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Zum, which provides software and vehicles to help schools cut student transportation time and costs, raises $130M led by Vision Fund 2 at a $930M valuation (Cromwell Schubarth/Silicon Valley …)

Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: Zum, which provides software and vehicles to help schools cut student transportation time and costs, raises $130M led by Vision Fund 2 at a $930M valuation — Student transportation startup Zum Services Inc. scored $130 million in new funding in a SoftBank-led funding that raised its valuation to

Snapchat promises prize money for people who do video challenges

What you need to know Snapchat is offering up to $25,000 to people who complete Spotlight Challenges on the platform.. Bigger payouts may be available for specific challenges in the future. Challenges begin next month for anyone 16+ and living in the US. Snapchat has announced new Spotlight Challenges, a way for the social network

Apple Watch Series 7 configurations pop up on Amazon, still no pricing

What you need to know Apple Watch Series 7 has appeared on Amazon’s website, but it’s still missing from apple.com. While the color and band options are available, no pricing has been offered up so far. What’s going on with this Apple Watch launch? With the Apple Watch Series 7 just a day away we’re

Sorry folks, iOS 15 disabling AMP in Safari is a bug — it’ll be back

What you need to know A bug that prevented AMP search results in iOS 15 is being fixed by Google. The bug doesn’t impact other versions of iOS. Hopes that AMP was dead are dashed! When reports began to swirl that Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) search results were no longer being displayed in Safari

Facebook’s political problems stem from its goal to connect people and its focus on growth, and are societal issues, not antitrust ones (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Facebook’s political problems stem from its goal to connect people and its focus on growth, and are societal issues, not antitrust ones — Stratechery provides analysis of the strategy and business side of technology and media, and the impact of technology on society.

New Twitter changes should make it easier to avoid the drama llamas

What you need to know Twitter is rolling out a feature that will warn people if a thread could get intends or heated. The new feature is a “work in progress” and appears to be enjoying a slow rollout. “Heated or intense” conversations will be pointed out before you get involved. Twitter is rolling out

iOS 15.1 beta 3 fixes poor quality Look Around imagery

What you need to know iOS 15 introduced a bug that caused some Look Around imagery to be of poor quality. The newly-released iOS 15.1 beta 3 update appears to have fixed that issue. There’s no telling when the update will roll out to the public, though. Apple released iOS 15.1 beta 3 to developers

BBC micro:bit Reads Morse Code with MakeCode

We always have mixed feelings about the drag-and-drop programming languages. But we were impressed with [SirDan’s] Morse code decoder built with the graphical MakeCode. Granted, it is reading 5 element groups from a button on the BBC micro:bit and not worrying about details such as intercharacter or interelement spacing or word spacing. But it is

ArangoDB, the company behind open source NoSQL graph database system ArangoDB, raises $27.8M Series B led by Iris Capital (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: ArangoDB, the company behind open source NoSQL graph database system ArangoDB, raises $27.8M Series B led by Iris Capital — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey!

Aquant, which uses AI to provide customer service insights by analyzing a company’s service data, raises $70M Series C, bringing its total raised to $110M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Aquant, which uses AI to provide customer service insights by analyzing a company’s service data, raises $70M Series C, bringing its total raised to $110M — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.

Retrotechtacular: 3D-Printed Buildings, 1930s Style

Here we are in the future, thinking we’re so fancy and cutting edge with mega-scale 3D printers that can extrude complete, ready-to-occupy buildings, only to find out that some clever inventor came up with essentially the same idea back in the 1930s. The inventor in question, one [William E. Urschel] of Valparaiso, Indiana, really seemed

Apple releases ‘Celebrating Steve’ short film on its YouTube channel

What you need to know Apple has released “Celebrating Steve” on its YouTube channel. The short film was originally released on the company’s website. The film commemorates the memory of Steve Jobs on the tenth year of his passing. “Celebrating Steve” has a permanent home o YouTube. Apple’s short film “Celebrating Steve” has been released

Spotify says it will let Anchor podcast creators in the US apply to join its programmatic ad marketplace Spotify Audience Network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify says it will let Anchor podcast creators in the US apply to join its programmatic ad marketplace Spotify Audience Network — Earlier this year, Spotify introduced its new audio advertising marketplace, the Spotify Audience Network, which allows advertisers to reach audiences across …

