This year was a big one for the smart home thanks to the actual introduction of Matter after a couple years of discussion and refining the standard. It’s still early days for the cross-brand compatibility layer, and it’s probably still something that should only be one factor in how you set up your smart home
Month: December 2022
The SPAC route to listing on public markets was incredibly popular in 2020 and 2021, but many companies that took this avenue didn’t exactly fare well after going public. So why did consumer car rental marketplace Getaround decide to list by merging with a blank-check company? To answer that question, we need to take a
It’s commonly held that solar panels need as much sun as they can get. That’s true, but only up to a point, as heat and other hazards can become a serious problem beyond that point, and solar panels can degrade pretty quickly. SmartHelio wants to help prevent that from happening. The startup uses AI tech
As you can see, these patch notes look very much like what you’d expect from a game these days: A chunk of digital nips and tucks to address outstanding bugs, improve quality of life features, and tune up certain gameplay mechanics. That includes, in this case, the 11th item (as if it were buried to
I’m thrilled to announce TechCrunch Live is filming live and in real life at CES 2023. We’re filming on the first day of the show at 11:00. If you’re not attending CES, that’s fine. Just like every TechCrunch Live, the show will be streamed live on TechCrunch.com, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Spaces — basically anywhere
Amazon has been making some serious inroads in gaming ever since it acquired Twitch back in 2014. Twitch Prime has since been rebranded as Prime Gaming, the company’s own cloud gaming service, and right now Amazon has discounted its Luna gaming controller, which is specifically designed and optimized for Prime Gaming, by $30 off the usual
The men of World War 2 action TV show Rogue Heroes pioneered a new form of cut-throat warfare, taking the fight to the enemy with no mercy. In the hands of Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the flawed founders of the infamous SAS may or may not have been heroes, but they were definitely rogues.
It may seem like SaaS is everywhere, but there’s one sector that’s been slow to adopt it — manufacturing. By itself, manufacturing drives almost 11% of the U.S. economy, contributing $2.77 trillion to GDP as of Q2 2022. All that activity also uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of greenhouse gasses. But
Of all of the next-gen consoles, the Xbox Series S has been the easiest to get ahold of. In fact, for Black Friday it even went on sale at various retailers and has remained available at a discount since then. Today only, though, you can score one of the best deals yet on the all-digital
Bondaval, the London-based B2B insurtech that gives credit teams assurance that customers will fulfill their financial obligations, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Talis Capital. The round included participation from returning investors Octopus Ventures, Insurtech Gateway Ltd, Truesight and Expa, and new investors FJ Labs and Broadhaven Ventures. Talis Capital general
UNESCO calls water pollution one of the main challenges facing societies, with 2 million tonnes of sewage entering the world’s water each day. Oxyle wants to help solve the crisis with a new wastewater treatment that removes micropollutants. The Zurich-based startup announced today $3 million in pre-seed funding that it will use to bring its
I’ve finished 1899 on Netflix, all the way through to its frustrating ending. I have questions. A lot of questions, actually… Warning: Spoilers for 1899 ahead. The show begins as a seemingly straightforward period piece about a spooky steamship heading from London to New York in 1899. Every one of the passengers, we soon learn, is
The sound quality is as unhurried and natural as before, but the competition is much tougher these days. Polk and Yamaha have been snapping at Vizio’s heels for several years, and models like the new Polk Signa S3 offer even better sound for a bit more money. If you want to upgrade your TV’s sound for under $200, the
About 29% of Indonesia’s workforce is in the agriculture sector, but many small farmers face challenges like low access to working capital. Eratani is an end-to-end management system that helps them get financing and supplies, and then helps them sell crops once they are ready. The startup announced today it has raised an oversubscribed $3.8
Apple is preparing to give outside app stores access to its iPhones and iPads in the European Union to comply with a new European competition law, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. As part of the changes, Apple users would be allowed to install third-party apps without going through the company’s App
Slowly but surely, state by state, the U.S. is becoming more cannabis-friendly. As the number of states where weed is legalized (or at least decriminalized) grows, so too does the number of companies building amazing products for cannabis users. Got a friend who partokes and lives somewhere cool about it? Why not upgrade their experience
Honda is pulling away from a design practice that’s (literally) shaped auto making since the ’30s. The $43 billion company still depends on life-size clay models to evaluate its designs, a tried and true method pioneered by GM designer Harley Earl. But Honda is gradually relying less on the practice, ever since the Coronavirus tore
Supercell / Brawl Stars“No more probabilities, no more random rewards, and no more playing the guessing game when you unlock Brawlers,” said the game’s lead designer Frank Keienburg in Supercell’s Brawl Talk video. Advertisement Yesterday, as part of this update, all unclaimed boxes were automatically opened and all the rewards were given to players accordingly.
