Spike envisions a world in which people can conduct all their business communications through a single app.Read MoreRead More
Since 2013, AT&T has quietly bilked customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars with a bogus “administrative fee,” a fee it more than doubled to $1.99 a month in 2018. For a few years there, a California class-action lawsuit made it seem like AT&T might finally get taken to task. But in May, both…
It’s a mod. After the Nier: Automata community went through a good 96-ish hours of pure, high-octane gas trying to figure out if a heretofore undiscovered church was a mod or an Easter egg or an ARG put together by Yoko Taro and his merry band of weirdos, a trio of modders has come forward…
This week in Other Barks & Bites: USPTO Director Vidal announces Federal Register notice on duty of disclosure requirements as Senate Judiciary advances a bill to create a USPTO-FDA interagency task force on drug patents; Senator Thom Tillis tells IAM that he will introduce patent eligibility legislation soon; the Federal Circuit affirms an attorneys’ fees…
Enlarge / You could be this gleeful, too, if you were in the Meta Quest 2! (credit: Facebook) If there’s one rule about computer and video game hardware, it’s that prices always come down after launch. The Meta Quest 2 became the exception that proves the rule this week, as Meta announced a coming $100…
2U, parent company of online learning platform edX, has revamped its partnership model, moving from a one-size-fits-all offering to a variety of revenue-sharing options that enable universities to select stackable bundles of technology and services to meet their needs.Read More
Stack Commerce One of the most popular programming languages to date is Python, ranking fourth in a survey answered by over 70,000 developers. It joins the ranks of heavyweights like JavaScript, HTML, and SQL, and according to Python Steering Council’s Pablo Galindo, it’s because Python is incredibly simple and versatile. It’s written in an almost…
This is the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324, in the Carina Nebula. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already given us a look at what might be the most distant galaxy ever discovered, and it’s still got about 20 years of deep-space observations left to…
Amazon’s consumer-focused storage service, Amazon Drive, will wind down over the next year, Amazon announced today. In an email to users, the company said that it was taking the opportunity to “more fully focus” its efforts on Amazon Photos, Amazon’s answer to iCloud Photos and Google Photos. Amazon Drive customers have until December 31, 2023…
Publicly traded Lemonade has laid off about 60 employees of Metromile, the auto insurtech company it recently acquired – adding to the volatility the technology sector has seen over the past 18 months. In an emailed statement, a Lemonade spokesperson told TechCrunch that it was “able to offer a role at Lemonade to about 80%…