Amazon’s Prime Day Early Access Sale is over, but there are still plenty of great deals to check out. | Nicholas Barclay / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale has come and gone, or so we thought. There are still plenty of solid deals to check out. The roundup that follows is a collection…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Despite the stereotype, not all dogs are enthusiastically social. Isabel Seliger/Popular Science IN JULY a TikTok user named Sofia Rosten posted a video of a meetup at their local dog park in Sweden. Rather than wrestling and chasing and sniffing one another, though, the pups kept to themselves. Some sat; others stood; one tried to…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. There’s no shortage of reasons to have to buy gifts for the ones you love, with birthdays always happening and the holidays in the not-too-distant future. But right now, why not celebrate yourself for National Train Your…
A big part of TikTok’s growth story has been down to its viral hooks: catchy videos with thousands or millions of views on TikTok are watched and shared thousands or millions of times elsewhere, breadcrumbs that eventually lead people back to the gingerbread house. Now, as TikTok works on expanding its advertising business and bringing…
As companies look to build diverse workforces, the biggest problem seems to be sourcing candidates from historically underrepresented groups, often because companies don’t know where to look. TaTio, an Israeli startup from a couple of HR veterans, has built a platform to help connect companies to candidates who have the skills, but may lack a…
Alan Feld Contributor Share on Twitter Alan Feld is the founder and managing partner of Vintage Investment Partners. For an asset class that should be reinventing itself all the time, it is surprising to see how resistant some venture funds are to change. As a partner in a fund of funds, I attend a lot…
VUZ, a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund),…
As companies deploy more security devices like cameras, access control systems, intercoms and many other tools throughout their organizations, they are often disconnected from traditional IT, and may lack any way of managing the equipment in a systematic way. SecuriThings has built a solution to solve this problem with a platform that helps building operations…
With the U.S. midterm elections less than a month away, dating app Tinder partnered with voting information organization BallotReady to help their users get out the vote. There’s now a new Election Center feature in the app where Tinder users can access information about voter registration, measures on their local ballots, and polling stations. In…
Microsoft has unveiled plans for a new Outlook feature that’s set to blur the boundaries between traditional emails and more modern chat services. A post on the company’s roadmap has revealed “Outlook for Windows: Reactions”, where users on Windows machines will be able to “thumbs up, laugh, heart, celebrate, or shed a tear in reaction…