San Francisco-based accelerator 500 Startups is expanding its executive team with the hiring of Tony Wang. Wang is joining the early-stage firm from Color Genomics, a venture-backed developer of genetic testing kits where he had served as chief operating officer since 2014. Prior to Color, Wang was the vice president of global partnerships and development…
Deloitte has launched a pre-configured suite of cloud-based IoT applications designed to accelerate smart factory transformations for companies with manufacturing operations. Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT, the Smart Factory Fabric suite of services is aimed at helping industrial companies improve their operational performance and reduce costs. Deloitte said that its Smart Factory Fabric…
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Microsoft is joining Sony on the efforts to combat climate change by switching things up on the console front. In the former’s case, it’s starting a pilot project to make 825,000 Xboxes carbon neutral. As part of the UN’s Playing for the Planet alliance, Microsoft joins several other game companies pledging to do what they…
A team of Canadian cybersecurity researchers has uncovered a sophisticated and targeted mobile hacking campaign that is targeting high-profile members of various Tibetan groups with one-click exploits for iOS and Android devices. Dubbed Poison Carp by University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, the hacking group behind this campaign sent tailored malicious web links to its targets…
With a combined four-decade-long career in consumer electronics, our team has racked up countless hours putting tons of A/V receivers through their paces, and we believe the best on the market is the Anthem MRX 1120 — it will work with all the latest standards (and then some), so it’s well-equipped for the impending 4K…
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The Huawei Mate 30 Pro boasts 7,680fps slow-motion video capture, far exceeding what other smartphones can do (thats 8x the frame rate of a 960fps video). Huawei exec Bruce Lee detailed how his team pulled off this feat. The phone records 0.12 seconds of footage, which then expands to 32 seconds of 30fps slow-mo video.…
As Samsung and Huawei double down on their foldable smartphone lineups, and other handset vendors try to hide the notch, Chinese giant Xiaomi today chalked out a different path altogether. The company unveiled the Mi Mix Alpha, a smartphone with a front display that fully wraps around the back, save for a strip. The Mi…
Credit cards have become all but ubiquitous for consumer transactions, and it isn’t hard to see why. By intermediating payments, networks like Visa allow buyers and sellers to exchange money for goods and services without knowing the financial risk profile of the counter-party. Rather than applying for credit at every merchant you shop at, you…
