Did you know TikTok is the most engaging social media app with an average user session of almost 11 minutes? Now add to the mix a staggering 1.2 billion monthly users. To state the obvious, TikTok is dominating the social media landscape, becoming a gold mine of short, snackable content. While that sounds exciting –…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge An internal Apple memo obtained by MacRumors suggests the company is aware of the audio issues that users have been experiencing when using its $1,599 Studio Display, but that it doesn’t have a permanent fix for the issue available. Instead, the memo, which was reportedly distributed to Apple’s…
To succeed on a claim of induced infringement, a patent owner must show that the accused infringer (1) actively encouraged infringement, (2) knew that the acts they induced constituted patent infringement, and (3) actuated direct patent infringement by those encouraging acts. In many courts, the knowledge requirement can be satisfied by service of a complaint for…
Israeli lidar startup Innoviz will supply its lidar sensors and perception software to all vehicles with automated driving capabilities within Volkswagen group brands, the company said Tuesday. Innoviz will work directly with Cariad SE, VW’s automotive software company, to integrate its technology into upcoming VW vehicles. The partnership with VW is Innoviz’s third design win…
If you’re one of the many people who doesn’t really get why NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are as expensive as they are, then brace yourself. On Sunday, luxury jewellery brand Tiffany confirmed that it’s diving into the world of crypto jpegs with a collection of its own, teaming up with CryptoPunks – one of the most…
RingCentral has gone live with a raft of new features for its cloud phone and collaboration platforms in an effort to help customers drive greater productivity as a period of economic uncertainty looms. Broadly, the updates are designed to give users a way to automate administrative tasks, reduce the need to juggle multiple apps and…
Graphics card prices continued to fall last month, although AMD is doing far better in the battle to get under MSRP than Nvidia. This is the situation going by the regular figures compiled by Tom’s Hardware on the pricing of GPUs both at retail and in the second-hand market for the US. The headline figure…
Amazon has revealed its carbon footprint rose 18% last year, hitting around 71.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). For reference, this is roughly equivalent to the numbers produced by countries such as Austria and Bangladesh and is a good bit more than the 47.50 million metric tonnes of CO2 produced by the US…
Top of the morning, markets crew. I’m Phil Rosen reporting from Los Angeles. Monday’s behind us and the week is still getting started, but there’s already a slate of happenings to sort through. Thanks to Russia’s gas pipeline maneuvers, we’ve got lots of ground to cover this morning. Below, I’m breaking down what you want…
A Eurowings plane. NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images A US passenger took a 96-hour round trip to Germany to collect his lost luggage. The traveler had left Apple AirTags in the bags that showed they were in Dusseldorf, Germany. He described his efforts to get the bags back as “pretty much just screaming into…