Natives Rising wins backing to help Native Americans into tech and startups

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Black, Latina, and Native American women represent approximately 16 percent of the total US population, but make up only 4 percent of students obtaining bachelor’s degrees in computing. On this trend, women of color receiving computing degrees will not double until 2052 — by which time they…

Amazon Kindle Scribe review

The Kindle turned 15 this month. It’s been a strange ride for Amazon’s first hardware device. CEO Andy Jassy gave the e-reader a rare bit of love in last year’s shareholder letter, noting: Our first foray into devices was the Kindle, released in 2007. It was not the most sophisticated industrial design (it was creamy…

Transforming old cardboard boxes into insulation nets CleanFiber $10 million round

It’s the middle of the holiday season here in the U.S., that magical time between Thanksgiving and Christmas when stores are packed with bodies and porches are piled with packages. All those packages produce a lot of waste — anywhere from 33 million tons to 51 million tons annually, depending on the estimate. A majority…

Spotify Wrapped is here to analyze your Listening Personality

It’s here. The moment you’ve been waiting for. You’ve survived Icebergify and Intsafest, and now the real deal has finally arrived: your 2022 Spotify Wrapped According to Spotify, 2022 has been a year of “emergence” where “everything is happening all at once,” so this year’s Wrapped looks inward, launching new features that analyze users’ personalities…

Nvidia celebrates Portal With RTX release by giving away RTX 4090s

Valve’s iconic game Portal is getting reimagined this December courtesy of Nvidia, and we’re absolutely buzzing. The original Portal is widely regarded as one of the most iconic puzzle games of all time, and Nvidia will be bringing it to users complete with advanced graphics features like full ray tracing and Nvidia DLSS 3 capabilities…