Rocketplace, a startup that aims to build a “next-generation asset management platform for crypto,” has raised $9 million in a seed funding round. A few things about this raise stood out. For one, the funding comes at an interesting time in the crypto world — during the so-called “crypto winter” and a period that has…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
It’s been just over five years since Google first announced that it would make Kotlin, the statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine first developed by JetBrains, a first-class language for writing Android apps at Google I/O 2017. Since then, Google took this a step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing…
Apple today is introducing two new subscription-focused podcast charts today to showcase popular paid shows. The two new charts — Top Subscriber Shows and Top Subscriber Channels — will be available to users in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia on iPhone, iPad, and Mac using iOS 15.6, iPadOS 15.6, and macOS 12.5 or later….
Max Brenner Contributor Share on Twitter Max Brenner is part of the founding team at Compound, which specializes in helping tech founders and employees manage their financial lives. It’s the classic startup employee dream. You’ve worked hard for years, finally built your company equity into something big and now you’re finally ready for a payout….
BRILLO is a bartending robot developed by scientists in the PRISCA Labs at the University of Naples Federico II. Using machine learning algorithms, BRILLO studies the faces and speech patterns of its customers to detect what kind of mood they’re in and then begins an interaction based on its findings. BRILLO can remember your favorite…
Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship could offer a special ‘extreme performance’ mode which really juices up the power supplied to the CPU to offer a sizeable frame rate boost. This rumor comes from a Hungarian tech website, ProHardver, as spotted by VideoCardz, so we’d take this with more seasoning than usually applied; but it does back…
Wider economic pessimism may finally be impacting the cloud computing market after revenue growth at all the major cloud providers slowed down in Q2 2022. Amazon Web Services (AWS) posted sales of $19.7 billion for its second quarter, up 33% year-over-year, but with a 37% growth rate that was lower than the previous quarter. Google…
Getting more complete control over your files should soon be a lot easier for Microsoft OneDrive users thanks to a new update. The company has announced plans to introduce granular controls for request files, links and Anyone Links to its cloud storage platform. This should mean that sharing files with your colleagues, co-workers or friends…
Snapchat Streaks are a daily responsibility. BigTunaOnline/Shutterstock Your Snapchat Streak (or Snapstreak) tracks how many days in a row you and a friend have sent Snaps to each other. Keeping up a Snapchat Streak gives you extra points for your Snapchat score. Chat messages and Snaps sent to group chats don’t count toward a Snapchat…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Win McNamee/Getty Images Global markets are entering a multi-year rate-hiking cycle, SocGen’s Albert Edwards wrote Thursday. The new “Great Melt” will be centered on an upward march in short and long interest rates, he said. He said an upcoming recession will provide only “temporary cyclical relief” from rate hikes. Global…