Derek Liang / Unsplash California, a state that has been facing devastating droughts and wildfires, approved a $140 million desalination plant on October 13 that would enable it to convert seawater into fresh water. It will join a cadre of 12 other facilities currently operating off the coast of California. While getting plans for the…
Ambi Robotics, a startup developing supply chain automation hardware, today announced that it raised $32 million in additional funding led by Tiger Global and Bow Capital, with participation from Ahren and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is a strategic investor in Ambi, having recently inked a $23 million deal with the company to deploy…
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House of the Dragon’s latest steamy escapade has us all chatting about one thing: foot fetishes. In episode 9, there’s a foot fetish scene involving Larys Strong and Queen Alicent. In a meeting between the pair, Alicent takes off her shoes, then her stockings, and eventually shows her feet. Larys then proceeds to stare at…
“I recently deleted Hinge because I have no money to pay for dates,” 26-year-old Lewis, who wanted to remain anonymous, tells Mashable. “I went on a date a few weeks ago and nothing really came from it, only a big hole in my pocket.” With costs for everything on the rise, and not looking to…
A Samsung Display executive doesn’t believe that OLED displays are good enough for augmented-reality glasses, which could be bad news for Apple if rumors that it’s working on AR glasses are accurate. At a recent industry event, Samsung Display group leader Kim Min-woo explained that the best VR headsets (like the Oculus Quest 2), and…
The Nvidia RTX 4080 12GB graphics card has been ‘unlaunched’, and will now likely release under a new name at some point. We’re not exactly sure when we might see the rebranded RTX 4080 12GB, but we do expect it to appear as a RTX 4070 Ti at the least. Of course this is a…
UK businesses are set to receive a major connectivity boost, courtesy of SSE Enterprise. The company is set to unbundle 177 BT Exchanges to cope with an increased demand for high-capacity fibre connectivity. In that respect, the deployment will double SSE Enterprise Telecoms’ network reach, unlocking a further 180,000 UK business post codes. Potential network…
Ticketmaster has revealed it has suffered a major security breach after being hit in a cyber-attack last night. Thousands of UK customers may be affected by the breach, which was reportedly caused by malicious software on third-party customer support product Inbenta Technologies. We spoke to some of the security industry’s leading minds to find out…
The adoption of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) among businesses has “skyrocketed” during the pandemic, according to a report from Versa Networks. Polling 500 security and IT decision makers from the US, UK, France and Germany, the firm discovered that more than a third of businesses (34 percent) have adopted SASE in the past year,…