Pinterest Chief Executive Officer Ben Silbermann would step down, handing over the reins of the social media platform to Google commerce executive Bill Ready. The new head for the past two years ran commerce and payment operations at the Alphabet-owned search giant Google. Ready has also held senior leadership roles at PayPal.Read More
Monthly Archives: July 2022
A recent report from ERAI concluded that in 2021, there were 101 wire fraud cases reported to the US-based firm, up from 70 in 2020. Companies looking for chips they could not find through authorised and vetted distributors were trying to buy them from shadier brokers and transferring funds for goods that never got delivered, ERAI…
Qualcomm is reportedly going to announce launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC two weeks earlier than it usually unveils its new SoCs. The new information has surfaced after the company mistakenly made public the Snapdragon Summit event on its website for a brief period of time, as per a report.Read More
A team of scientists have reconstructed the condition in which the earliest organism on Earth must have existed. The reconstruction was done using light-capturing proteins in living microbes. In future studies, the scientists hoped to resurrect model rhodopsins in a laboratory using synthetic biology techniques.Read More
NASA’s Perseverance had managed to film a phenomenon where gusts of wind lifted a massive Martian dust cloud. It has also detected hundreds of dust winds using the camera mounted on it and a suite of sensors.Read More
Spotify has announced a new in-app feature called the Supergrouper. The new feature will allow users to select a group of five artists that might not usually come together on-stage or in the recording studio. Spotify will create the playlist for you based on your selections.Read More
Sony Group said on Wednesday it’s launching a new Inzone line of headphones and monitors targeting the growing PC market for videogames as the Japanese conglomerate looks beyond its core PlayStation console gaming audience.Read More
Startups and major carmakers are starting to incorporate solar panels on their electric vehicles, an addition that extends the range of the cars even if perpetual motion remains a dream.Read More
Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro renders and specifications have leaked online. The upcoming rugged phone is said to come with a dual rear camera unit, headlined by a 50-megapixel primary snapper. It is tipped to feature a 4,050mAh battery as well.Read More
Netflix is “actively” working on building its cheaper, ad-supported deal, the company’s French team said on Tuesday, but added there was no clear timeline.Read More