Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nymbus, which offers tools for banks to migrate their legacy stack and help launch neobanks, raised a $70M Series D led by Insight Partners — Nymbus, a startup that partners with banks to migrate their legacy stack and launch neobanks to attract new customers, today announced …
Read MoreThe Verge / Mia Sato Snapchat’s newest AR filter will paint your nails for you — or at least give you an idea of what they might look like. The new AR lens applies color and other 2D designs to a Snapchat user’s fingernails, allowing them to virtually “try on” colors or designs before purchasing
Read MoreImage: The Verge Roblox started letting creators make and sell limited-run avatar gear in April — appropriately called “Limiteds” — and on Thursday, the company shared a broad post about its vision for the Roblox marketplace and some updates to how creators can sell Limiteds. Roblox views its marketplace as a “critical part of the
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Motorola Edge Plus review: excellent Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 performance and battery life, sturdy build, and fast charging, but curved display hampers usability — It’s much closer to being a true flagship competitor, but the Edge Plus 2023 lacks the extra something that it needs to stand up to the
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Binance launches NFT loans, starting with ETH borrowing against “blue-chip” NFTs, such as BAYC, MAYC, and Azuki with an interest rate of 7.91% per annum — – Binance has launched NFT loans feature on its NFT marketplace. — The feature currently supports ETH borrowing against …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok is testing chatbot Tako in select markets; the bot appears on the right side of the app and lets users ask questions about a video or finding new content — AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are all the rage, so it’s no surprise to learn that TikTok is now testing its
Read MoreEmily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Fahrenheit, a group of bidders led by Arrington Capital, win an auction to oversee Celsius Network’s assets, including $500M in “liquid cryptocurrency” — Failed crypto lender Celsius Network LLC is poised to restart as a new company after Fahrenheit LLC, a group of bidders led …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at Disney and Comcast’s fight over Hulu; sources say their Hulu valuations differ significantly, they’re in arbitration, and Comcast stopped funding Hulu — Parent companies are in final phase of battle marked by legal threats, broken promises and secret arbitration
Read MoreStill a looker from the front, but not quite as much around back. | Image: Leica Camera Did Leica make a camera slightly uglier for the sake of (gasp) functionality and convenience? Is the sky falling in Germany? Has anybody checked on Lenny Kravitz? I think I’m feeling faint… With the new Q3 camera, Leica
Read MoreFrom vacuums to pizza ovens, here are the best discounts on brands like Cuisinart, All-Clad, and Eufy.
Read MoreAllergy rates are on the rise. Blame climate change and people’s urbanized lifestyles.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world.
Read MoreDon’t spend summer sleeping on an uncomfortable old bed. Some of our favorites are discounted now.
Read MoreA security review describes how attackers exploited mistakes to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoin.
Read MoreDon’t spend summer sleeping on an uncomfortable old bed. Some of our favorites are discounted now.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Specs of the engineering sample of the OnePlus 12 just leaked. The phone is said to launch in December. The new OnePlus flagship is almost confirmed to get a periscope camera. Fresh information from reliable tipster Yogesh Brar suggests the OnePlus 12 is still a while away. The leaker
Read MoreASUS is inviting feedback from users for the Zenfone 10 through a camera blind test. The terms and conditions of the promotion accidentally leaked the pricing of the phone. The ASUS Zenfone 10 could launch at $749 for its base variant. The ASUS Zenfone 9 was one of the best compact phones released last year,
Read MoreMicrosoft this week fleshed out plans for its upcoming .NET 8 software development framework. For web development, .NET 8 will combine the strengths of server-side and client-side rendering with the Blazor component model. Now available in a fourth preview, .NET 8 leverages server-side rendering with Blazor components, enhanced navigation and form handling, and streaming rendering.
Read MoreWhen building an ASP.NET Core application, you can draw on various middleware components to inspect, route, or modify the request and response messages that flow through the pipeline. You can also write your own custom middleware in ASP.NET Core. Usually, you have a chain of middleware components in the application pipeline in ASP.NET Core. In
Read MoreSamuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Margrethe Vestager says the EU and the UK disagreeing on Microsoft’s Activision deal raises “important questions” and the EU was swayed by the proposed remedies — The European Union’s decision to approve Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion plan to buy Activision Blizzard Inc …
Read MoreKate Knibbs / Wired: A look at AI-generated podcasts, like “The Joe Rogan AI Experience” and “Myself, I Am and That”, created using AI voice tools from ElevenLabs and other startups — Inside the strange world of podcasts made by artificial intelligence, where even creators aren’t sure who wants to hear robot chit-chat.
Read MoreImage: Google The Google Play Games for PC beta — a service that allows Windows PCs to run Android games — is now available in New Zealand and over 40 European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, and the UK. The service was previously expanded to a handful of countries including the US
Read MoreApple to add a new smart display mode that will activate when an iPhone is plugged in and laid horizontally on a desk or nightstand.
Read MoreFollowing on from its launch last week, OpenAI has launched the ChatGPT app for iOS in even more countries, including the U.K.
Read MoreThree images from the Motorola Razr Ultra leaked video. | Images: Motorola via Evan Blass (@evleaks) The Moto Razr Ultra foldable still isn’t official — but thanks to reliable gadget leaker Evan Blass, who’s been on top of this phone for months, we now have what appears to be an official 44-second commercial for the
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