Monday, November 29, 2021

29 November - Technology - T N W / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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Tech Crunch

  • Gift Guide: Black Friday tech deals that really are worth looking at 5 days ago  –  It is, somehow, that time again! Thanksgiving is hours away, which means it's time to figure out what, if anything, you want to buy on Black Friday.
  • Robots and AI assist in designing and building Swiss university’s ‘hanging gardens’ 5 days ago  –  Architecture and construction have always been, rather quietly, at the bleeding edge of tech and materials trends. It’s no surprise, then, especially at a renowned technical university like ETH Zurich, to find a project utilizing AI and robotics in a new approach to these arts. The automated desi...
  • TabTrader raises $5.8M for a mobile app that aggregates crypto exchange data 5 days ago  –  As many of the top cryptocurrencies seem to temporarily stabilize near all-time highs, users looking to speculate on tokens that are a bit more volatile are searching across exchanges to find deals. Amsterdam-based startup TabTrader has been capitalizing on this search with a platform that aggreg...
  • Gift Guide: Give the gift of cannabis with these 9 high-tech smoking devices
  • Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate on teen mental health
     5 days ago  –  Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate for the first time as part of a series of hearings about online safety for children and teens. Per The New York Times, Mosseri’s hearing will take place on December 6. Mosseri’s upcoming testimony comes after Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D...
  • Ionity lands €700 million investment from BlackRock, automakers to expand EV fast-charging network
  • Spotify tests a TikTok-like vertical video feed in its app
  • As human capital grows scarce, flexible compensation can help attract and retain talent
  • Dear Sophie: How long does International Entrepreneur Parole take?
  • Fairphone hits software support longevity akin to Apple’s i
  • Uber to shutter most of its service in Belgium tomorrow after court ruling 4 days ago  –  Uber will halt its ride-hailing service in most of Belgium tomorrow following a court ruling Wednesday that extends a 2015 order banning its p2p UberPop service to also cover professional drivers providing its ride-hailing service. Uber told us that it is studying the detail of the ruling to deci...
  • Perfeggt brings in first capital to shell out plant-based egg alternative 4 days ago  –  Worldwide, over 1.3 trillion eggs are produced annually, and Perfeggt co-founders believe this market is largely untapped and has room to grow with plant-based alternatives.
  • Rensource-spinoff Sabi closes $6M bridge round, expands B2B retail platform outside Nigeria 4 days ago  –  Nigeria’s informal trade sector, worth over $244 billion, has more than 40 million micro, small and medium businesses. Most of these businesses operated offline until a few years ago when startups brought about digitization by providing infrastructure and a gamut of e-commerce and financial servi...
  • Pyxo wants to build the biggest network of reusable food containers
  • Pet video marketplace Camlist eyes UK growth after raising $1.3 million pre-seed funding
  • Ant is changing how consumers borrow money from its app
  • How Pilot convinced Index Ventures to think long-term about margins
  • Daily Crunch: France moves to block e-commerce platform Wish over fraud, safety concerns
  • Forest bags $8M seed round to acquire Japanese e-commerce brands 
  • Coinbase acqui-hires team behind BRD crypto wallet
  • Particular Audience takes in $7.5M to give retailers way to take on Amazon 26 minutes ago  –  Particular Audience provides product discovery tools for retailers to offer personalization without compromising personal data.
  • Melbourne-based mobile ordering platform Mr Yum lands $65M led by Tiger Global 26 minutes ago  –  QR code ordering at restaurants has been around for years, but the pandemic increased its adoption as social distancing and hygiene measures went into place. Mr Yum, a Melbourne-based mobile ordering and payments platform that was founded in 2018, announced today it has raised a $65 million USD S...
  • Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’ an hour ago  –  The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but Bolt is ready to give that purchase its “one-click” treatment.
  • Thought Machine closes $200M for its cloud native banking SaaS and becomes a unicorn
  • Nissan to invest $17.6 billion in EV development over the next five years
  • Co-working and EdTech company Talent Garden acquires Hyper Island to scale online courses globally
  • Digital regulation must empower people to make the internet better
  • Robotics startup FJDynamics raises $70M to make manual labor easier
  • Second-hand car auction platform Motorway hits Unicorn status after $190M raise with Index, ICONIQ
  • India’s Slice becomes unicorn with $220M funding from Tige

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  • The best Black Friday deals you can get right now 3 days ago  –  Black Friday has been happening through all of November, but now it’s really here because it’s the Friday after Thanksgiving in the US. If you’re enjoying some much-needed rest with friends and family, we want you to keep doing that. But if you have some downtime, it won’t be wasted by checking o...
  • Nvidia’s DLSS has come to Linux gaming (but not the Steam Deck obviously)
  • Spotify says it’s ‘retiring’ Car View without an immediate replacement
  • Four gaming PCs you might actually buy for an RTX 3080, 3070 Ti or 3060 Ti on Black Friday
  • The Verge’s Black Friday Lightning Deals
  • Samsung’s new A03 and A03 Core look like big bargains but we can’t quite tell yet
  • In Animal Crossing, holiday shopping is ‘Nook Friday,’ not Black Friday
  • Strange signals on Venus may be coming from an erupting volcano
  • The best Black Friday deals you can get right now
  • Apple gets hit by its second fine by Italian regulators in a
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals on cameras and lenses a day ago  –  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Cameras and lenses can be a tricky thing to shop for around Cyber Monday. They are no small investment, though if you’re shopping for that lucky someone — or for yourself — there are some deals to be had that can save you a lot of money. We have...
  • The best early Cyber Monday laptop deals 2021
  • The best early Cyber Monday 2021 phone deals
  • Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 3 is up to $500 off at Best Buy
  • The best Black Friday 2021 tech deals still available
  • Cryptocurrency miners grapple with major energy crunch in Kazakhstan
  • GitHub is down, affecting thousands of developers
  • India says not to preorder Starlink until it obtains a license
  • Amazon has PS5 consoles in stock again (update: sold out)
  • Owlet puts smart baby monitoring socks on hold after FDA
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals at B&H Photo 21 hours ago  –  B&H Photo in New York City may be commonly known to locals of the tri-state for its brick-and-mortar presence in midtown Manhattan, but the camera and electronics retailer has a lot on offer via its website for nationwide Cyber Monday deal hunters. Many people shop there for niche photography...
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals you can get at Best Buy
  • Online spending on Black Friday decreased for the very first time
  • The best early Cyber Monday at Target
  • The latest Kindle Paperwhite is 25 percent off ahead of Cyber Monday
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals you can get at Amazon
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals on true wireless earbuds
  • The Verge’s Guide to Cyber Monday 2021
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals on noise-canceling headphones 2021
  • Early Cyber Monday deals for PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintend
  • Backbone One gaming controller for the iPhone is $70 today 19 hours ago  –  Backbone One for the iPhone | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge The Backbone One is the best mobile gaming controller for the iPhone and you can get it from Amazon today for $70, $30 off of its regular price. In addition, it includes a month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which lets you ...
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals you can get on Google devices
  • The best deals you can still get on Amazon devices
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals you can get on Microsoft devices
  • GameStop’s best early Cyber Monday deals: games, accessories, and more
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals you can get on Apple devices
  • HBO Max fixes Birds of Prey blunder and uploads the R-rated version
     20 hours ago  –  HBO mistakenly added the censored version of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) to its streaming service at some point. But now it has finally replaced it with the R-rated version, letting viewers indulge in all the curse words and crude gestures featured within ...
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals at Staples
  • The best early Cyber Monday deals at Walmart
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