Month: April 2022

How to pick the best sleep tracker for you

Fitbit has great sleep tracking insights. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Getting a good night’s sleep is one of the best things you can do for your health. And yet we live in the age of Netflix binges, a never-ending scroll of TikToks, and late-night video gaming marathons. But if you’re

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Custom Macro Keyboard With RGB Lighting

From the smallest 60% keyboards for those with no desk space to keyboards with number pads for those doing data entry all day, there’s a keyboard size and shape for just about everyone. The only problem, even with the largest keyboards, is that they’re still fairly limited in what they can do. If you find

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One-click checkout service Bolt acquires crypto payments startup Wyre, sources say for around $1.5B (Paul Vigna/Wall Street Journal)

Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: One-click checkout service Bolt acquires crypto payments startup Wyre, sources say for around $1.5B  —  Deal extends crypto’s hot M&A market following record deal activity in 2021  —  Bolt Financial Inc., a payments-focused financial technology company, is acquiring crypto-services startup …

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Tencent will shutter its game streaming service Penguin Esports on June 7, after China blocked a Tencent-led merger between Huya and DouYu (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Tencent will shutter its game streaming service Penguin Esports on June 7, after China blocked a Tencent-led merger between Huya and DouYu  —  Tencent Holdings Ltd. announced it will shut down its game streaming service, more than a year after Beijing blocked its effort to create China’s equivalent …

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Intro to Hilla: The full-stack Java framework

Hilla combines a Java back end built on Spring with a TypeScript front end built with Lit, a fast, reactive framework for JavaScript. Hilla, which is based on Vaadin Fusion, is a unique animal in the Java ecosystem: something akin to Next.js for JavaScript, but with a Spring-based Java back end. This article gets you started

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Fetch Rewards, which offers rewards to customers who submit receipts of purchases from 600+ partners, raises $240M led by Hamilton Lane at a $2.5B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Fetch Rewards, which offers rewards to customers who submit receipts of purchases from 600+ partners, raises $240M led by Hamilton Lane at a $2.5B valuation  —  Fetch Rewards, a shopping rewards app backed by SoftBank Group Group’s (9984.T) Vision Fund 2, has raised $240 million in a funding round …

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Berlin-based consumer electronics rental service Grover raises a $110M Series C in equity led by Energy Impact Partners and $220M in debt at a $1B+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based consumer electronics rental service Grover raises a $110M Series C in equity led by Energy Impact Partners and $220M in debt at a $1B+ valuation  —  A growing number of people are looking for ways to live more sustainably amid increasing concerns over the environment and what we humans keep

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