Google's Pixel Watch 3 comes in two sizes
Choice is good — especially when it comes to wearables. Human bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and there's no such thing as one size fits all. Until Tuesday’s Made by Google 2024 event, the Pixel Watch has only been available in one size: 41mm.
Announced Tuesday, the Pixel Watch 3
Google's Pixel 9 line offers more size options, better cameras and Gemini by default
The new Pixel 9 lineup took centerstage during Tuesday morning's Made by Google 2024 event. Along with the inclusion of the Pixel 9 Fold Pro, the company presented an additional size option. The trio of devices are: the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL.
The Pro now sports the same size
US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional
A federal appeals court has ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, a decision that will limit the use of the controversial search warrants across several U.S. states.
The Friday ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas,
Payoneer scoops up Skuad, Robinhood's strong Q2, and X is making progress on payments
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Encord lands new cash to grow its data dev tools for AI
Labeling and annotation platforms might not get the attention flashy new generative AI models do. But they're essential. The data on which many models train must be labeled, or the models wouldn’t be able to interpret that data during the training process.
Annotation is a vast undertakin
Singaporean investment app Syfe pulls in $27M to hasten growth in Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific region has long been an important market for wealth management firms with the plethora of developing economies and a burgeoning retail investment market. But there’s still a huge market to capture: About 40% to 45% of personal financial assets in the region are held in cash a
Twitch rolls out video stories to challenge Instagram
After launching photo and text stories last year, Twitch is now introducing video stories. Streamers can now film 60-second videos in the Twitch mobile app or upload a video from their camera roll.
Twitch sees the new feature as a way for streamers to take viewers with them when they’re on
Flipboard users can now follow anyone in the fediverse, including those on Threads
Instagram Threads users are gaining a new audience. On Tuesday, the social magazine app Flipboard took another step toward integrating with ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that powers services like Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube and others. Starting Tuesday, Flipboard users
ArborXR secures $12M to boost its management platform for AR and VR devices
ArborXR, a startup that helps companies remotely manage AR and VR devices, believed that enterprise customers would be the primary targets for AR and VR devices. Now, that bet is paying off. On Tuesday, the company announced it has secured $12 million in funding, a Series A that will be used to dev
SoundCloud launches its own merch store, will let artists create their own designs
Music streaming service SoundCloud has launched a merch marketplace called SoundCloud Store. The store will sell SoundCloud-themed items, but will also act as a service for artists to put out their own designs.
The first edition of the store features designs from Wiz Khalifa, Denzel Curry, wolface
PayZen secures $32M Series B, $200M debt facility to grow its ‘care now, pay later’ product
The cost of healthcare in the U.S. has been rising rapidly, but the portion of those costs footed by patients has increased even faster. Just two decades ago, fees paid by patients accounted for only 5% of hospitals’ and doctors’ revenue, but by 2017, those fees made up 35% of reve
Sage Geosystems wants to solve the data center energy crisis by storing pressurized water deep underground
Cindy Taff was standing out in the flat expanse of Starr County, Texas, in early 2022 when she felt it. “It was literally vibrating the ground,” she told technewss. “That was an 'ah-ha' moment for me.”
Her startup, Sage Geosystems, was testing equipment used to harvest heat from d
Why this AI startup is betting on voice-enabled bots to scale AI adoption in India
If your target market has 22 official languages and its people speak in over 19,000 dialects, does it make sense to offer a text-only AI chatbot that can function best in a couple languages?
That’s the question Indian AI startup Sarvam has been working to solve, and on Tuesday it launched a
Opera is releasing its redesigned browser on iOS
Opera is releasing its redesigned Opera One browser on iOS as a stable release after testing it in the beta phase for weeks. The new browser has a bottom placed search bar for easy browsing, quick search suggestions while typing, and Aria AI assistant integration.
While the placed search bar will