Samsung launched its Galaxy S20 series this year, which includes the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, and Galaxy S20 Ultra. Of these, I was sent the Galaxy S20 Plus for review, which I used for a few weeks. I used the phone as my primary device, with every app I generally use installed on it,
Month: April 2020
Did you know you could share your iTunes library with others? Enabling this feature allows you to share your favorite tracks with your friends, help your family members discover some great music, and play your music on different devices connected to your home network. Read on to find out more about Apple’s Home Sharing and
WhatsApp is imposing a new forward limit to stem the tide of coronavirus misinformation on its platform. The Facebook-owned messaging app, which hosts over 2 billion users worldwide, said starting today a message that has been already shared five times or over, will only be allowed to be forwarded to one person or group at
If you have a desk job, odds are you spend a whole lot of time sitting. It has been said that sitting is the new smoking — that is, sitting for hours on end each day is incredibly unhealthy. Standing desks and workstations have become increasingly more popular over the past few years in an
If you have been stuck at home for weeks with kids, odds are you are running out of activities to do with them. It’s tough to keep children entertained without the usual hustle and bustle of everyday life such as school, organized sports, and playdates. One way to keep kids entertained and have fun with
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 6, 2020.Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) The Wisconsin state Supreme Court on Monday blocked Democratic Governor Tony Evers’ last-ditch effort to halt primary elections on Tuesday, ensuring that in-person voting will commence tomorrow despite the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court shot down extended absentee voting deadlines in
DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, has raised $12 million as it looks to scale its network across India. The Series A financial round for the eight-year-old Patna and Gurgaon-based startup was led by Sequoia Capital India. Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO, and existing investors Omnivore and AgFunder, also participated
Business at Tushy is booming. While the circumstances that led to the boom are sobering, the bidet company needed to adapt its strategy after seeing an uptick in business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Other companies in this cohort include video conferencing service Zoom, meal kit service Blue Apron and Facebook, thanks to its social network,
Another move towards the companies rumored AR/VR device perhaps? According to a new report by 9to5Mac, Apple is currently in the process of acquiring VR/AR live streaming platform NextVR for a modest $100M. Founded in 2009 by D.J. Roller and David Cole, the California-based company has spent the last 10 years working to perfect the immersive
Airbnb said Monday that it has raised $1 billion in debt and equity from private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners, even as the online rental marketplace has seen its business plummet due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It’s unclear how this funding might alter Airbnb’s previously
Eva Yoo Contributor Eva Yoo is founder of Seek Road, the project wherein she cycles from Seoul to London while interviewing startups on the Silk Road. More posts by this contributor How this Kazakhstan internet giant built success on ideas from Russia and China While a number of startups have been hard hit by efforts
Ford Motors switches to remote collaboration amid shelter-in-place orders. The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 has forced many organizations, both big and small, to rethink the ways in which their teams and employees can continue to communicate and collaborate while under lockdown. With many employees under strict shelter-in-place orders, having an effective remote co-working solution has
Actor Dennis Quaid may be synonymous with Hollywood classics like The Rookie, Wyatt Earp, and The Right Stuff but the star is branching out with a new podcast-based media startup called Audio Up, which features his own interview show, The Dennissance, and claims to take the world of podcast “from black and white into technicolor.”
