This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An edit button won’t fix Twitter’s problems The lowdown: After years of requests, Twitter is finally introducing an edit button, giving its users the ability to change their tweets up to 30 minutes…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The LG MoodUp can flash in time with music streamed to its built-in Bluetooth speaker. In case anyone is needing extra RGB lighting in their lives, LG’s new MoodUp fridge has you covered. The refrigerator, which the South Korean electronics giant announced this week at IFA in Berlin, has LED light panels on its front…
On September 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that the PTAB did not improperly place the burden of persuasion for proving unpatentability of proposed substitute claims raised sua sponte by the Board on Nike and that substantial evidence…
Enlarge / ABL Space Systems says its RS1 rocket is ready for a debut launch this month. (credit: ABL Space Systems) Welcome to Edition 5.09 of the Rocket Report! Another week, and we have another attempt at launching the Space Launch System rocket. I’m looking forward to what is hopefully a clean countdown and smooth…
We walked as a group up the red dirt road, past the schools, up the gravel walkway to the library. The hand-carved doors to the library show different parts of the reading process: between mother and child, a child carrying books, reading around the fire, while symbolizing opening the doors to the community’s future through…
Kuda, the challenger bank based in Nigeria and the U.K., has joined the ranks of tech companies in Africa that are pruning their workforce. The news of the layoffs, which was first disclosed to TechCrunch by sources, was confirmed by Kuda via email, saying it laid off less than 5% of its 450-strong workforce, or…
G2 Esports, one of the world’s leading esports organisations, has announced an all-female League of Legends team, furthering much needed visibility for women in esports and paving the way toward mixed major leagues. On Friday, the European company revealed its brand new team, Hel, named for the Norse goddess of death and the underworld (you…
Cloud servers are now the number one entry route for cyberattacks, new research has claimed, with 41% of companies reporting it as the first entry point. The problem is only getting worse, with the number of attacks using cloud servers as their initial point of entry rose 10% year-on-year, and they’ve also leapfrogged corporate servers…
Nvidia’s RTX 4080 GPU has apparently been spotted online, with a purported photo of the graphics card being shared on Twitter. Right up front we should note that particularly heavy use of seasoning is applicable to this leak, as while it does come from one of the recognized ranks of hardware leakers on Twitter (KittyYukko,…
Wells Fargo has been ordered to pay $22 million for retaliating against an executive. John Smith/VIEWpress via Getty Images Wells Fargo has been ordered to pay $22 million for retaliating against an executive. The senior manager was fired after reporting what they believed was financial misconduct. They spoke out about alleged wire fraud, price fixing,…