Month: May 2020

Schoolwork 2.0 has new features for remote classrooms. Apple has updated its collaborative education app with new features that will make it easier for students and teachers to participate in classroom activities remotely. The company’s Schoolwork app has been given a significant makeover with updates that make it easier for teachers to manage assignments from afar. The … Continue reading Apple updates Schoolwork app to help teachers manage classrooms from afar Continue Reading →

Long-distance ridesharing startup BlaBlaCar announced that it is expanding to scooter sharing. But the company isn’t going to operate its own fleet of scooters. Instead, BlaBlaCar is partnering with Voi, a European e-scooter service that has raised $136 million over multiple rounds. Voi operates in dozens of European cities, including Paris, Marseille and Lyon. Over the next few weeks, … Continue reading BlaBlaCar partners with scooter startup Voi to launch new BlaBla Ride app Continue Reading →

Model S and X vehicles now cost $5,000 less. Tesla has quietly reduced its electric vehicles’ prices by thousands of dollars in North America and will also do the same in China, according to Reuters and Electrek. As the publications note, the automaker has cut prices across its lineup following an industry-wide decline in sales and demand caused … Continue reading Tesla slashes EV prices by up to $5,000 in North America and China Continue Reading →

Browser developers love to add small Easter Eggs to their apps to help you while away the hours when your interent is down, for example. Chrome has long had the Dino game, that you can start from the “No internet” error screen, for example. With its surf game, Microsoft’s  Edge team built something similar into its pre-release … Continue reading You can now surf in Microsoft’s Edge browser Continue Reading →

London-based Greyparrot, which uses computer vision AI to scale efficient processing of recycling, has bagged £1.825 million (~$2.2M) in seed funding, topping up the $1.2M in pre-seed funding it had raised previously. The latest round is led by early stage European industrial tech investor Speedinvest, with participation from UK-based early stage b2b investor, Force Over Mass. The 2019 founded startup … Continue reading Greyparrot bags $2.2M seed to scale its AI for waste management Continue Reading →

And South Korea is testing out robot baristas. © 2020 EPFL / Jamani Caillet Another day, another canceled event. This time it’s BlizzCon — although we do have a likely online-only event to look forward to next year. Still, after last night’s HBO Max debut, the big highlight on today’s schedule is the planned SpaceX Crew Dragon launch. Set to … Continue reading The Morning After: Swiss contact tracing app uses Google & Apple tech Continue Reading →

South Korea has successfully slowed down the spread of coronavirus. Alongside widespread quarantine measures and testing, the country’s innovative use of technology is credited as a critical factor in combating the spread of the disease. As Europe and the United States struggle to cope, many governments are turning to AI tools to both advance the … Continue reading AI can battle coronavirus, but privacy shouldn’t be a casualty Continue Reading →

Tool released over the weekend makes it a snap to remove restrictions built into iOS. Hackers have released a new jailbreak that any user can employ to gain root access on any iPhone, regardless of the hardware as long as it runs iOS 11 or later. Dubbed unc0ver, the exploit works only when someone has … Continue reading Meet unc0ver, the new jailbreak that pops shell—and much more—on any iPhone Continue Reading →

Readers requested RAID retests. Redundant? Ridiculous! In earlier coverage pitting ZFS against Linux kernel RAID, some readers had some concerns that we had missed some tricks for mdraid tuning. In particular, Louwrentius wanted us to retest mdadm with bitmaps disabled, and targetnovember thought that perhaps XFS might outperform ext4. Write intent bitmaps are an mdraid feature that allows disks that have … Continue reading Return to RAID: The Ars readers “What If?” edition Continue Reading →