AlleyWatch: NYC-based Pearl Health, which helps primary care doctors using data science, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z and Viking, bringing its total funding to $100M+ — Primary care is the foundation of the healthcare system accounting for 50% of outpatient visits.
Read MoreImage: Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok has been letting users know about its expanded DM options, which include the ability to let anyone message you. According to The Information, the platform has been sending emails to some users to let them know about the relatively new options, which were added in November and include
Read MoreYou can now get back to your music. | Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify says it has recovered from an outage that took place on Thursday. While there were issues, the company said on its community forums that “We’ve received some reports that our website www.spotify.com is presenting some technical difficulties so some
Read MoreAs the famous poet Carl Johnson once said, “Ah sh*t, here we go again.” Apple’s newest MacBook Pros with M2 SoCs were just released and are now being subjected to teardowns. This has allowed us to peek under the hood at the SSD configurations. Sadly, it appears Apple is doubling down on hobbling the SSD
Read MoreImage: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Uber Eats In his State of the City speech Thursday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that Uber and Lyft will be required to be zero emission by 2030. The decision by one of the world’s largest markets for app-based ridehailing has the potential to affect an estimated 100,000
Read MoreIn software development, a dependency is a piece of software that another piece of software relies on in order to function. An application’s dependencies are the external components that the application needs in order to work. These can include libraries, frameworks, and other software packages that the application uses. For example, if an application is
Read MoreThis is not a Samsung Galaxy S23, but rather a puck Corning uses to test its glass. | Image: Corning Samsung will officially announce its next Galaxy smartphones on February 1st, including a new Ultra — and Corning just revealed they’ll be the first phones to protect their screens with Gorilla Glass Victus 2. Like
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority A report claims Samsung will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip on all Galaxy S23 models globally. Rumor suggests that Samsung will continue to rely on Snapdragon until it’s done developing its own chip. Thanks to numerous leaks and rumors, it’s already expected that Samsung will stray away
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Yandex says the company’s systems were not hacked and blames a former employee for leaking a code repository, after 44.7GB of files appeared on a hacking forum — A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on
Read MoreIt’s pricey, but the M2 Max brings a pleasant performance boost to an already fantastic machine.
Read MoreApple has slashed the trade-in value of iPhones but increased the value of some other products.
Read MoreChiwetel Ejiofor. Rosalie Craig, and Emilia Clarke in The Pod Generation. | Image: MK2 In writer / director Sophie Barthes’ peculiar new sci-fi satire The Pod Generation, there’s little doubt or disagreement about how overworked, hyper-surveilled, and disconnected from nature many people are. Set in a near future where things like freshly 3D-printed toast have
Read MoreImage: Audi Audi’s been on a run lately with some interesting concept cars, tackling everything from a giant urban people mover to a villainous sedan that drives itself. The latest is the Activesphere, an extremely sleek-looking electric luxury coupe that can transform into a pickup truck with off-roading capabilities. With some truly impressive ground clearance,
Read MoreApple saw quarterly iPhone shipments fall by almost 15%, but other companies experienced even worse results.
Read More(Image: Tesla) Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the science-fiction-styled Cybertruck in 2019, saying at the time that production would begin in 2021. Well, that didn’t happen, and Musk confirmed during the company’s Q4 earnings call that 2023 isn’t the year either. Tesla has now pushed back Cybertruck mass production to 2024, but you are still
Read MoreMicrosoft president Brad Smith speaks during a climate initiative event in Redmond, Washington, on Thursday, January 16th, 2020. | Image: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft just forged a strategic alliance with a major solar panel manufacturer to try to make good on its clean energy goals. The deal comes as supply chain woes and
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Substack introduces private publications, search improvements, chat updates, post duplication, publication toggling, inline footnotes, LaTeX support, and more — Newsletter platform Substack announced today that it’s introducing several new features, including private Substacks.
Read MoreIn the news among aviation enthusiasts, the ADS-B data aggregation and aircraft tracking site ADSB-Exchange has been sold by its founder to JETNET for a reported $20m. This type of routine financial news is more at home in the business media than on Hackaday, but in this case there’s something a little different at play.
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Substack introduces private accounts, search and chat improvements, easy template creation, toggling between publications, inline footnotes, and LaTeX support — Newsletter platform Substack announced today that it’s introducing several new features, including private Substacks.
Read MorePhoto by Mark Sagliocco / Getty Images This year, the festival returns with a hybrid format, screening films both in person and online. Continue reading…
Read MoreAlexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: Memo: BuzzFeed plans to rely on OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize its content while humans offer ideas, “cultural currency”, and “inspired prompts” — CEO Jonah Peretti said publisher would use the technology to make more comprehensive quizzes, interactive content
Read MoreNASA has validated the design of a next-generation rocket engine that could power humanity’s next phase of deep space exploration. Last year at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, engineers conducted a hot fire test of the first full-scale rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). This technology could provide high thrust at much greater efficiency compared with
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: NEA raised $3.05B for a fund focused on early-stage deals and $3.18B for its debut growth equity fund, and applies to become a registered investment advisor — NEA said Thuesday that it’s raised just over $6.2 billion for a pair of new funds; comprised of $3.05 billion for its 18th fund
Read MoreTalking about high-quality USB-C implementations, there’s a product that has multiple selling points designed around USB-C, and is arguably a shining example of how to do USB-C right. It’s the Framework laptop, where the USB-C expansion cards take the center stage. Full disclosure – this article is being typed on a Framework laptop, and I
Read MorePhoto by Mark Sagliocco / Getty Images This year, the festival returns with a hybrid format, screening films both in person and online. Continue reading…
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