The materials developer formerly known as ELeather has a new name and $18 million in fresh growth funding from some of the world’s fanciest brands. Now going by Generation Phoenix, the upcycler says its new investors include Coach parent Tapestry, Jaguar Land Rover and Dr. Martens, plus lead investor Material Impact and prior investor Hermès.
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Here’s a clever new bit of kitchen tech. Victoria, BC firm Sepura recently introduced its eponymous home appliance, which sits under a sink in place of a garbage disposal. There’s an included Bluetooth button, which can be stuck anywhere near the sink. The system itself sits underneath the sink and is designed to hook directly
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and guest host Amanda Silberling are joined by Sarah Peterson from The Nudge, a startup that texts its users ideas of fun things to do in their cities each weekend. Sarah talked about the company’s origin and how they’ve built
Battery materials and recycling startup Redwood Materials is expanding a partnership with Volkswagen of America in its bid to collect more end-of-life batteries from consumer electronics and strip out the valuable materials so they can be used to make batteries for electric vehicles. Redwood has said its technology can recover more than 95% of the
Scientists have studied photosynthesis in plants for centuries, but an international team now believes it has unlocked new secrets in nature’s great machine that could revolutionize sustainable fuels and fight climate change. The team says it’s determined that it’s possible to extract an electrical charge at the best possible point in photosynthesis. This means harvesting
You can quite literally egg one of the Resident Evil 4 bosses to death. Near the end of the castle chapter, players must fight an evil nobleman who fused himself with a parasite queen. You can easily kill him in two hits, as long as you come armed with golden eggs. Grand Theft Auto 6
Monster Energy, the energy drink company that puts artificially-flavored gloop in cans next to gaming setups worldwide, is pushing an indie studio to change the name of its game. Glowstick Entertainment’s 2020 horror title, Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is apparently “confusingly similar to their energy drink,” Glowstick CEO Vincent Livings said in a Twitter
/ A similar Apple Watch integration has been available for over a year, but a win is a win for the Wear OS ecosystem. The Peloton app integration lets you broadcast your heart rate from the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 or 5 lineups.Image: Victoria Song / The Verge Samsung announced today that its Galaxy Watch
Who should own the screen in your car? Share this story Image: Amelia Krales In 2011, amid one of the Cadillac brand’s many reboots, General Motors introduced the Cadillac User Experience (CUE) to its then-latest generation of luxury sedans and SUVs. CUE was a touchscreen infotainment suite, smartphone integration system, and a capacitive touch panel
A warming world is going to need a lot of cold drinks. Problem is, today’s refrigeration tech is anything but climate friendly. The way we cool our food and drink has barely changed in a century and the technology is still reliant on environmentally harmful refrigerants. Now, a German startup thinks it can freeze those
/ On paper, the Motorola Edge 40 Pro has the right stuff to take on Samsung in the flagship tier. It’s just unclear whether it’ll come to the US. The Edge 40 Pro will be sold in lunar blue and regular ol’ black.Image: Motorola Motorola hasn’t had much of a presence in the flagship phone
Google/ Tech / Google Drive will now only let you create or upload a maximum of 5 million files, regardless of whether you pay for extra storage. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has quietly introduced a limit on the number of files that you can create and save in Drive, as reported
Late last month the developers of venerable MMO Everquest II introduced a new kind of loot box to the game that was, basically, a pay-to-win situation. It did not go down well with the long-running community! Nintendo Showcase Standout Gunbrella Has The Best New Video Game Name Of 2022 Off English As MMOBomb explain, the
The Department of Justice has taken Activision Blizzard to court, alleging the publisher’s esports leagues had been potentially underpaying their workers/players via an exploitative “Competitive Balance Tax”. This Mini Sega Arcade Cabinet Packed With Retro Games Would Make A Great Gift Off English The tax, which was signed off years ago by both Activision and
Evan Buhler moved to San Francisco’s Hayes Valley three months ago to build an AI company that would combine the buzzy technology and his experience as a startup attorney. At the time, he didn’t realize he had moved to the heart of a movement. Hayes Valley, which has been nicknamed “Cerebral Valley” by tech enthusiasts
In the mood to watch a scary movie? HBO Max has an outstanding horror selection right now, offering all-time greats like The Shining and recently released hits like The Menu. It’s an ideal time to fire up HBO’s streamer and take a look. Here are the tales you should make time for on HBO Max. All these movies
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 will have a whole new look this fall with one aim in mind: bring together investors, founders and technologists who have specific industry interests — all under one roof at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Disrupt has always been big. But this year we’re folding TC Sessions, the standalone industry events
/ Google is putting its money on the line to prove it knows when air travel prices are at their lowest. Illustration: The Verge Google is testing out a price guarantee program for Google Flights that will pay you money if the price of a flight goes down after you booked it through the service.
Asus’ ROG line of gaming-focused hardware is already established with its phones and laptops. Now the company is taking on Valve’s Steam Deck with the reveal of its own portable gaming device. The ROG Ally made its debut on Saturday and, as of Monday, is already listed at Best Buy though it’s not available for
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Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now, with $4.5 billion invested in 2022. Narrato, a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. Based in San Francisco, Narrato raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by AirTree Ventures, the Australian
Steering humanity out of the climate crisis demands action in a very literal way. Boots on the ground, people rolling up sleeves and getting hands dirty retrofitting existing infrastructure, such as poorly insulated houses, type stuff. The goal is to re-make our built environment to be energy efficient and drive down carbon emissions ASAP. So
/ GM stands alone in its willingness to piss off customers by ditching the popular smartphone projection systems. Will it stick? Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last week, General Motors shocked the car world when it announced that it would be restricting access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its future lineup of
Intel came very (very) late to the party with its desktop graphics cards, so it’s not surprising that they feel like a bit of a work in progress compared to veterans like Nvidia and AMD. From a price and specs perspective, the A750 competes with Nvidia’s budget GeForce RTX 3050, which also falls roughly into the
Quantum computers have the potential to carry out highly complicated calculations in minutes that would have taken classical computers thousands of years to work out. But much of the industry is still in its infancy, partly because of a lack of domain experts and software tools that match the progress of quantum hardware. Now companies
In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets. Many in the industry fear the move in Paris, where free-floating scooters initially took off in 2018, will have ripple effects in other cities. Paris has been one of the most heavily regulated
Because Final Fantasy XIV has somehow evolved into one of the biggest video games on the planet, Square Enix has decided to grab some of its older content out of the back of the fridge, reheat it in the microwave for a bit and serve it up to a whole new audience of players who
Ryuichi Sakamoto, the famed Japanese musician and composer, has died at the age of 71. What Gotham Knights And Shrek 2 Have In Common Off English He had been battling failing health for several years, having been diagnosed in 2014 with throat cancer, then bowel cancer in 2021. Through all his treatments and surgeries, however,
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had this little voice in my head. It’s not an evil voice. It’s not convincing me to commit murder or rob banks. No, this voice is mostly about making me do stupid stuff. When I was a kid it might say something like “bet you can’t
Over the last few months, I’ve noticed that I’ve been squinting at my computer and phone. It was subtle at first, but then became very apparent when eye strain came knocking. It turns out, that I have a moderate astigmatism I’ve ignored for years. And I know I’m not alone. According to the American Academy of