Frontify raises $50M for a collaborative cloud platform for organizations to manage and use their design and brand assets
TechCrunch / 10min
The meteoric rise of collaborative design startup Canva — now valued at $40 billion — and conversely, the viral interest we’ve been seeing in the market for NFTs where you can “buy” a share of a limited-edition digital asset, are two examples of how the tech world today revolves around — and values — catchy ways of engaging with visual media online. Today, another startup that’s built a business
E-motorcycle maker Cake closes $60M round to scale production and retail sales
TechCrunch / 10min
Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake has announced the close of a $60 million Series B that the company will use to help set up manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as scale up its retail capabilities. “We are in the process of implementing initiatives to scale the business, structuring and laying the base for rapid growth,” said Stefan Ytterborn, founder a
How to maintain productivity when working remotely
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 14min
Stay focused even when working from home with these top tips
Toshiba's 2021 TV lineup shows good TVs don't have to break the bank
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 14min
Toshiba has announced the last TVs in its 2021 lineup and they look set to offer a great home cinema experience for a very decent price.
YouTube TV may drop 14 NBC Universal channels over a contract dispute
Engadget / 13min
NBC Universal has warned YouTube TV subscribers that 14 of its channels may be removed if the two parties can't resolve a dispute, 9to5Google has reported. YouTube has acknowledged the situation on its official blog , saying that it will drop its monthly price by $10 if the situation isn't resolved and the content goes offline. If you're a YouTube TV subscriber, you stand to lose NBC, USA Network
iQoo Z5 5G launched in India: Price, specs, and sale date
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 35min
iQoo Z5 5G has been launched in India as the successor to the iQoo Z3. Here is how much the phone costs.
TechRadar Work From Home Awards 2021: the best apps and gadgets for home
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
The TechRadar Work From Home Awards 2021 winners have been announced.
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Swedish EV-maker Polestar reportedly preparing to go SPAC at $21B valuation
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20TechCrunch / 2h
Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar is reportedly preparing to go public via special purpose acquisition with Gores Guggenheim Inc., reports the Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The SPAC deal, which sources say could be reached by Monday, would value Polestar at $21 billion. Polestar falls under Volvo Car Group’s electric performance brand, but both Polestar and Vol
Facebook acknowledges Instagram's damage to teen mental health, but says there's good stuff too
Facebook Instagram•
Mashable / 2h
Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal published a report stating that Facebook's own in-house research revealed Instagram has a significant negative impact on teenagers' mental health. Now Facebook has responded , basically saying it's a matter of interpretation. In a blog post published on Sunday afternoon, the social media giant claimed The Wall Street Journal 's Sept. 14 article had misc
Amazon may launch a wall-mountable 15-inch Echo device
Amazon Wall Echo Alexa•
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
Amazon may not make changes to the Echo smart speakers range this time around, however, there may be quite a few innovative products that the e-commerce giant may introduce tomorrow.
How to catch Break Point, the docu series on Paes & Bhupathi's remarkable tennis story
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
Zee5 Global, the world’s largest platform for South Asian content, is all set to stream the intriguing and untold Lee-Hesh bromance to breakup story. It's a 7-part series.
Signal, the encrypted messaging app, is currently down for many users (Update: it’s back)
Signal Messaging App•
23TechCrunch / 3h
Update 2: Signal is now back up for “99% of users,” according to its Twitter account. Update: In a tweet , Signal said the disruption is due to a hosting outage. Hold tight, folks! Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service. We’re working on bringing it back up. — Signal (@signalapp) September 27, 2021 Signal is down for many users right now. Its status websi
Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation
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57TechCrunch / 3h
Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 billion. The Series C round was led by Charoen Pokphand Group , which is a major shareholder of Ascend Money, with participation from Bow Wave Capital Management and returning backer Ant Group . Ascend Money will use the procee
Clash of titans: Amazon, Flipkart change their mega festival sale to the same date
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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 3h
It is going to be a battle royal. The top two e-commerce platforms in India Amazon and Flipkart are intensifying their rivalry and have changed their big-buck sale days to the same date.
