Enlarge (credit: MR.Cole_Photographer/Getty Images) In mid-August, the Federal Communications Commission succeeded in its long-held plan to reallocate a portion of the spectrum from car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication (known as V2X) to Wi-Fi instead. However, the FCC didn’t reassign that entire region of bandwidth—30 MHz remains set aside for “intelligent transportation systems.” And the FCC should…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Monsoons flooded the streets of Karachi in July. Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images As countries around the world experience serious drought conditions, Pakistan is facing unprecedented flooding. Floodwaters have submerged roughly one-third of the country, an area about the size of Colorado, underwater. Following eight consecutive weeks of rainfall since June, at least…
Sony Music filed a lawsuit against TikTok-competitor Triller for copyright infringement, Variety reports. This lawsuit is the latest event following a troubling pattern of alleged missing payments for the app, which plans to go public even though its $5 billion SPAC deal fell through. Last year, the company announced a $14 million program that would…
Hiring the best talent has never been easy for startups. Things got even harder when the pandemic shrank the available talent pool and 2021 set a record for venture capital fundraising, meaning more companies with more cash in the market. The result? A major talent shortage and a hyper-competitive job market. Despite the fact that…
The company behind last summer’s hot social app, Poparazzi, appears to be readying a round two following its $15 million Series A announced in June. A new listing in the App Store under the developer’s account, TTYL, is teasing a pre-release app called Made with Friends. The app offers a twist on Poparazzi’s original concept of…
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As the mechanical keyboard hobby exploded during the early days of the pandemic, a lot of companies raced to launch new products. Drop, however, which maybe did more than anybody to popularize custom mechanical keyboards by making them and lots of accessories available to a larger audience, mostly added third-party keyboards to its lineup during…
Mavenoid, a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. Founded out of Stockholm in 2017, Mavenoid works with hardware and consumer electronics companies including HP, Husqvarna, and Jabra, serving to automate technical support and onboarding for…
The q-commerce belt tightening continues: US category veteran GoPuff, the Softbank-backed delivery platform juggernaut — which was being valued at $15BN as recently as 2020, and had been rumored to be prepping for an IPO at the start of this year (er, nope that didn’t happen!) — is dialling back its ambitions in Europe. According…
Save up to 70%: Overstock’s Labor Day Clearance is on through Sept. 8. Shop deals in categories like fire pits, patio furniture, rugs, and more. Allegedly, it’s almost September, which means it’s time to start transitioning your space (you know, the one you finally optimized for 90-something-degree days) to chilly mode. Through Sept. 8, Overstock’s…