/ Microsoft says it’s now testing the new Bing in 169 countries and that millions have signed up to the waitlist. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft … [Read more...]
Smartrr bags $10M for its customer experience approach to e-commerce subscriptions
Getting a subscription service going and keeping it, complete with fulfillment and delivery, is complicated. Brands use technologies that can cause them to end up with double billing and delivery that the customer is then left to manage. Subscriptions are big business: The direct-to-consumer subscription market is forecasted to reach $478 billion by 2025. Companies like Upscribe and Rebill are … [Read more...]
Here are all the keyboard shortcuts for WhatsApp Web and desktop on Windows and Mac
Although messaging apps like Telegram and Signal have become quite popular lately, WhatsApp remains the most widely-used messaging platform globally. The messaging app has released many new features to keep up with the competition, and despite privacy concerns by some users, its user base has continued to rise. If you're a long-time WhatsApp user, chances are you already use the web or … [Read more...]
Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round
Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. Take Descope, for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. The money came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital with additional funds contributed by Dell … [Read more...]
Apple's MLS Season Pass will stream games in 1080p
Apple already announced a lot of the details on its MLS Season Pass, the company's biggest entry into live sports streaming yet. However, the company and the league still had a few details they hadn't yet revealed. As the start of the new season draws closer, the two collaborators announced more info today, including streaming and audio quality in addition to scheduling, the number of games and … [Read more...]
PlayStation DualSense Edge review: Sony's pricey but powerful sidekick for the PS5
The original Xbox Elite controller came out way back in 2015, so it's a wonder why Sony took so long to release its own take on a premium gamepad. But now that the PlayStation 5 is more widely available (kind of), the company is finally ready to show the world what it can do. While the $200 DualSense Edge costs a bit more than its rival, it offers a few nifty features you don't get on Microsoft's … [Read more...]
‘Father of Internet’ Warns Sinking Money Into Cool AI May Be Uncool
Vint Cerf, known as the father of the internet, raised a few eyebrows Monday when he urged investors to be cautious when investing in businesses built around conversational chatbots. The bots still make too many mistakes, asserted Cerf, who is a vice president at Google, which has an AI chatbot called Bard in development. When he asked ChatGPT, a bot developed by OpenAI, to write a bio of him, it … [Read more...]
Yext hops on the generative AI train with Yext Chat, an enterprise-focused chatbot
Looking to cash in on the generative AI craze, Yext, the platform for online brand management, today announced an AI-powered chatbot called Yext Chat. Taking inspiration from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Yext Chat is designed for enterprise use cases — and differentiated, Yext claims, by a partly proprietary back end. “ChatGPT has shown the world that large language models can hold incredibly coherent, … [Read more...]
Descope Targets Customer Identity Market with Massive $53M Seed Round
Rishi Bhargava and the team of entrepreneurs behind Demisto’s $560 million exit are back at it with a new startup jostling for space in the red-hot customer identity market. The new company, called Descope, emerged from stealth Wednesday with an abnormally large $53 million seed-stage funding round and ambition plans to take on Okta’s Auth0 and a wave of rivals big and small in the customer … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review: practically peerless
It’s big, expensive, and occasionally weird. But the S23 Ultra lives up to its name.If the Samsung S22 Ultra was the ultimate evolution of a slab-style smartphone, then the Galaxy S23 Ultra is a victory lap — everything that the S22 was and a little extra. The S23 Ultra offers a handful of updates and a new main camera sensor. There are no groundbreaking new features. It doesn’t fold in half. … [Read more...]
Less money and more fear: what’s going on with tech
/ Low interest rates fueled a tech boom. What happens now?a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63">The face of a man who will be increasing interest rates again. a:hover]:text-gray-63 … [Read more...]
Marvel top boss wants to space out show releases on Disney+
Marvel’s top boss Kevin Feige thinks that the company might adjust its plans when it comes to releasing shows on Disney+ and space them out for better consumption. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Feige said that there is too much content on the internet and he wants Marvel stuff to stand out. “I do think one of the powerful aspects of being at Marvel Studios is having these films and … [Read more...]
Recently Patched IBM Aspera Faspex Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Organizations using IBM’s Aspera Faspex file transfer solution have been warned that a recently patched vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. The security hole, tracked as CVE-2022-47986 and classified as ‘high severity’, is a YAML deserialization flaw that can be exploited by a remote attacker for arbitrary code execution using specially crafted API calls. The issue was discovered … [Read more...]
Europe to ‘assess’ Adobe’s proposed $20B Figma acquisition on competition grounds
Adobe’s proposed plan to snap up digital design rival Figma for $5 billion has attracted the attentions of the European Commission (EC), which announced today that the proposed merger “threatens to significantly affect competition in the market for interactive product design and whiteboarding software.” While the EC acknowledged that the transaction doesn’t meet the turnover thresholds set out in … [Read more...]
Apple Could Launch a 15.5-Inch MacBook Air in Early April, Suggests Another Report
Apple is reportedly working on a version of the MacBook Air with a 15.5-inch display. There hasn't been a word from the Cupertino company regarding the existence of the MacBook Air model. However, Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) believes that the panel production for the 15.5-inch MacBook Air has started in February. Furthermore, Young expects an early April launch for this … [Read more...]
The on-demand delivery trilemma
Ali Ahmed Contributor Ali Ahmed is a serial tech entrepreneur with expertise in on-demand delivery and robotics. More posts by this contributor How to win in the autonomous taxi space In the crypto world, there’s a popular maxim called the Blockchain Trilemma, which refers to the difficulty of simultaneously achieving three desirable properties … [Read more...]
Qualcomm’s new smartphone modem aims to bridge tricky coverage situations
/ The Snapdragon X75 5G Modem-RF system supports the next wave of 5G advances and should help your phone connect to the right signal when you get off the subway. It’ll start landing in devices in the second half of 2023.a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 … [Read more...]
The Morning After: Amazon still plans to 'go big' on grocery stores
Despite recently saying it would lay off more than 18,000 people, Amazon is still looking to expand its empire – which could mean more physical stores. CEO Andy Jassy told the Financial Times that Amazon still plans to “go big” on its brick-and-mortar grocery store business. The company's physical store division accounts for 3.4 percent of the overall business and has grown only around 10 percent … [Read more...]
ICS Patch Tuesday: 100 Vulnerabilities Addressed by Siemens, Schneider Electric
Siemens and Schneider Electric have addressed a total of nearly 100 vulnerabilities with their February 2023 Patch Tuesday advisories. Siemens Siemens has published 13 new advisories covering a total of 86 vulnerabilities. The most significant vulnerability — based on its CVSS score of 10 — is a memory corruption issue that can lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or … [Read more...]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC Tipped to Launch Early, Could Get 25 Percent Bump in Performance
Qualcomm had unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC just a few months back in November 2022 and now the company is reportedly planning to launch its next processor. The next Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset is likely to be Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. A recent report has tipped that the SoC will be launched before its planned schedule. It is tipped to be unveiled in the last quarter of 2023. The CPU … [Read more...]