Month: October 2021

Middle Eastern e-commerce service Noon.com raises $2B from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and others, spread out over three to four years (Zainab Fattah/Bloomberg)

Zainab Fattah / Bloomberg: Middle Eastern e-commerce service Noon.com raises $2B from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and others, spread out over three to four years  —  – PIF among investors to commit funding over three to four years  — The Middle East lags other regions in e-commerce growth

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Apple says Watch Series 7 preorders start on October 8, shipping October 15, after announcing the device at the iPhone 13 event (Sami Fathi/MacRumors)

Sami Fathi / MacRumors: Apple says Watch Series 7 preorders start on October 8, shipping October 15, after announcing the device at the iPhone 13 event  —  Some Users Having External Display Connection Issues With macOS Big Sur 11.1 and 11.2  —  Some macOS Big Sur users who are running the 11.1 and recently released

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Flame-Spitting Dragon Head Heats Up Halloween

Halloween is looming, and [Jonathan Gleich] decided that an ideal centerpiece would be a flame-spitting dragon’s head. It started with an economical wall-mount dragon’s head, combined with a variety of off-the-shelf components to become something greater. Spark from high-voltage ignitor, right at the torch opening. The fire comes from a kind of propane torch sold

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Quest Software’s One Identity acquires OneLogin, a rival to Okta and Ping in sign-on and identity access management; OneLogin raised $100M Series D in 2019 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Quest Software’s One Identity acquires OneLogin, a rival to Okta and Ping in sign-on and identity access management; OneLogin raised $100M Series D in 2019  —  More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity, specifically around services to help organizations manage identity and access.

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What’s the Biggest Laser in the World?

Here at ET we occasionally delve into topics for no particular reason beyond curiosity. In this case, that’s lasers. At the consumer level, we’re surrounded by products that rely on lasers — optical media, barcode scanners, fiber optics, and printers are all common — but for this article, we decided to scale up a bit.

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The way we AI now

We’ve been overselling current capabilities of AI for years, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a bright future. That’s perhaps why Stanford University researchers conceived of a “One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence” (100 years!) back in 2016, with plans to update the report every five years through 2116, charting the progress of

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An ophthalmologist details using the iPhone 13 Pro’s macro camera to document changes in his patients’ eyes, for which he previously had a $15K setup (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: An ophthalmologist details using the iPhone 13 Pro’s macro camera to document changes in his patients’ eyes, for which he previously had a $15K setup  —  Doctor Tommy Korn recently went viral for showing how he uses the new iPhone 13 Pro macro camera capabilities to document the eyes of his

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