The LinkBuds S and their USB-C charging case in white. Sony’s LinkBuds S are some of the comfiest true wireless earbuds around. A big part of this is owed to their lightweight build of just 4.8 grams per bud, though that light and airy feel normally comes at a hefty price tag of $199.99. However,…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Enlarge / Let your Pi do the work while the CM4 Router Board handles the connections. (credit: Seeed Studio) If you’re intrigued by the prospect of building a DIY router, Seeed Studio has a board that’s just waiting to put a Raspberry Pi Computing Module 4 (CM4) to work. Assuming, of course, that you can find…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Christopher Pike/Bloomberg ) Twitter yesterday slammed Elon Musk’s response to the company’s lawsuit in a 127-page filing in the Delaware Court of Chancery that says Musk’s claims are “contradicted by the evidence and common sense.” Twitter’s court filing also said Musk’s spam analysis relied on a tool that…
Enlarge / Rocket 3.0 is seen on the launch pad in June 2022 ahead of the launch of a TROPICS mission for NASA. (credit: Astra/Brady Kenniston) Astra Space emerged from stealth mode two and a half years ago with a bold vision: It would build inexpensive rockets quickly and with a tolerance for some failure….
Time is running out on one of the biggest opportunities in Disrupt history. We stop accepting applications to the Startup Battlefield 200 tonight, August 5, at precisely 11:59 p.m. PDT. No more deadline extensions, no last-minute exceptions. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Lollygagger alert: Drop what you’re doing and go apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 right…
Last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the economy is “in a period of transition,” on the grounds that “we have a very strong labor market. When you are creating almost 400,000 jobs a month, that is not a recession.” Today, we learned that the U.S. added 528,000 new jobs last month and the…
In the latest blow to the creepy ‘tracking-ads’ complex, French adtech giant Criteo has been found in breach of European Union data protection regulation and hit with a €60 million sanction (~$65M) by the country’s national privacy watchdog in a preliminary decision following a multi-year investigation. Digital rights advocacy group, Privacy International, which lodged a…
Jason Richelson Contributor Share on Twitter Jason Richelson is CEO and co-founder of Bookkeep. He is also the creator of ShopKeep, a cloud-based POS system. Until recently, tech startups traditionally enjoyed relative freedom from financial oversight from the venture capitalists who funded them. As long as these firms could report progress in developing their products…
Microsoft is working on a series of updates for online collaboration platform Teams that will extend some of the most important and useful features to a larger pool of users. A pair of new entries in the company’s product roadmap show that Microsoft Teams users dialling in from the office will soon benefit from both…
Xbox Series S games are in for a boost thanks to Microsoft making more memory available for the console. The small but mighty Xbox Series S is a great option if you don’t want to splurge on an Xbox Series X right now. It may not be as powerful, but with the rollout of Xbox…