Many would say that stocks are fit only for the young and daring because of the risks involved, and thus, those planning for retirement must stay away from stocks due to their unpredictable nature. However, it is a misconception because equities are the asset classes that can help all investors, including retirees, outperform inflation in the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, announced she is stepping down from her position. Wojcicki will be replaced by her de facto deputy, Neal Mohan. Wojcicki revealed she will step into a new role as an advisor to Google and Alphabet. After nine years of leading the world’s largest
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snap says Snapchat now has over 750M MAUs, up 25% from April 2022, with 150M users in North America, $3.99/month Snapchat+ has 2.5M subscribers, and more — At its Investor Day event on Thursday, Snap shared a handful of new metrics about its business and teased its prospects.
Read MoreThe MouSTer is a device that enables modern USB HID mice to be used on various retro computers. The project has been through its ups and downs over years, but [drygol] is here to say one thing: rumors of the MouSTers demise have been greatly exaggerated. Now, the project is back and better than ever!
Read MoreErika Wheless / Ad Age: TikTok quietly launched its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot partners — Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot brands — TikTok has quietly launched its shop pilot in the U.S., an in-app checkout feature …
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft authorizes Parallels Desktop 18 to support Windows 11 on Apple’s M1 and M2 Macs, after previously only licensing ARM versions of Windows to OEMs — Microsoft is officially supporting Windows 11 on Apple’s M1 and M2 Macs thanks to a partnership with Parallels to allow the operating system to
Read MorePeter Kafka / Vox: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and new head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google’s 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google’s earliest employees — is leaving the company.
Read MoreAvailable on Apple TV+ on March 31, the new thriller starring Taron Egerton looks to tell the story of the most well-known video game in the world.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down from her post, she announced in an email sent to employees that YouTube posted publicly on Thursday. Wojcicki has been at Google for nearly 25 years but will be stepping back to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health,
Read MoreThe 14-inch MacBook Pro for 2023 improves on the internal specs of its predecessor while keeping the winning external design it had in 2021.
Read MoreRyan McMorrow / Financial Times: Filing: China Renaissance says chairman Bao Fan, a high-profile tech investor, dealmaker, and banker in China, has been unreachable for over two days — Investment bank China Renaissance says it has been unable to contact its founder — China’s top tech dealmaker Bao Fan has gone missing …
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Apkudo, which offers a service for managing connected devices, raised a $37.5M Series C, sources say at a $300M valuation, bringing its total funding to $75M — Apkudo, a Baltimore-based startup developing a platform to help manage, sell and test connected devices like smartphones and laptops …
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: DocuSign plans to cut around 10% of its workforce, or around 680 people, after cutting 9% of staff in September 2022; DocuSign had 7,461 staff in January 2022 — – E-signature software company DocuSign on Thursday announced plans to cut around 10% of its workforce.
Read More(Image: 66 North/Unsplash)A new study suggests that our previous methods of predicting climate change-related sea level rise were incorrect—and not how we’d like them to be. Enhanced computer models now project rapid sea level rise and Antarctic-Greenland ice sheet loss should the planet warm by more than 1.8 degrees Celsius rather than the 2 degrees
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Tile debuts an anti-theft mode to limit misuse of its trackers, which requires biometric data, a government ID, and a ToS letting Tile share info with police — Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts
Read MoreThe first lesson a new parent learns is that the second you think you’ve finally figured out your kid’s patterns — sleeping, eating, pooping, crying endlessly in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, whatever — the kid will change it. It’s the Uncertainty Principle of kids — the mere act of observing
Read MoreJane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: Switzerland-based Unisers, which is developing a way to detect extraneous extremely small particles during chip production, raised $14M led by Intel Capital — Switzerland-based microchip toolmaker Unisers said on Thursday it had raised $14 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital …
Read MoreMicrosoft’s new chatbot for Bing has displayed some strange behavior, proving that AI is more fallible than tech companies let on.
Read MoreMia Sato / The Verge: TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to those 18 and over in the US with a $500K price pool — TikTok is taking a page out of HQ’s playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced
Read MoreImage: EA About a year ago, Fortnite introduced a new way to play, with a mode that eschewed its building gameplay for something more like a regular shooter. Now that style of building has appeared in the most unlikely of places: Wild Hearts, a new take on the hunting genre that Monster Hunter has firmly
Read MoreGlass! It’s a finicky thing. Strong as hell, yet chip it and glance at it the wrong way, and you’re left with a bunch of sharp rubbish. It’s at once adored for its clarity and smoothness, and decried for how temperamental it can be in the case of shock, whether mechanical, thermal, or otherwise. If
Read MoreImage: The Verge The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law that’s been foundational to the internet for decades. But whatever the court decides might end up changing the rules for a technology that’s just getting started: artificial intelligence-powered search engines like Google Bard and Microsoft’s new Bing. Next week, the Supreme
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: Shanghai-based esports tournament company VSPO raised a $265M Series C from Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group, seeking to reboot pro gaming in China after a lull — Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund has made its first major foray into the Chinese games market, betting on a Tencent Holdings Ltd.-backed esports tournament organizer.
Read MoreAmazon has pulled the wraps off a new portable and modular AWS data center. It creatively calls it the AWS Modular Data Center (AWS MDC), and it’s essentially a data center stuffed into a shipping container. This design allows them to be shipped practically anywhere in the world by boat, ship, or freight. They can
Read MoreReuters: A German court rules that police use of Palantir’s automated data analysis to prevent crime in some states was unconstitutional, after a rights group complained — A top German court ruled on Thursday that police use of automated data analysis to prevent crime in some German states was unconstitutional …
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