The Level Lock Plus and Level’s other locks will soon work with many more smart home platforms. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Level’s entire lineup of Bluetooth smart locks — best known for hardly looking like smart locks at all — have had hardware support for Thread this whole time and…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Elon Musk plans to eliminate half the jobs at Twitter and require remote employees to report to an office, Bloomberg reported. “Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter, or half of the social media company’s workforce,” and “intends to reverse the company’s existing work-from-anywhere policy, asking remaining employees…
Enlarge / About half of the world’s rare earth element supply comes from this single mine. (credit: NASA) A variety of modern technologies, including permanent magnets that have been used in everything from earbuds to wind turbines, rely on rare earth elements. While the metals aren’t actually especially rare, they don’t occur at high concentrations…
Benjamin Döpfner has been building companies since he was a teenager. One of his more recent ventures was based in Berlin and at the time of its founding in 2019, Germany actually had negative interest rates – meaning that the company was paying back 50 basis points, or half a percent for each Euro that…
Competing in an increasingly crowded space can be nerve-wracking. Competing in an increasingly crowded space amid a challenging fundraising environment is even more nerve-wracking. We all know that cash is not nearly as readily available in 2022 as it was in 2021. This puts startups in the position of having to compete without losing their…
Here are the best deals of the day for Nov. 3, including early Black Friday discounts: BEST SUBSCRIPTION DEAL: One year of Walmart+ membership — $49 $98 (save $49) BEST HOME DEAL: iRobot Roomba i1+ (1552) Wi-Fi Connected Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum — $288 $529.99 (save $241.99) BEST AMAZON DEVICE DEAL: Amazon Fire TV 75-inch Omni…
The US Treasury Department was recently targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched by Killnet, a known pro-Russian threat actor. Reuters claims Killnet targeted the Treasury sometime between attacking more than a dozen websites belonging to US airports and banking giant JPMorgan Chase early in October 2022. HoweverThe DDoS attacks failed at…
Typically wireless earbuds with noise cancellation want to separate you from the outside world, immersing you in a vivid soundstage that brings audio to life; that’s not quite the case for Creative’s latest pair of buds. The aptly named Sensemore Air true wireless earbuds do still feature active noise cancellation (ANC) that works exactly like…
Trump speaking at a rally in Mesa, Arizona on October 9, 2022. Mario Tama/Getty Images The watchdog group CREW says it will seek to disqualify Trump from running for president in 2024. Section 3 of the 14th amendment bars candidates who’ve “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the US. The group noted that Otero County…
BI Graphics Young businesswoman sitting at desk in home office Morsa Images/ Many employees don’t want to lose remote work now that pandemic restrictions are easing. Establishing a remote office requires a healthy workplace culture, entrepreneurs told Insider. Two small-business owners offered tips on building virtual offices right now. This article is part of Talent…