Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft will let Windows 11 PCs boot straight to Windows 365 Cloud PCs and switch between cloud and native desktops using the virtual desktops feature — Windows is getting even more cloud-powered features — Microsoft put PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 last year …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Plex has two new features that it hopes will help people watch content. Discover brings multiple streaming services under one roof for easier searching and discovery. Watchlist gives people somewhere to save things they want to watch later. Plex wants to make it easier for people to find the content
Read MoreTesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) on Monday, after acquiring a 9.2% stake in the company. The operation boosted a close in the green on Wall Street. Elon Musk’s Twitter Stock Purchase Twitter’s price on the New York Stock Exchange closed Monday with a rise of 27.12% to
Read MoreWhat you need to know Penbook is an app that allows people to take notes in all kinds of different ways. Almost 1,000 different note stationery can be used depending on someone’s needs. Live Paper adds dynamic data to notes. One app, a world of different note types. If you’re someone who uses your iPad
Read More(Photo: Brett Jordan/Unsplash)A new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing reveals that billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk has purchased nine percent—or 73,486,938 shares—of Twitter stock. The filing, submitted yesterday, makes Musk Twitter’s largest shareholder with a stake worth $2.89 billion. (This is based on Twitter’s closing price from the Friday afternoon prior.) The transaction has
Read MoreIt’s available on Victoriabank, Moldindconbank, and Maib. What you need to know Apple Pay has today arrived in Moldova. It’s available at three banks, Victoriabank, Moldindconbank, and Maib. Customers can use VISA and Mastercards. Apple Pay has today rolled out to three banks in Moldova, the first outlets in the country to support the technology.
Read MoreWhen reaching for a power supply design it’s normal here in 2022 to reach for a switching design. They’re lightweight, very efficient, and often available off-the-shelf at reasonable prices. Their benefits are such that it’s become surprisingly rare to see a traditional linear power supply with a mains-frequency transformer and rectifier circuit, so [ElectroBoy]’s dual
Read MoreWhat you need to know They Call Me Magic will premiere on Apple TV+ on April 22. Magic Johnson says NBC was a potential suitor for the show. Apple TV+ said “this is over” and won out, says Johnson. NBC was the company getting serious about Magic Johnson’s docuseries until Apple TV+ came calling. When
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils a refreshed Windows 11 File Explorer with tabs, favorites, and a new homepage, although the release date is unclear — Microsoft is refreshing the File Explorer — Microsoft is bringing tabs to the File Explorer in Windows 11 soon, alongside a refreshed design that makes …
Read MoreThere are so many social networks online that it can be hard to keep up, and some have more staying power than others. Remember the ill-fated Google Plus? One site which has outlasted a lot of others, and is still going strong, is Reddit. Billed as the “front page of the internet,” what is Reddit
Read MorePhoto by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images An artificial intelligence tool that reads chest X-rays without oversight from a radiologist got regulatory clearance in the European Union last week — a first for a fully autonomous medical imaging AI, the company, called Oxipit, said in a statement. It’s a big milestone for AI and likely to be
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is announcing a handful of updates to Google Maps, including one that will show toll prices before you start navigating to where you want to go. “We look at factors like the cost of using a toll pass or other payment methods, what the day of the week
Read MoreGoogle Maps will debut toll road planning. Maps will estimate the cost of tolls on your route. Maps will estimate when you will cross the tolls. Google Maps is bringing a major improvement that will make road trips a little easier, calculating the cost of toll routes. Many drivers prefer to avoid toll roads, but
Read MoreIn 2020, Apple turned something old into something new with the second-generation iPhone SE. The company trotted out a familiar, circa 2017-era design boosted by a new flagship processor under the hood and a few unexpected extras typically reserved for more expensive phones. It worked like a charm, earning our Editor’s Choice badge in the
Read MoreWhat you need to know Yoink has been updated to version 2.4.1 on iPad and iPhone. The new update includes improvements to the clipboard manager and more. You can download the updated Yoink app now. Yoink for iPhone and iPad has been updated to improve clipboard monitoring and more. The new update is available for
Read MoreJuli Clover / MacRumors: Apple announces WWDC will be held June 6 through June 10 as a virtual event; Apple will host an invite-only watch party on June 6 at Apple Park — Apple today announced that its 33rd annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 6 to Friday, June
Read MoreApple’s developer conference is online only again this year. | Image: Apple This year Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will once again be an online-only event when it takes place from June 6th through June 10th. However, Apple said it will host an in-person session at Apple Park on June 6th, with some developers and
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has announced WWDC 2022 will take place between June 6 and June 10. It will take place online for the third year in a row thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is likely to unveil its next iterations of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and could even share some new
Read More(Photo: Dawn McDonald/Unsplash)The Department of Transportation has revealed new fuel economy standards designed to combat climate change and help Americans save money on gas. Led by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, USDOT has mandated that all new passenger cars and light trucks reach an industry-wide fleet average of 49 mpg by 2026. This bumps up the
Read MorePaul Sawers / VentureBeat: Appwrite, an open-source “backend-as-a-service” startup, raises a $27M Series A led by Tiger Global — Sign up here. — Appwrite, an open source backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that enables companies to forget about infrastructure and focus squarely on the front end …
Read More“Tim Cook is a leading and influential voice for the privacy community, especially as Apple remains a critical player in the broader environment in which the digital economy operates” What you need to know The IAPP is hosting its Global Privacy Summit next week. Tim Cook is going to be the headline keynote speaker. The
Read MoreAndrew Hayward / Decrypt: Hivemapper, which wants to build a decentralized digital mapping network on Solana, raises an $18M Series A led by Multicoin Capital — Hivemapper rewards users with tokens for passively capturing mapping data with dashcams in a model inspired by Helium. — In brief
Read MoreCheck out our favorite board game apps for the iPhone and iPad We’re spending a lot of time inside the house these days, and while it’s for the betterment of everyone, we get it — you get bored being surrounded by the same walls all day. But one of the best ways to pass the
Read MoreNatural gas markets are under increasing stress in Europe after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For now, the American gas market is marginally affected. These tensions have raised Europe’s awareness on securing alternative sources of gas supply, even at a premium price. U.S. natural gas markets are well-positioned to benefit from these developments and natural
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: CryptoSlam: around 95%, or $18B, of the total trading volume on NFT marketplace LooksRare are users selling tokens to earn rewards, not genuine NFT trades — A closer look at the LooksRare platform that has quickly become the leading NFT marketplace by trading volume shows that most of the activity …
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