Days after Snap announced the departure of its CFO, reports have emerged that the company’s HR chief was asked to leave following an internal investigation late last year that had led to the firing of its global security head. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap fired global security ...
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Nike’s auto-laced future – TechCrunch
Why does the world need a self-lacing shoe? Haven’t you heard of Velcro? How will you tie your shoes when the Wi-Fi is down? That’s the gist of the instant response I got when I mentioned the new Adapt BB, a shoe from Nike with, yes, powered laces that tighten ...
Read More »Google raises its G Suite prices – TechCrunch
Google today announced that it is raising the price of its G Suite subscriptions for the first time. In the U.S., the prices of G Suite Basic and G Suite Business editions will increase by $1 and $2 per user/month, respectively, while increases in other regions will be adjusted according ...
Read More »CERN’s plan for 100-km collider makes the LHC look like a hula hoop – TechCrunch
The Large Hadron Collider has produced a great deal of incredible science, most famously the Higgs Boson — but physicists at CERN, the international organization behind the LHC, are already looking forward to the next model. And the proposed Future Circular Collider, at 100 kilometers or 62 miles around, would ...
Read More »Turns out the science saying screen time is bad isn’t science – TechCrunch
A new study is making waves in the worlds of tech and psychology by questioning the basis of thousands of papers and analyses with conflicting conclusions on the effect of screen time on well-being. The researchers claim is that the science doesn’t agree because it’s bad science. So is screen ...
Read More »A first look at Twitter’s new beta app and its bid to remain ‘valuable and relevant’ – TechCrunch
Twitter has made a name for itself, at its most basic level, as a platform that gives everyone who uses it a voice. But as it has grown, that unique selling point has set Twitter up for as many challenges — harassment, confusing way to manage conversations — as it ...
Read More »Global VC market sees highest-ever concentration of supergiant dollar volume in Q4 2018 – TechCrunch
For the global VC industry, 2018 was a supergiant year. Crunchbase projects that 2018 deal and dollar volume surpassed even the high-water mark left by the dot-com deluge and the drought that followed. As covered in Crunchbase News’s global VC report reviewing Q4 and the rest of 2018, projected deal volume rose by ...
Read More »Anker’s PowerPort Atom is my permanent new travel companion – TechCrunch
I had fight a couple of coworkers for this thing. It’s a strange thing to fight over, I realize, but we are strange people with a strange job. And more importantly, I won. I’m plugged into the PowerPort Atom as I write this. It’s keeping my 13-inch MacBook Pro alive ...
Read More »Is Samsung getting serious about robotics? – TechCrunch
The company showed off a trio of robots and an exoskeleton at CES 2019 Brian Heater @bheater / 8 hours A funny thing happened at Samsung’s CES press conference. After the PC news, 8K TVs and Bixby-sporting washing machines, the company announced “one more thing,” handing over a few brief ...
Read More »Hands-on with Ledger’s Bluetooth crypto hardware wallet – TechCrunch
French startup Ledger unveiled a new hardware wallet at CES this week. While the device isn’t going to ship until March, the company let me play with a prototype version of the device. The Ledger Nano X feels just like using the Nano S, but on mobile. When the company’s ...
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