You wouldn’t drive a car or fly a plane if the only controls you had available were on/off switches for left and right or up and down, and yet that’s pretty much what gamers are stuck with when they control their virtual avatars with their keyboards. U.K. startup Peratech wants to change that with a…
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Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes, just received an update that the company claims will help to identify more “low quality” fact checks — meaning, the notes written by Twitter users that are appended to tweets to provide further clarification and context. As a result, more of the contributors who write these unhelpful annotations will…
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Right on time for its annual post-Thanksgiving re:Invent festivities in Las Vegas, AWS last night announced its “AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge” — and before you click away, let me just point out that this is definitely more important than the prosaic name implies. As nations across the globe introduce legislation that governs how and where…
Cofactr is a logistics and supply chain tech company that provides scalable warehousing and procurement for electronics manufacturers. The company today announced it raised a $6 million round of seed funding, to “lead the next generation of agile hardware materials management.” The company raised on a SAFE note with a $25 million cap. We spoke…
Andrew Ritter Contributor Share on Twitter Andrew Ritter is a partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Corporate Department and is a member of wiggin(x). He focuses his practice on M&A, emerging companies, venture capital and corporate restructuring. Adam Silverman Contributor Adam Silverman is a partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Corporate Department and is a member of…
FrankieOne, a Melbourne-based startup that provides an API platform for identity verification and fraud detection, said it has added $23 million AUD (about $15.4 million USD) in a Series A+, taking its Series A’s total to $45 million AUD (about $30 million USD). FrankieOne says this is the largest amount of VC funding raised by…
When it comes to performance issues, it’s hard to know where the problem lies. This is especially true when your monitoring dashboard shows an all-clear, yet you’re still hearing slow app complaints from your users. In these cases, there’s a good chance those problems could be related to an internet connection issue. These kinds of…
In Babylon’s kooky trailer, Damien Chazelle reimagines 1920s Hollywood as a place where quite literally anything goes. (And yes, whatever you’re thinking, that too.) In the unbridled drama starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Diego Calva, big dreams meet big egos, colliding in an intense and action-filled affair. Desperation reeks through the screen, as the…
SAVE $60: As of Nov. 28, the Apple Watch Ultra (49mm, GPS) is on sale for $739 at Amazon. That’s a savings of 8% and the lowest price we’ve seen at Amazon. When it comes to buying new tech, you can’t do much better than holiday sales. We’ve seen a slew of deals on smartwatches…