(Microsoft photo) Microsoft announced Tuesday morning that the long-awaited debut of its cloud gaming service on the Xbox family of consoles is slated for this holiday season, following previous releases from Xbox Cloud Gaming on PCs and mobile devices. Console owners who subscribe to the Ultimate version of the Game Pass service can play compatible … Read more
It’s been less than a week since Tesla hosted its AI Day, a livestream event full of technical jargon designed to get the best AI and vision engineers to work for Tesla and help the company grow autonomously , and CEO Elon Musk already comes up with some hot takes on the “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) … Read more
Since the release of iOS 14, Apple Maps has had a built-in rating system that you can use to review selected businesses, restaurants, and other points of interest. Before Monday, this feature was only available in countries like Australia and Japan, but as MacRumors points out, you can now access it in the US and … Read more
Vouched investor Darrell Cavens (left) and Vouched CEO John Baird. (Verified photo) Vouched, a Seattle-based startup helping companies verify identity, has raised $ 4.5 million from investors including Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon, co-founders of e-commerce giant Zulily. It’s a vote of confidence in the three-year-old company that emerged from Madrona Venture Labs, the Seattle-based … Read more
Khatabook, a startup helping merchants in India digitize their bookkeeping and accept online payments, announced Tuesday that it has raised $ 100 million in a new round of funding to prepare for financial services rollout . The startup’s new round of funding – a Series C – was led by Tribe Capital and Moore Strategic … Read more
Whether you are an Android or iOS user, there is a good chance that you will check out user reviews and ratings before deciding to download an app to your device. Hoping to make this more useful for everyone, Google is planning two optimizations to the Play Store. Starting in November, the ratings displayed will … Read more
Hadi Partovi, CEO and Founder of Code.org. (Photo via LinkedIn) Code.org founder Hadi Partovi and his twin brother were only 6 years old during the Iranian Revolution when the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took control of his homeland. The revolution took place more than 40 years ago, but the fear, violence and turmoil of this … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine full approval, making it the first vaccine to achieve this status. The mRNA-based vaccine has been available through an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) since the end of last year and will continue to be offered under this designation to people aged 12 to … Read more
Part of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption scheme is that users must set up the service with a phone as the “main device” for an account. The company announced in July that it was working on next-generation encryption that would enable a true multi-device connection without the need to connect to a smartphone. It looks like WhatsApp … Read more
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