No DC power brick required | Image: Hyper Hyper, the company behind those stackable GaN chargers and powerful battery banks, is running a Kickstarter for a Thunderbolt 4 hub that’s truly compact thanks to the fact that it doesn’t need a massive power brick like the ones that weigh down other hubs. Instead, it plugs…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Reconstruction of Agriarctos nikolovi from Bulgaria. Velizar Simeonovski, Chicago Pandas love bamboo, but they might not have acquired a taste for this bitter, nutty-flavored plant until recently. Paleontologists discovered the fact while studying a newly described relative to giant pandas, named Agriarctos nikolovi, which hung out in Europe a few million years ago and sported…
Priyanka Srinivas Contributor Share on Twitter Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co, a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. More posts by this contributor Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape? When it rains, it pours. The…
We asked TechCrunch readers to vote for the roundtable sessions they would most like to see at TC Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco, and startup fans from around the world have spoken. Roundtables — some of the most popular sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt — are 30-minute expert-led discussions designed for up to 20…
Spotify is updating its app to address a long-standing user complaint with music playback — but it’s asking customers to pay for the fix. The company announced today it will introduce, at last, a separate Play Button and a Shuffle Button at the top of albums playlists to make it easier to play the music…
Prime Video has announced its slate of original movies for this fall and winter, and there are several fascinating films to choose from. There’s the Sylvester Stallone superhero movie Samaritan, Lena Dunham’s medieval comedy Catherine Called Birdy, the Harry Styles and Emma Corrin-led My Policeman, and much more. Some of the movies (such as My…
The first trailer for JD Dillard’s war epic Devotion is here, and it’s full of fighter pilots making daring aerial moves. Among them are real-life pilots Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors, Kang on Loki), the first Black aviator to complete the Navy’s flight training, and Tom Hudner (Glen Powell, continuing his plane movie streak following Top…
What if bringing nature back to our gray cities could help us contain urban flooding? When architect Kongjian Yu first pitched this concept, he was celebrated in the West, but ignored in his native China. Until a devastating flood in 2012 hit Beijing and forced policymakers to give his green idea a chance. Today, the…
Intel’s Raptor Lake processors have witnessed a bunch of fresh leaks, including some game benchmarks, and a hefty overclock to 6GHz for the Core i7-13700K. Let’s start with those gaming tests which were conducted by Extreme Player, a Bilibili-based leaker who aired benchmarks for the Core i9-13900K a couple of weeks back. This time around,…
Intel is set to introduce Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) to a commercial market, which features next-generation high-speed data processing that’s more than twice as fast as Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax). The rollout will begin for laptops and be extended to all PC products by the end of 2024. According to Eric McLaughlin, vice president of Intel’s wireless…