Month: April 2021
Per Diem raises $2.3M to help local businesses build subscription programs
It might be time for neighborhood restaurants and coffee shops to start thinking about a subscription business — at least according to a new Y Combinator-backed startup called Per Diem. The company is announcing today that it has raised $2.3 million in seed funding led by Two Sigma Ventures. As…
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Microsoft enables Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 for developers
Microsoft is starting to allow Windows 10 testers to access Linux GUI apps. The first preview of support for GUI applications is available today for Windows Insiders, allowing developers to run GUI editors, tools, and applications to build and test Linux apps. It’s a significant extension for Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem…
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This speaker uses dancing ferrofluid to visualize music
A speaker made by artist Dakd Jung, spotted by Gizmodo, visualizes music with ferrofluid, a liquid filled with tiny magnetic particles. The ferrofluid, a viscous black blob, reacts to an electromagnetic device and dances around in sync with the sounds being played. [embedded content] The video shows Jung’s process for…
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT topples Nvidia to claim GPU clock speed record AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
An AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card that features an featuring an “updated” Navi 21 XTXH GPU has been overclocked to a record 3.2GHz. When AMD first launched Radeon RX 6000 series – albeit in limited quantities – the GPUs had an artificial limit to a maximum clock speed of 3GHz, which…
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Zoom update delivers more emoji reactions and new annotation features
This week’s Zoom update includes a couple of quality of life improvements for anyone using its annotation or emoji reaction features, the company has announced. Meeting participants can now use any emoji that was previously available in Zoom chat to react during a meeting, up from the six meager options…
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Google Meet gets a refreshed UI, multi-pinning, autozoom and more
Google today announced a major update to Meet, its video-meeting service, which brings several user interface tweaks for desktop users, as well as quite a bit of new functionality, including multi-pinning so that you can highlight multiple feeds instead of just one, as well as new AI-driven video capabilities for…
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