Nayel Nassar and Jennifer Gates, eldest daughter of Bill and Melinda French Gates. (Instagram photo via @nayelnassar) Melinda French Gates is paying special attention to the Tokyo Olympics this week as her future son-in-law represents Eqypt in equestrian sports. French Gates tweeted Tuesday about Nayel Nassar, the fiancée of her and Bill Gates’ eldest daughter, … Read more
Facebook has always been considerate of its users and has found that its privacy settings need to be messed up a bit to make things clear and easy to find. To do this, they took the “privacy settings” and mischievously scattered them among the other categories. “We have redesigned our entire settings menu on mobile … Read more
The 2021 New York Auto Show has been canceled. Similar to last year, organizers have postponed the annual spring event to August to avoid the worst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. However, they say their hand has now been forced due to a growing number of hospital cases with the COVID-19 delta variant and increasingly … Read more
Seena Mortzavi, CEO of Chronus. (Chronus photo) Chronus, the Bellevue, Washington-based maker of mentoring software, announced on Wednesday a new $ 78 million funding. Chronus offers digital tools that support companies in implementing employee development programs for mentoring and coaching. The strong new investment comes from Level Equity from New York and San Francisco. Demand … Read more
Karan Bajaj, the founder and CEO of WhiteHat Jr, is leaving the company a year after selling the startup to Indian edtech giant Byju’s for $ 300 million. In an email to staff on Wednesday, Bajaj and Byjus Founder and CEO Byju Raveendran said the departure follows a “mutually agreed” decision made at the time … Read more
Diablo Immortal may be a small screen game, but that doesn’t mean it’s a small development effort. It is precisely for this reason that Activision Blizzard has postponed the release of Diablo Immortal to early 2022. The action RPG was originally scheduled to appear on iOS and Android devices later this year, but Blizzard says … Read more
A screenshot from a video taken by the OceanGate Titan submersible shows the Titanic’s telemotor steering mechanism, where one of the ship’s wheels used to be. (OceanGate screen capture) On another deep dive to the famous North Atlantic wreck of the Titanic, Everett, Washington, OceanGate recorded a video with its Titan submersible showing that the … Read more
After months of testing with more than 100,000 beta testers, Citizen is introducing its Premium Protect offer for all users today. The subscription service costs $ 20 per month and opens up a number of features in the app. The most important of the new paid features is the Get Agent button, which provides access … Read more
Logitech has introduced some new wireless (and wired) earbuds with some unique features for business people. The key product is the Zone True Wireless Earbuds, which the company says will be the first to be certified by the three major video conferencing platforms: Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Another unique feature is support not … Read more
An Amazon fulfillment center. (GeekWire file photo) Amazon stepped outside of acceptable guidelines and put undue pressure on warehouse workers in Alabama to unionize the Bessemer fulfillment warehouse in April. Efforts by the retail, wholesale and department store union to organize the nearly 6,000 warehouse workers last spring did not garner enough votes to form … Read more