Stack Commerce What do Netflix, Twitch, LinkedIn, and Facebook have in common? Aside from luring you to spend hours and hours on their site, these hotshot tech companies are known to use AWS or Amazon Web Services. They rely on AWS for nearly all their computing and storage needs, including analytics, databases, recommendation engines, and…
Our MacBook Pro review felt strangely incomplete when it dropped roughly two weeks back. In many ways, my experience with the laptop was defined as much by the product I was reviewing as it was by the absence of one I’d only briefly interacted with during a hands-on scrum at WWDC some weeks prior. In…
There’s a growing appetite for alternative search engines. At least, that’s the crux of the argument Richard Socher, the former chief scientist at Salesforce, likes to make. In 2020, Socher co-founded You, a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages)….
Hivery, a startup that bills itself as an “optimization platform” for retailers, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global, the embattled private equity firm, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, AS1 Growth Partners and OneVentures. CEO Jason Hosking told TechCrunch via email that the proceeds will fuel…
When Andrew Hines started Canvas Medical in 2015 he couldn’t have predicted that telehealth would go from niche to norm or that a pandemic would inspire entrepreneurs to launch a new fleet of digital health startups that needed fresh infrastructure. He just knew he wanted to build software for physicians like his wife, who wasted…
If you had trouble loading tweets this morning, you’re not the only one. Starting around 8 AM ET, tens of thousands of users reported outages on Downdetector, a site chronicling web outages. About an hour later, the outage seems to be resolved. The outage extended to mobile, iOS and Android, also affecting services like TweetDeck….
Dating is a competitive game, and you should do everything you can to give yourself a chance of success. Looking your best and smelling fresh is a good place to start, but nothing shortens your odds of success like signing up to a dating site. The problem with this tactic is that there are just…
We know you’re on the lookout for the best sites and apps for hooking up, but first we should talk about Hookup culture (just in case you aren’t already familiar with it). Hookup culture is all about keeping it casual, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Everyone gets stuck in a sexual rut at…
Even in a world where online dating has become the norm and it’s now possible to skip the tiring process of scouring bars and events for other singles in order to get a date, sometimes it’s just the thought of going on the date that’s tiring. No matter what kind of encounter you plan, it…
Twitter is down, and the issue appears to be global. The social media site hasn’t been loading for any of us at Mashable, and Downdetector indicates a lot of users have issues accessing it as well. (Editor’s note: Downdetector is owned by Mashable’s parent company, Ziff Davis). It’s not just you. Credit: Downdetector. I’ve been…