Is capital moral or amoral? In the predominant view held in Silicon Valley today, capital is amoral — cash is cash, and regardless of where it comes from, once it leaves the hand of its investor or donor, it no longer has that individual’s taint. That money might have previously been spent on acquiring access
Month: September 2019
Mark Coppock/Digital Trends If you want to get the processing power of a Windows laptop and the flexibility of a tablet, the Microsoft Surface Book 2 is always a great option. It is our pick for the best detachable 2-in-1 for 2019. You can now get this powerful hybrid notebook on Amazon at $300 below
Rachana ReddySep 07, 2019 21:40:57 IST The six-week journey of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 through the ever unforgiving emptiness of space has finally ended today. From the first hiccup where the launch was delayed due to a leak in the rocket’s cryo engine to the many orbit-raising manoeuvres around Earth, the complex insertion into the moon’s
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is coming to the United Arab Emirates for Abu Dhabi Showdown Week, with UFC 242: Kbabib vs. Poirier being the main event today, Saturday, September 7 at 2 p.m. ET. UFC 242 will mark the third time the fighting promotion has come to Abu Dhabi and the first time since 2014,
Previous Next Toyota is feeling the heat. For years, it enjoyed a near-monopoly on the midsize pickup truck segment in America, but the competition has finally awakened. It now needs to fend off the Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon twins, the Ford Ranger, and the Jeep Gladiator. It gave the popular Tacoma updates inside and out for
My kitchen is cramped, and chances are yours is too. That’s why the Wireless Power Consortium is pushing its new Ki cordless kitchen standard at IFA—so one day we can power all our kitchen appliances directly from the countertop. No more cords! No more playing musical chairs between your toaster, air fryer, blender, or rice
Keeping tabs on your child’s digital adventures can be challenging. Worries about how much screen time is safe and whether phones are killing the art of conversation are common. Limiting the amount of time they spend on their various gadgets, keeping track of what they’re doing, and preventing them from doing something they shouldn’t, are
Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I noted Peloton’s secret weapons. Before that, I wrote about a new e-commerce startup, Pietra. Remember, you can send me tips,
tech2 News StaffSep 07, 2019 12:04:53 IST Citizens and leaders across the political spectrum have offered overwhelming support to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after the agency lost contact with the lander module comprising the Lander Vikram and Rover Pragyan, a hitch in India’s ambitious space project Chandrayaan 2 All systems were operating normally
Netflix has a treasure trove of terrific movies that you can stream right now, but if you’re looking for more than just a two-hour commitment, it’s also got a boatload of great TV shows you can delve into to keep yourself occupied for days — or even weeks — on end. If you just finished
The mission control crew looks on as India’s space agency loses contact with its moon lander. ISRO India’s space agency lost contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander Friday as it attempted to do what it was made for: Land on the moon. The robotic lander — nicknamed Vikram — attempted to descend to the moon’s
Daven Mathies/Digital Trends In the world of digital imaging, there are two image formats that prevail above all else: JPEG (or JPG) and PNG. At first glance, a single image shown in both formats might seem identical, but if you look close enough, and dig into the data, there is quite a difference between the
Photo: Getty Google plans to crack down on ads for bogus medical treatments, as the company has observed a rise in predatory scams that target desperate patients. The company announced on Friday a new policy that prohibits promotions “for unproven or experimental medical techniques” and therapies that have “insufficient formal clinical testing to justify widespread
Kerry Davis’ guest talk at DigiPen will touch upon his most recent work on the companies first VR title. Earlier this week, rumors once again began circulating in regards to the long-rumored Half-Life VR spin-off after Valve News Network discovered source code buried within a new update to Valve’s The Lab experience that points towards
4K TVs are no longer the expensive purchases they once were. With popular brands like Samsung, Sony, and LG releasing their own lineup of midrange units, it’s now easier than ever to score a decent 4K panel without breaking the bank. And if you’re savvy enough to scout for discounts, you can even get one
