What you need to know A new document, intended for internal use, has shed more light on Apple Watch Series 7 specifications. Apple appears to have renamed the old S6 SIP, now calling it S7. Details including weight are shared for the first time. Apple’s calling the System-in-Package ‘S7’ but it appears to be the
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: London-based Form3, which provides cloud-based payments tools to banks and fintechs, raises $160M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, bringing total funding to $220M — London’s payments infrastructure provider Form3 has raised $160 million in a Series C funding round.
Read More“Defendant concealed, failed to disclose, or otherwise engaged in deceptive marketing with respect to this defect, particularly with respect to the quality of the Class Laptops’ display screen and their overall reliability and durability.” What you need to know Apple is being used over its M1 MacBook range. A new class-action lawsuit states the lineup
Read MoreA new tier list for pricing and features are also coming to the platform, says insider. What you need to know Rumors have been going around that new platforms are coming to Nintendo Switch Online, including the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. The host of the “Nate the Hate” podcast recently claimed that Nintendo
Read MoreWhat you need to know Studio Clock is an app that shows you the time accurate to 1/1000 second. The app is similar to those used in TV studios and could be useful for YouTubers, podcasters, and more. It’s just like those clocks you see in newsrooms and in airports! While we have devices that
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has rolled out the latest AirTag firmware update to all users. The same update has been available to a limited group of people for a few weeks. It still isn’t clear why the rollout was staggered. After a few weeks of only making it available to some people, Apple
Read MoreMelissa Repko / CNBC: Deutsche Bank survey: Walmart+, Walmart’s Amazon Prime rival, has grown to ~32M US subscribers since its 2020 launch, and ~86% of them have Amazon Prime also — – Walmart+ has hit an “inflection point” and is growing its membership at a faster clip, according to a new research note from Deutsche
Read MoreLinkedIn normalized the idea of making people’s resume’s visible to anyone who wanted to look at them, and today a startup that’s hoping to do the same for companies and how they are organized and run is announcing some funding. The Org, which wants to build a global, publicly-viewable database of company organizational charts —
Read MoreThe latest preview of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2022 IDE builds on themes of personal and team productivity with features such as faster search and other UI-related performance improvements. Debugging and hot reload also get attention in the new preview. Unveiled September 14, Preview 4 of the planned 64-bit version of Microsoft’s flagship IDE, which release
Read MoreCoupling and cohesion are distinctly different concepts but often confused. Coupling is the degree of dependency between an application’s modules or components, i.e., the strength of the relationships between the different parts. By contrast, cohesion is defined as the measure of the intra-dependency that exists between the elements of an individual module or component. I
Read MoreMeet Liveblocks, a startup that has been working on a set of APIs so that it’s easier to build a collaborative product. Essentially, it lets you create multiplayer experiences on the web or in your app. The company started with a live presence state API. If you integrate this API in your product, it means
Read MoreA16z is inching closer to making its first investment in a startup in India, the world’s second largest internet market that has produced over two dozen unicorns this year. The Menlo Park-headquartered firm is in final stages of conversations to invest in Indian crypto trading startup CoinSwitch Kuber, three sources familiar with the matter told
Read MoreThe Neewer NL660-2.4 Video Keylight has a handy remote control, which for [Tom Clement] has a major flaw in that it can’t restore the light to the state it had during its last power-on. He’s thus taken the trouble to reverse engineer it and create his own remote using a suitably-equipped Arduino clone. The write-up
Read MoreThe climate crisis is creating massive demand for data capture as industries grapple with how to decarbonize. Put simply, you can’t cut your carbon emissions if don’t know what they are in the first place. This need to gather data is a big opportunity for startups — and a wave of early companies have already
Read MoreLess than 3% of genetic material used in global pharmaceutical research is from Africa. The staggering gap is quite surprising because Africans and people of African descent are reported to be more genetically diverse than any other population. Since launching in 2019, African genomics startup 54gene has been at the forefront of bridging this divide
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority According to a new report, Apple saw huge growth in the $400+ smartphone segment between Q2 2020 and Q2 2021. The firm reportedly claimed nearly 75% of sales in the flagship $800+ price band, too. Its biggest Android rivals, Samsung and Huawei, struggled to keep pace. Xiaomi and Oppo,
Read MoreWhat you need to know Early benchmarks have shown that the new iPhone 13 lineup is full of fast phones. Tests show that the iPhone 13 Pro’s extra GPU core ensures it handily beats out the iPhone 13 in some tests. iPhone 13 Pro is the way to go if you want the ultimate in
Read MoreJack Nicas / New York Times: Brazil’s Senate and Supreme Court nullify rules issued by President Bolsonaro banning social networks from removing content that breaks their policies — President Jair Bolsonaro had issued rules forbidding social networks from removing many posts that the sites considered misinformation.
Read More“Confirmed, new iPad mini is sub-6 5G only” What you need to know Apple announced a stunning new iPad mini earlier this week. It brings 5G support for cellular models for the first time. This will be limited to sub-6 GHz, as opposed to the faster mmWave 5G of iPhone 13. Apple’s new iPad mini
Read MoreImage: Gogoro Gogoro is the latest EV company to jump on the trend of going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The Taiwanese e-scooter and battery-swapping tech startup announced Thursday that it will combine with a SPAC called Poema Global Holdings, which is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The
Read MoreCoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online coding school platform. This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE
Read MoreEvery time we see a dispatch from [Mr. Carlson], we imagine it is being beamed from his orbital station packed full of vintage radio gear. We are certain the reality is more terrestrial, but if we were going to build an orbiting lab, it might look like [Carlson’s] shack. In his latest communique, he shares
Read MorePolitico: Joe Biden announces a new Indo-Pacific security partnership with Australia and the UK to share tech in areas like AI, cybersecurity, and quantum technologies — The new allies’ agreement will include cooperation on nuclear-powered subs, AI and cutting-edge defense tech. — The Australian flag flies.
Read MoreMost of us count the golden age of Michael Jackson’s career with the Quincy Jones produced global smashes of Thriller and Bad. Fueled by the stream of videos and multi-single releases (5 on Bad), the records dominated the charts, radio, and MTV. But the real breakthrough came just before with Jackson’s first solo record Off
Read MoreDelegate Connect founders Jordan Walsh and Jacob Thomas Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding. The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 million USD) in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, which wrote Delegate Connect the biggest seed check in the fund’s history so far.
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