The last bull market created a new wave of investors as more and more people decided to make their first foray into the markets. Step, a digital banking service geared toward teens and young adults, is one of the many companies that set out to make money by serving those new investors. And although fates…
“What a lot of people tell me is ‘hardware is hard,’” Eliot Horowitz explains. “I have a really big problem with that statement.” The Viam Robotics CEO and MongoDB co-founder describes purchasing a Universal Robotics’ UR5 robot arm and programming it to play chess. “I don’t think hardware is hard. I think hardware is not…
Qualifying for a credit card is not easy when you have a poor credit score or none at all, but Los Angeles-based fintech company Arro wants to help consumers grow their credit line while also teaching them why that’s important. This type of thing is not new; just look at Kikoff, Upgrade, Self Financial, Altro,…
SAVE $45.04: As of Oct. 11, the Google Nest Thermostat has hit an all-time low price during Amazon’s Prime Early Access sale — save $45 while the deal is live (just $84.95, usually $129.99). Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale has officially begun (even though a lot of deals started going live last week), and the…
YouTube is becoming a little bit more like Twitter. On Monday, the company announced that creators and channels on the platform are getting a @username-style handle. The idea is to make it easier to mention a creator or a channel in comments, video descriptions, and community posts. Creators will be able to mention each other…
SAVE 13%: The Xbox Series S (certified refurbished) is on sale for £199.99 in Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale, saving you £30 on list price. We all know that there have been a lot of stock issues with next-gen consoles over the last couple of years. There hasn’t been a special trick to find stock,…
Microsoft’s big October 12 hardware event has almost arrived, and there’s plenty of buzz surrounding which new Surface products we might see. Since the Surface Laptop 4 launched back in April 2021, there hasn’t been much on the hardware front from Microsoft barring a few releases in October 2021. We’re expecting a lot of new…
Google has announced a new family of virtual machines that will become the first in the public cloud market to be powered by Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon server processors. At Google Cloud Next ‘22, the company lifted the lid on its new C3 VMs, which it says can provide more predictable and efficient compute performance, courtesy…
Australian telecoms giant Optus is facing two additional investigations in relation to the major data breach that occurred last month. Depending on the results of the investigation, the company could be forced to pay more than $4 million in damages. As reported by The Guardian, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Office…
Google Workspace is receiving a slew of quality of life updates that should make the lives of presenters and participants easier in a hybrid working setting. As announced at Google Cloud Next ’22, big changes on the horizon for the suite of online collaboration tools include presenter video feeds being embedded within Google Slides content,…