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Ulysses adds split view on the iPad and support for Ghost blogs
May 27, 2:42PM
Writing app Ulysses has been updated with a few nifty feature additions. On the iPad, you can now split the editor into two side-by-side editors — this feature alone opens up a lot of possibilities. Ulysses also now supports the option to publish your writing directly to a Ghost blog. Ulysses is currently available on […]
India's FreshToHome raises $11 million to expand its fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform
May 27, 12:10PM
Shan Kadavil, who spent early days of his career managing tech support firm Support and then heading India operations of gaming firm Zynga, says he had a calling of sorts when his son was born. Kadavil realized that much of the meat that sells in India is not exactly healthy. The perishables are loaded with […]
Qualcomm and Lenovo reveal the first Snapdragon-powered 5G PC
May 27, 11:42AM
Qualcomm announced during its Computex press conference today that it will launch the first Snapdragon-powered 5G PC with Lenovo. The two companies describe the PC, called Project Limitless, as "the world's first 7nm platform purpose-built for PCs that offers 5G connectivity." The laptop runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx Compute Platform, which is designed to support […]
Final week to sign up and save €200 on Disrupt Berlin passes
May 27, 8:00AM
Planning to join us and more than 1,200 other startuppers at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December? That's great news, but this is even better; you can save €200 off the super-early-bird ticket price if you sign up for our mailing list. Here's the catch: You must sign up before registration officially opens, and that […]
TikTok parent Bytedance is reportedly working on its own smartphone
May 27, 7:54AM
It’s been a busy couple of months for Bytedance, one of the world’s most valuable startups and the operator of globally popular video app TikTok. The Beijing-based company has continued to grow its list of apps to include the likes of work collaboration tool Lark, an instant messenger called Feiliao as well as a music streaming […]
Nvidia announces its Studio line of laptops to compete against the MacBook Pro
May 27, 7:47AM
During its press conference in Taipei a day before Computex starts, Nvidia announced a new line of laptops that will run its RTX graphics processing units, as well as a new software platform called Studio, with SDKs and drivers to make graphics rendering and other tasks faster. The units are targeted to creative professionals, like […]
Fiat Chrysler proposes 50-50 merger with Renault
May 27, 7:07AM
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has proposed merging its business with Renault that, if accepted, would create the third largest global automaker with 8.7 million in annual vehicle sales. FCA delivered Monday a non-binding letter to Renault’s board that proposes combining the business as a 50-50 merger. FCA’s proposal illustrates the growing desire among automakers to consolidate, […]
AMD unveils the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X, at half the price of Intel's competing Core i9 9920X chipset
May 27, 4:19AM
AMD CEO Lisa Su gave the Computex keynote in Taipei today, the first time the company has been invited to do so (the event officially starts tomorrow). During the presentation, AMD unveiled news about its chips and graphics processors that will increase pressure on competitors Intel and Nvidia, both in terms of pricing and performance. […]
Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
May 27, 4:00AM
Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones. It’ll be a while before you’ll see the first phones that use chips based on this design, but typically we see the first actual chips before the […]
How games conquered the movies
May 27, 2:19AM
We used to think that as video games matured, as a medium, they would become more like Hollywood, becoming more focused on character development, plot reversals, and tight, suspense-driven narratives, rather than action set pieces alternating with cinematic cut scenes. Hoo boy, were we wrong. Instead the exact inverse has happened. Action movies have become […]
National security journalism just became a national security threat
May 26, 6:08PM
Six years ago, British intelligence officers walked into the offices of The Guardian newspaper in London and demanded its staff destroy computers they believed stored highly classified documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In the basement of the newspaper’s offices, editors used angle-grinders and drills to destroy the computers in an effort to render […]
These 'microbe-grown' headphones could be the future of sustainable electronics
May 26, 5:31PM
The culture of planned obsolescence in electronics produces a huge amount of toxic waste unlikely to go anywhere but a landfill for the next millennium or so. Nature produces some of the strongest and most versatile substances we've ever encountered, so why not use them instead? That's what Finnish design house Aivan has attempted with this concept pair of headphones made from fungus, bioplastics, and other natural materials.
Traffic on Memorial Day: Here's what 37.6 million road trippers can expect
May 26, 5:22PM
How, and if, people travel on Memorial Day weekend can provide a fleeting glimpse at the state of the U.S. economy, or at least provide insight into consumer confidence. The upshot this year: a near record-setting travel despite a rising national gas price. Nearly 43 million Americans were expected to travel in cars, trains and […]
As the term 'unicorn' goes broke from overuse, what's actually rare?
May 26, 4:09PM
There are so many unicorns in the market today — they stampede by the hundred in 2019 — that they are impossible to keep tabs on.
Fiat Chrysler-Renault tie up: What the maker of Jeep could gain
May 26, 3:41PM
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Renault are in talks that could result in merging vast swaths of their businesses, a move that illustrates the growing desire among automakers to consolidate in an environment of increased regulatory pressure, sales declines and rising costs aimed at bringing next-generation technologies like self-driving cars to market. Update: Fiat Chrysler has […]
The savage genius of SoftBank funding competitors
May 26, 2:47PM
Venture capitalists aren’t supposed to make their portfolio companies battle to the death. There’s a long-standing but unofficial rule that investors shouldn’t fund multiple competitors in the same space. Conflicts of interest could arise, information about one startup’s strategy could be improperly shared with the other, and the companies could become suspicious of advice provided […]
Week-in-Review: Trump's order takes a hatchet to Huawei's heart
May 26, 8:45AM
Last week, Trump signed an executive order that enabled the federal government to prohibit U.S. companies from buying telecom equipment from foreign companies at their discretion. This week, the full damage began to feel apparent to China’s fastest-growing smartphone powerhouse, Huawei. American companies, at the behest of Trump and company, began turning on the Chinese […]
Equity transcribed: How to avoid an IPO
May 25, 8:51PM
This week, the Equity duo of Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm convened to get some quick hits in about Slack’s WORK, Luckin Coffee and Sam Altman’s departure from Y Combinator. They then dug a bit deeper into the money around food: DoorDash and Sun Basket both raised this week. And what is a discussion about […]
To realize its VR dreams, Facebook needs to kill what Oculus has built
May 25, 7:14PM
Mark Zuckerberg has poured billions into his virtual reality dream, a new platform that Facebook owns. Facebook bought Oculus and has spent the last five years killing what it was and reinventing it as a Facebook-scale company. It has dumped most of the co-founders, brought in Zuck loyalists to take over the most important decisions […]
This is one smart device that every urban home could use
May 25, 5:00PM
Living in a dense urban environment brings many startup-fuelled conveniences, be it near instant delivery of food — or pretty much whatever else you fancy — to a whole range of wheels that can be hopped on (or into) to whisk you around at the tap of an app. But the biggest problem afflicting city […]
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