Monthly Archives: October 2022

Apple Watch Ultra ‘precision’ GPS put to the ultimate test – as a lawn mowing tracker

The Apple Watch Ultra is designed for extreme sports enthusiasts, but it doesn’t get much tamer than a pleasant Saturday morning mowing the lawn. However, one mow-athlete decided to use his brand new Apple Watch Ultra to test the precision dual-frequency GPS tech to its limits… while tracking his grass chopping activity as a one-mile…

Twitter knows you took a screenshot, asks you to share instead

Enlarge / Please don’t take photos of tweets on this phone. Instead, consider that tweets are more valuable when you engage with them as URLs. (credit: Getty Images) Twitter is seemingly working to remind people that interesting tweets are something you should click, load, and view while logged into the company’s ad-funded service, not merely…

If it’s agtech, it’s climate change: How the crisis is shaping investors’ strategies

To state the (painfully) obvious: The fates of agriculture and climate change are inextricably linked. The weather dictates what grows where and when, but as the Earth warms beneath a wool blanket of excess carbon, agriculture is especially vulnerable in ways you might not expect. Record-setting heat and droughts fry grasses that farmers depend on…

Plummeting unicorn births underscore a changing venture capital market

It’s a rote story by now that many populations around the world are facing rapid decline. Birth rates in many countries are falling, leading to concerns about graying populations engendering imbalanced economies. That’s true when we consider nation-level populations. It’s also true when we consider the rate at which new unicorns are born, measured by the…