The Next Web
- Report: Qualcomm is making an Android-powered Switch lookalike 3 days ago – Qualcomm, the company that makes the chipsets for a huge chunk of Android phones, is apparently gearing up to get into the gaming business. Not just as a chip supplier either; according to a report by Android Police, the company is making its own gaming console to show off the power of its Snapdr...
- Scientists will test the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor this summer 3 days ago – The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will, if things go according to plan, move one step closer to becoming the world’s first functioning nuclear fusion reactor this summer when scientists conduct its inaugural test runs. Nuclear fusion has, traditionally, been used as the ...Scientists will test the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor this summer 3 days ago – The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will, if things go according to plan, move one step closer to becoming the world’s first functioning nuclear fusion reactor this summer when scientists conduct its inaugural test runs. Nuclear fusion has, traditionally, been used as the ...
- NASA unveils plans for first-ever flight on Mars 2 days ago – When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars last month, it didn’t arrive alone. Tucked under the belly of the buggy, a helicopter named Ingenuity had hitched a ride to the red planet. Its mission: to complete the first powered flight on another world. Immediately after landing, NASA began searc...
- Why Tesla’s in-car monitoring camera is a major privacy risk 2 days ago – A consumer advice magazine from the US is raising fresh concerns over how electric carmaker Tesla uses cameras on its vehicles. This time, it’s the driver and passenger monitoring (in-cabin) camera that’s in the spotlight. The concerns stem from the fact that Tesla is using a conventional video c...
- Marketers! ‘Zero-click’ SERPs will force us to get more creative 2 days ago – Interested in digital marketing for branding and growth? Then check out Boost. Google’s attempts at returning answers to queries online in a quicker, easier manner has made the job of SEO more challenging for marketers. With the rise of ‘zero-click’ searches, is there any way for us marketers to ...Marketers! ‘Zero-click’ SERPs will force us to get more creative 2 days ago – Interested in digital marketing for branding and growth? Then check out Boost. Google’s attempts at returning answers to queries online in a quicker, easier manner has made the job of SEO more challenging for marketers. With the rise of ‘zero-click’ searches, is there any way for us marketers to ...
- Instagram will soon let you save Stories as drafts to edit later 2 days ago – Instagram Stories are a great way to share candid moments. I often use that format to show off what songs I’m listening to, or share a picture that might not be “feed worthy”. Currently, if you use Instagram’s Story camera tool, you have to take a photo, apply effects, and post it immediately. Th...
- Buying an ebike? You should know about ‘torque’ and ‘cadence’ sensors a day ago – Before you buy an ebike, you should learn the difference between a ‘cadence’ and ‘torque’ sensor. These sensors are what tell an ebike’s motor how much pedal assistance to provide. The sensor type is one of the most important aspects of a bike’s ride quality, so it’s unfortunately this spec often...
- Sophia the robot ‘created’ an NFT artwork and it sold for almost $700K a day ago – The NFT art market has exploded in recent months, bagging unheralded artists and popstars eye-watering sums for their creations. But it’s not only humans who are cashing in on the craze. On Thursday, an NFT artwork co-created by Sophia the robot snatched almost $700,000 at an auction in Hong Kong...
- Can AI be hypnotized? 3 hours ago – It’s no longer considered science fiction fodder to imagine a human-level machine intelligence in our lifetimes. Year after year we see the status quo in AI research shattered as yesterday’s algorithms bear way to today’s systems. One day, perhaps within a matter of decades, we might build machin...
- Report: Apple’s been snapping up AI firms to improve Siri 4 hours ago – according to a new report by GlobalData. The market research firm says the tech giant bought more AI companies than anyone else between 2016 and 2020. The second biggest AI acquirer was Irish consultancy Accenture. But the rest of th...
Tech Crunch
- Snapchat is developing its own take on TikTok Duets with a new ‘Remix’ feature a day ago – One of the challenges that some would-be TikTok rivals have faced is that they often lack the same robust set of content creation tools, like filters, effects and tools for repurposing others’ content — like TikTok’s Stitch and Duet, for example. It now appears that Snapchat is working to correct...
- Everlywell acquires two healthcare companies and forms parent Everly Health a day ago – Austin-based home lab testing kit startup Everlywell is expanding its scope considerably with two acquisitions, and a transformation that includes the establishment of a new parent company led by Everlywell CEO and co-founder Julia Cheek. The new entity, called Everly Health, will now offer servi...
- R/GA Ventures announces its new Coalition Venture Studio to support Black founders a day ago – Design and marketing consultancy R/GA is expanding its Venture Studios program with the launch of a new Coalition Venture Studio focused specifically on supporting Black-led and Black-owned startups. The initiative is led by R/GA Entrepreneur in Residence Davyeon Ross, a Black entrepreneur who fo...
- These House hearings on tech are a waste of time and everyone knows it a day ago – If Congress wants to write laws that effectively regulate companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, it needs to change the ways it interacts with those companies, because these hearings ain’t it. They’re a waste of everyone’s time, and no one is even pretending otherwise. To truly put Big Tech...
