Month: May 2020

Hulu today is introducing a new feature called “Hulu Watch Party,” its first social feature that will allow viewers to virtually watch Hulu together at the same time while in separate locations and chat with one another within the Hulu app. The feature is being tested first on Hulu.com for Hulu’s “No Ads” subscribers for … Continue reading Hulu launches a new Watch Party feature for virtual viewing parties and chat Continue Reading →

Work.com is an example of investing in a downturn and now Salesforce.com aims to broaden its reach as a digital transformation engine. Salesforce executives were upbeat about the prospects for its Work.com platform, which aims to enable customers to manage the COVID-19 new normal of work, sees the software as an investment that will play … Continue reading Salesforce CEO Benioff: ‘In a moment of crisis, you need to invest through it’ Continue Reading →

Warehouse Exchange, a startup that describes itself as the Airbnb of warehouse space, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. The company was founded Jonathan Rosenthal (CEO of Saybrook Management) and Dan Pimentel (previously CFO/COO of startup Hub TV). They recently brought on former eHarmony CEO Grant Langston as Warehouse Exchange’s chief executive. Langston admitted … Continue reading Storage marketplace Warehouse Exchange raises $2.2M Continue Reading →

Belvo, a Latin American fintech startup which launched just 12 months ago, has already snagged funding from two of the biggest names in North and South American venture capital. The company is aiming to expand the reach of its service that connects mobile applications in Mexico and Colombia to a customer’s banking information and now … Continue reading Belvo scores $10M from Founders Fund and Kaszek to scale its API for financial services Continue Reading →

Lagging far behind others, SSH developers finally deprecate aging hash function. Developers of two open source code libraries for Secure Shell—the protocol millions of computers use to create encrypted connections to each other—are retiring the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, four months after researchers piled a final nail in its coffin. The moves, announced in release notes and a code … Continue reading Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function will die in SSH linking millions of computers Continue Reading →

Android Studio 4.0 promises to make Android developers more productive. Google has released the stable build of Android Studio 4.0, its newest official integrated development environment (IDE) for building Android apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS.  The three main additions to Android Studio 4.0 include a Motion Editor to speed up the creation of complex … Continue reading Google’s Android Studio 4.0 is out: Motion Editor, Build Analyzer, Java 8 language APIs Continue Reading →

Warehouse Exchange, a startup that describes itself as the Airbnb of warehouse space, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. The company was founded Jonathan Rosenthal (CEO of Saybrook Management) and Dan Pimentel (previously CFO/COO of startup Hub TV). They recently brought on former eHarmony CEO Grant Langston as Warehouse Exchange’s chief executive. Langston admitted … Continue reading Storage marketplace Warehouse Exchange raises $2.2M Continue Reading →

In a surprise move, Mirantis  acquired Docker’s Enterprise platform business at the end of last year, and while Docker  itself is refocusing on developers, Mirantis kept the Docker Enterprise name and product. Today, Mirantis is rolling out its first major update to Docker Enterprise with the release of version 3.1. For the most part, these updates are in line with what’s been happening … Continue reading Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise Continue Reading →

The Gjellestad ship is roughly 1,200 years old. A ground-penetrating radar survey in 2018 found a 20-meter Viking ship buried just beneath the surface of a farmer’s field in Østfold, Norway. At the time, archaeologists decided that the rare find was safest where it was. But recent analysis of a wood sample taken in 2019 … Continue reading Archaeologists in Norway are about to dig up a Viking ship Continue Reading →

Insiders say it’s happening, but scheduling might change If you are ready for a glimpse of upcoming PS5 games, your wait might be over next week. Barring a scheduling SNAFU, Sony could be holding its first official games reveal for its next-gen console. Get ready for the hype to commence in full. Sony might be ready … Continue reading Sony could be holding a PlayStation 5 game showcase next Wednesday Continue Reading →