Month: May 2021
Arrival’s Denis Sverdlov on the new era of car manufacturing
‘If your business doesn’t have a technology element, then it doesn’t have a future’ Rebecca Bellan 8 hours Electric vehicle company Arrival wants to break the current auto manufacturing model. Instead of one giant factory and an assembly line, Arrival’s commercial electric vans, buses and cars are robotically built in…
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Microsoft officially retiring Internet Explorer next year, moving on to Edge Internet Explorer
Microsoft is set to finally drop its 25-year-old Internet Explorer web browser next year so it can focus all of its attention on the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser instead. In a blog post on its website, Microsoft states that “the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go…
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Macs have too much malware, according to Apple’s own top exec Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1, 2020)
If you’re using a Mac, you might want to make sure you’re running an antivirus, as even Apple isn’t comfortable with the amount of malware on macOS Big Sur. This came up during the ongoing legal battle between Epic Games and Apple, where Apple Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig…
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Netflix is getting a trilogy of Fear Street movies in July
The ’90s are back in Netflix’s latest horror movies. A trilogy of movies based on R.L. Stine’s classic Fear Street book series is coming to the streaming service in July. Plan your spooky movie nights accordingly: part one will debut on July 2nd, followed by sequels on the 9th and…
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Zoom is readying an all-in-one platform for virtual events Zoom
Even as organizations prepare to return to the office using a hybrid working model, Zoom believes that virtual events are here to stay which is why the company behind the popular video conferencing software has announced its new all-in-one platform Zoom Events. According to a recent global study conducted by…
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OpenUnit raises a $1M seed round to be the online face of self-storage
How are mom-and-pop self-storage facilities meant to keep up with the tech offered by the massive, ever-growing chains? That’s a key part of the idea behind OpenUnit, a team I first wrote about in August of last year. You bring the storage units, they bring the website, payment processing, and…
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