A groundwater pump delivers water from below a farm during the dry season in Bangladesh. M. Shamsudduha To control unpredictable water and stop floods, you might build a dam. To build a dam, you generally need hills and dales—geographic features to hold water in a reservoir. Which is why dams don’t fare well in Bangladesh,…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Amanda Reed Garmin turns 32 this year. Since you can’t buy a company a gift, treat yourself to a new watch with Garmin’s birthday sale—we’re partial to the fēnix 6S, which is up to $250 off, depending on the model you choose. Garmin Check Price We’ve featured Garmin watches many times in our coverage, from…
Saturn has 83 moons now—but the now-missing Chrysalis may have had a huge impact on what we see today. NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL Team The colorful rings that swirl around Saturn’s mid-section aren’t the only characteristic that makes it stand out among the planets of…
This year marks the beginning of Amazon’s multi-billion dollar 11-year deal with the National Football League, making Prime Video the first streamer to have exclusive rights to an NFL package. Previously, Amazon shared the games with Fox and the NFL Network. Tonight, September 15, 2022, is Prime Video’s first exclusive Thursday Night Football game, and…
Opal, a “digital well-being assistant,” is updating its app today to help individuals better monitor and manage their screen time usage. While most screen time apps are focused on helping parents manage their children’s screen time, Opal’s goal has been to help anyone — yes, even adults — develop their own healthier habits around their use…
You know what’s a huge pain where the =sum()don’t shine? Financial reporting, planning and analysis. I often go on and on (and on and on) about startups not getting their financials and operating plans right in their startup pitch decks, so … not gonna lie, I picked Austrian startup Helu.io, which completed a €9.8 million…
Hey, all, greetings from Queens. I’m back home from Apple and happy to be back from the high double-digit heat (but it was a dry heat!). I got a strong response from last week’s newsletter, wherein we discussed questions around robotic delivery. Always nice to be reminded that people are, in fact, reading this thing…
Stop trying to make Polywork happen. It’s already happening. You may even be polyworking as you read this. Polywork is a venture-backed startup that is building a professional network to help people express their multi-hyphenated work lives. In other words, if you’re a reporter, who also podcasts, wants to write a book and would love…
As iOS 16 Lock Screen customization takes off, an iPhone personalization app called Top Widgets has soared to the No. 1 spot on the U.S. App Store’s top free apps list, displacing BeReal. The Sichuan, China-based app maker first introduced Top Widgets in August 2020 to capitalize on the introduction of Home Screen widgets with the…
New details have dropped for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 including a brand new third-person mode. Call of Duty has historically been a first-person series. That’s part of what made it difficult to get the hang of it when I first dabbled in the franchise all those years ago. But if you have a…