Month: April 2021
EU-based digital assets platform Finoa inks $22M Series A funding led by Balderton Capital
Institutions need to keep their crypto assets somewhere. And they aren’t going to keep it on some random, or consumer-grade crypto operation. This requires more sophisticated technology. Furthermore, being in the EU is going to be a key barrier to entry for many US or Asia-based operations. Thus it is…
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Ethereum jumps to record high Ethereum
After reaching an all time high of $2,500 per coin earlier this month, Ethereum has now managed to hit a new peak following reports that the European Investment Bank (EIB) plans to launch a “digital bond” sale on the Ethereum blockchain network. The world’s second largest cryptocurrency climbed to $2,756…
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Would you pay $30 a month for a faster web browser that eats less battery?
No matter how much web browsers improve, it feels like they can’t keep pace with everything we want to do. Open one too many tabs on a few-year-old laptop, and your fan starts spinning, your battery life dips, your system starts to slow. A faster or cleaner PC might fix…
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Google Pay to support UPI payments over NFC in India – Just tap and pay Google Pay in India to allow UPI payments via NFC
Google Pay users in India, who recently got new features tailored to improve their privacy, are set to get another support that should help ease their transaction process at merchant establishments. Google Pay now lets users make contactless payments via NFC (Near Field Communication) technology on their phone for UPI…
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Apple sales bounce back in China as Huawei loses smartphone crown
Huawei’s smartphone rivals in China are quickly divvying up the market share it has lost over the past year. 92.4 million units of smartphones were shipped in China during the first quarter, with Vivo claiming the crown with a 23% share and its sister company Oppo following closely behind with…
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Google Assistant mispronouncing your name? That’s about to change Google Assistant
Do you have a name that Google Assistant consistently mispronounces? The tech giant’s latest update to its voice assistant will (hopefully) fix that problem by allowing you to teach it how to pronounce difficult names (yours or your contacts’). As shown in the video below, it works by you saying…
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