Meta’s bitmoji-style 3D avatars have made their way to WhatsApp. As of today, you can use your digital persona either as your profile photo or as part of a 36-sticker pack that mimics popular emoji and actions. If you want to show that you love someone or aren’t sure about an idea, you can now…
Epic Games is rolling out a new type of account for younger players that will require parental consent before they can do things like make purchases from Fortnite‘s in-game store with real money or use voice chat. Epic says these so-called “cabined accounts” will provide a “tailored experience that is safe and inclusive for younger…
If you’ve been looking to pick up a smart display, today looks like a decent time to take the plunge, as Walmart has our favorite option on the market, Google’s Nest Hub, down to $39. That’s the lowest price we’ve seen to date for the second-gen model. Notably, the discount includes a basic Philips Wiz…
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection is investigating Twitter after the company put beds in its office so people could work later. Twitter decided to put the beds in its San Francisco office in an attempt to make it easier for its employees to work late. The move meant that they didn’t need to…
Meta’s avatars are available to be used in WhatsApp for the first time, with the instant messaging app offering 36 custom stickers for people to try. The new avatars act as a digital version of the real person writing the messages and look similar to Apple’s Memojis. WhatsApp says that users can create billions of…
A thylacine or ‘Tasmanian wolf’, or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ in captivity, circa 1930. Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Recently, scientists have uncovered a lizard fossil that hadn’t been seen since the 1950s and army ant fossils that were hidden at Harvard University for almost 100 years. It turns out that there is yet…
Hunt Club, a senior talent recruiting platform powered by AI, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B round co-led by WestCap and Sator Grove. In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Nick Cromydas said that the new capital will be put toward further developing the platform while growing Hunt Club’s national footprint….
Several years ago, on a dairy farm in the small Irish village of Dundrum, four technologists — Maxim Dressler, Ryan Lasmaili, Shaun Mc Brearty and Tilo Weigandt — brainstormed solutions for what they saw as a fundamental problem in data security: unencrypted text files. According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations…
With the holiday shopping season well underway and showing signs that it might not be as sluggish as some predicted, a startup out of Austin, Texas, is announcing funding to build out a new approach to shipping, to help retailers compete against the consumer pull of fast and free Amazon Prime delivery. Maergo — which…
San Francisco has hit pause on a policy that would allow police officers to use “killer robots” in certain situations that pose a threat to human life. The controversial plans were initially greenlighted last week by San Francisco’s board of supervisors in a 8-3 vote, sparking a backlash from local residents and activist groups alike….