I have rarely, if ever, thought about my blood sugar. I think about sugar on occasion — the dentist demands it, and I get a headache when I eat an entire bag of Haribo dinosaur gummies. But a new spate of startups wants me, and everyone, to start thinking about our blood sugar all the…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Leap seconds depend entirely on how quickly the Earth spins, which can be a nightmare for managing technology hardware infrastructures. (Pictured: the World Time Clock in Berlin.) | Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images A global panel of scientists and government representatives have voted to scrap leap seconds by 2035. The ad hoc time…
Enlarge / The Acorn Archimedes 3000, released in May 1989. (credit: Wikipedia) The story so far: At the end of the 1980s, Acorn Computers was at a crossroads. A small team, led by Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber, had invented a powerful new computer chip, the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM). Acorn released a new computer…
A scene from Project Convergence. US Army / Collin S. MacKown In the desert south of Death Valley, mock patients waited for drones to deliver simulated blood. California’s Fort Irwin is an Army base that hosted an event called Project Convergence 2022 from late September into November, an annual exercise led by the United States…
Tech giants that play in India’s e-commerce sphere are overrun with fake reviews. Today, the country’s regulators finally moved ahead with a new set of rules aiming to curb that. The Indian government has released a framework to curb fake and misleading reviews on e-commerce platforms and portals offering tour and travel services, restaurants, eateries…
Secure communications provider Wickr has announced that it will shutter its free encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, next year. Wickr was founded in 2011 and became one of the first mainstream end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, until it was acquired by Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services in 2021. In a post published Friday, Amazon said…
Sponsorships are a multibillion-dollar industry. But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come by because of the various forms they take — and channels on which those sponsorships take place (think not only websites and social media posts but also physical signage and even sports team jerseys). For both brands…
Wove, an online custom jewelry company, is injecting technology into the engagement ring buying experience to speed up the time it takes to create one-of-a-kind pieces. It’s also doing it with $3.85 million in a new seed funding led by Springdale Ventures. Joining Springdale was a group of investors that included Outlander VC, Rarebreed Ventures,…
Bryan House Contributor Share on Twitter Bryan House is the SVP of product and customer success at Elastic Path, where he leads the UX, product management, enablement and customer success teams. It’s easy to say things like “We’re customer obsessed,” but statements like that are hard to actually execute. In many companies, the product and…
TL;DR: We’re expecting plenty of Apple deals during Black Friday 2022, including discounted Apple Watches, MacBooks, and AirPods. Apple deals always cause a stir during major shopping events like Black Friday, and the situation is no different this year. We’re expecting plenty of opportunities to save on things like Apple Watches and MacBooks, and we’ll…