Washington winery with tech connections hopes to uncork some of the hype around NFTs

Washington winery with tech connections hopes to uncork some of the hype around NFTs

A screenshot of the animated Baba Yaga label sold as NFT by Andrew Januik Wines. A Washington State winery with technical connections joins the NFT game and sells three unique digital works of art reminiscent of the release of a limited edition Cabernet Sauvignon. While fine wines mainly appeal to an older audience, the phenomenon … Read more

RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers – TechCrunch

RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers – TechCrunch

The final year of the pandemic was real and sometimes harrowing evidence of the importance of having efficient and well-equipped emergency services in place. They can help people remotely if they need to, and when they can’t they make sure that personal help in medical and other situations can be dispatched quickly. Today, a company … Read more

NASA wants to go farther and faster for fourth Mars helicopter flight

Mariella Moon

When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made its third flight in April, the ground team met the last of the three goals required to label the technology demo project a success. For this reason, for its fourth test flight, the Ingenuity team wants to improve the performance of the machine on Mars by flying further over more … Read more

Microsoft’s Brad Smith goes after Google again over web content and digital advertising revenue

Microsoft’s Brad Smith goes after Google again over web content and digital advertising revenue

Microsoft President Brad Smith. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft President Brad Smith isn’t done with the fight against Google yet. In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Wednesday, Smith said that Google violated the concept of the open web and “sucked most of the oxygen out of opportunities for people who stopped creating … Read more

DigitalOcean says customer billing data ‘exposed’ by a security flaw – TechCrunch

DigitalOcean says customer billing data ‘exposed’ by a security flaw – TechCrunch

According to TechCrunch, DigitalOcean has warned customers via email about a data breach with the customer’s billing data. The cloud infrastructure giant told its customers on Wednesday in an email it received from TechCrunch that it “has confirmed unauthorized disclosure of details related to the billing profile in your DigitalOcean account.” The company said the … Read more

Russia fines Apple $12 million for abusing its App Store dominance

Russia fines Apple $12 million for abusing its App Store dominance

According to Reuters, Apple has been fined $ 12 million by the Russian Antitrust Agency (FAS) for allegedly abusing its dominance in the App Store. The investigation arose out of a 2019 complaint from Kaspersky Lab alleging that Apple forced the company to limit the functionality of its Safe Kids app shortly after Apple introduced … Read more

F5 Networks beats quarterly expectations as revenue up 11% to $645M, but stock dips 5%

F5 Networks beats quarterly expectations as revenue up 11% to $645M, but stock dips 5%

The F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) F5 Networks Income: The Seattle-based company posted fiscal first quarter revenue of $ 645 million, up 11% year over year. Non-GAAP earnings per share were $ 2.50 versus $ 2.23. Analysts had expected revenue of $ 635 million and earnings per share of $ … Read more

Founders Circle Capital has raised a new $355 million fund to buy secondary startup shares – TechCrunch

Founders Circle Capital has raised a new $355 million fund to buy secondary startup shares – TechCrunch

Founders Circle Capital, a nine-year-old San Francisco-based investment firm that has agreements with private venture capital companies to buy some of their founders and employees’ vested stock options – so they can buy a home or just breathe a little easier – has closed its newest fund with $ 355 million committed capital, bringing the … Read more

Two weeks with Spotify’s Car Thing

Spotify Car Thing

Nach jahrelangen Gerüchten, Bestätigungen und vagen Beschreibungen hat Spotify endlich seine erste Hardware für ausgewählte Benutzer verfügbar gemacht. Obwohl das Unternehmen Anfang dieses Monats alle Details zu Car Thing bekannt gab, handelt es sich derzeit nur um eine „limitierte Version“. Ich habe (offensichtlich) zwei Wochen mit Car Thing in meinem Auto verbracht und kann Ihnen … Read more

Amazon expands service that delivers groceries inside your garage

Amazon expands service that delivers groceries inside your garage

(Amazon photo) The news: Amazon is expanding its key in-garage grocery delivery service to more than 5,000 US cities. It started in five cities in November. How it works: With this service, Amazon Prime members can have groceries from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods delivered to their garage. Customers must have a $ 30 smart … Read more