Stripe raises $694m as investors speculate IPO
A filing with the SEC shows that Stripe raised fresh funding by selling shares after being valued at $65bn in February. Read more: Stripe raises $694m as investors speculate IPO
Read MoreA filing with the SEC shows that Stripe raised fresh funding by selling shares after being valued at $65bn in February. Read more: Stripe raises $694m as investors speculate IPO
Read MoreThe new deal will require record labels to have consent from artists and provide compensation before releasing a ‘digital replication’ of their voice. Read more: SAG-AFTRA says new deal will protect musicians from AI
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix Support pages for the Google Pixel 8a were briefly online on US Cellular’s website, indicating that the phone exists and is close to launch. Google is expected to launch the Pixel 8a during the opening keynote of Google I/O 2024, scheduled for May 14, 2024. We’re eagerly awaiting the release of the Google
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A leaker has revealed that the OnePlus Pad 2 is coming in the second half of 2024. That would be more than a year after the original OnePlus Pad was first revealed. OnePlus launched the OnePlus Pad last year, and we thought it was one of the better Android
Read MoreThe Belfast-based medical device company founded in 2015 just received two FDA approvals in five months. Read more: Neurovalens: A novel, non-invasive solution to pervasive health issues
Read MoreA monthslong “Star Wars”-themed festival called Season of the Force is now happening at Disneyland — including John Williams compositions in the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land during the park’s fireworks. SFGate reports: Before the show starts, a voice rings through the land. “Black Spire Outpost has a long and colorful history of heroes and
Read MoreGlobal smartphone sales grew by nearly 8pc in the first quarter of the year, but Apple’s sales fell, pushing it down from the top position it gained at the end of 2023. Read more: Apple smartphone sales plunge despite market boom
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apparent Motorola Edge 50 Ultra specs have leaked online. Some previously unseen specs include a 4,500mAh battery, 125W wired charging, and 50W wireless top-ups. The phone is expected to launch alongside two other Edge 50 devices tomorrow. Motorola is apparently preparing to launch a trio of Edge 50 series
Read MoreA screenshot from iGBA. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge I played Game Boy Advance games on my iPhone this weekend thanks to a new emulator called iGBA, which appears to be the first Game Boy Advance emulator on the App Store since Apple started allowing emulators worldwide. The only trouble is, it doesn’t
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Samsung is once again leading the global smartphone market with the highest shipment numbers in the first quarter of 2024. Apple witnessed a 10% drop in shipments during this period and lost the top spot it gained back in December. Xiaomi is showing encouraging growth and came in third
Read MoreThe Great American Eclipse v2.0 has come and gone, sadly without our traveling to the path of totality as planned; family stuff. We did get a report from friends in Texas that it was just as spectacular there as expected, with the bonus of seeing a solar flare off the southwest limb of the disk
Read MoreA business columnist at the Los Angeles Times notes Sam Bankman-Fried’s judge issued another ruling “that may have a more far-reaching effect on the crypto business. U.S. Judge Failla “cleared the Securities and Exchange Commission to proceed with its lawsuit alleging that the giant crypto broker and exchange Coinbase has been dealing in securities without
Read MoreAfter nearly 11 years as CNN’s space correspondent, Miles O’Brien found himself in 2003 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida covering the launch of the space shuttle Columbia: As part of the post-launch routine, NASA began sharing several replays of the launch from various cameras trained on the vehicle. And that was when we
Read MoreMost modern ham rigs have a voice activated transmission (VOX) mode, although we don’t know many people who use it often. When a transmitter is in VOX mode, it starts transmitting when you talk, and then, when you pause for a second or two, the transmitter turns off. Many old ham transmitters, though, didn’t support
Read MoreMeanwhile, in Southern California, nonprofit news site Canary Media reports that an old gas combustion plant is being replaced by a “power bank” named Nova. It’s expected to store “more electricity than all but one battery plant currently operating in the U.S.” The billion-dollar project, with 680 megawatts and 2,720 megawatt-hours, will help California shift
Read MoreNo one loves a useless robot more than we do here at Hackaday. But if anyone does it might be [ARC385] with her Bug Bite Bot. A true engineering marvel, [ARC385]’s bug bot extinguishes the candle on its own little birthday cupcake. Yup. That’s it! Even more peculiar, (and to be fair, somewhat fittingly) before
Read MoreThe Associated Press reports: As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like swarms of bees to overwhelm an enemy. The planners envision a scenario in which hundreds, even thousands of
Read MoreImage: OnLeaks / 91Mobiles Google could be adding a feature very similar to Apple’s Emergency SOS feature to the Pixel 9 and the next Pixel Fold. That’s according to leaker Kamila Wojciechowska, who writes for Android Authority that the company would partner with T-Mobile to offer the feature but may add other providers later. Just
Read MoreMovie exhibitors still face “serious risks,” the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday: Attendance was on the decline even before the pandemic shuttered theaters, thanks to changing consumer habits and competition for people’s time and money from other entertainment options. The industry has demonstrated an over-reliance on Imax-friendly studio action tent poles, when theater chains need
Read MoreWindows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had the longest queue of people lining up on launch day to snag a boxed copy. This raises the question of why we
Read MoreThe Associated Press reports: As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like swarms of bees to overwhelm an enemy. The planners envision a scenario in which hundreds, even thousands of
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A new Samsung wearable (model number SM-L305U) has appeared on the Bluetooth SIG database. This device is likely to be the 40mm LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 for the US market. The SIG certification confirms the Galaxy Watch 7 will feature the same Bluetooth 5.3 as
Read MoreIn the view of Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios, artificial intelligence will eviscerate the weak, the ordinary, the unprepared in media,” reports the New York Times: VandeHei says the only way for media companies to survive is to focus on delivering journalistic expertise, trusted content and in-person human connection. For Axios, that translates into more
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A new Samsung wearable (model number SM-L305U) has appeared on the Bluetooth SIG database. This device is likely to be the 40mm LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 for the US market. The SIG certification confirms the Galaxy Watch 7 will feature the same Bluetooth 5.3 as
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple’s initial rollout of AI features in iOS 18 will reportedly function entirely on-device, keeping user data local. This on-device approach emphasizes privacy but may limit access to the more sophisticated AI features, which often require cloud support. Apple could potentially address this with third-party cloud-based AI features. As
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