Screenshot: SpaceX SpaceX’s integrated Starship spacecraft successfully took off from its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday but didn’t manage to fully complete its test flight. The spacecraft spun out of control before bursting into a ball of flames about four minutes into its flight, cutting the test short. In a statement on Twitter,
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook. But we’ve been here before. Continue reading…
Read MoreJonah Elkowitz / Decrypt: P2P.org, which provides staking infrastructure for Ethereum and 49 other blockchain programs, including Cardano and Cosmos, raised a $23M Series A — Founder Konstantin Lomashuk credits the recent Shanghai upgrade, which it says has increased institutional interest in Ethereum staking.
Read MoreCredit: Lily Katz / Android Authority Spatial audio is the newest feature hitting earbuds, bringing 360-degree sound for greater immersion. Google, Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft all have their own takes on the tech, so you don’t need to look too hard to find it. Then again, is this something you actually consider when buying a
Read MoreArriana McLymore / Reuters: Amazon launches the Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange that lets retailers label and track counterfeits, to make it difficult for counterfeiters to move among stores — Amazon (AMZN.O) has launched its Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange (ACX), an initiative to help retail stores label …
Read MoreAre you still selling like it’s 2013? It’s no secret that the buyer experience has changed drastically in the last decade. The pandemic turned enterprise buyers into savvy e-commerce hunters and SaaS experts. When everyone is used to seamless, one-click checkout on the web and personalized, white-glove treatment in their consumer buying channels, that becomes
Read MoreHave you ever felt the options for Morse code communication were too limited? Well, look no further than [marsPRE]’s open source WristMorse communicator that can connect over WiFi, can act as a Bluetooth keyboard or just be used as a Morse Code trainer. [marsPRE] uses the M5StickC Plus as the base device and attaches a custom
Read MoreChris Metinko / Crunchbase News: VC funding for Web3 startups fell to $1.7B in Q1 2023, down 81% YoY from $9.1B in Q1 2022; the number of announced deals fell from 770 to 333 — Editor’s Note: For more Web3 coverage, please visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker, a site to look at startups, investors and funding
Read MoreImgur founder Alan Schaaf at Web Summit 2018. | Photo by Diarmuid Greene /Web Summit via Getty Images Popular image hosting platform Imgur is done with hosting pornography. In a blog post published this week, the company says it has a new terms of service coming into effect on May 15th and that, as a
Read MoreImage: Toge Productions The original Coffee Talk was a game about, well, coffee and talking. Set in an alternate version of Seattle, one where harpies, elves, vampires, and werewolves were as common as humans, it put players in the role of a barista at a late-night cafe. You had regulars who would chat about their
Read MoreThis edition’s community build comes from the Yes They Could, But Should They Have? file. Well, I ultimately say yes, this is intriguing. Redditor [dj_edit] looked at the venerable Model M and thought, this buckling-spring masterpiece can yet be improved upon. Yeah! Well, to each their own. I must say that it does sound great,
Read MoreAfter achieving liftoff, the Starship vehicle failed to separate from its Super Heavy booster rocket.
Read MoreMariella Moon / Engadget: Imgur says it will delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that’s not tied to a user account, starting on May 15 — For years, Imgur has made sharing photos and GIFs on the internet as easy as uploading a file — you don’t even need an account to use it.
Read MoreImage: Acer For years, Acer’s definition of a “compact juggernaut” still took up 18 liters of space — and still looked like a traditional tower PC. But today, the company’s announcing a low-slung SFF gaming desktop that fits the most powerful PC gaming parts into an unusual 15.4-liter chassis. The Acer Predator Orion X doesn’t
Read MoreImage: Adobe Adobe is launching a new feature for its Illustrator graphic design software that allows users to quickly adjust the color scheme of vector-based images through generative AI. Users can upload their own Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files to Illustrator’s Vector Recoloring tool to generate different colors and palette variations within seconds, either by
Read MoreKrisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, will provide credit scores for individuals when they apply for loans on blockchain-based protocols — TransUnion, one of the largest credit agencies in the U.S., will provide off-chain credit scores for blockchain-based loan applications …
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Berachain, a bear-themed crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, raised $42M in a private token round led by Polychain Capital — – Berachain raised $42 million in a private token round led by Polychain Capital. — The new Layer 1 blockchain is being built on
Read MoreEthernet delivers stable, speedy, secure wired connections to the internet and between devices.
Read MoreWatching IMAX content, as one does. | Image: HP HP has revealed the details of this year’s additions to its midrange (and generally quite good value) Envy line. This year, the company is all in on webcams, fan blades, and… IMAX? Yeah, I’m not quite sure either. HP claims that its new HP Envy x360
Read MoreImage: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions — has published a report that supports content moderation actions taken by Meta at the height of the covid pandemic. The board is also recommending a number of changes to its misinformation
Read MoreHow controlling my Watch with one hand changed how I used Apple’s wearable.
Read MoreAn iMac with a rear projector? This patent shows Apple is at least toying with the idea…
Read MoreCredit: Vivo Vivo has launched the X Fold 2 and X Flip foldable phones in China. The two phones both offer Snapdragon silicon and ZEISS-branded cameras. Don’t hold your breath for a global release any time soon, if at all. Vivo is no stranger to foldable phones, launching the vivo X Fold and X Fold
Read MoreAUO’s 49-inch 360Hz 5K gaming monitor. | Image: AUO AU Optronics’ latest monitor panels include components that seemingly tick all the boxes for premium gaming displays. One is 49 inches corner to corner, has an ultrawide aspect ratio of 32:9, a “5K” resolution, and a refresh rate of 360Hz. It’s being shown off at the
Read MoreAaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products — Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules — It sounded like a dream partnership …
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