A lifetime subscription to this user-friendly iOS data cleaner is on sale for under £30
Mashable / 3h
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Smart Cleaner for iOS is on sale for £29.18 as of Sept. 27, saving you 73% on list price. Just as clutter accumulates in your home without regular cleaning and organising, the same goes for your tech. A junked up iPhone with too many unused apps, space-hogging files, and unnecessary text threads isn’t running at peak capacity. In fact, accumulated clutter on your
iPhone 13 Unlock with Apple Watch fix is coming, iPad mini 6 scrolling still bugged
SlashGear / 4h
Apple has just launched its latest mobile devices for the last half of the year, and both the iPhone 13 and iPad mini 6 are getting mixed reviews. What many reviewers seem to have initialized missed, however, are some software bugs that are giving new owners a bit of a headache. While one case where the iPhone 13 doesn’t work … Continue reading
Oraan raises $3M to increase financial inclusion among Pakistani women
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65TechCrunch / 4h
After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I had a really hard time opening up a basic bank account. It took me about three and a half months,” Iqbal told TechCrunch. She began researching how Pakistani women deal with money—for example, how do they save
London’s Dice raises $122M at a $400M valuation for its intelligent event discovery and booking platform
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TechCrunch / 4h
Covid-19 really put the kibosh on live events in the last 18 months, but in the world of tech, it also meant that live event startups that found a way to survive and grow throughout the period got a lot of attention. In the latest development, Dice — a London company that has built a platform to help people discover and attend live events that might be of interest to them — has raised $122 millio
iPhone 13 third-party screen repair breaks Face ID
SlashGear / 4h
For all its effort to paint itself as a champion of consumers, especially when it comes to privacy, Apple has always been one of the biggest enemies of the “Right to Repair” movement. It has put several obstacles designed to deter unauthorized repairs of its products, from MacBooks to iPhones. That hasn’t completely thwarted third-party repairs, though, and Apple has … Continue reading
Galaxy S21 FE might have just been canceled
SlashGear / 5h
Many companies have initially downplayed the effects of the ongoing chip supply crisis on their plans, but even the likes of chip giant Intel and foundry TSMC have had to admit defeat. Things have been going great for Samsung, but it eventually had to cut out what would have been this year’s Galaxy Note 21. It seems that it won’t … Continue reading
Aspire raises $158M Series B to build a full-stack “financial operating system” for Southeast Asian businesses
Aspire Singapore $158M•
31TechCrunch / 5h
Aspire , the Singapore-based neobank that wants to become an “end-to-end financial operating system” for Southeast Asian businesses, is moving closer to its aspirations with a $158 million Series B. The round consisted of $58 million in equity and $100 million in debt, and was led by an undisclosed global fintech-focused growth equity investor, with participation from DST Global Partners, CE Inno
Last chance: up to 50% off Nest speakers, Chromecast and Pixel Buds on the Google Store
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 5h
Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday by treating us to some topnotch discounts on select devices on its online store.
Iké Boys review: If you love kaiju so much, why not just be one?
Ars Technica / 5h
A clip from Iké Boys , now playing at Fantastic Fest 2021. Iké Boys , the debut feature from writer/director Eric McEver enjoying a world premiere at Fantastic Fest this week, will feel like a secret handshake to certain people who grew up in the late 1980s or the 1990s. In a prestreaming era when Saturday morning cartoons and after-school kids' programming still meant reliable ratings, a wave of
Stop Trying to Unlock Your iPhone 13 With Your Apple Watch. It Won't Work
66Gizmodo / 5h
If you’re tired trying to unlock your iPhone 13 with your Apple Watch only to fail miserably, don’t worry: You are not alone. Read more...
iPhone 13 Pro 120Hz ProMotion display requires developers to update apps
SlashGear / 6h
Although some criticize the iPhone 13 for having too few noteworthy upgrades, there are definitely some notable improvements in the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max. One of the most significant is the ProMotion display that finally catches up to what Android phones have been doing since last year. Unfortunately, there has been some confusion about this … Continue reading
Turns Out an Unintentionally Funny Walking Dead Episode Is Also a Good One
Gizmodo / 6h
AMC’s The Walking Dead , as a rule, isn’t the sort of series that provides a lot of belly laughs . There might be some chuckles during some of its weirdness or the occasional put-down, but mostly it wants to convey the danger and dread that permeates the world of the show. I assume that was also the case with tonight’s… Read more...
