Month: February 2020
Samsung 16GB mobile DRAM enters mass production
Samsung has announced that it has started mass production of 16GB Low Power Double Data Rate 5 or LPDDR5 mobile DRAM package for premium smartphones. This new RAM module is not only expected to boost the memory on-board but is also expected to be 30% quicker and consumes 20% less…
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Blockchain security startup CoolBitX raises $16.75 million Series B round
CoolBitX, a blockchain security startup based in Taiwan, announced today it has raised $16.75 million in Series B funding, led by returning investor SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial group. Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bitsonic, Monex Group, another Japanese financial group, and Taiwan’s National Development Fund also participated. Founded in 2014, CoolBitX…
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CircleCI-AWS GovCloud partnership aims to bring modern development to U.S. government
Much like private businesses, the United States government is in the process of moving workloads to the cloud, and facing a similar set of challenges. Today, CircleCI, the continuous delivery developer service, announced a partnership with AWS GovCloud to help federal government entities using AWS’s government platform to modernize their…
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Purported specs of Motorola Edge Plus, One Mid, and G8 Power Lite leaked
Motorola Edge Plus, Motorola One Mid, and Motorola Moto G8 Power Lite could be next-in-line to be unveiled by the Lenovo-owned company. Fresh leaks by XDA Developers’ Mishaal Rahman lay bare the critical specifications of the three smartphones. Interestingly and as Rahman states in his tweet, the Motorola Edge Plus…
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Beyond GTA: how tech and communities could change the future of open-world games
Historians of the future might look quizzically at the open-world phenomena, which swept video games during the opening decades of the 2000s. At a time of environmental precarity and extreme inequality, a handful of the world’s biggest entertainment and technology companies collectively sunk billions of dollars into virtual worlds of…
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Insurance platform Collective Benefits raises £3.3M to give gig economy workers a safety net
The famous phrase “software eats the world” was originally coined to describe how technology gradually replaces the old industrial norms of production. But few realized that when Uber started to ‘eat’ the taxi industry it would also be among the first harbingers of a new wave of what it meant…
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