Credit: How To I Solve/Steve Hemmerstoffer Google could offer a free Pixel Watch as part of Pixel Fold pre-orders. The company could also offer enticing trade-in discounts on iPhones and Android phones. Google could market the Pixel Fold as the “most durable hinge on a foldable” and also boast about its water resistance. Foldables are
Read MoreTwitter, like many social networks, used to feature a useful API. This let people do fun things like create toasters that could automatically post breaderly updates, or even load Twitter posts on machines that couldn’t handle full-fat websites. That API is now history, but [NEKOPLA] used it for a cute Game Boy-like Twitter device in
Read MoreWired: A look at Itana, a controversial startup city set to be built near Lagos in partnership with Binance and investors like Peter Thiel-backed Pronomos Capital — Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.
Read MoreEric Rosenbaum / CNBC: Some software firms are facing large tax bills after US lawmakers failed to renew a provision letting companies to fully expense R&D costs in the year incurred — – Congress failed to extend a key tax provision last year allowing companies to fully expense research & development costs …
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: NYC-based Odeko, which offers operations software to independent coffee shops and cafes, raised a $53M Series D, bringing its total equity funding to $177M — When the global pandemic hit, independent restaurants and shops that didn’t already have an online ordering system …
Read MoreGlobe and Mail: Miovision, which helps cities manage traffic flows using AI, acquires Global Traffic Technologies for $107M, after raising $150M from Maverix, Telus, and EDC — Miovision Technologies Inc. has made a pivotal acquisition financed by three large Canadian technology investors, establishing the Kitchener …
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: NYC-based Odeko, which offers operations software to independent coffee shops and cafes, raised a $53M Series D, bringing its total equity funding to $177M — When the global pandemic hit, independent restaurants and shops that didn’t already have an online ordering system …
Read MoreThe languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language has limited capacity for a future tense, and one Aboriginal Australian language requires precise knowledge of cardinal directions in order to speak
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Avalor, which lets cybersecurity teams aggregate, normalize, de-duplicate, and track risk data from discovery to remediation, raised a $25M Series A led by TCV — Security has a data problem. That’s according to Kfir Tishbi, who led the engineering team at Datorama, a marketing analytics company …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge For a little bit on Tuesday evening, if you tried search for something on Google, your search results may not have looked quite right: the actual list of blue links was missing. In searches I did while the issue was happening, I would see things like the Top Stories box and the
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge For a little bit on Tuesday evening, if you tried search for something on Google, your search results may not have looked quite right: the actual list of blue links was missing. In searches I did while the issue was happening, I would see things like the Top Stories box and the
Read MoreCosmonic, a WebAssembly PaaS (platform as a service), has reached its open beta stage. With the launch, Cosmonic now features Cosmonic Connect, a set of connectors that simplify integrating third-party technologies, such as Kubernetes, with WebAssembly. Built on the Cosmonic-maintained wasmCloud project, the Cosmonic PaaS is intended to enable developers to scale WebAssembly, or Wasm,
Read MoreFoo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Union strike a provisional deal for its ~$47B Chips Act, which aims to double the bloc’s share of global chip output to 20% by 2030 — The European Union on Tuesday agreed a 43 billion euro ($47 billion) plan for its semiconductor industry in an attempt to catch
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: Microsoft and Epic Systems partner to bring Azure OpenAI services, including GPT-4, to help automate some processes in Epic’s electronic health record software — Generative AI promises to streamline health care, but critics say not so fast. — On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced …
Read MoreImage: Meta Meta is opening up its Horizon Worlds social VR platform to teens in the US and Canada in the coming weeks, the company announced on Tuesday. For teen players, which Meta defines as between the ages of 13 and 17, Meta will have some extra features in place to help provide a safer
Read MoreThis is what Google’s foldable Pixel smartphone might look like. | Image: OnLeaks and HowToiSolve When will we finally see Google’s first foldable phone? The smart money is now on May 10th, with availability in June. CNBC says it got hold of internal marketing materials showing Google will launch the repeatedly reportedly delayed smartphone at
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is pushing back its plans to crack down on password sharing in the US until sometime before July. In an earnings report released on Tuesday, the streamer says it “shifted out the timing of the broad launch from late Q1 to Q2.” Earlier this year, Netflix committed
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit announced new API changes today that will eventually pinch its content pipeline from being used to train artificial intelligence tools, including the models that power OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing AI. AI chatbots’ abilities to provide powerful answers have data resources like Reddit to thank —
Read More[Nicholas DiPatri] very much loves his Gaggia Pro. It’s an amazing espresso machine, but it’s also kind of fussy and requires a lot of manual attention to brew a cup. As an engineer, he set about fettling the machine to run with a little less oversight. Enter RoboGaggia. Stock, the Gaggia Pro requires regular water
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Semgrep, formally r2c, which offers tools to help devs scan for vulnerable code, raised a $53M Series C led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $93M — Ideally, when it comes to building secure applications, it’s best to check the code as it moves through the development process …
Read MoreMichael Novinson / BankInfoSecurity.com: Cyber risk quantification startup Safe Security raised a $50M Series B led by Sorenson Capital — Generative AI Can Help Nontechnical Executives Better Understand Security Posture — A cyber risk quantification startup backed by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers has raised $50 million …
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hello, Hot Podders! We’re kicking off the week with a big announcement. This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who attended Hot Pod Summit in February, but I am
Read MoreCredit: Netflix Netflix is ending its mail-order DVD business. The final shipment will happen on September 29, 2023. Netflix points to its dwindling revenue as the reason for shutting down the service. Remember when Netflix used to send DVDs through the mail? You don’t actually have to think back that far because Netflix’s DVD business
Read MoreShirin Ghaffary / Vox: Sources: Meta is expected to conduct another mass round of layoffs on April 19, a source says possibly in the range of 4,000 jobs, out of the planned 10,000 — The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources. — Meta is expected to conduct another mass round
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is pushing back its plans to crack down on password sharing in the US until sometime before July. In an earnings report released on Tuesday, the streamer says it “shifted out the timing of the broad launch from late Q1 to Q2.” Earlier this year, Netflix committed
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