iPhone 13 Pro iFixit teardown reveals important repair changes
SlashGear / 6h
Apple has always frowned on third-party, especially DIY, repairs to protect its secrets as well as its reputation. It has implemented hurdles in both hardware design and software to discourage unauthorized repairs, though that hasn’t really stopped the likes of iFixit from trying and fighting for the right to repair. The iPhone 13 series is no different, but the iPhone … Continue reading
Pixel 6 might be absent from Google’s early October event
SlashGear / 7h
Now that Apple and Samsung have said all that they have to say for 2021, it’s Google’s time to reveal what it has been cooking behind semi-closed doors. Android users and perhaps even some Apple fans are most likely very curious about the Pixel 6, both for its design as well as the new Google-designed Tensor chip. While it has … Continue reading
Singapore-based logistics startup Ninja Van secures $578M Series E
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80TechCrunch / 7h
Ninja Van , a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth. Investors include China’s Alibaba Group as well as existing investors DPDgroup’s GeoPost , Facebook co-founder Eduardo Savering’s B Capital Group , Monk’s Hill Ventures, and Zamrud, a sovereign wealth fund controlled by Brunei, based on
Galaxy S22 and S22+ renders heap on the disappointment
SlashGear / 7h
Apple’s hardware event last week sparked some discussion and debate over the company’s perceived lack of innovation this year, but it might not be alone in that regard. At least based on the earliest leaks, Samsung’s next flagship smartphone might also fail expectations of a phenomenal upgrade to the Galaxy S family. While the Galaxy S22 Ultra does seem to … Continue reading
A Bitcoin miner is buying power plants to mine crypto now
Bitcoin Pennsylvania•
300+Mashable / 9h
By now, you've probably heard about the sheer amount of energy cryptocurrency mining uses and how that's bad for the environment . So, it should be quite concerning to find out that Bitcoin miners are now buying entire power plants in their effort to get rich on the speculative asset. A Pennsylvania-based holding company called Stronghold Digital Mining is currently running a Bitcoin mining opera
Break your iPhone 13 screen? Face ID won't work if it's not replaced by Apple.
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100+Mashable / 10h
Buying the new iPhone 13? Then you better handle it extra carefully because Apple looks to be making it a pain to repair. The problem: The iPhone-maker may force you to go to Apple directly if you need to replace your screen. YouTube channel Phone Repair Guru recently uploaded a new video taking apart the new iPhone 13. After doing a deep dive into the inside of Apple's latest smartphone, Phone R
Hubble telescope helps find six 'dead' galaxies from the early universe
1KEngadget / 11h
You'd think large galaxies in the early universe would have had plenty of 'fuel' left for new stars, but a recent discovery suggests that wasn't always the case. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found six early galaxies (about 3 billion years after the Big Bang ) that were unusually "dead" — that is, they'd run out of th
New American Express Centurion Lounge Coming To Newark
View from the Wing / 11h
The Port Authority of New York New Jersey is scheduled to consider an agreement for an American Express Centurion lounge at Newark airport this Thursday. Continue reading ...
New iPad mini owners report 'jelly scrolling' problems
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Engadget / 12h
Some new iPad mini customers aren't enjoying the tiny tablet's new screen as much as they'd like. 9to5Mac reports that users ( including The Verge 's Dieter Bohn) have noticed a "jelly scrolling" effect where one side of the screen scrolls at a different rate than the other, producing a wobble occasionally noticeable in portrait view. The effect is harder to spot if you tilt the iPad to a landsca
This bonkers NFL play has it all: All-caps hype, a broken record, shrieking commentary
Mashable / 12h
Whatever you think of professional football, or even organized sports as a whole, the breathtaking chaos of this clip, which immediately went viral, is what makes it worth watching. First, some context. The NFL season is underway, and Sunday's showdown between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Arizona Cardinals saw the latter squad take a sizable risk, only to pay for it dearly. At the tail end of the
Disaster Comedy Don't Look Up Feels Way Too Real
Gizmodo / 12h
The star-studded new film Don’t Look Up has a wild, completely unbelievable premise . Something totally out of the scope of reality . A plot that would never, ever, in a million years happen . It’s about a world where scientists have proof something terrible is happening...and no one believes them. Pfft. Yeah, like that … Read more...
