Author: Tech Support

    • How one restaurant owner asked for 1-star Yelp reviews in 2014 and became famous as a vigilante hero among small business owners who were unhappy with Yelp (Zachary Crockett/The Hustle)

    Zachary Crockett / The Hustle: How one restaurant owner asked for 1-star Yelp reviews in 2014 and became famous as a vigilante hero among small business owners who were unhappy with Yelp  —  How one small business owner flipped the online review ecosystem on its head.  —  In 2014, chef Davide Cerretini advertised a special

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    Captivating ESP32 Camera Hack

    You can never have enough DIY devices at home, so when you look at an ESP32 module that comes with the camera, you automatically start getting ideas. [Daniel Padilla] wanted a way to deploy DIY camera modules without the hassle of configuring them so he made one that looks like an access point and starts

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    • A look at the debate about streaming Broadway shows, as one service, BroadwayHD, ramps up, offering 300+ shows on Roku, Google Play, and more for $8.99/month (Steven Zeitchik/Washington Post)

    Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post: A look at the debate about streaming Broadway shows, as one service, BroadwayHD, ramps up, offering 300+ shows on Roku, Google Play, and more for $8.99/month  —  NEW YORK — This would seem like a strange moment to worry about Broadway’s future.  —  The oldest entertainment business in the United

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    • India-based OkCredit, an app for retailers that helps automate all transactions with their customers and wholesalers, raises $15.5M Series A led by Tiger Global (Pratik Bhakta/The Economic Times)

    Pratik Bhakta / The Economic Times: India-based OkCredit, an app for retailers that helps automate all transactions with their customers and wholesalers, raises $15.5M Series A led by Tiger Global  —  Cloud-based digital application provider for micro-merchants OkCredit has raised $15.5 million in one of the largest series A funding rounds for an Indian startup

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    • Fujifilm is bringing back monochrome film

    Fujifilm has announced that it’s re-entering the black-and-white film market after stopping production more than a year ago. A new film, Neopan 100 Acros II, is being developed following feedback from, and I quote from the press release, “millennials and GenZs,” who the company describes as “the new film enthusiasts.” Acros is an iconic brand

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    • Alkami, which builds mobile app platforms for 130+ US banks and credit unions, raises $55M Series E led by General Atlantic, bringing total raised to $225M (Lance Murray/Dallas Innovates)

    Lance Murray / Dallas Innovates: Alkami, which builds mobile app platforms for 130+ US banks and credit unions, raises $55M Series E led by General Atlantic, bringing total raised to $225M  —  The fast-growing Plano-based company, which last year raised $70 million in a Series D round, has used its funding to invest in innovation,

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    • Microsoft announces updates to Xbox gamertags, including ten new alphabets and Discord-like hashcodes that will allow gamers to select any gamertag (Lewis White/MSPoweruser)

    Lewis White / MSPoweruser: Microsoft announces updates to Xbox gamertags, including ten new alphabets and Discord-like hashcodes that will allow gamers to select any gamertag  —  MrStark#0528, I don’t feel so good.  —  Major Nelson has confirmed that Xbox’s iconic Gamertag system will be changing in the future. Microsoft announces updates to Xbox gamertags, including

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    • Microsoft says it has no plans to add more backward compatible titles for Xbox One, but says Project Scarlett will run games from all four Xbox generations (Tom Warren/The Verge)

    Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says it has no plans to add more backward compatible titles for Xbox One, but says Project Scarlett will run games from all four Xbox generations  —  No more Xbox 360 and Xbox additions to the catalog  —  Microsoft is winding down new additions to its Xbox backward compatibility

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    Schrodinger’s Cat Lives

    If quantum physics always sounded a little squirrelly to you, take heart. Yale researchers have announced that they can do what quantum physics claimed to be impossible: they can determine the state a quantum system will collapse to before it happens. This contradicts Schrodinger’s famous hypothetical cat that is superimposed as 50% alive and 50%

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    Intel acquires Barefoot Networks, which specialises in making programmable networking chips; Barefoot had raised ~155M from Tencent, Alibaba, HPE, and others (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

    {$inline_image} Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Intel acquires Barefoot Networks, which specialises in making programmable networking chips; Barefoot had raised ~155M from Tencent, Alibaba, HPE, and others  —  When it launched out of stealth just three years ago, Barefoot Networks was hailed as a company that would transform the way a generation … Intel acquires Barefoot

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