Earlier this month, IP diversity advocacy group Invent Together announced that it had launched an online learning platform known as The Inventor’s Patent Academy (TIPA), an e-learning course designed in collaboration with Qualcomm to educate inventors from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds about the benefits of engaging with the U.S. patent system. This online academy is…
Enlarge / Sony has taken steps to allay hex-shaped NFT fears about its new “rewards” service. (credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Sam Machkovech) On Thursday, Sony Interactive Entertainment posted a surprise announcement about a new service coming to PlayStation consoles. Most of the details about the new “PlayStation Stars” initiative, which resembles other gaming services’…
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Despite a significant depression in crypto markets, plenty of top players have been hesitant to say that the good times are over for the time being, but as NFT marketplace OpenSea announces today that its laying off around 20% of the company’s employees, the top crypto startup’s CEO isn’t mincing words. ” … [T]he reality…
You might think given the chatter in the startup world that venture capitalists are short on funds — after all, we’re hearing about young tech companies finding themselves marooned between stages, hitting up investors with smaller capital pools than prior backers and turning to equity crowdfunding to keep their cash balances healthy. And yet new data…
It’s shaping up to be the summer of dueling seven-figure electrified hypercars. But perhaps it’s more of a sibling rivalry, as the Rimac Nevera and Pininfarina Battista share common DNA. Rimac said Tuesday that its $2.5 million 1,914-horsepower Nevera has begun rolling off the assembly line. Pininfarina announced the following day that its own $2.5…
TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook need to pull up their socks on making their platforms safer spaces for LGBTQ users, GLAAD says in its latest report. The organisation’s now-annual Social Media Safety Index analyses LGBTQ user safety on the five big social media platforms: TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. The first report was…
LED lights may be the backbone of the high-definition TV and smart home lighting industries, but the bright little bulbs also may just be the secret to glowing skin. Celebrities like Shay Mitchell and Chrissy Teigen have long been wearing cyborg-like face masks on Instagram, quite literally lit from within, and boasting about their unbeatable…
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group just announced it has wrapped up the final specifications for Bluetooth LE, a next-gen version of the Bluetooth audio spec promising wide-ranging performance enhancements for future headphones and earbuds like Apple’s forthcoming AirPods Pro 2. What’s different between the new Bluetooth LE spec and the older version? A key upgrade…
Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a meeting with the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Moscow’s Kremlin June 7, 2006. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov Russian officials and oil producers are in discussion to create a global benchmark for Russian crude. The initiative been sped along by talk of a price…