Depending on which study you believe, the wearable and digital health market could be worth anywhere from $30 billion to nearly $90 billion in the next six years. If the numbers around the size of the market are a moving target, just think about how to gauge the validity and efficacy of the products that
Month: November 2019
Loop Returns, the startup that helps brands handle returns from online purchases, has today announced the close of a $10 million Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital. Lerer Hippeau and Ridge Ventures also participated in the round. Loop started when Jonathan Poma, a cofounder and COO and President, was working at an agency
Can we get a fanfare of trumpets, please? The time has come to introduce you to our TC Top Picks for Disrupt Berlin 2019. The ingenuity and creativity reflected in the international startup community can’t be overstated, and narrowing the field from the hundreds of applications we received was no easy task. The program showcases
Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) Over a year after it was first announced, Disney+ is finally here and full of cartoons, superheroes, and space wizards for you to gawk at. Last week, Gizmodo got a chance to check out the new streaming service app in its final form and speak with the team behind Disney+’s launch.
Chinese ecommerce titan Alibaba raked in a record $38.4 billion during its annual Singles’ Day online shopping extravaganza on Monday, beating last year’s figure by $7 billion. The total number of delivery orders during the world’s biggest shopping event also reached a new high: 1.3 billion, up from 812 million in 2018. Almost 300 brands
You know how frustrating it is when you tap on a web link and the page takes forever to load. You sit there waiting, watching, waiting a bit more … then you consider abandoning the site, but wait a bit more … and … still nothing. Google Chrome developers are on your side, it seems,
Adidas announced on Monday that it’s closing its high-tech Speedfactory facilities in Atlanta, U.S., and Ansbach, Germany, and shifting some of the technology to existing factories in Asia. The robot-powered facility launched with much fanfare when the first one began producing sports shoes in Germany in 2016, followed by the Atlanta location a year later.
Here at Digital Trends, we regularly test and review appliances both large and small. We’ve formally tested more than 100 appliances from more than 50 different brands covering a broad range of kitchen products — in addition to informal testing on dozens of additional appliances. We also completed informal testing on dozens of other kitchen
While across much of Asia, November 11th is either “singles day” (a $38 billion Alibaba extravaganza this year) or Pepero Day (named because 11/11 looks like a bunch of chocolate dessert sticks), here in the United States and parts of Europe, November 11th also marks the end of World War I and the commemoration of
As Xiaomi widens its smartphone lead over Samsung in India, a new competitor is increasingly posing a challenge. Realme, a one-and-half-year-old smartphone vendor that spun out of Oppo, commanded 14.3% of the world’s second largest smartphone market in the quarter that ended in September, research firm IDC said on Monday. While Xiaomi, with 27.1% of
A new report pushes the rumored launch date of Apple’s AR device by two years; hints at a second, sleeker device. This past October, TF International Securities analyst and veteran Apple researcher Ming-Chi Kuo released a report stating that Apple’s long-rumored AR headset will launch during the second quarter of 2020 and that the company
An expensive experiment in global distribution has been abandoned by Adidas, which has announced that will close its robotic “Speedfactories” in Atlanta and Ansbach, Germany, within 6 months. The company sugar-coated the news with a promise to repurpose the technology used at its existing human-powered factories in Asia. The factories were established in 2016 (Ansbach)
The iconic 70’s character makes an appearance at this year’s Infinity Festival in Hollywood. This weekend the second annual Infinity Festival opened its doors at the Goya Film Studios in the heart of Hollywood, offering guests the chance to attend a killer lineup of panels lead by Hollywood storytelling professionals and go hands-on with groundbreaking
Apple has rolled out a new patch for iOS 13 as users discover new bugs seemingly every other week. Now, the maker of the iPhone and other popular devices may have to release another one. A few Apple users who have enabled Family Sharing on their iCloud accounts are complaining that their Keychain credentials are
The tablet landscape has evolved enormously in recent years, offering devices that are claimed to deliver reliable performance that can match a laptop. And since Microsoft has tossed its own hat into the ring with its lineup of Surface devices, you are no longer stuck with iOS and Android. Right now, two stellar Surface tablet
