GIF: Alessandro Pierattini Cranes first appeared in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago, but new research suggests a primitive lifting machine—a kind of forerunner to the crane—was in use around 150 years earlier. The ancient Greeks are renowned for their monumental stone architecture, which they managed to build without the aid of modern equipment. That
Month: August 2019
About one-fourth of the startups in Y Combinator’s summer batch had a female founder. Not the most disappointing statistic if you consider this: Companies with at least one female founder have raised only about 11% of venture capital funding in the U.S. in 2019, according to PitchBook. Companies with female founders exclusively have raised just
Airship announced today that it has acquired Apptimize, an A/B testing company whose customers include Glassdoor, HotelTonight and The Wall Street Journal. Formerly known as Urban Airship, the more concisely-named Airship has built a platform for companies to manage their customer communication across SMS, push notifications, email, mobile wallets and more. It says that by acquiring
The Suicide Squad could make the DC Extended Universe even more Marvel-ous. According to Deadline, Thor: Ragnarok’s own Taika Waititi is in talks to join The Suicide Squad, which will be directed by Guardians of the Galaxy helmer James Gunn. There’s no word yet on which character Waititi might be playing in the movie or how
14 new landmarks and 6 AR templates make their way to the desktop app. This week Snapchat further deepened its commitment to AR technology with the release of a new update for Lens Studio, the companies official desktop app for the creation of AR ‘Lenses,’ which adds fourteen new “Landmarks,” as well as six additional
Building exteriors tend to get gross. Dirt clings to the walls. Windows get filmy. Spiderwebs amass. If you live in a particularly humid area, mold and mildew can start to make exterior walls look like a science experiment. On taller buildings, scrubbing it all off generally means bringing a bucket truck, scaffolding, or suspension gear
The hype around blockchain seems to have cooled a bit, but companies like Kadena have been working on enterprise-grade solutions for some time, and continue to push the technology forward. Today, the startup announced that Kadena Scalable Permissioned Blockchain on Azure is available for free in the Azure Marketplace. Kadena co-founder and CEO Will Martino
Printing to PDF hasn’t always been easy in Windows. MacOS and Linux users have had a PDF printer included by default for more than a decade, and a number of browsers have made it a cinch for a while now. But don’t worry: Microsoft did eventually add the feature to Windows 10, and now it should be
Although PDF files are a fantastic way to package a slew of text and image documents together, they often require an external application or plug-in and are unnecessary if you want just a single page or image. If you already have the PDF, you can always just convert it into an image yourself. Something like
The Sequent SuperCharger 2 is a fitness tracking smartwatch you never need to charge. Ever. How is that possible? It utilizes kinetic movement to power the watch — wear it, and it takes power from your movements — just like traditional automatic watches have done for decades; but here it goes beyond simply keeping the
Photo: Andy Wong (AP) After being placed on a so-called Entity List by the U.S. federal government, severely restricting its access to American technology, Chinese tech giant and world’s second-largest smartphone manufacturer Huawei is investigating using the Russian-made Aurora operating system as a replacement for Google’s Android OS on its mobile devices, Reuters reported on
In a similar manner to the Xbox One and PS4, the Nintendo Switch actually allows you to share your digital game library with a second system, so both of you can enjoy the same games simultaneously through one copy. This differs from other forms of game sharing, which can involve simply logging into the same account
US military employs hands-free AR to detect RF waves during combat. According to Jessica Sinclair, NIWC Atlantic information technology specialist, there’s a saying used within the military that always rings true no matter what: “If you’re transmitting, you can be found.” While out in the field, soldiers are often equipped with a variety of communication
The Slovenian founders behind PredictLeads, another recent Y Combinator graduate, applied to the prestigious accelerator five times before they were admitted. Their business, which helps venture capital firms and sales teams identify high growth companies, i.e. potential investments and potential customers, had come a long way since it was founded in 2016. And earlier this
Matt Altman & Tyler Elliston Contributor Matt Altman runs the Amazon practice area for VMG Ignite, an eCommerce consultancy that helps early to mid stage CPG companies achieve growth. Tyler Elliston is the founder of VMG Ignite. Clients include Sun Bum, Perfect Snacks, Aloha, Pill Club, Solid Gold, and many more. Entrepreneurship in consumer packaged