- Porsche adds the all-electric Taycan to its subscription program a day ago – Porsche has added its first all-electric vehicle, the Taycan sports sedan, to its subscription and short-term rental program as part of a broader expansion that aims to build a new customer base of U.S. owners. The German automaker said Thursday it is also expanding the Porsche Drive subscription...
- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey busted for tweeting during congressional hearing a day ago – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey got called out by Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) for tweeting during today’s congressional hearing on disinformation and extremism. The tech exec’s tweet was likely expressing frustration with the format of the hearing, which once again saw the tech CEOs forced to boil down the...
- Crypto boom continues as Chainalysis raises $100M, doubles valuation to over $2B 11 hours ago – Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. The round comes just four months after the company secured a $100 million Series C round at a $1 billion valuation. Paradigm led the latest ...
- A first look at UiPath’s IPO filing 11 hours ago – This morning, well-known robotic process automation (RPA) unicorn UiPath has filed to go public. The company’s S-1 filing comes after it raised billions of dollars while private, making it amongst the best-funded startups in history. Over the last year, for example, the company’s rapid-fired fund...
- No code, workflow and RPA line up for their automation moment 12 hours ago – We’ve seen a lot of trend lines moving throughout 2020 and into 2021 around automation, workflow, robotic process automation (RPA) and the movement to low-code and no-code application building. While all of these technologies can work on their own, they are deeply connected and we are starting to...
- Hub, a productivity platform for technical sales professionals, launches with $1M in funding 7 hours ago – Hub, a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding. CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey founded Hub in 2020. The pair both had experience in technical sales and recognized the challenges of using spreadsheets to manage their business. The...
- UIPath’s meteoric rise from unknown startup to $35B RPA juggernaut 7 hours ago – When TechCrunch covered UIPath’s Series A in 2017, it was a small startup out of Romania working in a little known area of enterprise software called robotic process automation (RPA). Then the company took off with increasingly large multibillion dollar valuations. It progressed through its inves...
- Headless commerce startup Swell raises $3.4M 8 hours ago – While new headless commerce platforms are emerging all the time, Swell CEO Eric Ingram told me that it remains “really hard to do something new in e-commerce.” Specifically, he told me that most headless platforms (which offer back-end infrastructure separate from the front-end shopping experienc...
- Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more 2 hours ago – Our reporting team watched more than 300 pitches over 8 hours at YC Demo Day and made a list of their favorite startups.
- Daily Crunch: Amazon makes PR push ahead of union vote 2 hours ago – Amazon pushes back against unionization, WeWork eyes the SPAC route and there’s new spyware on Android. This is your Daily Crunch for March 26, 2021. The big story: Amazon makes PR push ahead of union vote Workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama (a suburb of Birmingham) will v...
- How our SaaS startup improved net revenue retention by more than 30 points in two quarters 2 hours ago – Net revenue retention is the most underrated metric out there. The greater the NRR, the quicker companies can scale. Simply put: the power of compound math.
The Verge
- Yes or no: Are these tech hearings doing anything? a day ago – In the middle of Congress’ first hearing of the year with the chief executives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter on Thursday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted out a poll. It was just a question mark with two answers: yes and no. It was an obvious troll directed at the lawmakers questioning Dorsey, ...
- a day ago – Rec Room Gaming platform Rec Room is now a unicorn, valued at $1.25 billion during a recent funding round of $100 million. It appears to be one of the first, if not the first, virtual reality-focused startup to achieve unicorn status, a notable feat since Facebook’s landmark acquisition o...
- How to type special characters on a Windows PC 12 hours ago – Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Here’s the situation: you’re typing a report for work, and you suddenly have to write the phrase “Jones née Berkowitz.” Or you are adding a phrase in Spanish and need to use the word “años.” How do you add the special characters to the letters? Special cha...
- Microsoft’s Xbox Series X / S is available at Best Buy [UPDATE: Series X Sold Out] 8 hours ago – Microsoft’s Xbox Series X console | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Update March 26th, 2021 2:50PM ET: Best Buy has sold out of the Xbox series X. The $300 all-digital Series S model is still available for $299.99. If you are looking to buy Microsoft’s most powerful console to date, the ...
- 10 hours ago – You’ve probably seen the acronym “DLSS” appearing in more gaming and tech stories recently. You might know that it’s an Nvidia graphics thing, and that it might be coming to the new Nintendo Switch console that’s rumored to release later in 2021, according to a report from Bloomberg. But, really,...
- Volkswagen offers new details about its adorable ID Buzz electric microbus 5 hours ago – Volkswagen clarified some new details about the release of the ID Buzz, the electric microbus that we first saw in concept form way back in 2017. In an interview with Car and Driver, VW’s head of commercial vehicles, Carsten Intra, confirmed previous reports that the ID Buzz’s release in the US ...
- Wait, GameStop sells GPUs now? 35 minutes ago – Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge GameStop has sold PC gaming hardware for a while now, including entire gaming laptops, monitors, headphones, mice and speakers, but in the post-stonks era it apparently wants a piece of Best Buy and Newegg’s desktop components business as well. Most pro...
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