Month: June 2021
Black & Decker launches a line of emergency wearables for seniors
Black & Decker has launched a new health division with a lineup of personal emergency response (PERS) wearables aimed at seniors. Called goVia, it includes devices that can be worn on the wrist or around the neck that can detect falls or allow seniors to call for aid via a…
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Facebook’s newsletter platform Bulletin is now live
The cool new thing on Facebook is for Mark Zuckerberg to drop product news in live audio rooms. So today, Zuckerberg took to his brand’s Clubhouse competitor to announce its next new thing: Bulletin, a newsletter platform. Bulletin is built on a separate platform from Facebook — on its website, the…
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How to block and report text spam
Spam texts can be incredibly irritating — you get a notification and stop what you’re doing to check your phone, only to find somebody is trying to sell you something you don’t want. How can you prevent it? Unfortunately, there are no absolutes in preventing text spam. But there are…
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Google WiFi gets surprise refresh with tweaked appearance and a lower price A Google Wifi Point Device Sitting On A Coffee Table
Google Wifi got an unexpected refresh this week, bringing the company’s popular mesh wifi networking devices into its second generation. The new refresh brings minor visual differences and a lower price than both Google Wifi’s first generation and the more premium Google Nest Wifi. Hey Carmelo, thanks for the tweet!…
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Running Zoom on Chromebooks is about to get a whole lot smoother Chromebook
Using video conferencing software on a Chromebook can be quite demanding which is why Zoom has announced that its launching a new progressive web app (PWA) designed specifically for Chrome OS. While Chromebook users have been able to run Zoom from their web browsers while working from home, the experience…
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Nansen raises $12M from a16z to help investors make sense of crypto markets
While the ambitions of crypto investors have swelled even faster than the market has in recent months, institutional players have had a mountain of blockchain data to try to make sense of without particularly mature analytics products at their disposal. Blockchain analytics startup Nansen is building a product for crypto…
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