Month: August 2021
Planted raises another $21M to expand its growing plant-based meat empire (and add schnitzel)
Swiss alternative protein company Planted has raised its second round of the year, a CHF 19M (about $21M at present) “pre-B” fundraise that will help it continue its growth and debut new products. A U.S. launch is in the cards eventually but for now Planted’s exclusively European customers will be…
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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series will premiere in September 2022
One of Amazon’s most anticipated originals to date, a yet-unnamed Lord of the Rings original series, will officially debut on Prime Video on Friday, September 2nd, 2022. Along with a premiere date, Amazon Studios released an official first image from the forthcoming series, which will be set in Middle-earth’s Second…
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MGA Thermal raises $8M AUD led by Main Sequence for its modular energy storage blocks
MGA Thermal co-founders Erich Kisi and Alex Post. Image Credits: MGA Thermal MGA Thermal wants to help utility companies transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources with shoebox-sized thermal energy storage blocks. The company says a stack of 1,000 blocks is about the size of a small car and…
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The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter
Tech earnings this quarter were, to the surprise of no one, high. But amid the record-settling revenues, the looming specter of the global semiconductor shortage was the fly in the ointment. While virtually none of the major tech companies sounded too concerned on their calls, component shortages were called out…
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Google is building its own chip for the Pixel 6
Google just dumped a whole bunch of news about its upcoming Pixel 6 smartphone. Maybe the company was looking to get out in front of August 11’s big Samsung event — or perhaps it’s just hoping to keep people interested in the months leading up to a big fall announcement…
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Cybercriminals spoof Brave browser website to push malware Brave Browser
Cybercriminals have been caught impersonating the website of the privacy-focused browser Brave in order to infect unsuspecting users with malware. As reported by Ars Technica, the cybercriminals behind the attack first registered the domain xn--brav-yva[.]com which uses punycode to represent bravė[.]com. Besides the accent over the ‘e’, this site has…
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