The Apple Watch Series 8 looks just like the Series 7, but has some interesting new features. Mike Epstein It may be hard for some of us to see the virtue of the Apple Watch Series 8. Some people will not be able to tell the difference between it and last year’s Apple Watch Series…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Stack Commerce The end of daylight savings is just around the corner, which means days are about to get shorter and nights are about to turn unbearably longer. For many people, this change prompts seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that happens around fall or winter due to the lack of sunlight. You…
People vary in how sensitive they are to being disgusted by something. Tyler Spangler / Popular Science A UNIVERSAL human reaction occurs at the sight of something gross. Our nose scrunches, the upper lip raises as the lower curls downward, and our stomach starts to turn over onto itself, forming a telltale knot. Instantly, a…
Long-time visitors to the Detroit auto show will be disappointed. The glitz and glamor are gone. In 2022 the show is much, much smaller than in the past. Ford, General Motors, and Stallantis are exhibiting, and Toyota has a simple booth. That’s about it: No Volkswagen, BMW, Honda or other industry giants. And that’s great…
Fintech startup Ratio secured $411 million in equity and debt funding to continue developing what it calls “a new flavor” of buy now, pay later that combines payments, predictive pricing, financing and a quote-to-cash process. Co-founder and CEO Ashish Srimal founded Ratio in 2021 with CTO Mason Blake, and they have been heads down ever…
Let’s pretend, for a minute, that you’re Apple. You didn’t create the smartwatch market, but you currently control more than one-third of it. You’re caught up in a yearly refresh cycle (of your own design). It’s not easy, but you’re used to it. That’s how your hardware — and pretty much everyone else’s — operates….
Samsung announced Thursday it will invest more than $5 billion (7 trillion KRW) in its carbon-neutral projects and environmental technologies through 2030, aiming to make its global operations and products net zero carbon emission by 2050 in an effort to tackle the climate crisis. The company says the strategy includes reducing emissions from the production…
Welcome back to Found, the podcast that brings you the stories behind the startups. We talk to a lot of health tech founders on this show because there are countless ways the healthcare system, particularly in the U.S., needs to be disrupted. This week, we talked to Kelsey Mellard, who founded Sitka with the goal…
AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X has been the subject of a fresh leak about the boost clock speeds which the next-gen flagship CPU is supposedly capable of reaching. So, seasoning at the ready – and plenty of it – but the claim comes from Wccftech, whose sources reckon that while we know the 7950X is rated…
It may soon be harder than ever to escape Zoom following reports that the company is working on a range of new software products. The Information has reported that the video conferencing giant is working on an email service and calendar app as it looks to expand and establish itself as a software titan. The so-called…