iPad Air (2022) review: fast with the M1 chip and great display but Touch ID is not as convenient as Face ID and the front camera is awkward in landscape mode
The new iPad Air is a blend of familiar features with predictable results — Much of the new iPad Air from Apple is a known quantity.
Mark Zuckerberg says NFT support will be coming to Instagram over the next several months and that users will “be able to mint things within that environment”
Love them or hate them, NFTs will soon be coming to Instagram. Speaking at SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed …
Microsoft says an ad in Windows 11 File Explorer “was not intended to be published externally and was turned off” after a Microsoft MVP found it in latest build
We may still see File Explorer ads in the future — Microsoft appears to be testing a new type of ad inside File Explorer on Windows 11.
Spotify signs a sponsorship deal with FC Barcelona, including rebranding the soccer club's stadium to Spotify Camp Nou, reportedly worth $310M over four years
FC Barcelona have agreed to a sponsorship deal with Spotify to have the audio streaming platform become the club's main partner. Source: Spotify and FC Barcelona .
The FBI and CISA warn that Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed an unnamed NGO's network by exploiting default MFA protocols and the PrintNightmare flaw
The FBI says Russian state-backed hackers gained access to a non-governmental organization (NGO) cloud after enrolling their own device …
Foxconn resumes partial operations at two Shenzhen campuses closed on Monday, one of which makes iPhones, after authorities approved its “closed loop” process
Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn Technology Group has resumed partial operations in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen …
Google Domains launches out of beta in 26 countries, after seven years, offering 300+ domain endings and “around-the-clock customer support from real people”
Seven long, long years ago, Google started offering users a way to buy a domain without having to deal with a host provider.
Google says Steam launched in alpha “on select Chromebooks”; code changes previously showed that the PC game store would require a high-performance Chromebook
The long-awaited availability of Steam on Chromebooks was just more or less announced (in alpha) at the 2022 Google for Games Developer Summit.
Hands-on with Universal Control: Apple's most impressive new feature in years that bridges the gap between macOS and iPadOS without requiring Apple peripherals
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Meta launches Family Center, a suite of parental supervision tools for its apps, starting with Instagram in the US and rolling out globally in the coming months
Allowing parents and guardian to keep a watchful eye — Instagram's new parental controls, announced in December, are launching today in the US.
A look at Ukraine's “invisible heroes”, internet technicians who are risking their lives avoiding bombs and thwarting Russian hackers to keep Ukraine online
They're fixing internet in bombed-out buildings, finding rogue operators providing Russians with mobile connections and thwarting hackers.
Google details Stadia plans, including letting developers offer trials, port Unreal Engine and Unity games more easily, and white label cloud gaming services
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The UK's CMA says NortonLifeLock's $8.6B Avast acquisition could result in customers getting a worse deal and asks the companies to submit remedy proposals
U.S. cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock Inc's $8.6 billion purchase of rival Avast Plc (AVST.L) will face an in-depth probe by Britain …
Meta announces Family Center, a centralized hub of safety tools for parents to supervise kids' activity across Meta's apps, rolling out now for Instagram
Meta announced a new set of tools designed to protect young users on Wednesday, an overdue response to widespread criticism that the company …
Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, a Kenya-based B2B marketplace that offers a BNPL service to retailers, raises a $125M Series B, source says at a $625M valuation
Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods are sold through its channels yearly.
With Congress divided over passing a national privacy law, tech industry groups are lobbying Utah and other states to pass privacy laws weaker than California's
The tech industry is lobbying statehouses across the country to pass privacy bills that critics call weak.
Hex Trust, which offers crypto custody, staking, brokerage, and financing services to institutional clients in Hong Kong and Singapore, raises an $88M Series B
Quick Take — Asian crypto custodian Hex Trust has raised $88 million. — Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures co-led the round.
Linktree, which creates simple “link in bio” landing pages for people and companies, raises a $110M Series C led by Index and Coatue at a $1.3B valuation
Who would've thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio?
Montreal-based job search portal Talent.com raises a $120M Series B led by Inovia and discloses a $30M in debt finance it raised in January from BMO
Co-CEO says startup wants to be Pepsi to Indeed's Coke. — It has been a tumultuous few years for Montréal's Talent.com.
Six months after El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender, dozens of citizens, economists, and developers detail cracks in the country's crypto revolution
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New Delhi-based Amagi, which provides ad software for broadcast and streaming TV, raises $95M led by Accel at a $1B+ valuation, bringing total funding to $245M
Amagi has raised $95 million in new funding, valuing the media tech company at more than $1 billion, CEO and co-founder Baskar Subramanian tells Axios.
Multiplier, which lets companies hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, raises a $60M Series B at a $400M valuation
Multiplier, a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised …
The EU approves Amazon's $6.5B MGM acquisition, saying the deal won't reduce competition as their production doesn't overlap and MGM content is not a must-have
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raises a $175M Series F at a $2.5B valuation led by Coatue Management, bringing its total funding to $350M+
Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture.
