Snapchat is now accessible from outside a smartphone, and it will bring a better and more productive experience for heavy users. Like any other social media app, being able to chat and video-call from a computer is extremely useful sometimes. Interestingly, this Snapchat web app only runs on Chrome, but not Apple’s Safari. Fortunately, Mac…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Want to throw better parties? Maybe Thursday nights at your local hangout could be more fun. Whatever your situation, get everyone to ditch their phones and interact with each other by preordering some of this week’s best board games on Kickstarter. Overall, this week’s titles are super fun to play in a group and include…
With more carriers around the world adopting the eSIM standard we may soon get phones without physical SIM slots. As per a report published on The Wall Street Journal, Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 series may arrive in eSIM-only versions for some markets. Apple is not expected to make the full switch from physical SIM to…
Xbox adds new game As Dusk Falls and older titles Watch Dogs 2 and Inside to Game Pass in the second half of July.Read MoreRead More
ESG reports informed by geospatial AI can help businesses validate and back into their initiative’s claims with reproducible, material proof.Read MoreRead More
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is acquiring the esports tournament platform Repeat.gg, marking the PlayStation maker’s latest investment into esports. Repeat.gg has put on more than 100,000 tournaments with over 2.3 million participants, reports GamesIndustry.biz, featuring popular games like Fortnite, League of Legends, and Call of Duty: Warzone. “Together with the talented…
A new hack could be used to ID supposedly anonymous internet users. DEPOSIT PHOTOS Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology released last week the details of a new targeted attack that can reveal the identity of a supposedly anonymous website visitor. It allows a bad actor who has control over a website to…
The US Geological Survey really knows how to take images from space. USGS / Unsplash It seems hard to imagine life without today’s ubiquitous navigation apps, even for those of us who remember MapQuest (and printed atlases before that). GPS and directions on-demand are just part of your smartphone’s core functionality—and woe betide any brand…
Single base pair gene editing looks to tacked a common American disease: high cholesterol. Deposit Photos Talk about a major life hack. Scientists might have devised a way to help people live longer by carefully tweaking the genetic code in our cells. Researchers from Verve Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, launched the first clinical trial last…
VC firms are holding on to their checkbooks as the investment market slows to a crawl, but fund managers are taking advantage of the lull to fill up their coffers to the point of overflowing. In the first half of 2022, U.S. venture capital firms raised a $121.5 billion, a stunning leap from the $74.1…