At the very end of the movie “The Current War,” Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor who played Thomas Edison, bumps into Michael Shannon, the actor who played George Westinghouse. The two had battled for years over implementations of their respective electric current systems into society, with Westinghouse winning in the end. This particular meeting probably never took…
Enlarge / The 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) It looks like the first benchmarks of Apple’s upcoming M2 Max chip have leaked in Geekbench’s database. When users run the over-the-shelf version of the Geekbench 5 benchmarking tool, the scores are logged to a public database of results and are tied to entries for…
Most M&A deals involve a lot of activity from the buyer to the financiers and a myriad interested parties. The typical way of describing this is to write dense text in a contract explaining the relationships, an approach that quickly becomes difficult to follow, even for the most experienced legal minds. StructureFlow’s founder and CEO,…
It’s all good and well to sell a carbon credit, but if you chop down the tree representing that credit as soon as the money hits the bank account, it’s not exactly a win for the planet. Gaia AI is building a tool that can be used for that, and other aspects of forest management,…
Xiaomi’s business head in India has resigned as the Chinese smartphone giant faces regulatory pressure and intense scrutiny from the Indian government and sees growing competition from other homegrown Chinese vendors as well as Samsung. Raghu Reddy, Chief Business Officer, who was one of the prominent public faces and a part of the leadership team,…
Proton, the Swiss company behind a range of privacy-focused online services, has officially brought its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage service to mobile. Founded in 2014, Proton was initially all about an encrypted Gmail alternative called Proton Mail, but in the intervening years the company has launched its own VPN and sought to replicate various…
Is the concept for the above Late Late Show sketch sort of thin? Well, yes. Luckily, the presence of an adorable children’s choir and some impromptu dancing from Noah Centineo saves it. The skit sees Centineo arriving with said choir in tow, informing James Corden that his name can be perfectly transposed into any Christmas…
Christmas has come early to Zeta Halo as The Winter Update gets another facelift. The new content is just in time for a festive free-for-all that makes it easier than ever to play custom maps, modes, and throw down in the latest variation of The Pit. Halo Infinite is the sixth installment in 343 Industries’…
The December update for GTA Online will add ray tracing on Xbox Series X and PS5, as well as other quality-of-life improvements to the long-running multiplayer mode. More specifically, the GTA Online Winter Update 2022, which is slated to go live later this month according to the Rockstar Newswire post, is adding ray-traced reflections which…
The price of Disney Plus is about to go up by almost 40% on December 8, and this is your last warning to save big on your subscription before it does. Following in the footsteps of the other best streaming services like Netflix, Disney Plus is getting an ad-supported tier on December 8, and when…