Month: April 2021
EasyMile raises $66M for its autonomous people-and-goods shuttles
We may still be a long way off from Level 5, fully self-driving cars on the open road, but companies building autonomous vehicles and shuttles for specific uses within closed-campus deployments say they are on their way to commercial operations and are raising money to get there. In the latest…
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New Pokémon Snap is a supremely chill safari on the Nintendo Switch
Virtual worlds have long been a place to escape. That was true before the pandemic, but lockdowns and stay-at-home orders across the world certainly accelerated the phenomenon. I spent an embarrassing amount of time last year gardening in Animal Crossing and going to concerts in Fortnite. They were great distractions,…
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Azure success once again pushes Microsoft results to new highs Microsoft logo
Microsoft continues its march towards becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world, riding primarily on the pandemic-propelled growth of its cloud computing services. In its Q1 2021 revenue, the company narrowly beat analysts expectations as it rose nineteen percent to $41.7 billion, with its Azure cloud computing…
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Wunderite raises $3M to build software for indie insurance agencies
This morning Wunderite, a Boston-based software startup, announced that it has raised $3 million in an early-stage round led by Spark Capital. Wunderite builds and sells software designed to help insurance agencies more rapidly process insurance applications, and automate some of their processes. With an industry-focus on insurance agencies while…
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Amazon’s Latest Echo Dot Is at Its Cheapest Sale Price
Dot discounts aren’t infrequent, but this is the best deal we’ve seen on it since the holidays. Source
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The GPU Shortage Deepened My Existential Dread
When my teenager couldn’t find a video card, he declared that everything was meaningless. Turns out, in the lonely months of quarantine, he was right. Source
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