Several Patreon creators say Vimeo is forcing them to pay thousands of dollars per year for a custom plan, as Vimeo shifts its focus to large corporate clients
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ConsenSys, which develops and invests in Ethereum projects, announces a $450M Series D led by ParaFi Capital at a $7B valuation and says MetaMask has 30M+ MAUs
iUNU, whose LUNA robot moves on greenhouse roofs and uses AI to detect problems with plants and find spots that are ready to harvest, raises a $24M Series B
Not going to lie, iUNU (pronounced “you knew") is not the easiest name (further confusing matters is the presence of a robot called “LUNA").
Sam Altman's Worldcoin recently halted operations in at least seven countries due to problems like uneven smartphone access, confused users, and fraud attempts
Worldcoin — the billion-dollar startup that wants to give cryptocurrency to every living human by imaging their eyes … Tweets: @ldrogen Tweets: Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : Eyeball Coin is hard https://t...
The Irish DPC fines Meta €17M for GDPR violations related to 12 personal data breaches that Meta disclosed to the regulator between June 2018 and December 2018
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AMD plans to release the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the “world's fastest gaming processor”, on April 20 for $449, marking the debut of the company's 3D-stacking V-Cache
An in-depth look at GitHub and OpenAI's Copilot, which writes 35% of its users' code, and how AI tools can make developers more efficient and democratize coding
OpenAI's new tool can autocomplete lines of programming or conjure software from a simple prompt. It could also riddle the internet with even more bugs. Tweets: @sama . Thanks: @colegarry2 Tweets: Sa...
Aptos, a Layer 1 blockchain built by ex-Meta employees who worked on Diem, raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation led by a16z
Slack cuts off access for some customers in Russia without notice to comply with US and international sanctions and its parent company Salesforce's policies
and... it's Slack! 🤯🤯🤯 I can imagine this would be utterly debilitating for many orgs. https://twitter.com/... Thanks: @inafried
DoorDash launches a gas rewards program to help delivery drivers using the company's DasherDirect Visa cards to mitigate the high cost of fuel with 10% cashback
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Crypto.com begins rolling out its exchange to waitlisted users in the US “over the coming months”, initially only available to select institutional investors
Institutional Investors Granted Access First Assad Jafri / CryptoSlate : Crypto.com begins exchange launch in US with institutional investor waitlist Renato Capelj / Benzinga : Crypto.com Launches US ...
SentinelOne to acquire identity threat detection and response company Attivo Networks for $616.5M, its second acquisition; Attivo raised $60.1M in funding
As China's delivery startups use algorithms to force drivers to work faster, couriers are gaming the system and forming unofficial unions on WeChat and Douyin
Masha Borak / Wired : Tweets: @wiredscience and @wired Tweets: @wiredscience : Food delivery drivers are using platforms' data-powered systems, mass WeChat groups, and unofficial unions to fight unfa...
Treehouse, which provides DeFi data analytics, raises an $18M seed led by an “undisclosed large fintech investor”, with Binance and others participating
Treehouse aims to provide retail investors the infrastructure needed for them to make informed decisions on their DeFi positions
Bear Robotics, which makes robots that serve food in restaurants like Chili's, raises a $81M Series B led by IMM, bringing its total funding to $117M
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Congress is unlikely to pass major legislation to regulate crypto, as Senator Warren emerges as a vocal critic while some progressives embrace the industry
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico : Tweets: @amanda_cavaleri , @bradydale , @thinkingcrypto1 , and @zachary Tweets: Amanda Cavaleri / @amanda_cavaleri : “People are taking a parochial interest because whi...
Rutter, whose universal e-commerce API helps companies integrate with commerce, accounting, and payments services, raises a $27M Series A led by a16z
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Snappt, whose software helps landlords detect fraudulent rental application documents like altered pay stubs, raises a $100M Series A led by Insight Partners
Keerthi Vedantam / dot.LA :
TruEra, which offers AI quality management tools to optimize and monitor ML models, raises a $25M Series B led by Menlo, bringing its total funding to $42.3M
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Run:AI, which helps businesses optimize their AI workloads, raises a $75M Series C led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $118M
Selector, which develops AI tools to let companies automate and improve IT operations, raises a $28M Series A, bringing its total funding to $33M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
SpaceFill, which helps companies build flexible logistics networks in Europe by offering warehouse space and a SaaS monitoring tool, raises $27M led by NGP
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
OXIO, a “carrier-as-a-service” company that lets brands launch mobile services by turning data into blockchain-based digital assets, raises a $40M Series B
Andrés Engler / CoinDesk :
Akeneo, which makes product experience management and product information management software, raises a $135M Series D led by Summit Partners
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.