Image: Roku Roku today announced the Streaming Stick 4K, the company’s latest streaming device. Priced at $49.99, the new product replaces the popular Streaming Stick Plus, which has long been a go-to recommendation as one of the best streamers for under $100. The new hardware improves on the old with features like Dolby Vision HDR
Read MoreBuying a TV can be a big decision, but Hisense’s latest promotion wants to help; starting today the company is offering what it calls its “100 Day Guarantee,” which will let you buy a Hisense TV, try it out for 100 days in the comfort of your own living room, and then, if you don’t
Read MoreRoku’s live TV app displayed on the home screen in Roku OS 10.5. | Roku Roku is making finding stuff to watch more of a breeze by expanding voice command support and making it easier to watch free live TV. With the Roku OS 10.5 update, Roku users will be able to access the live
Read MoreCredit: Roku The new Roku Streaming Stick 4K has been announced. It includes a faster processor and better Wi-Fi performance compared to the older Streaming Stick Plus. The company is also rolling out a new OS update with many new features. There’s no doubt that streaming media on mobile devices, smart TVs, and set-top boxes
Read MoreWeeks after Amazon introduced an updated Fire TV lineup that included, for the first time, its own TVs, Roku today is announcing its own competitive products in a race to capture consumers’ attention before the holiday shopping season. Its updates include a new Roku Streaming Stick 4K and Roku Streaming Stick 4K+ — the latter
Read MoreThough it only got announced last week, Apple’s all-new iPad mini 6 is already discounted at Amazon. With $39 off there, this is the first major discount the device has seen making Amazon the best place to buy iPad mini 6 at this pre-order stage. iPad mini (2021) | $459.99 at Amazon Act fast to
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Roku announces $50 Streaming Stick 4K and $70 Streaming Stick 4K+, which adds a Voice Remote Pro, and Roku OS 10.5 with improved voice support — Weeks after Amazon introduced an updated Fire TV lineup that included, for the first time, its own TVs, Roku today is announcing its own competitive
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’ve been waiting on a deal for the latest Apple TV, which has a faster processor and includes the new Siri remote, you can save $30 on it by buying refurbished through Apple itself via Slickdeals. The 32GB model costs $149 (was $179) and the 64GB model
Read MoreDoorDash is expanding its alcohol deliveries | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Food delivery platform DoorDash said Monday it’s expanding its alcohol delivery service to 20 new states and the District of Columbia, Canada, and Australia, which it says will reach 100 million adults worldwide. “Customers in select markets, where legally permissible, can
Read MoreBusiness, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. Airwallex — which provides business banking services both directly to businesses themselves, as well as via a set of
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: As bitcoin falls to ~$43K, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele says the country has “bought the dip” and acquired 150 more BTC, taking its total holding to 700 — El Salvador has purchased 150 more bitcoins (worth $6.8 million at current prices), President Nayib Bukele said on Twitter Monday …
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Filing: Twitter reaches an agreement to pay $809.5M to resolve claims from 2016 that it provided misleading engagement information to investors — Twitter disclosed a binding agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit, under which the social network will pay $809.5 million to resolve claims …
Read MoreFacebook’s lead privacy regulator in Europe has raised concerns about a pair of ‘smart’ Ray-Ban sunglasses the tech giant is now selling. The glasses include a face-mounted camera which can be used to take pictures and short videos with a verbal cue. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Friday that it’s asked the tech giant
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Read MoreThe goo that grows in soaked buildings can cause infections and allergies—an issue that’s understudied even as climate change leads to more frequent deluges.
Read MoreFounders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 (they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011). Four
Read MoreEli Electric Vehicles, an early stage compact EV manufacturer, announced the start of production on its flagship Eli Zero, a micro “neighborhood electric vehicle” that is built for city commuting. The company plans to roll out small batches of the two-seater EV to distributors across 13 European countries over the next few months with a
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Indian used-car marketplace Cars24 raises $450M, made up of $340M Series F and $110M in debt, at a $1.84B valuation — The used car market is getting another major infusion of venture capital today, with one of the faster scaling startups out of India picking up a major round of financing
Read MoreThe original Surface Duo. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is expected to announce its new Surface Duo 2 handset at a special Surface hardware event on Wednesday September 22nd. While rumors have so far pointed towards a triple-camera system, the device appears to have passed through FCC certification with 5G, NFC,
Read MoreGood morning! I sort of need to upgrade my laptop. Next steps, needing to decide if I see what Apple does with its M1X MacBooks, or go for the new Dell XPS 15 again, or something else. Surface Pro 8 + Duo 2: September 22? Microsoft is holding a Surface hardware event this week, on
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Read MoreAn internal Facebook report that leaked this week shed light on what concrete steps the company was willing to take in the aftermath of the US 2016 presidential election. While Facebook promised significant changes to its moderation and fake content detection algorithms after Russian propagandists and other bad actors swamped the service, this 2019 report
Read MoreAmazon’s last Kindle Paperwhite, released in 2018. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A new generation of Kindle devices appears to have leaked via a since-removed comparison chart on Amazon Canada, GoodEReader reports. Two new devices are shown in the chart, a CA$149.99 (around $117) Kindle Paperwhite, and a CA$209.99 (around $164)
Read MoreLily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at Nahoft, an Iran-focused text encryption tool for Android that can turn up to 1,000 characters of Farsi text into a jumble of random words — Nahoft uses encryption to turn chats into a random jumble of words, and it works even when the internet doesn’t.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: French cloud services provider OVHcloud says it plans to launch an IPO, raising up to €400M, sources say at a valuation of more than €4B — France-based cloud services provider aims to take advantage of the surge in demand for digital communications accelerated by the pandemic
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