Month: May 2021
AMD Zen 4 rumor suggests late 2022 release – a year after Intel Alder Lake debuts Ryzen 3
AMD’s next-generation Zen 4 Ryzen desktop CPUs might not launch until late 2022, almost a year after the debut of Intel’s 12th-generation Alder Lake lineup. That’s according to Twitter tipster Sepeuwmjh, who suggests AMD’s Zen 4 processors, codenamed ‘Raphael’, will be announced in September or October of 2022, with a…
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Instagram will now let you auto-caption Stories with just a sticker
Instagram now has a captions sticker for Stories, which will automatically transcribe speech in videos. The sticker will be available only in “English and English-speaking countries” for now but will eventually roll out to other languages and countries. Instagram says it will also start testing automated captions in Reels soon.…
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Office 365 down: Microsoft investigating issues with some apps Office 365 vs G Suite
Update:Microsoft claims issues are arising as a result of timeout errors within caching components. “We’re performing restarts and rerouting traffic to provide relief whilst we continue our investigation,” the company explained via Twitter. Original story:Microsoft Office 365 appears to be suffering an outage, with some users unable to log into…
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HoneyBook raises $155M at $1B+ valuation to help SMBs, freelancers manage their businesses
HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a Series D round led by Durable Capital Partners LP. Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors as well as existing…
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The aftermath of 2020: navigating the next normal against fraud The aftermath of 2020: navigating the next normal
The Covid-19 pandemic put businesses on the hot seat with consumers abandoning the local high street for the global digital marketplace, causing society to undergo a sudden “digital acceleration” – a once-in-a-generation event whereby our dependence on technology has been expedited by over a decade, if not more, in the…
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Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth finds horror in fungi
The way that we segment history can be divided into two eras: before the advent of penicillin and after — or, in other words, pre-antibiotics and post-antibiotics. Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered in 1928 by Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, who found that the juices from the Penicillium fungi were…
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