Month: August 2021
Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up
As the global market for startup investing presses to new heights in terms of dollars invested this year, and deal volume ticks up in several regions, corporations are diving into the action. Data from CB Insights and Stryber indicate that corporate investors are taking part in deals worth more than…
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AWS will start offering some customers free USB security keys Facebook Security Key Support
Amazon’s cloud computing division AWS will be handing out USB security keys to select customers, according to reports. The move is one of the initiatives by the company, following Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s engagement with US President Joe Biden on cybersecurity, along with several of his peers, earlier this week.…
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga review: a promising start
Most people know a ThinkPad when they see it. While the line has evolved throughout its decades of existence, it’s maintained a consistent ThinkPad look, ThinkPad feel, and ThinkPad set of features, from the red keyboard nub to the trio of discrete clickers. The formula has a devoted following, and…
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A Twitter outage cut off the Midwest this morning
For slackers west of the Appalachians there was some bad news — Twitter went down. An outage unplugged many people beyond the East Coast of the US starting at around 8:30AM ET, with reports from as far north as Toronto and as far south as Arkansas. DownDetector Twitter outage reports.Image:…
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7 new movies and TV shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max and more this weekend See season 2 poster
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: not all weekends are created equal when it comes to new movies and TV shows arriving on streamers. This weekend, in fact, might be the most underwhelming for some time, with its selection of new additions made to look even more…
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A $600 e-ink typewriter got me one step closer to writing a novel
I’ve been a technology journalist for 10 years now and have written thousands of news articles, reviews and analysis pieces in that time. But lately I’ve wanted to change it up and do some writing that flexes different parts of my brain: things like short stories, essays or even a…
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