Author: Tech Support

    • Chinese food delivery service Meituan Dianping beats estimates with sales of $2.4B, net loss of $221M; Meituan stock rose 9.7%, taking its market cap to $100B+ (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

    Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Chinese food delivery service Meituan Dianping beats estimates with sales of $2.4B, net loss of $221M; Meituan stock rose 9.7%, taking its market cap to $100B+  —  – CEO Wang Xing warns of persistent pressure over 2020  — Hotel and travel services hit by virus fears, travel curbs Chinese food delivery

    Read More
    Boot Your Pi over USB

    Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk drive, and you’ll get great performance, according to his post. The caveat is this depends on a beta bootloader and,

    Read More
    • Chicago-based game studio Level Ex is updating two titles, widely-used by medical professionals to hone their skills, to include COVID-19 content (Elise Favis/Washington Post)

    Elise Favis / Washington Post: Chicago-based game studio Level Ex is updating two titles, widely-used by medical professionals to hone their skills, to include COVID-19 content  —  For the last five years, Chicago-based studio Level Ex has been making mobile games to help medical professionals hone their skills. Chicago-based game studio Level Ex is updating

    Read More
    • Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019 (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

    Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019  —  – ByteDance’s popular video-sharing platform keeps rising  — Douyin, TikTok’s China version, contributed 87% of revenue Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin

    Read More
    • How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences (Ben Smith/New York Times)

    Ben Smith / New York Times: How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences  —  With short videos and paid newsletters, everyone from superstars to half-forgotten former athletes and even journalists can, as one tech figure put it, “monetize

    Read More
    • Small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit fails to launch rocket to space during first test flight

    Virgin Orbit’s 747 Cosmic Girl and rocket LauncherOne | Image: Virgin Orbit Update May 25th, 4:05PM ET: Virgin Orbit’s test flight ended in failure shortly after LauncherOne dropped from under the company’s carrier 747 airplane. Virgin Orbit confirmed that the drop was successful, but that the mission “terminated shortly into the flight.” No further details

    Read More
    • Book excerpt looks at NSA's Big Awesome Graph initiative, an attempt to map people's social networks out of an enormous trove of intercepted communications (Barton Gellman/Wired)

    Barton Gellman / Wired: Book excerpt looks at NSA’s Big Awesome Graph initiative, an attempt to map people’s social networks out of an enormous trove of intercepted communications  —  Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program.  But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew. Book excerpt looks

    Read More