If your favorite music festival’s lineup didn’t live up to your expectations this year, don’t worry; a new app called Instafest will create a music festival poster for you based on your Spotify listening habits. The free web app, created by developer Anshay Saboo, is pretty straightforward to use: sign in with your Spotify account,…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Russia has been accelerating its use of the Chinese yuan to counter sweeping Western sanctions. Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images Russia is now the fourth-largest user of the Chinese yuan — after Hong Kong, the UK, and Singapore. Russia wasn’t even one of the top 15 countries for yuan usage up till May, according to Swift. The…
A Krunchy Dream cafe in Moscow. Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters A chain of new donut shops called Krunchy Dream has sprung up in Russia, where Krispy Kreme once stood. They are owned by the Novikov Group, whose owner Arkady Novikov is Krispy Kreme’s only former franchisee in Russia. Krispy Kreme had terminated the franchise agreement following Russia’s invasion…
Sky Glass and Sky Stream owners now have the opportunity to include Ad Skipping as part of their monthly bills. Sky is offering the service as an add-on to its Sky Ultimate TV package, much like UHD & Dolby Atmos, Sky Sports and Sky Cinema, so customers can choose whether they want to pay the…
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. Edward Berthelot/GC Images On a podcast on Monday, Kanye West said the IRS put a $75 million hold on four of his accounts. The rapper said he owes around $50 million in taxes. He’s now estimated to be worth around $400 million, a massive drop for the one-time billionaire….
Apple unveiled the winners of the 2022 App Store Awards, with Respawn’s Apex Legends Mobile winning iPhone Game of the Year.Read MoreRead More
Twitter saw a surge in downloads in China as protests against the country’s stringent COVID restrictions erupted nationwide over the last few days. The social media app ranked 9th amongst all the free iOS apps in China on November 29, up from 150th a week ago, according to app analytics firm SensorTower. Discussion about the…
At its re:Invent kickoff keynote tonight, AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. Typically, when a function isn’t used for quite a while, Lambda will shut the virtual machine down — and despite improvements like faster Firecracker microVMs, this…
The venture market is in the middle of a downturn, but there are still plenty of emerging fund managers. Seedstars International Ventures, the investment firm that backs high-growth startups around the world, announced today it has launched a platform called Seedstars Capital with Swiss-based investment holding company xMultiplied to help new fund managers around the…
SAVE 49%: Unblock BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £87.08 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. England and Wales are all set to face off as the fate of Group B is decided. Keeping…