What you need to know “They Call Me Magic” is now streaming on Apple TV+. The four-part documentary series focuses on the life and career of Earvin “Magic” Johnson. “Magic” Johnson has made his Apple TV+ debut. “They Call Me Magic” is now streaming on Apple TV+. The four-part documentary series, which is directed by
Read MoreHuawei has announced that it will be holding a launch event for the Mate XS 2. The name and teaser image point to this possibly being an out-folding foldable phone. The Huawei Mate X joined Samsung’s Galaxy Fold as the first two foldable phones from major manufacturers, but it differed from Samsung’s foldable by offering
Read MoreWhen working on any software project, the developers have to balance releasing on time with optimizations. As long as you are hitting your desired time constraints, why not just ship it earlier? It’s no secret that Super Mario 64, a hotly anticipated launch title for the Nintendo 64 console in 1996, had a lot of
Read MoreGoogle will now display a “reject all” button on its cookie consent banner in Europe. The change comes after the company was fined €150 million by France’s data protection agency back in January. Google is implementing a new option to reject cookies in Europe after being fined €150 million earlier this year for violating EU
Read MorePatrick Howell O’Neill / MIT Technology Review: Mandiant: one-third of all hacker groups exploiting zero-days in 2021 were financially motivated criminals as opposed to government-backed cyberespionage groups — The most valuable hacking tools were once the domain of governments. Not anymore. — Organized cybercriminals with money …
Read MoreRebecca Torrence / Fierce Healthcare: Levels, whose software pairs glucose monitors to its app to give users insights and track their metabolic health, raises a $38M Series A at a $300M valuation — A16z-backed startup Levels has landed $38 million in series A funding for its metabolic health software, the company announced Wednesday.
Read MoreAs discussed in our Discord spoiler guide, whether it’s the ending to a book or an easter egg in a video game, it’s never fun to have something spoiled for you. Additionally, if an audience is too young or immature to see certain content, it’s important they cannot accidentally glance over it. In cases like
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Jarvis ML, which offers an AI-powered personalization engine for brands to engage customers and boost sales, raises a $16M seed led by Dell Technologies Capital — Jarvis ML, a platform offering an AI-powered personalization engine to brands selling products, services and experiences …
Read MoreKatie Jennings / Forbes: NexHealth, which operates an EHR-integrated real-time scheduling platform for doctors, raises a $125M Series C led by Buckley Ventures at a $1B valuation — Alamin Uddin has no need for the acronym soup that drives most healthcare data sharing, like the HL7 and FHIR standards that are all the rage among
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Prezent.ai, which offers companies an AI presentation creation tool and gamified learning courses, raises a $20M Series A led by Greycroft at a $100M+ valuation — When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage.
Read MoreThe Japanese people love their salt, perhaps as much as Americans love their sugar high fructose corn syrup and caffeine. But none of these are particularly good for you. Although humans do need some salt in their diets to continue existing, the average Japanese person may be eating too much of it on a regular
Read MoreWhat you need to know Production designer Amy Williams was tasked with recreating the WeWork offices for “WeCrashed.” The designer was told she could “go as big as she possibly could.” The WeWork offices came back for one last hurrah. “WeCrashed” is streaming now on Apple TV+. To earmark the finale of the series, which
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US OCC says Anchorage Digital, the first US chartered digital asset bank, failed to maintain proper AML rules; Anchorage has begun to take corrective action — The company must appoint a compliance committee and hire a Bank Secrecy Act officer. — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency …
Read MoreGoogle recently changed its Play Store policies that will effectively kill call recording apps starting May 11. These apps have been using Google’s Accessibility API to record calls since the company banned other ways of doing so with Android 10. Now, Google is taking away the ability to use the API for call recording purposes.
Read MoreNina Zdinjak / Benzinga: Treez, a cloud commerce platform that powers retail and supply chain operations for the cannabis market, raises a $51M Series C at a $260M+ valuation — Seed-to-sale and cannabis retail software platform Treez completed a $51 million Series C funding at a valuation in excess of $260 million.
Read MoreMichelle F Davis / Bloomberg: Reify Health, which makes cloud-based tools for clinical trial research, raises a $220M Series D co-led by Altimeter Capital and Coatue at a $4.8B+ valuation — Reify Health raised $220 million in a funding round that saw its valuation more than double from last year to $4.8 billion.
Read MoreAlyssa Boyle / AdExchanger: tvScientific, which offers a connected TV platform to make TV advertising accessible and measurable for brands and apps, raises a $20M Series A led by Norwest — Measurement companies that help track outcomes are making it rain. — On Thursday, CTV performance advertising company tvScientific announced …
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank expects to retain a controlling stake in Arm and sell a smaller portion of shares than originally expected in Arm’s planned IPO — SoftBank Group Corp. expects to retain a controlling stake in Arm Ltd. after the planned initial public offering of the chip business …
Read MorePhoto by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images A former president of the United States has their pick of big problems to tackle once they leave office. Jimmy Carter worked on housing. Bill Clinton spent much of his time working to fight HIV and AIDS. Barack Obama, who has been out of office for six years, has
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier this week Netflix reported quarterly earnings results that showed its subscriber numbers dropping for the first time in a decade, but not every streamer is experiencing that kind of pullback. Even though AT&T has offloaded HBO and the rest of WarnerMedia to their new home with Discovery,
Read MoreDamien Wilde / 9to5Google: Google will effectively block third-party call recording apps from the Play Store from May 11 after further restrictions to its Accessibility API for developers — A new Google Play Store policy coming into force is set to block third-party call recording apps from the online storefront from May 11.
Read MoreWhen you quote someone, you single out something they posted as important enough for a response. So many comments are posted on Reddit, and even though direct replies are possible, misunderstandings happen when users don’t know if a comment applies to them. Quoting removes doubt as to who you’re addressing. Let’s talk about how to
Read MoreA phone-sized field mixer. | Image: Teenage Engineering’s TX-6 overview video Teenage Engineering, the company behind ultra-stylish synthesizers, speakers, and PC cases, has released a new audio gadget: it’s called the TX-6, and it’s a tiny (in size, not price) field mixer absolutely festooned with knobs. In addition to letting you mix together sound from
Read MoreInternal combustion engines have often been described (quite correctly) as air pumps, and because of this nature, they tend to respond very well to more air. Why? Because more air means more fuel, and more fuel means more power- the very nature of hot rodding itself. [Thunderhead289] is an accomplished car hacker, and he’s decided
Read MoreMegha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: Indian government data: Google Pay and Walmart-backed PhonePe have a combined 80%+ share in India’s mobile payments market, WhatsApp has a 0.02% share — India will be a crucial market for Meta’s global e-commerce ambitions, but multiple missteps there are holding it back
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