Month: May 2020
Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro (2020) review: return to baseline
The most interesting — and most common — questions I’ve received about this new 13-inch MacBook Pro aren’t about the laptop itself, at least not directly. They’re about comparison shopping it up against other MacBooks and even other Windows laptops. For Apple, that’s actually good news because, up until recently,…
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Electric scooters will be road legal in the UK from June – but only if you hire them
Electric scooters will be road-legal in the UK from June, but only if you hire them from a company running a pay-as-you-ride scheme. Scooters are a common sight on UK roads, but riding them anywhere other than privately owned land (with permission) is actually illegal. That’s all set to change…
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Apple’s $700 Mac Pro wheels work terribly on skateboards
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past month, you’ll know that Apple has started selling a set of standalone wheels for the Mac Pro for $700. Yes, it’s ridiculous. At that price, it stands to reason that you probably want them to do more than just transport…
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Rakuten acquires Innoeye for its push into 5G and communications services
Rakuten, often referred to as the “Amazon of Japan” with extensive holdings in e-commerce and streaming media, has made an acquisition that will help it build up and flex a newer arm of its business: communications services. Today, the company announced that it is buying Innoeye, an engineering company based…
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Smart glass manufacturer Click Materials inks major deal to challenge $1 billion-backed View Inc.
Click Materials, a Vancouver-based developer of “smart glass” has inked a major partnership with one fo the largest manufacturers of windows for the home, Cardinal Glass, as it looks to challenge the billion dollar-backed View Inc. Founded in 2016 by a University of British Columbia professor, Curtis Berlinguette, Click Materials…
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SirionLabs raises $44M to scale its contract management software
SirionLabs, a startup that provides contract management software to enterprises, has raised $44 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand and handle surge in demand from clients. Tiger Global and Avatar Growth Capital led the Seattle-headquartered startup’s Series C round. The eight-year-old startup, which was founded…
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