Image: Firefox Firefox Relay, a Mozilla service designed to hide your “real” email address by giving you virtual ones to hand out, is expanding to offer virtual phone numbers. In a blog post Mozilla product manager Tony Amaral-Cinotto explains that the relay service generates a phone number for you to give out to companies if…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Kenya has the largest and most thriving furniture industry in East Africa, but the sector’s potential is hindered by several challenges among them production inefficiencies and quality concerns, forcing most major retailers to settle on imports. MoKo Home + Living, a Kenya-based home furniture manufacturer and omnichannel retailer, saw this gap and over several years…
Indian edtech Vedantu has acquired a majority stake in education chain Deeksha for $40 million, the latest in local online learning platforms’ growing attempts at tapping opportunities in the offline market. The Bengaluru-headquartered Vedantu, which became a unicorn last year, said it will integrate its technology into offline centers of Deeksha as part of the…
Messages from the dead aren’t always easy to decipher, and apparently that goes double when they come in the form of texts. Fans of Stephen King will likely have seen the new movie adaptation of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone on Netflix over the weekend — a story about a lonely boy, Craig (Jaeden Martell), who befriends…
Nvidia’s RTX 4080 GPU comes in two flavors, as you’re likely aware, and Team Green has just provided some benchmarks which are a starting point for illustrating the relative performance that these graphics cards will deliver. As flagged up by Overclock3D (via VideoCardz), both the RTX 4080 16GB and the 12GB lower-tier model were shown…
Microsoft took the wraps off its image editing suite at its Surface event, called Designer. It’s mostly powered by DALL-E 2, an OpenAI technology that looks to try to take on Adobe and Canva, but Microsoft could be too late to the party with this. There’s been an explosion in AI image generators in recent…
Mobile camera sensors seem to be getting bigger with every passing year, and Oppo’s upcoming Find X6 Pro smartphone looks set to continue the trend and then some. According to Twitter leakster Ice Universe, the Oppo Find X6 Pro – which is expected to debut alongside two lower-key variants in early 2023 – will arrive…
When a workforce faces curtailment, it’s human resource professionals who enable organizations to address issues that inevitably arise from layoffs and facility closures. Westend61/Getty Images Few messages at work inspire more dread than the “pls fix” message from a higher-up. It can keep employees constantly on edge in anticipation and often comes with little indication…
Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. Mortgage rates have been rising rapidly over the past couple of months,…
Norwegian police responded to an incident at the Nyhamna gas plant Thursday. Marit Hommedal/AFP via Getty Images Norway’s police say they have resolved an incident at one of the country’s largest natural gas plants. Telephone threats were made to the Nyhamna plant, the local mayor told Reuters. Natural gas benchmarks jumped by over 2% as…