Emergency response services have had a big boost of data thanks to advances in connected technology, with watches that can detect when their wearers are falling down and are experiencing trauma, cars that can pinpoint where their drivers are located, and home systems that can transmit important data about fires when you cannot just a…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Matt Van Itallie Contributor Share on Twitter Matt Van Itallie is the founder and CEO of Sema, which provides codebase analytics for M&A. Investment activity is down now, but it’s likely to pick up in 2023. And when investments ramp up, so does M&A. Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when…
Amazon announced that it will now allow customers to make payments through Venmo on its platform. The company said this option will be available to select customers starting today and will roll out to all U.S-based users on the Amazon site and mobile app by Black Friday next month. To pay through Venmo, users will…
Bolt, which is mostly known for its one-click checkout experience, now has a new virtual Shopper Assistant so that retailers can more easily turn guest shoppers into account-holding customers. Company CEO Maju Kuruvilla told TechCrunch that rather than dealing with pop-ups or other disconnected methods of obtaining a customer’s email address, retailers, like its customer…
In a period of a few weeks, two eclipses will occur. The first occurred today: a partial solar eclipse, taking place as the moon passed between the sun and the earth. The eclipse was visible across Greenland, Europe, western Asia, northeastern Africa and the Middle East. America didn’t witness the eclipse; in fact, the next…
Swiping on your uni crush just got a lot easier. Dating app Tinder is launching Tinder Uni in the UK to enable university students to match with fellow students on campus — as well people studying further afield at nearby unis. Tinder Uni can only be accessed by students with a uni email address (ending…
Scorpio szn in the middle of cuffing season? Buckle up, daters. Astrology is at the crux of our Instagram feeds and TikTok FYPs. Love, tolerate, or despise them, zodiac signs have infiltrated daily life – and the dating scene. Hinge has added a new feature catering to this obsession, allowing users to add their sun…
What appears to be Intel’s full line-up of Raptor Lake processors has been leaked online courtesy of Microsoft. We have already seen six 13th-gen CPUs launched – the Intel Core i9-13900K, Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K, plus their respective KF versions (‘F’ means no integrated graphics) – and there’ll be another 16 coming, to make…
“We very nearly just hit a drone,” the pilot said. “We’re talking less than ten feet.” Doubleclix/Shutterstock An Easyjet flight had a “near miss” with an “unidentified flying object,” according to a new report. The pilot said the plane missed the unmanned flying object by around 10 feet. A report by the UK Airprox Board…
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