While most of us are sheltering in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus, simply staying put isn’t the only thing you can do to fight the pandemic. There’s actually quite a lot you can do from home, so we’ve put together a list of websites you can visit to offer a helping hand (and
FP TrendingApr 06, 2020 21:23:19 IST It seems that India has taken quite fondly to adult website Pornhub while being stuck at home over the coronavirus lockdown, and this despite the site being officially banned in India. The website had announced on 24 March that it would offer free, premium content for users across several
Internet of things satellite connectivity startup Myriota has raises a $19.3 million Series B funding round, led by Hostplus and Main Sequence Ventures, with additional funding from Boeing, former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, Singtel Innov8 and others. The company has now raised $37 million in Funding, and has four satellites on orbit already, with a
Donald Trump and Pat Robertson together on February 24, 2016.Photo: AP There’s a new quote from Pat Robertson circulating on social media that supposedly shows the far-right pastor blaming the coronavirus pandemic on oral sex. Robertson is quoted as saying, “Some of these young uns are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex
Tesla has released a video showing how its engineering team is working to create a ventilator from car parts. The company has pledged to create ventilators to aid in the treatment of patients with coronavirus, officially called COVID-19. “We’re trying to make some ventilators out of some car parts,” the engineers explain, “so that we
There’s a great deal of innovation embedded in today’s cutting-edge computer chips, but not much of it is as out-of-the-box as the thinking that’s driving Australian startup Cortical Labs. The company, like so many startups with artificial intelligence in mind, is building computer chips that borrow their neural network inspiration from the biological brain. The
Yapily, one of a number of fintech startups that offer an opening banking API to let enterprises, such as financial service providers and merchants, connect to banks, has raised $13 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Lakestar, which is also a backer of fintech unicorn Revolut. Existing investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, and
Asian News InternationalApr 06, 2020 07:51:22 IST While taking too much stress can lead to depression and other mental health complications, it can also affect our decision-making ability. A recent study has found that stress can hinder our ability to develop informed plans by preventing us from being able to make decisions based on memory. According to
The next-generation Galaxy Buds will reportedly be redesigned and look very different from their predecessors, according to leaked 3D data from Samsung. The Galaxy Buds 2, if that is what they end up being called, will feature a “bean” design, according to a report from WinFuture, which also created renders for the upcoming wireless earbuds.
Apple Music may have made great strides in 2019, but Spotify remains on top of the music streaming industry that saw a significant boost in subscriptions last year. Online music streaming subscriptions across the world increased by 32% in 2019, for a total of 358 million subscribers, according to the latest findings of Counterpoint Research.
15 VR short films scheduled to debut at Tribeca Immersive will be available later this month on standalone Oculus headsets. Last month New York’s annual Tribeca Film Festival announced it would be postponing its film and interactive storytelling programs indefinitely after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a temporary ban on gatherings larger than 500
Evangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd in Ant Man & The Wasp. Image: Marvel Studios Marvel usually goes for some humor in their movies, but few are as explicitly comedy focused as the Ant-Man series has been. Which explains why Marvel would turn to one of TV’s most effective surreal comedies to find talent. According to
Compiling information for your income tax returns is an annual pain, but submitting the final forms is a wonderful relief. The IRS extended the traditional April 15 deadline for filing income tax returns to July 15, but why extend the stress? If you’ve been searching for the best tax software deals, here’s a one-day deal
Bored much? There’s still time to sign up for a free Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription. Even if you have mastered working from home, weekend days can weigh heavily if you don’t have much to do. Smack down boredom by taking Amazon’s 2020 Reading Challenge for two months of free unlimited reading from more than 1
In the time of COVID-19, much of what transpires from the science world to the general public relates to the virus, and understandably so. But other domains, even within medical research, are still active — and as usual, there are tons of interesting (and heartening) stories out there that shouldn’t be lost in the furious
The people behind the Final Fantasy VII Remake want players to be “fully immersed” in the highly anticipated RPG, so the game will not have any disruptions from loading screens. In an interview with The Washington Post’s Launcher, producer Yoshinori Kitase, co-director Naoki Hamaguchi, and brand manager Shinji Hashimoto talked about how they aimed to
Apple awarded $75,000 to a hacker who discovered exploits that allowed him to hijack the cameras of iPhones and Macs. Security researcher and former Amazon Web Services security engineer Ryan Pickren disclosed at least seven zero-day vulnerabilities in Safari to Apple, according to Forbes. Three of these vulnerabilities may be used to hijack the cameras