General Motors and Honda announced an expansion of their two-year-old partnership to include “a series of affordable electric vehicles” built on GM’s flexible EV platform with its Ultium-branded improved battery packs. The companies say they will begin production of “millions” of these affordable EVs, including crossover SUVs, in 2027. The automakers first announced two years
Read MoreBloomberg: FTX makes a “significant” investment in stock exchange IEX, made famous by Michael Lewis’ “Flash Boys”; IEX represented 2.7% of US equities volume in March — Crypto exchange FTX US agreed to take a stake in IEX Group Inc., owner of the stock exchange made famous by …
Read MoreKen Klippenstein / The Intercept: Internal Amazon documents show its planned internal messaging app would block union-related words, including “union”, “grievance”, and “pay raise” — Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining …
Read MoreWhat you need to know WhatsApp has added more options to polls in group chats in its latest beta release. Poll options can now be added and options can be reordered. Polls still can’t be created, even in the latest beta, but the feature is still being built out. WhatsApp is getting closer to bringing
Read MoreCelebrities struggle with ownership of their image. It’s time to prevent “portrait piracy” before the rest of us need to worry too.
Read MoreThe iPad Air 5 is one impressive tablet, with a supercharged MI chip, 12MP ultra wide front camera featuring Center Stage, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display, and 5G compatibility. The screen is everything, so you’ll want to properly protect it with one of the best screen protectors for iPad Air 5. Note that the screen size
Read MoreMost digital objects are designed from the ground up in a modeling program, but 3D scanning is increasingly viable. In fact, you might have all the technology you need riding around in your pocket. A new smartphone app from Epic Games called RealityScan could eventually digitize your real life stuff, generating high-quality digital objects. You
Read MoreNearly half of these ocean ecosystems have been wiped out since 1950. One man is on a mission to reverse that—by speed-growing coral in hyperefficient nurseries.
Read MoreSQLite is the world’s most widely-deployed database engine. It’s in your phone, it’s in your browser, and if you search your computer you’ll find its .db files there too. SQLite was inspired by Postgres. Its author Richard Hipp has called SQLite a “conceptual fork” of Postgres. There’s no shared code, but Postgres was the north
Read MoreToday’s web applications are nowhere near as fast and responsive as native desktop applications, but what if they could be? That’s the promise of WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a low-level, assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native performance in web browsers. At the same time, WebAssembly provides a portable compilation target for
Read MoreLet’s say that your job is to monitor oil well operations across a small country. You have a device installed at every oil pumpjack, the mechanism that pumps oil out of the ground from an existing well. This device monitors local weather and pump operations. It even automates local processes on the pumpjack. Collectively, these
Read More(Photo: Efes, Wikimedia Commons) (Photo: Efes, Wikimedia Commons)Microsoft has been doing research throughout the pandemic with some of its remote employees to get a grasp on the effects of working from home. The goal is to understand how being at home affects their productivity. In its latest blog post, the company outlines some of its
Read More“She didn’t have any [industry] connections. She got that role because she was undeniable” What you need to know Apple TV+ series Pachinko is fast turning into another hit for the company. Pachinko is a drama series about a Korean family who immigrate to Japan in search of a better life. A new interview reveals
Read MoreKatie Roof / Bloomberg: Remote, an HR service that helps companies hire and manage remote employees across 60+ countries, raises $300M led by Vision Fund 2 at a ~$3B valuation — Remote Technology Inc., a startup which makes it easier for businesses to hire international employees, said it raised $300 million at valuation of almost
Read MoreFreya Pratty / Sifted: French startup Sweep, which develops carbon management tools and helps companies model emissions, raises a $73M Series B led by Coatue — Carbon accounting software fits within a broader “climate fintech” industry, which includes startups working on software to help consumers and businesses adopt greener practices.
Read MoreHema Parmar / Bloomberg: Tiger Global’s hedge fund has slumped by 34% from January to March 2022, losing around $10B, fueled by declining stocks, the Ukraine war, and China’s crackdown — In his 20s, he was a hedge-fund wunderkind. By his 40s, a hedge-fund legend. But suddenly, Chase Coleman is stumbling, and hard.
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Do you own a Peloton machine and an Apple Watch? Have you been wondering how you can connect your wearable to your bike? Well, you’re in luck. Below, we explain how to pair an Apple Watch with Peloton and use the two devices side by side. Thanks to a
Read MoreThese new profile icons are looking super fresh. What you need to know My Nintendo is a free program that offers rewards to players for buying games and completing certain tasks. Nintendo Switch Online subscribers with My Nintendo can complete missions to earn Platinum Coins for new exclusive profile icons. The new profile icons feature
Read MoreThankfully they’re much cheaper elsewhere… What you need to know Apple has raised the price of its AirPods in India. The price of its AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max have all risen by as much as 10%. It means Apple’s AirPods Max are roughly $880. Apple has unexpectedly raised the price of its AirPods
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Barcelona-based SaaS startup Amenitiz, which offers admin tools for independent hotels and B&Bs, raises a $30M Series A led by Eight Roads — Barcelona-based Amenitiz, which sells software-as-a-service for streamlining the administration of independent hotels and B&Bs which it shorthands …
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / Washington Post: A look at subreddit r/Place, which lets users build collective art by posting a colored pixel every five minutes and had 72M tiles placed by Sunday night — Since last Friday, millions of Reddit users have banded together to collectively generate a massive, collaborative piece of artwork that has become
Read More“Mr. Tout-Puissant admitted that he stole multiple Apple point-of-sale devices – nicknamed “Isaacs” – from an Apple store in Southlake, Texas, then sat outside the store, logged onto the store’s wifi network, and loaded thousands of dollars of fraudulent store credits onto gift cards.” What you need to know A second man has been sentenced
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Read MoreAn artistic rendering of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, currently under development | Image: Blue Origin Project Kuiper — Amazon’s planned internet-from-space initiative — announced today that it has booked dozens of new launches on three different rockets to get its future satellites into orbit. The satellites will fly on powerful rockets currently being developed
Read MoreIf there is any company that’s on a roll when it comes to providing more compute power in smaller packages, it’s Nvidia. Their Jetson product line that provides AI and other forms of accelerated computing is a great example. I’ve been able to spend some time with its latest embeddable “robot brain” offering — the
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