Battery technology has made significant strides in recent years, but there’s one place they haven’t changed much — they’re still as stiff as a board. The era of inflexible portable power may be coming to an end, though, if Anthro Energy can bring its bendy batteries to market. It’s getting some help with that courtesy
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. You might think that a brand-new 4K TV is the ultimate in home theater, but there are plenty of other devices and accessories that can help you capture that “at the movies” feeling. If you want to help a loved one
Last year, MaxAB, the food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving a network of traditional retailers across Egypt and Morocco, raised its $55 million Series A in two tranches; the latter accompanied its acquisition of the Morocco-based and YC-backed WaysToCap. The moves signaled MaxAB’s ambition to dominate Egypt’s and North Africa’s B2B retail
In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his ten-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challenges in the areas of sustainability, compliance and risk were having little impact. The way he saw it, they took too long, which minimized their
The Star Wars galaxy is ever-expanding on Disney Plus The latest series to come to the streaming service is Andor, a prequel story that occurs five years before the events of Rogue One. Six of the 12 episodes are available now, and we’ll get one episode each Wednesday until Nov. 23. Diego Luna returns as Cassian Andor, who plays a vital
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. The newsletter is a little later than usual today and for the next three days. Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the
G/O Media may get a commission Advertisement The best part came afterwards, though, when Thompson took to the comments to call Singh a “clown,” saying, “I thought NBA on ESPN meant coverage of some of the best athletes in the world? Not interviewing a promoter…do better ESPN.” Advertisement Please note that this spicy serve of
Advertisement Playing the original Red Dead Redemption via backwards compatibility on Xbox is perhaps the most direct and best way to play it currently. The game received an enhanced update on Microsoft’s console a few years ago, upping the resolution to 4K on Xbox Series X and 1440p on Series S. That said, hopefully you’ve
More doom and gloom for smartphone manufacturers, as global smartphone shipments experience the third consecutive decline this year. Per numbers from Canalys, shipments dropped a lowly 9% last quarter, marking the worst Q3 for the category since 2014. Apple is a rare bright spot among the numbers, with some positive growth as the rest of
Oct 18, 2022 Gaming Speaker 1: We just got launch details and a price point for Sony’s first ever ultra customizable controller developed by PlayStation, the Dual Sense Edge. This controller has been highly anticipated amongst fans during the two months since it’s reveal, so let’s talk about the new details and how it compares
If you haven’t jumped on the Sims 4 bandwagon yet, the perfect opportunity is here. Last month, publisher EA and developer Maxis announced that the Sims 4 base game will be permanently free to download starting Tuesday for PC and Mac via the EA app, Origin or Steam, as well as PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4,
The 10 Pro is OnePlus all grown up. The days of a scrappy upstart challenger are gone — that much was clear with last year’s 9 and 9 Pro, with true flagship specs and prices to match. This year, OnePlus has sharpened its vision of a legitimate flagship phone to challenge the big brands, and
Meet Omneky, a startup that leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 models to generate visuals and text that can be used in ads for social platforms. The company wants to make online ads both cheaper and more effective thanks to recent innovations in artificial intelligence and computer vision. Omneky is participating in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch
Continuity Camera was one of the odder additions that arrived in the last round of Apple operating system updates. It seemed like an awkward fix to a longstanding issue with Mac webcams, clipping your iPhone to the top of your laptop lid, but I’ve come to appreciate it in my recent travels. Today, Belkin announced
Advertisement The Sims has stood without meaningful competition for a number of years, which helps to illustrate why many fans are excited about a new game breathing new life back into the genre. It’ll be interesting to see when each game launches and how the other responds. The Sims 5 still seems a ways away,
/ Tab improvements, drag and drop, and desktop websites are on the way Google is updating its Android apps ahead of the launch of its Pixel Tablet (pictured) next year.Image: Google Google is rolling out a series of user interface updates for its Chrome browser on Android tablets as it prepares for the launch of
Electronic Arts and Maxis held a special Behind The Sims Summit stream on Tuesday that celebrated 22 years of the iconic life simulation game and teased what’s next for the franchise. Perhaps most notably, players can now download The Sims 4 base game for free via Steam and Origin for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5,
Apple released a new version of its entry-level iPad that Apple simply calls “the iPad.” It’s a dramatic refresh as Apple is swapping the familiar design with rounded edges and a home button. Instead, the iPad now looks more like the iPad Air and iPad Pro. But there are some compromises. The new iPad starts
G/O Media may get a commission Advertisement In a now-deleted tweet, Martin claimed that he was banned from Fortune’s Keep for “harassing” Amine, who had competed in the tournament. “I find that quite hysterical to be honest,” he wrote. Kotaku reached out to both Martin and Activision for clarifying details, but did not receive a
Seems we may not be getting a surprise October Apple event, after all. The company just dropped what will, no doubt, be one of its last major hardware updates for the calendar year. The iPad Pro is getting a spec refresh revolving around an upgrade for the M1 to M2 chip. The new chip sports
/ Identifying the people in your photos can make your searches a lot easier Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Memory is a tricky thing. Some of us are great at attaching names to faces, while others (and here I raise my hand) have always had a problem with remembering names, especially when you
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as a wondrous new stage of technology, filled with opportunities to work, play and communicate. You could watch an Imax movie on the moon, host a work meeting in a Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired tavern or rock out on a stage with your favorite musician. But while you watch
/ The parental control app is now easier to navigate, has at-a-glance updates to see what apps kids use the longest, and can set “just for today” time limits. Highlights gives you a quick overview of what your kid is up to, and Location can now alert you when your kid leaves or arrives at
The “anything you can do, I can do better” back and forth between Meta and Apple has made its way to a New York City billboard just outside the famous “crossroads of the world” in Times Square. This time, it’s about Apple’s iMessage. Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new billboard above
Verlinvest, a family-backed, “evergreen”, growth fund investor, that has previously funded a few well-known consumer brands like Oatly, Vita Coco, Tony’s Chocolonely, Who Gives A Crap, Pedego, Chewy.com, Hint & others, is getting into the venture game. After putting around €50m into VC initiatives globally, it’s now embarking on being the kick-starter LP in a
/ The ‘proof of concept’ featured in a brief demo video doesn’t fold — it rolls The device appears to extend and retract with the push of a button.Image: Motorola At parent company Lenovo’s Tech World 2022 event, Motorola is showing off a rollable mobile phone in a quick video demo. With the press of
The Star Wars galaxy is ever-expanding on Disney Plus The latest tale to come to the streaming service is Andor, a prequel series that occurs five years before the events of Rogue One. Six of the 12 episodes are available now, and we’ll get one episode each Wednesday until Nov. 23. Diego Luna returns as Cassian Andor, who plays a vital
After a rough year in the public markets, you might take today’s brilliant trading as good news. Any positive price movement is a win, right? Kinda. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 3.4% today, while other major U.S. indices jumped smaller amounts in a hall-of-fame start to the trading week. (That the markets are turning
Nintendo UKPrior to Taylor speaking out, PlatinumGames told Game Informer that the replacement of Taylor for Hale was due to “various overlapping circumstances” that made it “difficult” for Taylor to play Bayonetta once again. Taylor says that she wrote to Hideki Kamiya, executive director of the game, to plead her case, which is when PlatinumGames
/ It’s less of a problem on the Pixel Watch but one of a few omissions if you choose to upgrade your Fossil watch to Wear OS 3 The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches are eligible for the upgrade to Wear OS 3 starting today.Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Last week, Fossil announced the
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