New World. When Amazon makes a new movie or TV show, the reason is pretty clear: the tech giant needs to build out its streaming service Prime Video. One of the best ways to do that is to make (or buy) exclusive series and films. But when Amazon develops a new video game, the reasons
Read MoreA selection of microfliers imposed on top of their inspiration from nature: a propeller seed, used for dispersal by trees including maple, sycamore, and ash. | Image: F. Frankel When trees and plants disperse their seeds, they often rely on the wind to carry them to pastures new. Different seeds adopt different methods of flight:
Read MoreWhen AMD announced it had added Smart Access Memory support to its older RDNA GPUs, we weren’t sure how much benefit gamers could expect to get out of the feature. RDNA and RDNA2 are quite similar, microarchitecturally speaking, but there are some significant differences in memory latency, cache design, and available VRAM bandwidth. Overclock3D recently
Read MoreBeautification features have been a fixture on smartphone cameras for several years now, promising to make you look better when taking selfies. In fact, it’s hard to find a smartphone these days that doesn’t have any beautification effects. But are these features actually being used by Android Authority readers though? That’s what we want to
Read MoreThe 49-inch Odyssey G9 makes it easy to immerse yourself in your favorite game. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge When it first debuted at CES 2020, the otherworldly Samsung Odyssey G9 gaming monitor stunned the audience. Boasting an immersive 1000R curvature and a sci-fi-inspired frame, it looks less like a screen and
Read MoreCNBC: Robinhood says it will test crypto wallets with select users from next month, letting investors trade, send, receive, and hold digital currencies — – Robinhood is testing “crypto wallets” with select clients next month to allow investors to send, receive and move cryptocurrencies in and out of the Robinhood app.
Read MoreHere’s a roundup of some of the best! What you need to know Reviews and unboxings of the new iPad mini 6 are here. Here’s a roundup of some of the best. Apple’s new iPad mini 6 is here, and creators and influencers, as usual, are the first to get their hands on it. Here’s
Read MoreSara Fischer / Axios: Facebook says Apple’s ATT changes will continue to cause headwinds in Q3 and reveals it under-reported iOS web conversions by 15% on average; stop drops 3%+ — Facebook said Wednesday that changes to Apple’s new privacy terms will continue to cause headwinds for its ads business in the third quarter.
Read MoreScott Stein / CNET: Apple iPad mini (2021) review: A15, Pencil 2 support, better cameras, and USB-C, but no keyboard case support and the screen feels too small for some apps — What’s the most improved product in Apple’s lineup this year? It might be the sixth-gen iPad Mini.
Read MoreVildana Hajric / Bloomberg: Dapper Labs, maker of NFT-focused NBA Top Shot, raises $250M led by Coatue Management and says it is partnering with Spain’s LaLiga soccer league — – Firm sets pact with LaLiga for soccer digital collectibles — Coatue leads second funding round of the year for Dapper Labs
Read MoreCredit: Apple Apple’s recently launched iPhone 13 series includes four smartphones, ranging from the iPhone 13 Mini to the iPhone 13 Pro Max. The designs are unchanged compared to those of their predecessors, except for a smaller notch and a re-aligned camera setup for the two smaller iPhones. However, you get the expected upgrades in
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: Sunday, which offers tools for a faster restaurant checkout process, raises $100M Series A led by Coatue, following $24M seed in April — Sunday, a startup that didn’t exist just a few months ago, has raised a $100 million Series A funding round. Today’s funding round is led by Coatue with
Read MoreA saltwater marsh on Cumberland Island, Georgia | Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Is the FAA licensing spaceports that are doomed to fail? Continue reading…
Read MoreWhat you need to know Travel photographer Austin Mann took an iPhone 13 Pro Max to Tanzania and captured some stunning photos. Mann takes the latest iPhone to somewhere exotic to test its cameras every year. Mann sure knows how to make the most of an iPhone’s camera. Every year Apple gives travel photographer Austin
Read MoreCaitlin McGarry / Gizmodo: Apple iPad (2021) review: solid performance and battery life, True Tone, upgraded front camera, and a reasonable price, but the design now feels boring — A new processor, upgraded front-facing camera, and more storage make Apple’s latest budget iPad a steal. — Alerts
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: StreamElements, which builds production and analytics tools for streamers, raises $100M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and says 1.1M people use its services — Video is at the heart of how people use the internet today, and creators are at the heart of what is being made and watched on
Read MoreAndrew Asmakov / Decrypt: Orca, a decentralized crypto exchange built on the Solana blockchain, raises $18M Series A led by Polychain, Placeholder, and Three Arrows Capital — Orca, a decentralized crypto exchange (DEX) built on the Solana blockchain, has today announced $18 million in fresh funding led by Polychain, Placeholder, and Three Arrows Capital.
Read MoreProPublica: Investigation details how safeguards for Facebook’s Marketplace, which has 1B MAUs, can fail to protect buyers and sells from scams, fake accounts, and more — The Social Machine — How Facebook Plays by Its Own Set of Rules … For years, Carman Alfonsi relied upon Facebook Marketplace …
Read More(Image: Ted E. Bunch et al/Nature)People have been in the valley of the Jordan River for a long, long time. Long enough, in fact, that we’re aware of a strange gap in the physical record of human history there, beginning with the mass abandonment of almost every city, village, and settlement in the area, around
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Read MoreJing Yang / Wall Street Journal: Ant Group’s Huabei consumer lending service says user data will be made available to China’s central bank credit reporting system — User data from lending service Huabei will be made available to the central bank’s credit-reporting system — Credit data generated by Ant Group Co.’s …
Read MorePhoto by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford has tapped startup Redwood Materials — run by former Tesla chief technology officer JB Straubel — to handle the recycling of its electric vehicle batteries. The two companies also plan to use this new partnership to help build out the battery supply chain in the United States,
Read MoreWhat you need to know A new supply chain report has Apple ready to release a VR/AR headset as soon as the second half of 2022. The more advanced Apple Glasses are said to be aiming for a launch “after 2023.” Hot new products are in the pipeline. Apple will be able to release its
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Enterprise document management startup PandaDoc raises Series C at a $1B valuation but is not disclosing the amount raised due to Belarus’ political situation — Business tools have gone completely virtual in the last 20 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and today a startup whose e-document platform …
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