Month: February 2020
Google Cloud opens its Seoul region
Google Cloud today announced that its new Seoul region, its first in Korea, is now open for business. The region, which it first talked about last April, will feature three availability zones and support for virtually all of Google Cloud’s standard service, ranging from Compute Engine to BigQuery, Bigtable and…
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Xbox Series X could sport immersive sound to rival the PS5
Another console, another 3D audio chip? Rumor has it that the hotly-anticipated Xbox Series X could feature the kind of immersive spatial audio that we’re expecting to see in the also soon-to-be-released PS5. A description of a GDC 2020 presentation that will be held on March 18 by Microsoft’s Senior…
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Daily Crunch: Blue Apron might sell itself
Blue Apron considers “strategic alternatives,” Facebook experiments with different News Feed formats and Twitter buys a startup focused on the Stories format. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 19, 2020. 1. Blue Apron is considering selling itself Meal kit company Blue Apron has been struggling for a long time, with…
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Nissan launches a subscription service starting at $699 a month
Car subscriptions: they’re totally a thing! The latest automaker to test the waters on subscriptions is Nissan, which just launched a new, two-tier service in Houston, Texas. It’s called “Nissan Switch,” and it will feature a variety of models, including the all-electric Nissan Leaf Plus, the Titan pickup, and the…
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Fortnite’s next season needs to tell a good story
Fortnite’s next season kicks off tomorrow, and more than anything else, I really hope it tells a good story. While Epic Games’ hugely popular free-to-play battle royale shooter might be best known for its colorful visuals, entertaining emotes, and pop culture references, one of the main reasons I’ve stuck with…
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Tim Draper puts $1M into the Aragon blockchain project to create digital courts
In the murky world of crypto and blockchain, taking disputes to a traditional court would either land both the plaintiff and the defendant in jail or confuse the court to the point of total befuddlement. You can just imagine the scenario: “What is a DAO?” “It’s a Decentralized autonomous organization,…
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