Today, the electrical grid works because utilities have a time-tested playbook. They may not know exactly when you do your laundry, but they generally know washers and dryers run more in the evenings or on weekends. Air conditioners wind up when temperatures soar, and more lights click on during the dark winter months. But in…
Back in 2015, Google launched an open-source port of its internal automation tool for building and testing code. Dubbed Bazel (because the internal tool was called Blaze), the service uses a Python dialect to help developers write their rules and macros. Today, the tooling is used by companies ranging from Adobe to Databricks, Dropbox, LinkedIn…
Months after it was announced at an event in September, Emergency SOS via satellite, Apple’s service for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro that uses satellite to route emergency calls, launched today. Supported iPhones in the U.S. and Canada updated with the latest iOS 16 can send an SOS even when they’re off the…
ULUU believes the solution to the plastic crisis lies in the world’s oceans. The Australian startup uses seaweed to create a plastic alternative and is planning to launch its first products in the next 12 to 24 months. Today ULUU announced it has raised $8 million AUD (about $5.3 million USD) led by Main Sequence…
WhatsApp’s head of India Abhijit Bose and Meta’s public policy head for the country Rajiv Aggarwal have both left the social networking firm — just days after Meta India chief Ajit Mohan quit the company to join rival Snap. On Tuesday, Meta confirmed the departure of both executives. The company also announced the appointment of…
Chloë Grace Moretz has been acting since she was five, and practicing martial arts since she was an 11-year-old filming Kick-Ass. The latest string to her bow? Judo, which she says her stunt coordinator on The Peripheral taught her to help with the action sequences. “I was super down because it means I can throw…
Nike has long invested in Web3 and digital fashion, notably purchasing digital design studio RTFKT last year. Today, the company continues its foray into this space, announcing its own standalone Web3 platform, .SWOOSH, named after the company’s logo. The platform will allow users to buy, sell, and trade virtual Nike pieces such as apparel and…
Despite the ever-improving competition, Netflix has continued to set the benchmark for streamable movie content thanks to its large library of licensed films and original features. The platform’s roster of available titles changes on a monthly basis, and Netflix makes room for new Netflix movies by necessarily bidding farewell to old ones just as often….
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2 has now been revealed, and is actually called Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. This is fairly surprising, given the naming traditions of the series so far. Not only does it have a new name, but we now know that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is the second game in a trilogy….
Nvidia’s RTX 4080 graphics card has been spotted priced up in Europe and the UK ahead of its big launch on November 16, but sadly these are even more worrying price tags for would-be buyers than those we’ve already witnessed in the US. If you recall, US pricing – for third-party models of the RTX…