Laura Normand / The Verge In a tweet posted Thursday morning, Elon Musk dismissed speculation about why he’d buy Twitter and his thoughts on advertising, writing, “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) Another week, another roundup of today’s best tech deals. Today’s Dealmaster features a new all-time low ($998, $1,500) on Samsung’s art-inspired “The Frame” 4K TV. This TV has a unique party trick where it can display famous paintings on the screen when not in use, lending itself to a classier decor…
Streamlined Ventures, led by Ullas Naik, secured $140 million in new capital commitments for its two newest funds. This brings the total funds managed to eight with the assets under management reaching about $325 million. Institutional investors, family offices and high net worth individuals pumped $102 million into the firm’s fifth seed fund, which targets…
The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., and over there, all throughout Europe. It’s hard to say that some of these metrics represent investors simply pulling back when data shows the bias has historical precedence. Even in 2008, all-women…
The European Union’s flagship reboot of long-standing ecommerce rules — aka the Digital Services Act (DSA) — has now been published in the bloc’s Official Journal. You can find the full (and final) text of DSA here. Le Digital Services Act (#DSA) est publié aujourd’hui au Journal Officiel! Ce texte majeur fera d’Internet un espace…
Meet Neoplants, a French startup that is designing genetically modified houseplants so that they can absorb air pollutants. The startup’s first plant, the Neo P1, works hand in hand with the company’s own microbiome located in the soil near the plant roots. Neoplants targets specifically a group of indoor air pollutants that can’t be efficiently…
The TinyTV and the TinyTV Mini are the smallest fully functional TVs you can buy. They look like old school sets from the 50s, but can play movies and TV shows with a USB-C connection. The smaller one is the size of a grape, and the larger one fits in the palm of your hand,…
In its quest to make Google Meet the best video conferencing platform available, the company is now set to work with its great rival Zoom – not against it. Google has continued to invest heavily and added new features since the hybrid working boom that came around due to the pandemic, however it has a…
Overclockers UK has announced that it will be offering its consumers detailed customisation options for selected gaming chairs. You can now slap your favorite video game character, meme, or even your own artwork on the backrest or headrest of your next gaming chair… If you can afford it right now, that is. The printing techniques…
AMD could have a couple of new Zen 4 processors incoming, one of which is in theory a Ryzen 7 7800X, and the other a Ryzen 3 7300X. These Zen 4 chips have been spotted on Geekbench by Benchleaks (as VideoCardz reports), and apparently the 7800X will make the leap to being a 10-core processor,…