyFans staff had access to highly sensitive user and model data, including bank statements, legal names, KYC images, long after leaving the company (Samantha Cole/VICE)

Samantha Cole / VICE: Source: ex-OnlyFans staff had access to highly sensitive user and model data, including bank statements, legal names, KYC images, long after leaving the company — Addresses, full names, passports, bank statements and other sensitive personal data were viewable. — Samantha Cole

‘Rife with sexism’: employees of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin describe ‘toxic’ workplace culture

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Twnety-one current and former employees of Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin published a damning essay on Thursday saying the company “turns a blind eye to sexism, is not sufficiently attuned to safety concerns, and silences those who seek to correct wrongs.” Co-authored by Blue Origin’s former head

The iPhone 13 is the phone most people should get

The beauty of the iPhone 13 is more than skin deep. It’s easy to look at the iPhone 13 on paper and see an incremental update to last year’s iPhone 12. And indeed, that would seem to be true in several aspects, at least at first glance. You won’t really be going through your email

Exynos Samsung Galaxy S21 FE FCC papers are filed and we are very confused

Credit: Evan Blass / Twitter The Exynos Samsung Galaxy S21 FE FCC regulatory papers have been filed. This is at least the second time the phone has passed through the FCC. Previous unconfirmed rumors have claimed this phone may no longer be released. Well, color us as confused right now. Earlier this week, unconfirmed reports

Apple, for the first time, shares the top paid podcast subscriptions and free channels globally, counting devices that played at least one second of an episode (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple, for the first time, shares the top paid podcast subscriptions and free channels globally, counting devices that played at least one second of an episode — Happy International Podcast Day! In today’s podcast news roundup, Apple releases the top 10 most-subscribed podcasts and free channels …

Sony acquires Bluepoint Games, the studio behind its incredible remasters and remakes

Some of the very best games on PlayStation 5 so far are old titles made new — so it’s fitting that Sony is officially acquiring Bluepoint Games, the acclaimed studio that specializes in remasters. It’s the team that brought us the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes, as well as fantastic remasters of

Apple’s MagSafe Battery pack gets its first significant discount

Apple’s MagSafe Battery attaches to any iPhone 12 or 13 model. | Dieter Bohn / The Verge The Apple MagSafe Battery pack recently launched in July, and we are now finally seeing the first significant discount on the magnetic power bank that usually costs $99. The MagSafe ecosystem may still be a bit underdeveloped, and

OWC’s Thunderbolt to Dual DisplayPort Adapter runs two 8K monitors at once

What you need to know OWC has announced a new adapter that takes a single Thunderbolt port and runs two 8K displays off of it. Thunderbolt to Dual DisplayPort Adapter is available now for $78. You might be limited to 30Hz, though. OWC today announced a new adapter that can take a single Thunderbolt port

Make this Halloween a Spider-Stomping Good Time

We can count on one hand the number of times that we haven’t needed a coat on Halloween night around here. Even if it was fair and sunny the day before, you can count on Halloween being appropriately windy, cold, and spooky. Trick-or-treating only keeps a kid so warm, and we would have loved to

Intel unveils Loihi 2, a second-generation neuromorphic computing chip, and Lava, an open-source framework for developing “neuro-inspired” applications (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Intel unveils Loihi 2, a second-generation neuromorphic computing chip, and Lava, an open-source framework for developing “neuro-inspired” applications — Intel today announced a major update to its neuromorphic computing program, including a second-generation chip called Loihi 2 and Lava …

CRISPR Gene Therapy Restores Color Vision in Small Trial

Credit: cc0 Public Domain Genetic diseases are a compelling target for viral gene therapy. One condition that scientists are investigating to see if they can treat with gene therapy is a rare genetic disease called Leber congenital amaurosis, or LCA. LCA is a progressive condition that disables critical cells within the retina. The damage begins

AlphaSense, an enterprise search engine for market intelligence, raises $180M Series C led by Goldman Sachs and Viking Global, bringing total funding to $263M (Isabel Contreras/Forbes)

Isabel Contreras / Forbes: AlphaSense, an enterprise search engine for market intelligence, raises $180M Series C led by Goldman Sachs and Viking Global, bringing total funding to $263M — When AlphaSense CEO Jack Kokko worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley MS , he found that uncovering key data and trends was incredibly …

The new iPad mini runs ML upscaling tasks quicker than an iMac Pro

What you need to know Apple’s new iPad mini packs an A15 Bionic chip that’s super fast according to new tests. Pixelmator’s ML Super Resolution algorithm is capable of upscaling images and it’s blazing fast on the new iPad mini. Tests showed iPad mini was faster at upscaling an image than an iMac Pro. That’s

Best Buy is restocking Nvidia RTX 30-series cards in stores on Friday morning

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge If you’re an avid PC builder, you know that getting your hands on any of Nvidia’s 30-series GPUs has been next to impossible since they debuted. But Best Buy is hosting an event in select stores starting Friday, October 1st to give you the opportunity. If you haven’t

Apple doesn’t need an all-in-one laptop no matter what Microsoft’s doing

Apple is expected to announce two new MacBook Pro models in the coming weeks. If the rumors are correct, each new laptop will feature a thinner bezel, larger display, and redesigned chassis. The incoming 14-inch MacBook Pro and second-generation 16-inch MacBook Pro are also expected to bring back old favorites like MagSafe connectivity, an HDMI

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shows 74% efficacy in large US trial

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated 74% efficacy at preventing symptomatic disease, a figure that increased to 83.5% in people aged 65 and older, according to long-awaited results of the company’s US clinical trial published on Wednesday. Overall efficacy of 74% was lower than the interim 79% figure reported by the British drugmaker in March, a result

Expo 2020 Dubai launches official visitor app and business app

Expo 2020 Dubai has launched its official visitor app and a business-focused app, helping to ensure that millions of visitors can make the most of the 182 visually striking and emotionally inspiring days of Expo from October 1. The official Expo 2020 app allows users to tailor their visit to Expo, matching individual interests to

Facebook announces updates to Messenger, including group chats between Instagram and Messenger contacts (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Facebook announces updates to Messenger, including group chats between Instagram and Messenger contacts — Facebook Messenger is releasing a bundle of products this morning — most notably, including cross-app group chats. Last year, the company introduced cross-app messaging between Messenger …

Spotify says podcast creators using its Anchor service can add interactive polls and Q&As to their programs (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge: Spotify says podcast creators using its Anchor service can add interactive polls and Q&As to their programs — But you have to be on Anchor — Spotify is making podcasts on its platform more interactive. The company announced today that podcasters who create their shows in Anchor …

Alloy, which offers an identity verification service for the financial services industry, raises $100M Series C at a $1.35B valuation led by Lightspeed (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Alloy, which offers an identity verification service for the financial services industry, raises $100M Series C at a $1.35B valuation led by Lightspeed — Alloy, which has built an identity operating system for banks and fintechs, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million at a $1.35 billion valuation.

Chinese AR company Nreal unveils Nreal Air, consumer glasses with micro OLED displays and iOS compatibility, shipping in Dec. in Japan, China, and South Korea (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Chinese AR company Nreal unveils Nreal Air, consumer glasses with micro OLED displays and iOS compatibility, shipping in Dec. in Japan, China, and South Korea — They’ll ship later this year in Asia — Augmented reality company Nreal is launching a cheaper, iOS-compatible, more compact version of its smart glasses.

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