PlayStation released its 2022 Wrap-Up today for all PS4 and PS5 users. From now until Jan. 13, 2023, users can sign in to their PlayStation account from the Wrap-Up page and see all their gaming highlights. Similar to Spotify Wrapped, PlayStation Wrap-Up provides users with their 2022 data on a shareable summary card. Players can
The stoic Grizzly mountain region in Red Dead Redemption 2 is unforgiving, marked by steep cliffs, lonely trees, and subzero temperatures. It’s an empty, angry place for cowboy protagonist Arthur Morgan to ride through. While you avoid turning the mountains’ pristine white red with his blood, you’ll notice that Grizzlies West is particularly frosted, and
Back in June, I predicted that we would see an uptick in startups acquiring other startups this year. At the time, the venture market was souring and starting to show a divide between startups with years of cash on hand — companies that were also, often, overvalued — and those that were low on capital and would
It’s official: A U.S. Department of Energy lab produced a controlled nuclear fusion reaction that released more energy than it consumed. On December 5, just after 1:03 a.m. PT, 192 lasers at the National Ignition Facility converged on a small gold cylinder that contained a tiny bead of fuel composed of two isotopes of hydrogen,
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 ($249, £249, AU$399) are better than the original AirPods Pro. After all, this second-gen version took nearly three years to develop, so you figure Apple could probably pull something together that might give you a reason to upgrade from the first-gen AirPods Pro or buy them over
Final Fantasy 7 fans were ready to eat well back in the mid-noughties, as developer Square Enix released several spinoffs expanding the universe of the legendary 1997 PlayStation RPG. Unfortunately, most of the new stories — like PS2 shooter Dirge of Cerberus and CGI movie Advent Children — turned to be fast food compared to
/ It is no longer planning to begin turning off the old extensions standard in January and says the rest of the timeline is ‘under review.’ Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google no longer plans to begin turning off the Chrome browser’s old extensions standard in January, the company’s developer advocate for Chrome
It doesn’t matter what kind of web site it is, the ‘customer journey’ has always been important, otherwise you lose that engagement and the end result can hit the bottom line. That was always the case. But in the modern era, customers expect an easy and simple experience, otherwise they move elsewhere. And with the
Twitter has always been a bit chaotic, but new CEO Elon Musk is taking it to a whole new level. He’s been making dramatic changes since he bought the company for $44 billion on Oct. 27, including laying off half the staff; changing moderation and verification policies; and unbanning extremist accounts. Here’s the most recent news about Musk’s takeover of
Portal with RTX | World PremiereNow, the thing with RTX is that while in this case (and with Quake and Minecraft) it had to be put into the game by developers, Nvidia are also releasing a version of the tech with modders in mind. It’s called RTX Remix: With RTX Remix, the game runs in
G/O Media may get a commission Advertisement Bankman-Fried, who sucked ass at League of Legends by the way, ran FTX. In just a few short years the crypto exchange went from nothing to plastering its name across all manner of sporting events and magazine covers. It was considered super valuable because it charged customers fees
Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by The Royal Bahamas Police Force following reports that the United States filed criminal charges against the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and is likely to request his extradition. The Office of the Attorney General of the Bahamas issued a statement today, which was reported by BNO
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