The Home tab on the left versus the Feeds tab on the right. | Image: Meta Facebook’s almighty News Feed is getting split in two… kind of. Today, it’s announcing two feeds that will now be found in its iOS and Android apps. Home is the new name for the tab you see when you…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
This isn’t a 120Hz Android phone, but you get the idea. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, now supports 120fps game streaming across all Android phones with high refresh rate displays, rather than being limited to specific preapproved models. The rollout was announced last month, 9to5Google reported at the time, but Nvidia…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Warner Music Group has cut a licensing deal with SoundCloud to adopt the streamer’s Fan-Powered Royalties system, which allocates royalties based on individual user listening and is thought to be more artist-friendly. WMG is the first major label to adopt the system, and its embrace of the…
Enlarge / No, this isn’t a rendering from a Pixar film; it’s what the new USPS mail delivery vehicle will look like. (credit: USPS) In 2021, the United States Postal Service picked a new delivery vehicle to replace its fleet of aging Grumman LLVs. However, the USPS drew immediate criticism, as the vast majority of…
While humans typically recall memories as images, dogs and cats might experience them as scents or other senses. Isabel Seliger WHEN I MET my cat Pearlita, she lived in an alley between my apartment building and a gas station. She drank from puddles polluted by engine leaks and ate whatever she could find. Ten years…
Famed Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has teamed up with Sotheby’s to auction off his space memorabilia. NASA At 92 years of age, Buzz Aldrin has lived a full life. He graduated third in his class from the US Military Academy, earned a PhD in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and joined NASA…
Amazon’s interest in healthcare and being a major player in that industry is taking one big step forward today. The company has just announced that it intends to buy One Medical, a primary care provider that leverages in-person, digital and virtual interactions in its services. One Medical went public in 2020 and Amazon said it…
When Soundcloud launched its artist-friendly fan-powered royalty system last year, the model was only available for independent artists subscribed to the streamer’s paid tiers. Now, Soundcloud has inked its first major label partnership with Warner Music Group, whose artists can now earn fan-powered royalties on the platform too. Since the early 2000s, artists and record…
E-commerce across Latin America exploded in the past two years, but against an infrastructure that wasn’t prepared for all of that activity. During this time, startups have taken up the challenge to bolster the infrastructure needed for packages to get to their end destination quickly and cheaper. That goal has created somewhat of a competitive…
Microsoft and Sage have announced a new set of integrations designed to simplify core accounting and HR processes for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The expansion of the existing partnership will see various Microsoft 365 services, including Teams, built directly into Sage products and the Sage Digital Network. The change will afford Sage customers access…