The Universal Audio SD-1 wants to be your dynamic mic plug-n-play bae. Julian Vittorio Founded in 1958, Universal Audio originally became a professional recording studio mainstay producing preamplifiers, compressors, and other tube-based processors. After decades of manufacturing channel strips and outboard gear, Universal Audio was acquired and the name retired. In 1999, Universal Audio, or…
Crypto owners tend to be more generous when donating to charity than other investors, research shows. Whether that’s because of their strong sense of community or because of the lucrative tax benefits of doing so is anyone’s guess, but nonetheless, savvy charities have taken note of the trend and sought to leverage it. That’s part…
Quiltt is wrapping its warm low-code fintech infrastructure blanket around startups and small businesses that want to create financial services for their customers, but don’t have the budget resources for a big engineering team. Ruben Izmailyan and Mark Bechhofer came up with the idea for Dallas-based Quiltt about five years ago while working together on…
When I first watched the trailer for Netflix’s Man vs Bee, a comedy series in which Rowan Atkinson plays a housesitter going to war with an invading bee, I had two thoughts: 1) It looked ridiculous (but in a fun way), and 2) How the heck had they managed to stretch the concept into an…
The standard for Amazon hardware hasn’t changed much over the years: Pay a little to get…not a lot, but more than a little, at least. Hardware from the Bezos empire (like the recent Echo Buds 2) tends to compromise a bit on horsepower and features in order to severely undercut the competition on price, and…
Technically, Amazon Prime Day hasn’t kicked off yet, but apparently, Google didn’t get this memo – it’s reduced its Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro to some surprising new pricces. For the Pixel 6 Pro, this is the cheapest we’ve seen the phone sell for – that’s also the case for the standard model in…
AMD is feeling confident that it has a secret weapon that could beat Nvidia – but we’re worried it may be getting a bit too cocky. This secret weapon (which admittedly isn’t that secret, as AMD is crowing about it), is the use of GPU chiplets in its upcoming RDNA 3 graphics cards. Rather than…
So, it looks like Nvidia’s hotly-anticipated Lovelace GPUs might not be arriving until even later in the year, if current rumors are to be believed. It’s not even necessarily because RTX 4000 isn’t ready to launch; it’s been suggested that the next-gen graphics cards might arrive later due to existing stock of RTX 3000 cards…
Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Thales plan to bring 5G connectivity to low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, potentially expanding coverage of next-generation mobile networks to remote or previously unreachable parts of the planet. The three companies have conducted a series of studies and simulations to ascertain the feasibility of such a project and are now ready…
‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary is expecting a further crypto crash. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Kevin O’Leary is expecting a major panic event that will trigger another crypto crash. Major firms like Celsius Network and Voyager Digital have already collapsed as the industry suffers a liquidity crunch. “There’s no big guy who has gone to zero…