Month: April 2021
Want to take a road trip with Kevin Costner? Investors are betting you will
Woody Sears has long been interested in storytelling. Following the debut in 2007 of the first iPhone, he founded a storytelling app called Zuuka that built up a library of narrated and illustrated kids’ books for the iPhone and iPad. Sears later sold that company to a small New York-based…
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Two Coinbase employees exchanged NFT rings with their wedding vows
Two Coinbase employees have managed to find a heartwarming use for NFTs by incorporating them into their wedding, exchanging the digital tokens as part of the ceremony. Rebecca Rose and Peter Kacherginsky say that alongside their traditional Jewish ceremony, the couple also sent each other digital tokens as “virtual rings”…
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Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios
Leslie Feinzaig Contributor Venture capital has a diversity problem: Data show that Black and Latinx founders received just 2.6% of overall funding in 2020. Women-founded teams received nearly 30% less funding in 2020 than they did in 2019. For decades, a close-knit community of brilliant but like-minded individuals built a…
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Google’s next Pixels will reportedly switch to a custom in-house GS101 processor
Google’s next Pixel flagship — the presumably named “Pixel 6” — will reportedly feature a Google-designed GS101 “Whitechapel” SoC (system on a chip), a first for the company, as reported by 9to5Google and XDA-Developers. 9to5Google’s report claims Google is working on two phones that will feature the Arm-based GS101 —…
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The latest in the global semiconductor shortage
From consoles to cars, it seems like everyone is having a hard time getting enough chips Contributors: Verge Staff As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, demand for tech products suddenly spiked, just as it became difficult for chipmakers to know how much production capacity they actually needed. Now, anyone looking to…
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Microsoft has finally fixed this dreaded Outlook email bug bug bounty
A frustrating bug in the Microsoft Outlook desktop client has finally been addressed, with a fix set to be made widely available by late April. First discovered in February, the bug is restricted to the Outlook email client for PC and prevents users from forwarding or replying to certain emails.…
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