The Nintendo Switch has been on a tear since it launched in 2017. It started off strong with what ended up being 2017’s Game of the Year — The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — and kept up the momentum this year with a reign of addictively fun games such as Octopath Traveler and
The PlayStation 4 has been a massive success since its original launch in 2013, and this is due in no small part to its incredible selection of games. From exclusives developed by Sony and its partners to third-party releases, the best PS4 games cross a gamut of genres from first-person shooters to action, role-playing sports,
Hailing from 2004, World of Warcraft Classic pioneered many staple MMO features the genre still holds close to its chest today. It’s a game buried far in the idea of grinding, and it takes a long time to reach the max level. Any decision you make can either cost you dozens of hours of playtime
Usually when someone in tech says the word “quantum,” I put my hands on my ears and sing until they go away. But while IBM’s “quantum computing safe tape drive” nearly drove me to song, when I thought about it, it actually made a lot of sense. First of all, it’s a bit of a
The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in the second quarter to reach 26.1 million shipments, according to a new report from Canalys. Amazon continued to lead the race, accounting for 6.6 million units shipped in the quarter. Google, however, fell to the third spot as China’s Baidu surged ahead. Baidu in Q2 grew a
Previous Next Home theater speakers, especially those that are small enough to be considered bookshelf speakers, ought to be versatile enough that you can place them in a variety of spots and still expect that they will look and perform brilliantly. However, this isn’t always the case. The size of these speakers, their acoustic design,
BharatPe, a New Delhi-based firm that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to start accepting digital payments for the first time each month and also giving them access to working capital, has raised $50 million as it looks to scale its business in the nation. The Series B round for the one-year old startup was
Microsoft has launched a bug bounty program for Chromium Edge, with security starting to become an even more important aspect as the web browser moves closer to its first official release. Microsoft worked Edge through a major overhaul, dropping EdgeHTML in favor of the open-source Chromium engine that also serves as the foundation for Google’s
Photo: Kai Schwoerer / Stringer (Getty) Seven of the biggest names in publishing filed a lawsuit against Audible on Friday, arguing that its recently announced AI-generated captions feature breaks copyright law. The Amazon subsidiary debuted the service, Audible Captions, last month with a release lined up for the start of this upcoming school year (which,
Amazon’s Prime Video service has come a long way since it first started offering free movies and TV shows to Prime members years ago. What was once a pretty scant catalog has grown into an offering formidable enough to take on the likes of Hulu and Netflix — especially if you’re in possession of a
Dreams, the ambitious PlayStation 4 exclusive by Media Molecule, stole the spotlight at Gamescom 2019 with a total of three awards, including the Best of Gamescom 2019. Sony’s Gamescom 2019 presence was lighter compared to previous years, with the highly anticipated Death Stranding not playable and big projects such as The Last of Us: Part
Simulating at-bats against professional MLB pitchers using VR. 2019 marks the first season in which the Los Angeles Dodgers are fully integrating VR technology into their official training curriculum, signaling a new era in professional-level athletic training. The VR training system, developed by immersive training provider WIN Reality, offers professional ballplayers an immersive—yet cost-effective—VR batting
Netflix has started testing Collections, which is different from other recommendation features by the streaming service because humans are behind the selections, not algorithms. The feature, which is currently being tested only on Netflix’s iOS app, was first spotted by Jeff Higgins, who tweeted some screenshots. Netflix Collections is your new way of finding what
When the Dragon Ball Z anime premiered in April of 1989, it was a mere six months behind its Dragon Ball manga source material. For a show that aired every single weekday without fail, this wasn’t much of a gap to fill. It was important to the Dragon Ball Z showrunners that the anime storyline
At any given moment, there are approximately a zillion different crowdfunding campaigns happening on the web. Take a stroll through Kickstarter or Indiegogo and you’ll find no shortage of weird, useless, and downright stupid projects out there — alongside some real gems. We’ve cut through the fidget spinners and janky iPhone cases to round up the
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