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Swing Education, an online marketplace that connects schools and substitute teachers, raised a $38M Series C, bringing its total funding to $60.8M (Michelle Caffrey/EdWeek Market Brief)

Michelle Caffrey / EdWeek Market Brief: Swing Education, an online marketplace that connects schools and substitute teachers, raised a $38M Series C, bringing its total funding to $60.8M — Swing Education raised $38 million in a Series C round aimed at helping the company, which connects schools with substitute teachers …

Google Wallet rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add IDs from Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia in the coming months (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google Wallet rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add IDs from Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia in the coming months — The state-by-state rollout is still a huge mess, but Android is ready, at least. — Google Wallet on Android is finally getting ready

Computex 2023: all the news from Taiwan’s big PC show

Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images For one glorious week, PC enthusiasts gathered in Taipei. Continue reading…

Best Large TVs of 2023

Featured Products: SAMSUNG 85-Inch Q70A Series TV Sony 85 Inch X85K Series TV Samsung UN75AU8000 75 Inch TV Toshiba 50-inch C350 Series TV TCL 50″ Smart Roku TV INSIGNIA 43-inch Smart Fire TV TCL 75″ 5-Series 4K TV SAMSUNG 85-inch 8K Smart TV LG B2 Series 55-Inch Smart TV SAMSUNG 70-Inch Smart TV TV Model

Bike Rides Played Back Via Aircraft Altitude Indicator

Any good bike ride should have a big climb to push your fitness, and a nice descent for the joy of careening down at high speed. [Glen Akins] has been recording his altitude during his mountain biking expeditions, and has now built a way to play them back on an aircraft altitude indicator. A Python

Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 review: A top Windows 2-in-1 for Samsung users

Aside from making some of the best phones on the market, Samsung is keen to take the crown in other device categories as well. Of course, Apple still dominates the tablet and laptop space as the popular consumer choice. Still, the South Korean giant is quickly catching up with sleek, lightweight computers that offer powerful

Best Large TVs of 2023

The Apple Silicon That Never Was

Over Apple’s decades-long history, they have been quick to adapt to new processor technology when they see an opportunity. Their switch from PowerPC to Intel in the early 2000s made Apple machines more accessible to the wider PC world who was already accustomed to using x86 processors, and a decade earlier they moved from Motorola

Making Data Talk: How Marketers can Humanize their Campaigns through Zero- and First-Party Data

Without a comprehensive U.S. consumer privacy law, U.S. state and federal lawmakers have been looking toward Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to serve as inspiration as states begin to introduce data privacy laws in 2022. But this year, roads are being paved. Now on the heels of the E.U. announcing their Digital Markets Act

I tried to use Google One as my only VPN and it let me down

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown A virtual private network (VPN) is essential for modern web browsing. With everything we do online getting tracked, ensuring your privacy and anonymity is incredibly important. Although there are hundreds of VPN services out there, Google actually offers one of its own. This

Blaseball season is over for good

Blaseball is no more. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Born during covid, Blaseball was a bizarre text-only fantasy baseball simulator that imagined, essentially, baseball as played in a world of otherworldly horrors. I regret that I never got to play Blaseball, and now it looks like I won’t get to because developer The

I tried to use Google One as my only VPN and it let me down

AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers — AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation.

A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)

Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs — A Kenyan court has ruled that Meta is the primary employer of content moderators suing the social media giant and its content review partner

The MSI Prestige 16 Studio Evo could be the most exciting Windows laptop of 2023

* rubbing hands together * Yes. Yessssss. Amid all the excitement over generative AI, valuations, and such, consumer PC news was a bit of an afterthought at Computex 2023. That’s why I was so excited to discover this gem buried in the middle of MSI’s very loud and crowded show floor booth: the Prestige 16

The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps (Chris Isidore/CNN)

Chris Isidore / CNN: The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps — New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they’re not banks — and

5 Android Apps you shouldn’t miss this week – Android Apps Weekly

Welcome to the 487th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: We polled our readers twice this week. The first poll told us that most of our readers still use Google Assistant despite the influx of ChatGPT chatbots. Only about 7% of respondents don’t use Google Assistant anymore.

ADATA SSD Gets Liquid Cooling, But Not Everyone’s Convinced

Solid-state drives (SSDs) were a step change in performance when it came to computer storage. They offered incredibly fast seek times by virtue of dispensing with solid rust for silicon instead. Now, some companies have started pushing the limits to the extent that their drives supposedly need liquid cooling, as reported by The Register. The

Star Wars: KOTOR II for the Switch won’t get its game-finishing DLC

KOTOR II’s game-finishing DLC isn’t coming. | Image: Aspyr Media The Nintendo Switch port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II is not getting the free Restored Content DLC that developer Aspyr Media promised at launch, the company announced late yesterday on Twitter. Instead, the studio is offering a consolation prize of free

With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple’s MR headset could lure back VCs (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple’s MR headset could lure back VCs — Frenzy over iPhone maker’s longed-for launch of mixed reality headset has reached ‘fever pitch’

Big Data Analytics: The Key to Resolving Complex Business Dilemmas

Big data analytics is the complex process of examining large and diverse datasets to uncover hidden patterns, correlations, market trends, and customer preferences. It is a crucial tool for organizations to make informed business decisions and tackle complex problems. In this article, we will explore the significance of big data analytics, its applications, benefits, challenges,

PlayStation games and colorful PS5 console covers are discounted for Days of Play

Now through June 12th, you can score a rare $10 discount on the purple, pink, and blue PS5 console covers. | Image: PlayStation Whoa, Nelly. There are a whole lot of PlayStation-related deals going on right now as part of Sony’s ongoing Days of Play promo, which runs through Monday, June 12th. Sony has a

Nintendo Switch Tips (2023): 21 Surprising Things It Can Do (OLED, Lite, Standard)

Did you just get one of Nintendo’s three Switch consoles? Here are some of their best (and most secret) abilities!

How to control what boots up with Windows

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge When Windows boots up, it’s not just the operating system loading itself into memory: a variety of other apps, tools, and services start up as well, configured to automatically start up with Windows. And depending on what you’ve installed, many of them may be starting up without your

Here’s how I got rid of those annoying Twitter threads (plus a few extra tips)

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Among all the changes that are currently ruining my Twitter experience, the For You tab ranks high, and specifically all the amplified Twitter Blue subscriber tweets and threads. ChatGPT, Midjourney, AI, Notion, NFT, Bitcoin, you name the tech-bro obsession du jour and there’s at least one thread about

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