The human race has evolved over millions of years by sticking together, working in groups and teams. Living in groups has helped humankind survive on this planet and thrive better than any other species. Considerable credit goes to this particular nature of humans, i.e., living in teams. Therefore, team-building activities are a must for relieving
Read MoreNTSB chair says Tesla should address safety issues before expanding its so-called “full self-driving” mode. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, told the Wall Street Journal that Tesla should address “basic safety issues” before the carmaker expands its so-called “full self-driving” (FSD) mode. Tesla
Read MoreAntonia Timmerman / Rest of World: Profile of Ismail Fahmi, who has become an Indonesian household name for combating misinformation with data from his company’s social media-mapping tools — In a “dystopian nightmare” internet, Ismail Fahmi holds a strange monopoly on debunking false facts. — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA
Read MoreDownload one of these trail-mapping apps to make sure you can always find your way in the great outdoors, whether you have cell service or not.
Read MoreTikTok is branded under the name Douyin in China | Getty Images The Chinese version of the popular short video app TikTok, known as Douyin, will limit users in China who are under 14 years old to 40 minutes a day, parent company ByteDance said in a blog post Saturday. The app’s youth mode keeps
Read MoreA leaked image of the Surface Pro 8. | Image: Shadow_Leak (Twitter) Microsoft is preparing to launch a new Surface Pro 8 model next week, and a leak appears to have revealed exactly what to expect. Twitter account Shadow_Leak has published a photo of the Surface Pro 8 from what appears to be a retail
Read MoreFrom file backups to movie streaming, network attached storage drives offer plenty of functions and features.
Read MoreSecretlab’s metal Magnus desk is expensive and heavy, but it makes cable management a breeze.
Read More[Fearless Night]’s optical theremin project takes advantage of the kind of highly-integrated parts that are available to the modern hacker and hobbyist in all the right ways. The result is a compact instrument with software that can be modified using the Arduino IDE to take it places the original Theremin design could never go. The
Read MoreThe concept of a dimension seems simple enough, but mathematicians struggled for centuries to precisely define and understand it.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted a phone you could toss off a staircase? For $550, this durable smartphone is one tough mudder.
Read MoreOnce considered a niche form of transportation, electric scooters are now everywhere in the form of services like Bird and Lime, and that’s prompted some people to look into buying their own. This guide will help you decide whether an electric scooter makes sense, what to look for when shopping for one, and issues to
Read MoreCyberdeck. For those of a certain age, the ‘deck’ part conjures visions of tape decks, be they cassette, 8-track, or quarter-inch, and we seriously have to wonder why haven’t seen this type of build before. But here we are, thanks to [bongoplayingmonkey]’s Sanyo Cyberdeck, a truly retro machine built into a cool old boombox. According
Read MoreMatthew Martin / Bloomberg: Saudi-based customer communications service Unifonic raises $125M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sanabil, which is owned by Saudi Arabia’s PIF — – Japanese conglomerate leads $125 million round for Unifonic — Sanabil, wholly owned by Saudi wealth fund, co-led the round
Read MoreAmrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Pagaya, whose AI-powered service makes financial transactions like lending more efficient for banks, is going public in a SPAC merger at a valuation of ~$9B — Pagaya would combine with the SPAC EJF Acquisition and uses artificial intelligence to improve lending and other financial processes
Read MoreKia Kokalitcheva / Axios: LA-based Tradesy, an online marketplace for secondhand high-end fashion goods, raises $67M Series D led by Foris Ventures, the family office of John Doerr — Tradesy, an online marketplace for secondhand high-end fashion goods, raised $67 million in Series D funding led by Foris Ventures, John Doerr’s family office.
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: CreatorIQ, which helps brands with influencer marketing by providing e-commerce and campaign measurement tools, raises $40M from investors including TVC Capital — Influencer marketing company CreatorIQ announced that it closed a new $40 million funding round, looking to enhance tools …
Read MoreOscar Williams / New Statesman: A look at how the withdrawal of Google and others from London’s decade-old Silicon Roundabout may be proof the UK’s startup scene has expanded and matured — Nearly a decade after David Cameron launched Tech City, Shoreditch has been dramatically transformed. But what is the initiative’s legacy?
Read MoreFor a long time radial aircraft engines, with their distinctive cylinder housings arranged in a circle, were a common sight on aircraft. As an experiment, [KendinYap], wanted to see if he could combine 3 small DC motors into a usable RC aircraft motor, effectively creating an electric radial engine. The assembly consists of three “180”
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Madrid-based Seedtag, a contextual adtech company, raises $40M Series B led by Oakley Capital to expand into the US market — Madrid-based Seedtag has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round. $35 million of this round arrives via Oakley Capital, a figure that provides the investment firm …
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: A look at the lawsuit over Kosta Elefteriou’s FlickType app for Apple Watch that he claims Apple had offered to buy, as Apple unveils its own swipe keyboard — In January 2019, Kosta Eleftheriou had every reason to believe Apple was about to make a deal, his lawsuit alleges.
Read MoreEvery once is a while a research project comes along that has the potential to totally shake up computing and what it even means to interact with a system. The project Dynamicland.org, is a result of [Bret Victor]’s research journey over the years, looking into various aspects of human computer interaction and what it even
Read MoreTom Krazit / Protocol: Interview with GitHub COO Erica Brescia on GitHub’s infrastructure, changes in open-source software philosophies, and why hybrid work will thrive post-pandemic — An astonishing amount of the code that runs the world’s software spends at least part of its life in GitHub.
Read MoreCredit: YouTube The Microsoft Surface Duo 2 FCC documents have now been filed, and they reveal a bit more about the upcoming Android smartphone. The filings show that the phone will indeed support 5G networks, along with NFC, Wi-Fi 6, and more. The phone is expected to be officially revealed during a Microsoft virtual event
Read MoreWhile a line-following robot may not be the newest project idea in the book, this one from [Edison Science] is a clean build using modern components and gets a good speed thanks to PID control feedback instead of the more traditional bang-bang control you see in low-end robots. Of course, PIDs need tuning and that
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