Xiaomi’s new 12S Ultra smartphone features a 6.73-inch OLED screen and three rear cameras, including a 50MP main camera with a 1-inch sensor, starting at ~$900 (Richard Lai/Engadget)

<div>Xiaomi's new 12S Ultra smartphone features a 6.73-inch OLED screen and three rear cameras, including a 50MP main camera with a 1-inch sensor, starting at ~0 (Richard Lai/Engadget)</div>

Richard Lai / Engadget: Xiaomi’s new 12S Ultra smartphone features a 6.73-inch OLED screen and three rear cameras, including a 50MP main camera with a 1-inch sensor, starting at ~$900 — Merely six months after its previous flagship launch, today… Continue Reading →

05/07/2022

Sources: at least 24 Azure data centers are operating with limited server capacity amid the global chip shortage that has made it harder to get new hardware (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: at least 24 Azure data centers are operating with limited server capacity amid the global chip shortage that has made it harder to get new hardware — In March 2020, Microsoft’s Azure cloud buckled… Continue Reading →

02/07/2022

Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign-related emails from spam; GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign-related emails from spam; GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam — Google has asked the Federal Election Commission to… Continue Reading →

28/06/2022

Berlin-based WorkMotion, an HR software startup that helps companies onboard and manage staff abroad, has raised a $50M Series B led by Canaan (FinSMEs)

Berlin-based WorkMotion, an HR software startup that helps companies onboard and manage staff abroad, has raised a M Series B led by Canaan (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Berlin-based WorkMotion, an HR software startup that helps companies onboard and manage staff abroad, has raised a $50M Series B led by Canaan — WorkMotion, a Berlin, Germany-based HR-tech company for global employment, raised $50M in Series B funding. … Continue Reading →

25/06/2022

VerSe Innovation rolls out its news aggregator Dailyhunt in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait, with over 5K content partners in the region (Kul Bhushan/Tech in Asia)

Kul Bhushan / Tech in Asia: VerSe Innovation rolls out its news aggregator Dailyhunt in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait, with over 5K content partners in the region — VerSe Innovation, an India-based tech unicorn, has… Continue Reading →

21/06/2022

A look at India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), which could help the country’s mom-and-pop retailers compete against rapid grocery delivery startups (Varsha Bansal/TIME)

<div>A look at India's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), which could help the country's mom-and-pop retailers compete against rapid grocery delivery startups (Varsha Bansal/TIME)</div>

Varsha Bansal / TIME: A look at India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), which could help the country’s mom-and-pop retailers compete against rapid grocery delivery startups — When Jay Prakash, a 35-year-old shopkeeper, inherited his father’s local convenience store… Continue Reading →

18/06/2022

As part of the Content Authenticity Initiative, Adobe releases a toolkit to let devs integrate content provenance, which can help counter visual misinformation (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: As part of the Content Authenticity Initiative, Adobe releases a toolkit to let devs integrate content provenance, which can help counter visual misinformation — Adobe has a vision for an internet peppered with photos and videos… Continue Reading →

14/06/2022

A week with Dall-E 2, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI tool that is in private research beta and feels like a breakthrough in the history of consumer tech (Casey Newton/The Verge)

<div>A week with Dall-E 2, OpenAI's text-to-image AI tool that is in private research beta and feels like a breakthrough in the history of consumer tech (Casey Newton/The Verge)</div>

Casey Newton / The Verge: A week with Dall-E 2, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI tool that is in private research beta and feels like a breakthrough in the history of consumer tech — This story is part of a group of… Continue Reading →

11/06/2022

A study of the first two years of Bitcoin transactions finds 64 key players who mined most of the Bitcoin at the time, contrary to decentralized crypto ethos (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)

Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: A study of the first two years of Bitcoin transactions finds 64 key players who mined most of the Bitcoin at the time, contrary to decentralized crypto ethos — In myth, the cryptocurrency is… Continue Reading →

07/06/2022

FarmWise, which builds a weeding robot that uses cameras, sensors, and AI to identify and cut down weeds without harming the crops, raises a $45M Series B (Jordan McDonald/Emerging Tech Brew)

FarmWise, which builds a weeding robot that uses cameras, sensors, and AI to identify and cut down weeds without harming the crops, raises a M Series B (Jordan McDonald/Emerging Tech Brew)

Jordan McDonald / Emerging Tech Brew: FarmWise, which builds a weeding robot that uses cameras, sensors, and AI to identify and cut down weeds without harming the crops, raises a $45M Series B — FarmWise sells its AI-powered weeding robots… Continue Reading →

04/06/2022

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