When the power goes off and we haven’t saved our work, we all just freeze. Simon Hattinga Verschure / Unsplash I thought I was prepared for power outages. I had flashlights, a collection of topped-up external battery packs for my household devices, and the mental fortitude to eat all the ice cream in the freezer…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Volkswagen Group of America CEO Scott Keough is stepping down to helm the automaker’s Scout brand for battery-electric pickup trucks and SUVs. Keough, who has served as president and chief executive of Volkswagen Group of America since 2018, will become Scout’s president and CEO. He will be replaced by Pablo Di Si, executive chairman of…
Meatable, a Dutch biotech company developing cultivated “lab-grown” meat products, has revealed images of its inaugural pork sausage for the first time. Founded in 2018, Meatable is one of several companies developing cell-cultured meat products, one of several solutions touted to help combat climate change. Countless cultivated meat companies have entered the fray and attracted venture…
In both down times and boom times, businesses across industries are faced with the challenge of building sales pipelines and closing revenue. “Account-based” intelligence — i.e., research into potential customers — can help during the prospecting process. But it requires a thorough, vetted source of information and contacts in departments like business development, sales and…
It’s not just humans who are into Stray. Cats seem to love it too. From French developer BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive publishing, Stray is a new game out this week on PlayStations 4 and 5 and PC (through Steam) which allows you to play as a cat living in a dystopian, cyberpunk world. One…
What’s the first thing you do when you get a brand new MacBook Air with Apple’s new M2 chip? If you’re iFixit, you tear it down to the smallest bits and report what you found. This time around, the repair specialists found something fairly odd: The new MacBook Air doesn’t seem to have much in…
If you’ve been yearning to see your Google Photos snaps on something other than a tiny phone screen, the service has good news – it’s expanding its photo and canvas prints service outside the US for the first time. In a blog post, Google Photos said announced that it’s rolling out its photo prints and larger…
Some of the biggest data centers in the UK were forced to power down following the recent record high temperatures. Facilities belonging to Google Cloud and Oracle were among those affected as temperatures in the UK topped the 40C (104F) mark for the first time. The issues led to outages for customers across the country…
Valve has issued a warning about using the Steam Deck in more extreme temperatures, responding to the heatwave and record highs which the UK and Europe have been experiencing. A tweet from the Steam Deck account reminds owners that the device operates optimally at between 0 and 35C (95F), and should the internal temperature exceed…
Being bombarded with hordes of notifications every time someone makes a change to your Google Docs file could soon be at an end thanks to a new update. The company has revealed that users of the office software will now be able to choose to receive email notifications for document changes on a per file…