Terra cotta pots are a popular choice for both indoor and outdoor plants, thanks to their classic, natural look and durability. If you have some of your own, you may have seen advice floating around about the need to pre-soak the pots before planting anything in them. Read more… No, You Don't Have to Pre-Soak
Read MoreYou don’t have to buy a Tesla to get a ton of technology in your new car. Check out our picks. The best high-tech car for 2021 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreStephen K. Hirst / Ars Technica: How the radical environmental themes of the game Final Fantasy VII, released in 1997 for the original PlayStation, influenced a generation of environmentalists — From activists to families, FFVII’s cautionary, planetary tale still resonates. — In September of 1997 … How the radical environmental themes of the game Final
Read MoreSkip public transit or just get where you’re going faster and easier with one of our e-bike picks for almost any budget. Best electric bike for 2021 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWhether you want something that’s more tablet than laptop or more laptop than tablet, there’s one here to meet your needs and budget. Best 2-in-1 laptop for 2021 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThese days, a pretty nice oscilloscope can fit in your toolbox and even a “big” instrument is probably something you can tuck under your arm. But that hasn’t always been the case. Consider this old HP 150A, restored by [USagi Electric]. (Video, embedded below.) The 10 MHz dual channel scope might not seem very high-tech
Read MoreStablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency linked to an asset like the U.S. dollar that doesn’t change much in value. The majority of the dozens of stablecoins that currently exist use the dollar as their benchmark asset, but many are also pegged to other fiat currencies issued by governments like the euro and yen. As
Read More“He’s our future,” one CBS Studios executive said of Alex Kurtzman, who has a lucrative contract to expand the “Star Trek” universe — and with it the streaming service’s audience. Can Paramount+ Succeed? One Producer Hopes to Make It So. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhen making a recording it can be surprisingly difficult to capture a good stereo image. A well-known technique is the ORTF microphone arrangement in which two cardoid microphones sit at 110 degrees to each other and 17cm apart, and thus pick up a readily reproducible stereo separation. It’s something that we’ve been known to do
Read MoreOne night in the Twin Cities, shortly after the killing of George Floyd, someone set a fire in a Goodwill. That led to an international search for the culprits — and it exposed a growing system of global surveillance. Banned Chinese Facial Recognition Technology Was Used to Search for Minneapolis Protesters Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreJohn Herrman / New York Times: After a decade of online identities coming under increasingly centralized control, online anonymity is starting to look like a threatened privilege than a right — Reconsidering pseudonymity and what it means to “be yourself” online. — In early July, when England’s soccer team lost … After a decade of
Read MoreStephen Nellis / Reuters: Qualtrics to acquire Virginia-based Clarabridge, which offers AI-powered customer experience management tools, for $1.125B in stock — Qualtrics International Inc on Thursday said it would acquire privately held Clarabridge for $1.1 billion in stock. — Qualtrics, which was spun … Qualtrics to acquire Virginia-based Clarabridge, which offers AI-powered customer experience management
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: SolCyber, which offers endpoint detection and response services, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — SolCyber, a managed security service provider, today emerged from stealth … SolCyber, which offers endpoint detection and
Read MoreVishal Singh / Silicon Canals: FRISS, which provides automated fraud and risk detection technology for property and casualty insurance companies, raises $65M Series B led by Accel-KKR — Dutch and US-based FRISS is a cybersecurity company that focuses completely on automated fraud and risk detection for P&C insurance companies across the world. FRISS, which provides
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Replicated, which sells tools that help software makers create and deploy on-premises versions of their applications, raises $50M Series C led by Owl Rock — On-premises software delivery company Replicated Inc. is much richer today after grabbing $50 million in a new round of funding. Replicated, which sells tools that help
Read MoreThe Pine64 folks have given us so many tasty pieces of hardware over the last few years, but it’s fair to say that their products are for experimenters rather than consumers and can thus be a little rough around the edges at times. Their Clusterboard for example is a Mini-ITX PCB which takes up to
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Cyolo, which is developing zero trust security tech to enable users to securely access their organization’s apps, servers, and files, raises $21M Series A — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Cyolo, a startup developing a platform … Cyolo, which is developing zero trust
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: Medical imaging startup Exo, which aims to commercialize its AI-powered point-of-care workflow software and handheld ultrasound device, raises $220M Series C — Exo, pronounced “echo,” raised a fresh cash infusion of $220 million in Series C financing aimed at commercializing … Medical imaging startup Exo, which aims to commercialize its AI-powered
Read MoreJoe Burns / FinLedger: Mercury, which offers banking services to startups, raises $120M Series B, including a $5M allotment for crowdfunding, led by Coatue at a $1.62B valuation — Mercury, a company which offers software and banking services for scaling startups, announced raising a $120 million Series B led by Coatue, according to a company
Read MoreThose readers whose interests don’t lie in the world of amateur radio might have missed one of its firsts, for the last year or two amateurs have had their own geostationary satellite transponder. Called Es’hail-2 / AMSAT Phase 4-A / Qatar-OSCAR 100, it lies in the geostationary orbit at 25.9° East and has a transponder
Read MoreRashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Rey, which uses VR-based tools powered by OxfordVR to provide on-demand mental health care services, raises $26M Series A, three months after launching — Technology can, and should, play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between the burgeoning demand for mental health services and limited supply … Rey, which uses
Read MoreMolly Wood / The Atlantic: Microsoft is avoiding antitrust scrutiny by rebranding itself as nice and boring, even as it reverts to some of the behaviors that led to prosecution the ’90s — How has Microsoft escaped the scrutiny of reinvigorated antitrust regulators? — About the author: Molly Wood is the host … Microsoft is
Read MoreIf we have a television in 2021 the chances are that it will be a large LCD model, flat and widescreen, able to display HD images in stunning clarity. Before that we’d have had a CRT colour TV, them maybe our parents grew up with a monochrome model. Before those though came the first TVs
Read MoreMicrosoft just released the first public and stable beta for Windows 11, but not everyone will be able to install it. Even though Windows 11 appears to be more of a visual overhaul than a dramatic reinvention of the OS, Microsoft has made some key changes that make it exclusive to newer hardware. Even some
Read MoreTatum Hunter / Washington Post: Many viewers are experiencing the Olympics primarily through TikTok, with some of the most-watched videos coming not from NBC but from athletes themselves — The Olympics through the lens of TikTok look widely different than TV — When NBC’s “Today Show” told viewers that gymnast Simone Biles … Many viewers
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