Apple just released the iPhone 11 Pro’s battery case and it comes with surprise: a button for the camera. This is a minor, but welcomed addition to an otherwise standard battery case. The button is clever. It’s located on the bottom half of the case is not a soft button that presses something on the…
The Mercedes-Benz EQC 400 4MATIC, the German automaker’s first all-electric vehicle under its new EQ brand, will start at $67,900 when it arrives in the U.S. early next year. Mercedes-Benz announced Wednesday the price of the EQC 400 at the LA Auto Show. The price, which doesn’t account for the $7,500 federal tax credit, is…
IoT network provider Sigfox will enable private ultra-narrowband networks from early 2020, starting in France, it has announced. The company said it is on track to pass 15 million connected devices and 1,500 customers by the end of the year. It also announced a deal with satellite provider Eutelsat to launch a constellation of nanosatellites…
Should you buy Apple’s MacBook Pro 16 or MacBook Pro 13? We consider the key areas and facts to give you the definitive answer.
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As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced a $25 million Series A. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins with hep from S28 Capital and Y Combinator. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $31 million,…
We’re ramping up the number of guest posts we publish on Extra Crunch so we can expand our coverage of fundraising, growth, hiring and emerging technology trends. This change is a direct response to our readers; many subscribers have been requesting additional how-to articles, and we hear you. We also want to help recurring columnists…
Starburst, the company that’s looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised a $22 million funding round led by Index Ventures, with the firm’s partner Mike Volpi joining the board. The general idea behind Presto is to allow anybody to use the standard SQL query language to run…
AI training data provider Samasource has raised a $14.8 million Series A funding round led by Ridge Ventures. The San Francisco headquartered company delivers Fortune 100 companies with the inputs they need for machine learning development in fields including autonomous transportation, e-commerce and robotics. And it does so with a global work-force of data-specialists, a…
Online privacy is facing a new challenge: A first-party tracker that appears to be unblockable with standard privacy tools such as adblockers. The tracker in question was spotted being deployed by French national newspaper, Liberation, which in October promised subscribers an entirely tracker-free experience. That promise garnered it a bunch of attention from privacy experts…
Samsung is releasing an update to the Samsung Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Watch Active that brings a host of new features to the devices that are available on the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2.
Shiv has over 8 years experience working on Internet of Things and an avid user of Drones
