Mycons makes it easy to create and buy custom icons for your iOS home screen
A new app called Mycons launched today and is tapping into the iOS 14 home screen customization trend by making it easier for anyone, including non-designers, to quickly create their own custom icons, as well as shop premade icon-and-wallpaper packs from designers.
With the release of iOS 14 in mid
Elon Musk tweets the Model S will be priced at $69,420, because he's a child
The Tesla Model S is about to get a bit less expensive.
Tesla CEO and resident meme maker Elon Musk just tweeted that the Model S sedan will soon be priced at $69,420. This pricing wasn’t done on a whim and a joint. The price cut is likely in response to Lucid undercutting Tesla on pricing a
Trump's latest immigration restrictions are bad news for American workers
I'm an immigrant, and since arriving from India two decades ago I've earned a Ph.D., launched two companies, created almost 100 jobs, sold a business to Google and generated a 10x-plus return for my investors.
I'm grateful to have had the chance to live the American dream, becoming a pr
Tesla to begin production on 7-seat Model Y in November, with deliveries in early December
Elon Musk has shared some updated info about the timeline for the seven-seat version of the Model Y, Tesla’s more affordable electric SUV. The Model Y began deliveries to customers in March of this year in the U.S., but Musk said in June that he anticipated the company would start shipping se
Microsoft Surface Laptop Go review: reverse-engineering a budget computer
The Surface Laptop Go joined me in the woods last week. It lived in my backpack for a few days and came along for a 20-mile hike through footpaths and across bridges of questionable integrity.
It is, without a doubt, light. It's certainly lighter than the MacBook Air I also packed for the trip,
Virgin Galactic readies first spaceflight from Spaceport America for ‘later this fall’
Virgin Galactic is getting ready to fly its first mission to space from its Spaceport America facility in New Mexico. This is the site that the company will use to host all of its commercial flights, and making it to space from this launch locale is crucial to getting to that point.
Earlier this ye
NASA loads 14 companies with $370M for ‘tipping point’ technologies
NASA has announced more than a third of a billion dollars worth of “Tipping Point” contracts awarded to over a dozen companies pursuing potentially transformative space technologies. The projects range from in-space testing of cryogenic tech to a 4G LTE network for the Moon.
The space a
Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more
There are more than 2 billion websites in existence in the world today, millions of apps and a growing range of digital screens where people and businesses present constantly changing arrays of information to each other. But all that opportunity also has a flip side: How can you say what you want,
Virgin Orbit aims for December for second attempt at orbital demonstration launch
Would-be small satellite launch service provider Virgin Orbit is aiming to redo its key orbital demonstration launch this December, which would be a remarkable turnaround after its previous attempt didn’t manage to reach orbit as the company had hoped. The company aims to offer low-cost launc
Plenty has raised over $500 million to grow fruits and veggies indoors
Plenty? ?Unlimited? has raised $140 million in new funding to build more vertical farms around the U.S.
The new funding, which brings the company’s total cash haul to an abundant $500 million, was led by existing investor SoftBank Vision Fund and included the berry farming giant Driscol
Google Analytics update uses machine learning to surface more critical customer data
If you ever doubted the hunger brands have for more and better information about consumers, you only need to look at Twilio buying customer data startup Segment this week for $3.2 billion. Google sees this the same as everyone else, and today it introduced updates to Google Analytics to help compan
Spotify launches an automatically updating iOS 14 widget
Spotify today has released its highly-anticipated iOS 14 widget with the latest app update. The new widget, which comes in both the small and medium sizes for the time being, allows you to quickly access your recently played artists, albums and podcasts with a tap.
The smaller widget will display j
Harley-Davidson should keep making e-motorcycles
Harley-Davidson should continue to make electric motorcycles. That’s my big takeaway after taking home the company’s LiveWire for three weeks.
I’d ridden it on a closed course in 2019, but that wasn’t enough to absorb the finer qualities of the 105 horsepower machine. After
Dear Sophie: I came on a B-1 visa, then COVID-19 happened. How can I stay?
Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
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