Trust us, 16:10 aspect ratio is just better. | Image: Dell Dell heard our call in 2021 for more laptops with tall displays and finally answered it a year later. It’s launching the Dell G16 (model 7620) on July 21st, starting at $1,399.99 and going up, and the display seems to be most of the…
The HomePod Mini is a Thread border router. With the launch of the new Thread specification, border routers from different manufacturers can now be part of a single Thread network. | Photo by Jennifer Tuohy / The Verge Matter is getting closer. The new smart home standard promising to make setting up a smart home…
Audrey Malo ON ANY GIVEN WEEKDAY, the United States Mint can churn out almost 126.4 million pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, 50-cent pieces, and gold dollars from its presses in Denver and Philadelphia. Giant “cookie cutters” punch blanks out of 1,500-foot-long sheets of copper, nickel, and other metals. The discs are then heated, washed with citric acid…
Stack Commerce They say that data scientist remains the “sexiest” job of the 21st century. But what’s ironic is that there’s nothing inherently sexy about making meaning out of seemingly incomprehensible mounds of raw data. If anything, the job is incredibly laborious, as it requires gathering, organizing, processing, analyzing, and visualizing information. If there’s a…
The FBI has issued a public warning about fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps after hackers posing as legitimate services stole tens of millions of dollars from U.S. investors. In an advisory published on Monday, the law enforcement agency said hackers have been posing as legitimate cryptocurrency investment organizations in an effort to convince investors to download fraudulent…
YouTube announced today that it’s launching several new shopping features for both viewers and creators. Most notably, YouTube is partnering with Shopify to allow creators and merchants to feature their products on their channels. Eligible creators can now link their Shopify store to their YouTube channel. With this partnership, creators who link their stores can…
Increasingly, absent a federal framework, U.S. states are passing privacy and security laws aimed at protecting people’s data. The California Consumer Privacy Act is perhaps the best known, followed by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the New York Privacy Act and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. While the laws are a step in…
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has emerged as a pan-industry force by just about every estimation. SaaS has been bucking many of the venture slowdown trends, while data from Gartner indicates that SaaS constituted the lion’s share ($123 billion) of cloud end-user spending ($332 billion) last year. But the pervasiveness of SaaS, and ease-of-access ushered in by the broader…
Crypto asset manager Valkyrie, best known for launching one of the only U.S. SEC-approved bitcoin futures ETFs, is moving into a new asset class — venture capital. The firm hired investor Lluís Pedragosa in April and has been quietly preparing him to helm Valkyrie Ventures, its new VC arm announced today, as managing partner. Pedragosa,…
As capital continues to enter the crypto space, Tribe Capital has raised $25 million from outside investors and has launched its incubator program, Tribe Crypto Labs, its CEO Arjun Sethi exclusively told TechCrunch. The firm has approximately $1.5 billion in assets under management and has previously made investments in crypto companies like crypto exchanges FTX…