Pagerduty‘s CEO Jennifer Tejada and Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie both guided their companies to successful IPOs, with Box going public in 2015 and Pagerduty listing its stocks only a few months ago. Both of them will join us on the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF on October 2 to talk about their
With the scheduled 2020 shutdown of Google Hire, the tech giant’s applicant tracking system, there’s more room for startups to emerge as the go-to tool for hiring managers. Agave, which has $1 million in funding from SV Angel, Box Group and others, is aiming to serve that need. Agave is a free hiring platform that
Daniel Levine Contributor While the software revolution started out slowly, over the past few years it’s exploded and the fastest-growing segment to-date has been the shift towards software as a service or SaaS. SaaS has dramatically lowered the intrinsic total cost of ownership for adopting software, solved scaling challenges and taken away the burden of
When Medal.tv first launched on the scene, the company was an upstart trying to be the social network for the gaming generation. Since its debut in February, the clipping and messaging service for gamers has amassed 5 million total users with hundreds of thousands of daily active users. And now it has a $9 million
Yesterday at TechCrunch’s Enterprise event in San Francisco, we sat down with three venture capitalists who spend a lot of their time thinking about enterprise startups. We wanted to ask what trends they are seeing, what concerns they might have about the state of the market, and of course, how startups might persuade them to
19:36 (IST) Did you know when the moon is farthest from the Earth it is about 4,05,700 km away? 19:17 (IST) Footprints on the moon will last forever and here’s why 18:39 (IST) Your weight on the moon is 1/6th of that on the Earth! 18:23 (IST) Here’s some more information about the moon! 18:03 (IST) 17:52
Huboo, a U.K. startup that operates a multi-channel fulfilment service for e-commerce businesses of varying sizes, has raised £1 million in seed funding. Backing the majority of the round is London venture capital firm Episode 1, alongside a number of unnamed private individual investors. Launched in November 2017 by Martin Bysh and Paul Dodd after
Andy Boxall/DigitalTrends What’s the one thing the Apple AirPods don’t do well? It’s blocking out the noise around you. It’s not a deal-breaker, but Huawei decided it was a problem that needed fixing. The result is the Freebuds 3, open-air true wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation, and a brand new custom chip inside. It
Xiaomi said on Friday it has shipped over 100 million smartphones in India, its most important market, since beginning operations in the nation five years ago. The company cited figures from research firm IDC in its claim. The Chinese giant, which has held the top smartphone vendor position in India for eight straight quarters, said
[embedded content] Fashionistas have a new online destination with the launch of a YouTube hub for style and beauty content. YouTube/Fashion — or “slash fashion” as the company has decided to call it — serves up original content from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as popular content created by YouTubers
Scootersharing service Lime will start offering Group Rides in select cities in the U.S. and Canada in the coming weeks. Group Rides lets one person use the Lime app to unlock up to five scooters at once for friends, family, or co-workers. Convenience is the main aim with Group Rides as it means only one
Photo: Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Image Ring’s controversial relationship with police departments nationwide has landed the Amazon-owned home security company in the crosshairs of congressional concern. Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday outlining concerns about how footage from the company’s doorbell cameras is accessed by authorities.
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends Software and security updates are not important. In essence, that’s what Motorola is saying with its latest phone, the Motorola One Zoom. What a load of dung. The Motorola One series launched some time ago in partnership with Google’s Android One, as a way to commit to delivering 3 years of monthly
Medium seems to be building a tool to save and reformat online articles for future reading. That’s according to Jane Manchun Wong, a reliable source of scoops on unreleased features. Wong said she spotted this one by reverse engineering Medium’s Android app and monitoring network traffic. The “Save to Medium” feature appears to scrape webpages,
Google introduces customizable backgrounds, new animation settings, and realistic reflections. Originally announced earlier this summer alongside the reveal of Swirl, Google’s new mobile web-based immersive display format, the company this week confirmed the launch of its new 3D editor for the Google Poly 3D platform that offers brands a host of new options and abilities