General Motors is racing to electrify its vast lineup of vehicles in a concerted bid to outpace Tesla as the No. 1 seller of EVs in the world. But it’s also competing with Tesla on a whole other front: autonomous vehicles. On this front, GM feels like it has an edge. It’s hands-free advanced driver-assist…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Samsung announced Wednesday that it’s bringing more than 250 games to the Samsung Gaming Hub through the Amazon Luna streaming-based gaming service. The company is making these titles available on its 2022 Samsung smart TVs and M-series smart monitors. The Korean tech giant first announced the Samsung Gaming Hub at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)…
Geopagos, a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services….
A year ago, Club Feast, a subscription-based service aiming to disrupt the food delivery industry, emerged from stealth with $3.5 million in seed funding and the backing of prominent investors, including General Catalyst and Pika Capital. Co-founders Atallah Atallah, Ghazi Atallah and Chris Miao claimed that, by working with hundreds of restaurants to create low-priced…
Microsoft is being called out for blocking users of the end-to-end encrypted email service, Tutanota, from registering an account with its cloud-based collaboration platform, Teams, if they try to do that using a Tutanota email address. The problem, which has been going on unrectified for some time — with an initial complaint raised with Microsoft…
The number of emoji subscription purchases on the South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk has dropped by a third over the year, parent firm Kakao said in quarterly earnings call Thursday, blaming Google’s new in-app payment policy, which forces apps to use Android-maker’s own billing system. KakaoTalk’s Emoticon Plus subscription service, which costs approximately $3.8 per…
We wouldn’t go as far as to say that football can solve all of life’s problems, but it can help with pretty much everything life throws at you. Feeling down? Watch a live game. Nervous? Catch up on last night’s action. Bored? Watch highlights from your favourite match. Whatever your problem, football is the solution….
Amazon Web Services will now allow customers to run Windows 11 on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the firm has announced. As explained in an AWS blog post, the Import/Export function now supports migration of Windows 111 virtual machines, allowing customers to “launch instances using the imported images on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, and EC2 Dedicated…
Flight attendants have been sharing their experiences of dealing with constant travel disruption. Ekaterina Pokrovsky/Shutterstock A flight attendant said that crew members have to sprint through airports due to delays. The attendant said crews could face either anger or cheers when they do arrive at gates. “They think it’s your fault the flight has been…
Synthetic mouse embryos are shown in the container where they are grown. Courtesy of the Weizmann Institute of Science/Insider. Scientists were able to grow “synthetic embryos” without the need sperm, eggs, or a womb. Studying these structures in mice could teach us how to grow organs for transplantation. Making human babies that way remains a…