A text message routing company suffered a five-year-long breach

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Syniverse, a telecom company that helps carriers like Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T route messages between each other and other carriers abroad, disclosed last week that it was the subject of a possible five year long hack. If the name Syniverse sounds familiar, the company was also responsible for

Quantum computing startup Rigetti Computing to go public via SPAC, in a deal expected to raise $458M at a $1.5B valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Quantum computing startup Rigetti Computing to go public via SPAC, in a deal expected to raise $458M at a $1.5B valuation — Rigetti is going public. — The Bay Area-based makers of quantum computers and processors announced Wednesday that it will merge with a SPAC called Supernova …

New iOS 15.1 beta lets you manually control Macro mode for iPhone 13 Pro

What you need to know The third developer beta of iOS 15.1 adds the ability to manually control Macro mode. The mode currently automatically kicks in when you get close to a subject with the Ultra-Wide lens. iPhone users can now turn this mode on manually for more control with the camera. Pro iPhone users

Using a PCB to Reflow PCBs – Take 2!

It’s not too hard to make your electronics project get warm. Design your traces too small, accidentally short the battery inputs together, maybe reverse the voltage going to your MCU. We’ve all cooked a part or two over the years. But what about making a PCB that gets hot on purpose? That’s exactly what [Carl

Sony didn’t close the PS3 and Vita stores, but it’s making it hard to shop at them

The PlayStation 3. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is making it a little bit harder to buy games digitally on the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita. Beginning October 27th, you won’t be able to use a credit card, debit card, or PayPal to purchase games or add money to your

ProRes video for iPhone 13 Pro now available in third beta of iOS 15.1

What you need to know The latest developer beta of iOS 15.1 adds support for ProRes video. The video codec is limited to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. A major iPhone 13 Pro feature is on the way. The third developer beta of iOS 15.1 has enabled a major feature for

GM unveils Ultra Cruise, a driver-assist system GM says will cover 2M+ miles of US and Canadian paved roads at launch, and eventually 95% of driving scenarios (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: GM unveils Ultra Cruise, a driver-assist system GM says will cover 2M+ miles of US and Canadian paved roads at launch, and eventually 95% of driving scenarios — ‘Ultra Cruise eventually can be used on every paved road in the US and Canada’ — After years of teases …

New ‘SEE’ featurette shows how the series created a world without vision

See how a world without vision was created in the second season. What you need to know Apple has posted a new featurette that goes behind the scenes of the second season of “SEE.” The new featurette shows how the team created a world without vision. Season two of “SEE” is streaming now on Apple

AMD warns that its CPUs running Windows 11 may suffer 3%-5% reduced performance for some apps, 10%-15% for esports games; AMD and Microsoft are working on a fix (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: AMD warns that its CPUs running Windows 11 may suffer 3%-5% reduced performance for some apps, 10%-15% for esports games; AMD and Microsoft are working on a fix — AMD has announced that all of its WIndows 11-compatible processors can suffer from reduced performance in some applications …

Netflix will edit phone numbers out of Squid Game following prank calls

Image: Netflix Netflix’s immensely popular Squid Game is getting an edit after phone numbers shown in the series dialed real numbers, leading to what the company described as “unfortunate” prank dials. The Korean drama about a sadistic “game,” in which players find themselves with no option but to participate in a series of twisted challenges,

Astronomers May Have Found First-Ever Exoplanet Orbiting Three Stars

(ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al.)Since last year, astronomers have been peeking at a fascinating triple star system about 1,300 light-years away. The system, known as GW Orionis, is enshrouded in murky dust, indicating it’s still very young. Scientists have struggled to explain the twisting and contortion of the dust rings. According to Bad Astronomy, a

Dave the Drive-able Duck Does Donuts

[Hey Jude] is tired of the machismo dripping from most modern electronic toys, especially stuff like monster trucks and police/military sets. He grew up on weird stuff, not aggression, and wanted to share the experience of kit-bashing a new toy together alongside his son. This is essentially an R/C boat stuffed into a decoy duck,

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