Oxwash, a UK startup that’s spent the last few years applying high tech processes to shrink the environment cost of dry cleaning and commercial laundry, has trousered £10 million (~$12M) in Series A funding to expand its nationwide footprint. Currently its service is available in five UK cities: London, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Manchester but
Month: August 2022
What’s happening Apple may launch an Apple Watch Pro for the first time, according to reports from Bloomberg. Why it matters It would be the first time Apple has launched an Apple Watch that caters to a specific audience. What’s next Apple is holding an event on Sept. 7 where it’s expected to announce new
The Mafia gaming franchise celebrates 20 years since the release of the first game, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, back on Aug. 29, 2002. To celebrate, developer Hangar 13 says a new game in the series is coming, and fans can get a free version of the older title. Roman Hladík, Hangar 13 general
Glints, one of Southeast Asia’s largest talent development and recruitment platforms, announced today it has raised $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D. The round was co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million. As part of the investment, Lavender Hill
Threats to your personal data have grown more common in recent years, and they’re unlikely to subside anytime soon. There were a record number of data breaches last year, and cases in the first quarter of this year have risen by 14% since last year. At this rate, data breaches will soon be as common
Advertisement On August 28, just two days after Brok’s release date, Cowcat explained that the game was being targeted by some Steam curators with suspicious negative reviews. While many of these curators had hundreds of positive reviews for various other games, some had released negative curator reviews for Brok. What makes this more suspicious is
Don’t you hate it when, after going just five or 10 meters underwater, you lose signal completely? Now this vexing limitation of modern technology is being addressed by researchers at the University of Washington, who have made an underwater communication app that uses sonic signals to pass messages to your other submerged friends. It may
The Mafia franchise celebrates 20 years since the release of the first game, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, back on Aug. 29, 2002. To celebrate, developer Hanger 13 says a new game in the series is coming, and fans can get a free version of the older title. Roman Hladík, Hangar 13 general manager,
Halo: The Master Chief Collection – Season 8In MCC, you can currently unlock cosmetic items such as skins for the various games included in the collection. And while you can’t mix or match cosmetics, like using a Halo Reach helmet in Halo 2 for example, you can earn SP in any game and all SP
A few months after Google added emoji reactions to Google Docs, the company’s making it easier to include them in your actual document as well. Today, it announced a new shortcut that lets you easily insert an emoji while writing, so you no longer have to pull up your computer’s picker or copy and paste
Just when you were getting ready to wish your loved ones happy Honda Days, Amazon went and threw a new commercial holiday on our calendars: Android Days. Today is apparently the first day of Android Days, and as cringe-inducing as that sounds, there are actually some really good deals to be had, starting with our
The Android 12L-based One UI 4.1.1 has finally started to land on Galaxy Tab S8 devices, making it the first line of tablets to receive the Samsung-flavored update (via Sammobile). So far, it’s only rolling out to users in South Korea and Europe, with people in more countries likely to see the update soon. One
If you’re new to HBO Max or haven’t explored the streaming service in awhile, it’s time to check it out. Starting at $10 a month, a subscription gives you access to everything HBO offers, including movies that were recently in theaters. And like all its streaming rivals, HBO Max’s library of movies changes all the time. We
Millions around the world suffer strokes every year, and millions more are in recovery from one they’ve suffered. Regaining the use of affected limbs and capabilities is a long road, but one that can be shortened by intensive rehabilitation efforts — which Neurofenix has shown can take place in the home rather than during frequent
MTVOutside of the NFT diehard, who’ve gained a reputation for uncritically praising anything in this realm, people have bashed the performance for coming off as low-quality, even phoned in. “Not gonna lie; I didn’t think an NFT performance could be good,” one person said. “And I was absolutely right; this is fucking terrible.” Others likened
Waymo’s fully driverless vehicles are picking up passengers in downtown Phoenix, five months after the Alphabet-owned company expanded its service area to include denser, more complex areas of the city. Waymo has been testing its vehicles in several suburban towns outside of Phoenix since early 2017, including Chandler, Mesa, Tempe, and Gilbert. It also operates
Amid economic uncertainty, founders should know what makes VCs skittish Rebecca Bellan 11 hours The past few months have hit the startup community where it hurts — the balance sheet. With inflation rates at record highs, a recession on the horizon and threats of a long winter by venture capital giants like SoftBank, VC money is
The Ann and Phelim ScoopIn the director’s chair is Robert Davi, an actor who connoisseurs of ‘80s and ‘90s cinema will know as a familiar face who appeared in everything from The Goonies to Die Hard, and made perhaps his most notable appearance as the villain in the 1990 James Bond film Licence to Kill.
The Apple Watch Series 8, expected to be announced at Apple’s Sept. 7 event, could mark a couple of milestones for Apple’s popular smartwatch. It might be the first to include a temperature sensor and also the first to come in a new “Pro” variant tailored for extreme sports. That’s if reports from Bloomberg and
In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. However, it
House Targaryen is in tumult. In the closing moments of House of the Dragon’s premiere episode, King Viserys declared his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra, the heir to the throne. That flies in the face of tradition, which would have Viserys’ younger brother Daemon Targaryen be next in line to wear the crown. We’re beginning to see
Keeping a Wordle streak going can be hard going. Your starting choice word is key. “ADIEU” has been popular pretty much since the game began. And that makes sense, since it includes four vowels. But not everyone wants to know the vowels right away. On the day that the wordle answer is ‘adieu’ social media will implode
Advertisement The mod was made by Tangoted, and is available here. It specifically swaps out the Advanced Suit, a piece of information you don’t really need to know here, but which I’m sharing anyway since it gives me an excuse to post this screenshot: Advertisement What I would like you to know is that it
Here’s what investors are looking for when writing the first check into a fledgling startup Haje Jan Kamps 15 hours Covering Five Flute’s fundraising and tearing down the deck the company used to raise its $1.2 million seed round had me wondering: How the hell do investors decide whether to invest in a company at the
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden earlier this month, puts the U.S. on the path toward realizing its carbon reduction goals, in part by spurring its EV market. It has also plunged that same market into short-term chaos by requiring entire supply chains to be restructured in just a few
Working from home is normalized in the post-pandemic world. As a result, people are building home offices with must-need gadgets. We’ve gathered some of our favorite webcams, monitors, USB mics and other devices that help make remote working that much easier. Add these essentials to your home office and see how your work from home
As Google carries out the needlessly complex process of combining both the Meet and Duo apps, now it’s throwing a feature copied from Zoom in the mix. In an update on the Google Workspace blog, the company announced that Google Meet will soon give you the ability to unmute yourself by holding down the spacebar
Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous
Elden Ring is huge and will take hundreds of hours to complete everything. That’s especially true of the dungeons in the game’s big open world. In Elden Ring, players will explore many dungeons, but not all dungeons are the same. Scattered across the Lands Between are catacombs, caves, tunnels and ruins, which contain a wealth of
The summer break is officially over, as Max Verstappen looks to continue his recent dominance and lock up his second consecutive championship for Red Bull. The superstar was on a roll before the break, securing back-to-back victories in France and Hungary. He now holds a commanding 80-point lead over Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in the Drivers’
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