China roundup: Meng Wanzhou’s release and Huawei’s future
"">Hello and welcome back to technewss's China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.
On Friday, Huawei’s chief financial executive Meng Wanzhou was released from house arrest in Vancouver after reachin
Facebook's wearable glasses can succeed where Google Glass flopped
Facebook recently announced its highly anticipated wearable sunglasses that can record video from a user's perspective. Despite many of our legitimately squeamish reactions to this new product, one of Facebook's decisions in this launch is likely to make it a success where Google Glass fail
When the biggest Disruption is to just sit down and focus
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Why MPG should matter for electric vehicles
If saving the environment is merely a lifestyle choice, the automakers and their latest electric vehicles have got us covered. Tesla's Plaid touts performance. Leafs, Priuses and Volts preach humility. And Ford is flexing its muscle with launches of electric Mustangs and F-150s.
But if consumer
Daily Crunch: Chinese regulators issue blanket ban on crypto trading, mining
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Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape?
When it comes to gender equality in the business world, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the nail on the head: “Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.”
While access to opportunities, funding and support has improved for women in the startup space
Yahoo has built a new calendar app called Day, with the co-founder of Sunrise consulting on the design
When it comes to online calendars and calendar apps, services like Google Calendar and Outlook from Microsoft rule the roost with hundreds of millions of users globally. Now another company is hoping to ruffle some feathers with its own move into the space. technewss has learned and confirmed that
Tess Hatch joins us at TC Sessions: Space this December
This year has been one of the busiest yet in terms of new commercial launch companies coming online, with companies like Astra and Firefly Aerospace actually getting rockets up and running (if not flying as designed quite yet), and with landmark human spaceflight missions from Blue Origin, Virgin G
FCC showers schools across the US with $1.2B from Emergency Connectivity Fund
The FCC has sent out the first checks from its Emergency Connectivity Fund, an effort to help close the “homework gap” at schools by covering the cost of computers and internet services. Thousands of school districts, in every state plus D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico, will split this first
California makes zero-emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030
Starting in 2030, California will require all light-duty autonomous vehicles that operate in the state to emit zero emissions. Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday, SB 500 represents the latest effort by the state to limit the sale of new internal combustion vehicles with an eye tow
Beat the early-bird deadline and save $100 on passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
Is it just us or has everyone's calendar hit warp factor 9? We can't believe there are only 34 days left before TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 kicks into high gear on October 27. If you don't have your pass yet, the clock on early-bird savings is winding down fast. Time to bump that quick task
DJI Mavic 3 drone leak details improved camera and a 46-minute flight time
DJI’s upcoming Mavic 3 Pro drone may be a big upgrade over the last model, according to leaks from DroneDJ and Jasper Ellens seen by The Verge. It may have a significantly longer flight time along with not just one, but two cameras, including a telephoto model and one with a larger Four Third
EU warns Russia over ‘Ghostwriter’ hacking ahead of German elections
The European Union has warned it may take action over Russia’s involvement in “malicious cyber activities” against several EU member states.
The “Ghostwriter” campaign targeted “numerous members of Parliaments, government officials, politicians, and members of the p
AI tradeoffs: Balancing powerful models and potential biases
As developers unlock new AI tools, the risk for perpetuating harmful biases becomes increasingly high — especially on the heels of a year like 2020, which reimagined many of our social and cultural norms upon which AI algorithms have long been trained.
A handful of foundational models are emergin