Month: October 2022

A month after Adobe announced its plans for acquiring Figma, the popular digital design startup, Figma CEO and co-founder Dylan Field sat down with our own enterprise reporter Ron Miller at Disrupt 2022 to discuss the deal and his motivations for selling to Adobe, a company that Figma’s own marketing materials have not always described
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Jio Platforms has quietly launched its first laptop, entering into a new product category as the Indian telecom giant aggressively expands its offerings. The laptop, called JioBook, runs JioOS, a custom Android-based OS that has been “optimized for superior performance” and local languages support. The laptop, manufactured in India, is selling at 15,799 Indian rupees,
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KhrazeGamingShooting grenades mid-air might be the central appeal to this build, but there’s a lot of flexibility around this, making it a perfect complimentary playstyle for other builds if you’ve got the eddies, perks, and skill points to spare. KhrazeGaming recommends grabbing the “Jackpot” perk in the Engineering tree, as well as other perks that
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RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of electric vehicle maker Rivian, says the company’s future goes beyond electric trucks and vans. And he’s putting considerable human power behind that effort. Of Rivian’s nearly 15,000 employees, about half are focused on future products, Scaringe said while on stage Wednesday at TechCrunch Disrupt. “So that’s updated compute, updated
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The electric everything revolution is here, and with it an unprecedented demand for critical battery materials. The most precious of all? Lithium, the crucial ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries that will power everything from your Tesla to your iPhone.  The problem is, extracting lithium is expensive, time-consuming, labor intensive and takes a serious toll on
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The Biden-Harris administration, through the Department of Energy (DOE), announced Wednesday that 20 battery companies will receive a combined $2.8 billion to build and expand commercial-scale facilities in 12 states. This is the first phase of $7 billion in total from President Biden’s Infrastructure Law that aims to strengthen domestic battery supply chains and reduce
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/ In theory, eSIM makes it easier to jump between devices and phone plans. That’s far from the case right now. If you bought an iPhone 14 in the US, then you’re already acquainted with my new frenemy: eSIM. Before I set up the iPhone 14, I’d never used an eSIM. Whenever possible, I put my
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