Aqara’s new $89 Curtain Driver E1 makes your curtains open and close on their own. | Image: Aqara Smart home company Aqara has released its retrofit curtain solution in the US and Europe. Previously available in China, the Aqara Curtain Driver E1 starts at $89.99 and mounts onto an existing curtain track or rod to…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is rolling out a new program aimed at bringing more small and medium-sized businesses to the platform. The six-week program, called “Follow Me,” includes step-by-step guides teaching businesses how to use TikTok to grow their companies — including how to advertise on the app. The courses are…
On July 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments in US Inventor v. Hirshfeld, an appeal from a lawsuit first filed in February 2021 to challenge the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) development of the Fintiv framework for discretionary denials of petitions for Patent Trial and Appeal Board…
Enlarge / The Pixel 6 Pro. (credit: Google) Google is offering some steep discounts on the Pixel 6 line for the holiest of made-up corporate holidays, Amazon Prime Day. You can get $200 off the Pixel 6 Pro, which brings the $899 MSRP down to $699, while the Pixel 6 gets $100 off, changing from…
Enlarge (credit: Chris Delmas/Getty Images) Twitter has hired an elite law firm to handle its forthcoming lawsuit against Elon Musk, which could be filed any day now. After Musk pulled out of his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion on Friday, Twitter Board Chairman Bret Taylor said the company will sue Musk to enforce…
More and more, higher education institutions are migrating their data centers to a cloud operating model. Here, Chris Wessells offers CT his perspectives on what this means for our institutions, for the IT professionals that lead them, and for data centers of the future.Read More
Pensions, by just about any estimation, are a good thing. Ever since the U.K. government introduced auto-enrolment to the national workforce back in 2012, forcing employers to provide a workplace pension scheme by default (i.e. opt-out), this has led to more people saving toward their retirement. This policy change, however, means that millions of people…
How are women faring amid the venture capital and startup slowdown? New data paints a somewhat uneven picture, albeit one that tilts toward the negative. Startups are a global business, as is the work of backing them financially. This means that while we often observe aggregates — this dataset marking what could be an all-time…
When I first wrote about BeReal in January it was a novelty. The platform had marketed itself through college ambassadors, and for the most part only college students were using it. Seven months later, BeReal has gone mainstream and become a pillar of the Gen Z social media landscape. While the app was designed as…
TL;DR: Through July 14, you can get The Ultimate Excel VBA Certification Bundle + Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License for just $59.99 instead of $609 — that’s a 90% discount. Excel is often referred to as one of the most important pieces of software in the working world. Even if you…