Monthly Archives: November 2022

Apple offers a deep dive into the Watch Ultra’s premiere diving app, Oceanic Plus

Starting today, Apple Watch Ultra owners can download the tech giant’s new diving app Oceanic Plus to turn its newest wearable into a recreational dive computer. The Watch Ultra already has the Depth app, which can tell you the depth and the temperature of the water. Oceanic Plus displays the same information, but if you…

Moscow is now the fourth largest offshore trading hub for the Chinese yuan, as sanctions spur Russia’s dash to an alternative currency

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…

AWS launches Graviton3E, its new Arm-based chip for HPC workloads

At its traditional evening keynote at re:Invent, AWS tonight announced quite a bit of new hardware in its cloud, starting with a new version of its Nitro hypervisor, new instance types, and a new version of its custom Arm-based Graviton chips which was specifically designed for powering high-performance computing workloads. This new Graviton3E chip —…

White supremacists ‘pose the primary threat’ of lethal domestic terrorism, FBI says

A fight breaks out as the white supremacist group, The Patriot Front marches thru the city of Boston on July 2, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts. Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald White supremacists “pose the primary threat” of committing domestic terrorism, the FBI said. Since 2010, white supremacists have killed at least 77 people, the bureau said…

Final few hours to save $300 on a new Samsung Galaxy smartphone with this Cyber Monday deal

Save hundreds this Cyber Monday on a new Samsung phone. Framesira/Shutterstock If you’re an Android fan, you’ve probably got a specific brand of phone that you love, like the Google Pixel or the Motorola Moto G. But our favorite Android phones — the Android phones that run, look, and feel the best — are the…

Mining is still dangerous—but new tech in South Africa could keep workers safer

Miners working for the Lonmin Platinum company in South Africa walk along an underground tunnel in the early 2000s. Tom Stoddart/Getty Images This article was originally published on Undark. Thabang Ditibane spread his arms wide to describe the size of the stone that killed a fellow South African miner four years ago. “I heard the sound…

As Pipe’s founding team departs, tensions rise over allegations

On November 22, alternative financing startup Pipe announced that its three co-founders were stepping down from their executive roles and that a search for a new, “veteran” CEO had commenced. In an exclusive interview, co-founder and former co-CEO Harry Hurst told TechCrunch that the trio were “0-1 builders, not at-scale operators.” He said the company’s…