Most students in the U.S. have used or at least heard of Quizlet, the website for creating digital flashcards. The company leverages machine learning to predict in which areas its users need the most help and provides 300 million user-generated study decks, maps, charts and other tools for learning. Roughly eight months after closing a…
The promise of Tether, the digital currency pegged 1:1 to the US dollar, was that it could provide the benefits of a cryptocurrency while providing a fiat -backed peg against price fluctuations. But the currency has fallen below the $1 in recent weeks, right as a range of competing currencies are becoming available to meet…
Innovusion, a two-year-old startup developing LiDAR sensor technology for autonomous vehicles, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Chinese firms Nio Capital and Eight Roads Ventures along with U.S.-based F-Prime Capital. Other seed round and strategic investors joined the round, the startup said. Nio Capital is the venture arm of…
There are more Bluetooth headphones than ever now that smartphones are getting rid of the 3.5mm jack left and right. Some of these headphones are very good, but both the number of options and actual sound quality pale in comparison to the wealth of wired options. Shure – an audio company known to straddle the…
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Anker unveiled its latest accessory, the PowerPort Atom PD 1 USB-C wall charger. But don’t be fooled by its small size, the charger packs 27 watts, giving you the ability to power up your MacBook, Nintendo Switch, smartphone, and more. The post Anker’s new USB-C wall charger packs 27 watts, fits in the palm of…
5/5 (1) The most sinister and cheerful holiday – Halloween – is just around the corner and there is still so much to be done! While shopping for a Halloween home decor, carving pumpkins, thinking of this year’s costume and tackling your other last-minute preparations, do not forget about the digitals. Do you need to…
Xiaomi just published a list of devices that are getting Android Pie or Android Oreo in Q4 this year. The phones in the list will be receiving at least the beta version of the software and with enough luck, will get the stable release until the end of 2018. First to get you up to…
The influx of robots into the workplace tends to conjure images of automated warehouses and monotonous manufacturing tasks taken over by an army of soulless machines. But behind the buzz, we don’t often appreciate that robots can take on roles that require more than the ability to keep going without sleep or toilet breaks. Machines…
Ahead of Airbnb’s expected initial public offering sometime within the next two years, the accommodation rental business has brought on a new chief technology officer. Aristotle Balogh, formerly Google’s VP of engineering, application storage, indexing and serving, is starting at Airbnb in mid-November. Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk previously served as the company’s CTO up until January…
