Most startups don’t have a clean run from their pre-seed round through an IPO when it comes to fundraising. Quickly growing tech companies sometimes pause at certain stages, raising a little extra cash against their prior round’s terms, for example. This becomes especially true when the economy changes for the worse and startups are incentivized…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
SAVE $200: My Best Buy members (it’s free to sign up — see below) can grab the M2-equipped Apple MacBook Pro (8GB RAM, 256GB) on sale for only $1,099 as of Aug. 5. That’s 15% off its $1,299 MSRP. Apple‘s newly updated M2 MacBook Pro sold out lightning-fast when Amazon put it on sale for…
TL;DR: Through Sept. 4, Save up to $300 on select Lenovo laptops at Best Buy. Whether you’re shopping for a reliable laptop on a student budget or upgrading to a fully loaded mobile workstation, everyone has their own unique laptop needs. Even though laptops are highly personal purchases, spec’ing out your own can still be…
NASA is smoothing out the final details of its future program to bring back treasured martian samples, also known as the Mars Sample Return Program, and its new helicopters might make future missions much simpler. Previously, the plan included several steps to introduce a Sample Fetch Rover into missions, which is now replaced by two…
Amazon will buy iRobot for $1.7 billion. The deal, which the companies announced on Friday morning, will make the popular Roomba line of robot vacuums part of the Amazon family and fast-track a deeper integration with Amazon’s smart assistant Alexa and the company’s smarthome ecosystem. Founded in 1990 by MIT roboticists Colin Angle and Helen…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set to make it easier for users to migrate their workloads to Graviton processors with a new initiative. AWS Graviton is a custom-built processor from AWS that’s based on the Arm64 architecture, supported by popular Linux operating systems such as Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise…
Raspberry Pi users can now look forward to using a new operating system which should be available in the final quarter of this year for the latest Pi devices. The previously unsupported Fedora operating system will now be fully operable on the Raspberry Pi 4, with approval granted from The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee…
You can cover your rent and living expenses with $730 a month in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Numbeo said. Fabian Schmiedlechner/EyeEm/Getty Images Soaring inflation is forcing many people to look for ways to reduce their expenses. Some may even consider moving to cheaper parts of the world. Insider has compiled a list of six cities where…
A gas station in America. Karl Hendon/Getty Images The average gallon of gas in the US costs $4.113 today, compared to $4.800 one month ago. Prices have declined in recent weeks, however they remain 28.9% higher than one year ago’s $3.190 rate. Fuel demand has dropped off dramatically, hitting levels not seen since the pandemic…
Left, Infowars founder and right wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Right, Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone. Left, Briana Sanchez/AP. Right, Julio Cortez/AP. J6 probers are getting every text Alex Jones and Roger Stone sent each other in the past two years. The texts will be significant, given the two friends’ key roles in the ‘Stop…