tech2 News StaffNov 11, 2019 21:33:24 IST SpaceX successfully launched a fresh batch of Starlink satellites and deployed them into their intended target orbit. The space rocket company blasted off 60 mini-satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US. SpaceX Starlink logo on the Falcon 9 fairing. Image credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose In the previous launch, 60 satellites
Camera-trap photo of silver-backed chevrotain (Tragulus versicolor).Image: SIE/GWC/Leibniz-IZW/NCNP Using dozens of motion-activated camera traps, conservationists in Vietnam have captured photographic evidence of the silver-backed chevrotain—an impossibly adorable deer-like creature that hadn’t been seen since 1990. “In an age of mass extinctions, confirming the survival of lost species provides rare second chances for biodiversity conservation,” opens
After revolutionizing the television landscape with its streaming service, Netflix began unveiling its original shows in 2013, with House of Cards becoming the company’s first hit single of sorts. More popular shows soon followed, and today the company is only gaining momentum. The current stable of Netflix Originals includes a massive number of scripted and
Frontier Car Group, the Berlin-based startup building used-car marketplaces targeting high-growth, emerging markets, has picked up another significant round of funding from a strategic backer also focusing on the same geographical opportunity. Today, OLX, the online classifieds division Prosus (the digital division of Naspers that listed earlier this year in Europe) announced that it would
tech2 News StaffNov 11, 2019 13:40:40 IST It was earlier reported that Nokia 8.2 will land in two variants with 4G and 5G support but rumour has it that it might just come in a lone 5G variant. The smartphone is expected to launch at Mobile World Congress 2020 (MWC 2020). It might also feature
Exactly a week after Adobe launched Photoshop for iPad, early user reviews suggest the software has fallen well short of expectations. The upset appears to stem from the company’s pre-launch promotion that promised to bring “real Photoshop” to the iPad, a claim that many users took to mean a comprehensive package close to the desktop
Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85 million in Series B funding. Backing the round is a mixture of existing and new investors. They include Balderton Capital, Creandum, Project A, JME Ventures, Raine Ventures, Kreos Capital, Inbox Capital, Rider Global,
Apple has not yet revealed a specific release date for the highly anticipated new Mac Pro, but it appears that the computer’s launch is growing more imminent as it has been spotted in the wild on social media. Calvin Harris, DJ and Grammy Award winner, uploaded an Instagram story that showed off his studio. The
Just one afternoon with the mixed reality headset and I’m already in love. It’s finally here! Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 has officially begun shipping to pre-order customers at the cost of $3,500. So, what exactly can users expect from this anticipated follow-up to the original 2016 device? Everything about the MR device has been greatly improved
This image of the Cherenkov Telescope Array illustrates all three classes of the 99 telescopes planned for the southern hemisphere at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, as viewed from the center of the array. CTAO/M-A. Besel/IAC (G.P. Diaz)/ESO The Hubble Constant is one of the most important concepts in astronomy. It describes how fast the universe is
The Samsung Galaxy S11 will not be launched until February 2020, but cascades of leaks have been painting a picture of the smartphone, with the latest rumors focusing on its screen sizes and models. Reliable leaker Evan Blass tweeted preliminary details for the Galaxy S11, claiming that the smartphone will come with three options for
A patent that Sony filed for a cartridge has been spotted by the same website that discovered the patent for the PlayStation 5 development kit. In August, Dutch website Let’s Go Digital created renders for a patent that was submitted in Brazil in May and published on August 13 at the World Intellectual Property Office.
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tech2 News StaffNov 10, 2019 16:31:45 IST ISRO confirms that it was alerted to a hacking attempt by the same North Korean malware that targeted the Kudankulam nuclear reactor earlier this year. According to a recent report by The Quint, ISRO was one of five government agencies to come under their attack. However, the officials from the
Overwatch 2 is titled as a sequel but it will function more like an expansion to the hero-based shooter, as more details about the upcoming game were revealed by director Jeff Kaplan. In an interview with Kotaku at BlizzCon 2019, Kaplan told Kotaku that new maps and heroes will arrive to Overwatch 1 and 2
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