Kaya Genç / Rest of World: As Istanbul becomes the world’s capital of casual mobile gaming, with an estimated size of $880M in 2020, a look at the industry’s exploitative labor practices — Overworked and underpaid engineers are helping fuel Istanbul’s mobile gaming bonanza. — • ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Read More“…it’s taken until now to finally confirm that the mystery Silicon Valley buyer who paid $10.1 million for a mansion in La Quinta’s celebrity-infested Madison Club was Apple chieftain Tim Cook.” What you need to know Tim Cook has reportedly been confirmed as the owner of a stunning $10M California mansion. Cook reportedly bought the
Read More“…next year’s iPhone 14 will be upgraded with up to 2TB of capacity, but QLC flash memory” What you need to know A new report says the iPhone 14 will have even more storage than its predecessor. New information claims it will feature a 2TB option. We’ve already heard the iPhone 13 will bring a
Read More[Ben Krasnow] over at Applied Science was experimenting with cutting inexpensive ceramic sheets with his cheap CO2 laser cutter when he found that (just as expected) the thermal shock of the CO2 beam would cause cracking and breaking of the workpiece. After much experimentation, he stumbled upon a simple solution: submersion under a thin layer
Read MoreThe show apparently “did not draw a wide audience on the platform the way other Apple TV+ comedy series have done this past summer” What you need to know Apple TV+ is not getting a second season of Mr. Corman. The company has reportedly elected not to renew the Joseph Gordon-Levitt comedy. Apparently it hasn’t
Read MoreSaying that Xiaomi’s play in India’s affordable television space has been pretty successful would be wildly underplaying it. The Mi TV 5X builds on that success with incremental upgrades that add up. However, the competition isn’t holding back either and multiple emerging brands are now offering affordable televisions. Meanwhile, existing companies like Samsung and Sony have
Read MoreThe Nintendo 64 was one of the consoles that properly heralded in the era of 3D gaming. However, its controller is of a design we wouldn’t consider ideal today. For the FPS games that were so popular on the N64, a mouse and keyboard could do much better. [The Hypocaust] set out to make it
Read MoreThe popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has a feature that you can use to message on your own number to add notes or save some important information. The “click to chat” feature allows you to start a chat with someone without having their phone number saved in your phone’s address book. READ: WHATSAPP TO STOP
Read MoreJohn Gruber / Daring Fireball: The new tab design in Safari 15 for macOS makes usability worse and shows a complete disregard for the familiarity users had with Safari’s previous tab design — Safari 15 on iPad suffers similarly, but it’s the Mac version I’ll concentrate on here. — The most controversial Mac Safari changes
Read MoreJosef Adalian / Vulture: South Korean show Squid Game, topping Netflix charts in 90 countries, vindicates Netflix’s strategy of creating franchises using content from around the world — At your service. — This story also ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
Read MoreTarush Bhalla / Livemint: MFine, a Bangalore-based on-demand healthcare platform, raises $48M Series C co-led by Moore Strategic Ventures and BEENEXT, sources say at a $450M+ valuation — BENGALURU: Digital health platform MFine has raised $48 million as part of its Series C round, co-led by Moore Strategic Ventures and BEENEXT.
Read MoreCarolina Milanesi / Fast Company: Amazon Astro Review: impressive autonomous navigation skills, reasonable price for the tech, attractive design, but its daily utility is questionable — In a two-week trial, Astro was surprisingly endearing and avoided hazards such as pets and stairs. But I still don’t know what I’d do with one.
Read MoreFinally, someone decided to answer the question that nobody was asking: what if [Benjamin Franklin] had had a drone rather than a kite? Granted, [Jay Bowles] didn’t fly his electricity-harvesting drone during a thunderstorm, but he did manage to reach some of the same conclusions that [Dr. Franklin] did about the nature of atmospheric electricity.
Read MoreWhat you need to know United Airlines now works with SMART Health Cards. Apple’s Health app also works with the specification. Customers can now share their COVID-19 vaccination record through the Health app with the airline. Traveling with United during the pandemic just got easier. If you’re traveling on United Airlines and have your COVID-19
Read MoreAlex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: LeadIQ, which offers cloud-based sales software, raises $30M Series B led by Cathay Innovation, bringing its total raised to $42M — This morning LeadIQ, a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation.
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Read MoreJoel Stinnett / Nashville Business Journal: Nashville-based Built Technologies, which provides cloud-based construction lending software, raises $125M Series D led by TCV at a $1.5B valuation — Music City is home to Titans, Predators — and now, unicorns. — Nashville-based fintech Built Technologies has secured a $125 million round of funding …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has released the Safari 15.1 beta. The new beta is available for users of macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina. It was also included in the eighth beta of macOS Monterey earlier this week. Hopefully, this fixes the mess that is Safari 15. When Apple originally released Safari 15
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ expose, as some research staff decry Facebook’s public response in group chats — The social network has been all hands on deck as it grapples with revelations that it knew the harmful effects its Instagram photo-sharing app was having on teenagers.
Read MoreAs enterprises grapple with rapidly evolving IT infrastructure, fueled and made even more complex by cloud migration that accelerated during the pandemic, Sumo Logic is offering a new set of infrastructure observability tools and telemetry data analytics designed to ensure maximum business uptime and smooth software application performance. The new DevSecOps-oriented tools, announced this week
Read MoreWhile conventional safes can be a good place to put valuables, sometimes it’s even better to hide your things where nobody will even look in the first place. [Wesley Treat] has a build that will allow you to do just that, which secrets away papers, money, or small items within the body of a bolt.
Read MoreBloomberg: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management provider, files for an IPO; source says at a valuation of ~$10B, double the $5.3B it went private for in 2015 — – Company could be valued at around $10 billion in offering — Informatica went private in 2015 for about $5.3 billion
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Read MoreSamantha Bee, Mark Cuban, CEO and Co-Founder Carlos Watson, and Jeb Bush speak onstage during Ozy Fest 2017 | Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Ozy Fusion Fest 2017 In the space of six days and five New York Times reports from media columnist Ben Smith, Ozy Media has gone from a largely unknown content
Read MoreSteve Kovach / CNBC: Amazon’s new PC game New World is a hit, with hundreds of thousands on Steam playing it at any given time, representing a leap for Amazon’s gaming ambitions — – Amazon released a new video game for PCs this week called “New World.” — The game is already a smash hit
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