Enlarge / Cherry announced its community-inspired MX Ergo Clear mechanical switches this week. (credit: Cherry) For the happily obsessed mechanical keyboard enthusiast, there’s no detail too minor on the journey to the perfect switch. Perfect key feel is worth poring over switch specs or even splicing parts from one mechanical switch with another to create…
Enlarge / The Nest Hub Max is displayed during the 2019 Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California. (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Google today over its collection of biometric data in a lawsuit that called one of Google’s facial recognition systems a “modern Eye of Sauron.”…
The report calls Amazon’s ecosystem ‘ingenious.’. Deposit Photos Amazon’s Ring security cameras are far and away the most popular home surveillance products on the market. For years, the commerce giant has involved the cameras in everything from police partnerships to family friendly television shows. But as a new report courtesy of research organization Data &…
A large blue shark swimming near the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Lisa Hornak/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images The feeling of an itch in a hard-to-reach place is as annoying as it is uncomfortable. It turns out that this is also a problem in some fish, especially when they have small parasites biting their…
When venture markets flip from greed to fear, there’s a meme that goes around in startup circles that flat is the new up. It’s shorthand for the idea that in more difficult market conditions, a startup defending its prior valuation in a proximate venture round is as good as raising new capital at a higher…
Storyblocks is Handoff’s first pilot partner. (Left to right) job-share partner Jodie Reyes, Handoff founder LaToria Pierce, Storyblocks CEO TJ Leonard and job-share partner Redeit Admassie. Image Credits: Handoff Many qualified workers are failed by the current model of work in the United States, where jobs are either part time or full time. Working 40…
It’s no secret the pandemic has pushed healthcare to become virtual, in theory making it easier for patients to attend appointments and access the care they need. But Rebecca Weisinger, CEO and co-founder of Equipt Health, has seen plenty of patients falter in the long process of qualifying for devices they need. Equipt is a…
The final day of Disrupt kicked off in style with a conversation featuring four-time NBA All Star, Draymond Green. It was a spirited chat, covering the power forward’s push into media, including his podcast, The Draymond Green Show and deals with channels like TNT. Green also spoke at length about investing, managing mental health as…
For the first time in four decades, MOKE International is releasing a car in the U.S. In the 1960s, the British company’s Mini Moke became an instant classic thanks to celebrities like The Beatles, Michael Kane, and Brigitte Bardot. The lightweight, open-top vehicle was first created for military purposes, but was more widely used by…
When it comes to cybersecurity in the workplace, younger employees don’t really seem to care that much, which is putting their organizations in serious harm’s way, new research has claimed. Surveying approximately 1,000 workers using devices issued by their employers, professional services firm EY found Gen Z enterprise employees were more apathetic about cybersecurity than…