Apple today announced that popular music identification service Shazam launched 20 years ago today. To celebrate the milestone, Apple shared a playlist featuring the most Shazamed song of each calendar year for the past 20 years. “Featuring everything from Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ to Sia’s ‘Cheap Thrills,’ the playlist is a true reflection of the…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Will Wright’s Gallium Studios has raised $6 million to build the memory game Proxi. It will help us make sense of our memories.Read MoreRead More
The speakers at GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 include Sim City creator Will Wright, now cofounder of Gallium; and Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion and author of The Metaverse.Read MoreRead More
Zero trust is a fast-growing cybersecurity sector, and its double-digit growth rates and market valuation are a magnet for vendor hype.Read MoreRead More
Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge Apple’s expanding its DIY repair program to include MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops equipped with the M1 chip. Once the program officially opens tomorrow, you’ll get to purchase genuine parts for the 2020 M1 MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the 14- and 16-inch 2021 M1 MacBook…
Enlarge / A Webb composite image of Jupiter from three filters. (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.) NASA has released two more images made from data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, and they reveal incredible detail about the largest planet in the Solar System. The data used to…
Showing that the regtech industry remains robust to economic headwinds, private equity firms Centerbridge Partners and Bridgeport Partners today announced plans to acquire the publicly-traded Computer Services, Inc. (CSI), a provider of payments processing and regulatory compliance services, for $1.6 billion in an all-cash deal. CSI CEO David Culbertson said that the transaction — which…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Alex was back with Grace and our new producer to kick off the week. Now that we are through earnings season, things are a little quieter on the forecast front, but…
For Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, walking back into their Star Wars roles for Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to have been one wild ride. For fans, it was pure magic to see Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker going head-to-head once again. Reader, I screamed in those training sequences. In the brief trailer for the behind-the-scenes Disney+ documentary…