Month: January 2020
The Twitch streamer behind Tfue’s custom $3,500 mechanical keyboard
When Tae Ha Kim began streaming himself constructing mechanical keyboards on Twitch roughly two years ago, he didn’t think it would be a viable replacement for his San Francisco programming career. And he never imagined it would lead to designing custom accessories for some of the top video game players…
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Verge readers can get a two-pack of Google Nest Mini speakers for just $47
It’s not tough to get around paying the full $49.99 price on Google’s Nest Mini smart speaker. Right now, Google sells them for $35 each, and during the holiday season last year, they dropped down to $25. Those are good prices, but Daily Steals is offering Verge readers a discount…
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Insurance startup Gabi raises $27M to double its product, engineering and marketing teams
Gabi, a startup built to help consumers save money on home and auto insurance, announced today that it has closed a $27 million Series B. The company intends on using its new capital to rapidly expand its team and invest in its product. Nearly every startup does something similar after…
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Elizabeth Warren wants harsher penalties for sharing disinformation about voting
On Wednesday, presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a new plan to fight disinformation, aiming to stem the effect of the Russian troll campaigns that plagued the 2016 election. In particular, Warren proposes harsher laws against spreading misinformation for the purpose of voter suppression, as in ads spreading the…
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Mozilla’s venerable email client Thunderbird finds a new home to roost
Mozilla has been very quiet about Thunderbird for some time now. Although the email client was never officially killed off, the organisation stopped actively developing it a number of years ago, now conceding that “there was a time when Thunderbird’s future was uncertain”. But now the software has a new…
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SpaceX succeeds with a key pressure test in its Starship program
SpaceX has completed a key test necessary for development of its next Starship prototype – stress testing a fuel tank to the point of failure, at its Starship development site in Boca Chica, Texas. This test comes on the heels of a less intense pressure test for the same tank,…
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