July 2022 – Page 48 – MSI Net, Inc. & mCloudServ

Stockholm-based Normative, whose software helps companies accurately measure their carbon footprints, has raised a $31M Series B led by Blume Equity (Benjamin Robertson/Bloomberg)

Benjamin Robertson / Bloomberg: Stockholm-based Normative, whose software helps companies accurately measure their carbon footprints, has raised a $31M Series B led by Blume Equity — Carbon accounting startup Normative raised 31 million euros ($31.5 million) from investors including Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing …

Framework Laptop (2022) review: promises kept

The next generation of the upgradable ultrabook is finally here Continue reading…

Live A Live is an experimental short story collection disguised as a classic RPG

Live A Live is one of the most influential games you’ve probably never played. The role-playing game originally debuted back in 1994, but it never left Japan — but nearly three decades later, it’s finally getting a global release. The game is particularly notable as the directorial debut of Takashi Tokita, who went on to

Teardown: How Many Teddy Ruxpins Does It Take to Start a Coven?

Well, I did it. I conquered my childhood fear of talking bears and brought a vintage Teddy Ruxpin animatronic stuffed bear into my home. There were and still are plenty of his brethren both young and old to choose from on the auction sites, and when I saw this particularly carefree barefoot Teddy in his

Netflix Ad-Supported Plans Won’t Have All Netflix’s Content

(Photo: Thibault Penin/Unsplash) Netflix used to be the undisputed king of streaming video content, but the company has reported subscriber losses for the first time ever in the last two quarters. One of the ways Netflix hopes to turn things around is with a new ad-supported tier. However, the ads won’t be the only difference.

Watch a European astronaut and Russian cosmonaut embark on a spacewalk

Today, two astronauts will be conducting a fairly standard spacewalk on the outside of the International Space Station, but the pair of spacewalkers is a bit unusual. The duo consists of cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Russia’s Roscosmos and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, spacefarers from two countries that do not typically

Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed

The Home tab on the left versus the Feeds tab on the right. | Image: Meta Facebook’s almighty News Feed is getting split in two… kind of. Today, it’s announcing two feeds that will now be found in its iOS and Android apps. Home is the new name for the tab you see when you

As Facebook Becomes TikTok, the Feeds Tab Ditches the Algorithm

Big changes are coming to the platform.

Pandemic Death Counts Are Numbing. There’s Another Way to Process

Data visceralization goes beyond mortality statistics to help people grieve.

120fps GeForce Now cloud gaming comes to all compatible Android phones

This isn’t a 120Hz Android phone, but you get the idea. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, now supports 120fps game streaming across all Android phones with high refresh rate displays, rather than being limited to specific preapproved models. The rollout was announced last month, 9to5Google reported at the time, but Nvidia

Warner Music adopts SoundCloud’s user-centric revenue model

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Warner Music Group has cut a licensing deal with SoundCloud to adopt the streamer’s Fan-Powered Royalties system, which allocates royalties based on individual user listening and is thought to be more artist-friendly. WMG is the first major label to adopt the system, and its embrace of the

Valve Says Don’t Game on the Steam Deck in a Heatwave

Valve released the Steam Deck earlier this year to mostly positive reviews, but there are consequences to cramming a whole gaming PC into a handheld form factor. It won’t run very long on a charge, and the performance is middling at best, but those currently living through historic heatwaves are finding that scorching temperatures may

How to change the default search engine on Chrome

When you download and install Chrome for the first time, it’s natural that Google will steer you towards their own search engine. They’re hardly likely to promote a competitor over themselves, are they? However, they have to provide a choice, so if you want to change the default search engine in Chrome, it’s actually very

Jordan Peele’s Nope is a breathtaking celebration of filmmaking as an art form

Daniel Kaluuya as OJ Haywood, Brandon Perea as Angel Torres, and Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood. | Image: Universal Pictures Nope stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun Continue reading…

Facebook splits the Feed on iOS and Android into TikTok-style Home, with recommended content, and Feeds, a chronological feed of pages and people users follow (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Facebook splits the Feed on iOS and Android into TikTok-style Home, with recommended content, and Feeds, a chronological feed of pages and people users follow — While new Feeds tab will show chronological content from pages you actually follow — Facebook’s almighty News Feed is getting split in two… kind

Warner Music Group becomes the first major label to adopt SoundCloud’s user-centric payouts instead of the pro rata model used by Spotify (Dylan Smith/Digital Music News)

Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Warner Music Group becomes the first major label to adopt SoundCloud’s user-centric payouts instead of the pro rata model used by Spotify — About three months after celebrating the anniversary of its fan-powered royalty model, SoundCloud has officially inked a global licensing deal with Warner Music Group.

NAND Prices Expected to Drop 8-13 Percent in Q3

First there were too many GPUs, then there were too many CPUs. Now there appears to be too much NAND flash on the market. That is the conclusion of a new analysis of the flash storage market. This oversupply of flash chips is so bad prices could drop as much as 13 percent in the

A Film Challenges the James Webb Telescope’s Controversial Name

The documentary scrutinizes the former NASA administrator’s role during an era of homophobic policies.

At Facebook, It’s Always Been All About Growth

This week, we interview the hosts of Land of the Giants. The podcast’s new season traces Facebook’s explosion from a tiny startup to the colossus known as Meta.

Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill

A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law.

Sources: US is probing Huawei over concerns that gear in cell towers could capture sensitive info from military bases and missile silos and transmit it to China (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

Alexandra Alper / Reuters: Sources: US is probing Huawei over concerns that gear in cell towers could capture sensitive info from military bases and missile silos and transmit it to China — The Biden administration is investigating Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei over concerns that U.S. cell towers fitted …

TextExpander, which lets users create customized shortcuts to trigger text-based actions, has raised $41.4M, its first-ever funding since launching in 2007 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: TextExpander, which lets users create customized shortcuts to trigger text-based actions, has raised $41.4M, its first-ever funding since launching in 2007 — RPA, and companies like UiPath, swooped into on the world of work a few years ago as a catchy way for organizations to help teams automate …

Apple Agrees to Settle Butterfly Keyboard Class-Action Suit For $50 Million

In the fictional museum of Worst Apple Products Ever Made, the Butterfly keyboard ranks somewhere near the top. It’s more reviled than the trash can Mac Pro, and even the one weird mouse you have to flip over to charge. People hated that keyboard, with a burning passion. It got so bad that in 2020

iPhone 14 gets big supply boost ahead of release

New insight from Ming-Chi Kuo says iPhone 14 supply issues won’t impact production because other suppliers can fill in the gaps.

NASA Announces New Launch Date for Artemis 1 Mission

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher as it rolls out of High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for the first time to Launch Complex 39B, Thursday, March 17, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ahead of NASA’s Artemis I flight

MSI Net, Inc. & mCloudServ

Month: July 2022