Month: April 2020

By the summer of 2016, Marie Outtier had spent eight years as a consultant advising media agencies and martech companies on marketing growth strategy. Pierre-Jean “PJ” Camillieri started as a music software engineer before joining one of Apple’s consumer electronics divisions. Inspired by Siri, he left to start Timista, a smart lifestyle assistant. When the
0 Comments
Directly taking on Google and Amazon generally seems to be an ill-advised strategy for a young startup. It’s even more complicated when you’re competing on the home assistants front, a technically complex, capital-intensive future platform into which both tech giants have dumped substantial sums. Over the past few years, the small smart home startup Josh.ai
0 Comments
Illustration: Whole Worker As the coronavirus pandemic continues to highlight the struggles of essential workers, those same workers—who are performing considerably more dangerous jobs than they signed up for—are getting more organized and more sophisticated in their organizing tactics. Case in point: Whole Worker. Advertisement The grassroots group for Whole Foods employees, Whole Worker was
0 Comments
Even before the COVID-19 shutdown, venture funding rounds and total deal volume of VC funding for esports were down noticeably from the year prior. The space received a lot of attention in 2017 and 2018 as leagues formed, teams raised money and surging popularity fostered a whole ecosystem of new companies. Last year featured some
0 Comments
Moto Edge Plus review: Overshadowed by giants “The Moto Edge Plus looks like the future.” Beautiful “Endless Edge” display Sleek, futuristic design Sharp 108MP camera Great performance Massive battery Thick and heavy 21:9 aspect ratio is awkward Mediocre front-facing and telephoto MSRP $1,000.00 Motorola’s new flagship phone, the Moto Edge Plus, looks like something out
0 Comments
If your organization uses Microsoft Teams, you’re probably using it as your go-to tool for remote work or quick team meetings. Teams can be a more complex tool than something like Zoom or Skype, and not all of its features are immediately apparent, like changing your background. That doesn’t mean you can’t do it, though,
0 Comments
Pro tennis players will swap their real rackets for virtual ones this weekend in an e-sports contest set to deliver more than $1 million to charity. If you haven’t already noticed, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted the suspension of professional sports events around the world, leaving fans everywhere wondering when they can next cheer on
0 Comments
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.Photo: Matthew Cavanaugh (Getty Images) Appearing in the president’s Twitter mentions has, incredibly, finally paid off for somebody: a random Silicon Valley-based electrical engineer named Yaron Oren-Pines who scored a $69.1 million contract with the state of New York after he tweeted at Trump, “We can supply ICU Ventilators, invasive
0 Comments
Entertaining and educating kids stuck at home for an extended period is a noble goal, but most parents need help. Fortunately, there are plenty of cheap kids tablets pre-loaded with age-appropriate games, apps, entertainment titles, and education material out there. Here, we’ve rounded up all the best kids tablet deals from Kindle, Amazon Fire, and Samsung.
0 Comments
Need to learn how to download YouTube videos? We can walk you through it, with our easy to follow step-by-step guide. But before we begin, we do need to warn you: Even though it’s generally legal to share and embed YouTube videos on the internet, downloading them for your own offline use isn’t always permitted.
0 Comments
Volumetric 3D capture adds a whole new dimension to the classic jigsaw experience. Available now free on Oculus Quest headsets, Puzzle Places offers a fresh take on the conventional jigsaw experience, allowing users to assemble an intricately-detailed three-dimensional VR scene captured using volumetric photogrammetry—a unique form of 3D capture which involves taking a large number
0 Comments
The celebrated zombie shooter is now available on Oculus Quest in its entirety. Arizona Sunshine’s final story expansion “The Damned” is now available on Oculus Quest, marking the end of five months of scheduled content releases from developer Vertigo Games. In that time we’ve been introduced to new weapons, horde maps, missions, and protagonists, but
0 Comments
Best Gaming DealsBest Gaming DealsThe best deals on games, consoles, and gaming accessories from around the web, updated daily. Nintendo Switch Lite Bundle (Gray, Yellow, Turquoise) | $200 | AmazonAnimal Crossing: New Horizons [Digital Code] | $60 | Amazon Advertisement The Nintendo Switch quarantine hunt continues. Anyone who’s tried to buy a Nintendo Switch Lite, for
0 Comments
Extensive contact tracing, isolating cases, and testing may reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, and favour control of the COVID-19 outbreak, suggests a study carried out in China. However, the researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology at Shenzhen, China, caution that the impact of contact tracing to rapidly isolate people who could be
0 Comments