The aviation industry is always seeking advancements to improve efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. The latter is due to the never-ending quest for profit, while the latter helps airlines maintain their social license to operate. Less cynically, more efficient technologies are better for the environment, too. One of the latest innovations in this space is
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail, which runs 18,500 stores and e-commerce platforms, raised $1B from Qatar’s QIA for a 0.99% stake at a $100B pre-money valuation — QIA, Qatar’s sovereign fund, will invest $1 billion in Reliance Retail for a 1% stake in India’s largest retail chain, the two firms said Wednesday.
Read MoreSamsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 enjoyed a few years as the go-to book-style foldable phone in the US. Unless you were willing to import a competitor from China and work around certain limitations, it was your only option. Now, Google’s long-awaited rival is here. The Pixel Fold is an enticing option for anyone who wants
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Chances are good that you’ve got at least one group chat on your messaging app. But you’re not alone if you think some groups can be overwhelming, owing to constant messages. That got us wondering whether you mute group chats on your preferred messaging app. So go ahead and
Read MoreGlenn Peoples / Billboard: London-based ticketing company Dice raised $65M from MUSIC and others to expand in Europe and the US; the app will serve 55K+ artists and 10K+ venues in 2023 — Kobalt Music founder Willard Ahdritz’s Ahdritz Holding LLC, Exor Ventures and Mirabaud Lifestyle Fund also participated in the funding round.
Read MoreIf the iPhone 15 is getting color-matched USB-C cables they’re also going to be longer than ever, too.
Read MoreSarah Frier / Bloomberg: LinkedIn is benefiting from recent social media upheavals with a jump in sharing, leveraging its position as a place where old-school self-promotion still works — The professional network is benefiting from upheavals elsewhere in the social media landscape. — The biggest social media platforms all have their niches.
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Nothing has confirmed that the Nothing OS 2.0 software will come to the Phone 1 next week. The software brings plenty of additions to the table, such as more customization options and clone apps support. Nothing launched Nothing OS 2.0 alongside the Phone 2 last month, and it was
Read MoreA licensed Xbox controller with a bit of a PlayStation vibe. | Image: Hyperkin Third-party controller makers are continuing to pick up the slack from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo when it comes to making more durable, drift-proof controllers. Hyperkin is announcing the Competition, an Xbox-licensed wired controller for Xbox Series X / S and PC
Read MoreNetherRealm Studios Mortal Kombat 1 gets RPG chocolate in your fighting game peanut butter with the new Invasions game mode. Continue reading…
Read MoreSarah Frier / Bloomberg: LinkedIn is benefiting from recent social media upheavals with a jump in sharing, leveraging its position as a place where old-school self-promotion still works — The professional network is benefiting from upheavals elsewhere in the social media landscape. — The biggest social media platforms all have their niches.
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: An analysis of Google’s policy dilemma as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train its AI, and lawsuits could upend copyright law — Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can
Read MoreCredit: Scott Scrivens / Android Authority From smartphones to electric vehicles, batteries single-handedly power some of the single most impactful technologies in our lives. And while batteries themselves aren’t some new technology, the lithium-ion (Li-on) kind that powers most of our devices only began gaining ground a few short decades ago. But just as the
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: IBM unveils watsonx Code Assistant for IBM Z, which uses a code-generating AI model to translate COBOL code into Java, set for general availability in Q4 2023 — COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959.
Read MoreBloomberg: SIA: Huawei is building secret chip fabrication facilities across China that would let the company skirt US sanctions and is receiving ~$30B in state funding — – Tech giant is reportedly getting $30 billion in state support — Biden administration monitoring and ready to take action
Read MoreJessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: Mendaera, which is developing a collaborative robotic system for healthcare providers that uses real-time imaging and AI, raised a $24M Series A led by Lux — The company announced its expansion into a Silicon Valley-based production facility to develop its collaborative robotic system.
Read MoreElizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: A US judge orders ex-OpenSea product head Nate Chastain to three months in prison for making ~$50K through insider trades, in the first NFT insider trading case — Chastain was found guilty on charges of buying and selling NFTs from collections he knew would later be featured on his former company’s
Read MoreThis talk at Chaos Communications Camp 2023 is probably everything you want to know about eSIM technology, in just under an hour. And it’s surprisingly complicated. If you’ve never dug into SIMs before, you should check out our intro to eSIMs first to get your feet wet, but once you’re done, come back and watch
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Grip Security, which helps companies reduce their SaaS identity risk, raised a $41M Series B led by Third Point, taking its total funding to $66M — Grip Security, which provides businesses with the tools to protect their SaaS applications and describes itself as the …
Read MoreYueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Binance.US teams up with MoonPay to let users use their debit or credit cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay to buy Tether, which can then be used to buy other tokens — – Payment partnership allows users to convert dollars to Tether — Exchange has been unable to process users’ dollars
Read MoreCredit: Scott Scrivens / Android Authority From smartphones to electric vehicles, batteries single-handedly power some of the single most impactful technologies in our lives. And while batteries themselves aren’t some new technology, the lithium-ion (Li-on) kind that powers most of our devices only began gaining ground a few short decades ago. But just as the
Read MoreBloomberg: SIA: Huawei is building secret chip fabrication facilities across China that would let the company skirt US sanctions and is receiving ~$30B in state funding — – Tech giant is reportedly getting $30 billion in state support — Biden administration monitoring and ready to take action
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: An analysis of Google policy dilemmas as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train AI, and lawsuits threaten to upend copyright law — Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority MediaTek has announced that its next-generation flagship chipset will better support on-device generative AI. The company is working with Meta to offer the Llama 2 large language model for on-device AI capabilities. It adds that the first phones with this chip will be available by the end of the
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Twitch rolls out an experimental TikTok-like vertical “discovery feed” to select users, first with horizontal clips and, “as the feed evolves”, vertical clips — Twitch is the latest tech company to try a TikTok-like way to browse content.
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