Month: May 2020

You can decide what (and when) kids can play. Microsoft is doing more to keep tabs on your kids’ digital habits. It just released the preview version of an Xbox Family Settings app for Android and 10,000 iOS users that manages what, when and how children play on Xbox consoles. You can set time limits on a day-by-day basis, set content filters … Continue reading Xbox Family Settings app sets limits on your kids’ game time Continue Reading →

Toro’s founders started at Uber helping monitor the data quality in the company’s vast data catalogs, and they wanted to put that experience to work for a more general audience. Today, the company announced a $4 million seed round. The round was co-led by Costanoa Ventures  and Point72 Ventures, with help from a number of individual investors. Company … Continue reading Toro snags $4M seed investment to monitor data quality Continue Reading →

Some models are cheaper in China, too Some automakers are offering deferred payments and zero percent financing on new purchases to lure buyers in. But with many having filed for unemployment in recent weeks due to job losses, a new vehicle purchase is likely the last thing on their mind, even when factoring in attractive incentives. … Continue reading Tesla slashes EV prices by as much as six percent in North America Continue Reading →

TLC-based FireCuda 120 SSD is offered in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities Seagate’s FireCuda series of gaming SSDs have previously included the high-performance M.2 PCIe NVMe-based 520 and 510 models, which are now joined by a modest SATA III 6 Gb/s sibling in the shape of the new 2.5-inch FireCuda 120 SSD. Unlike the PCIe … Continue reading Seagate expands gaming SSD line with 120 series FireCuda Continue Reading →

America’s new era of spaceflight will have to wait until Saturday.   We came this close to ushering in a new era of American spaceflight, one that combines the experience and capabilities of both private and public aerospace programs. But the weather simply wouldn’t cooperate. At roughly T-16 minutes, NASA scrubbed Wednesday’s SpaceX Falcon 9 launch that … Continue reading SpaceX’s first crewed mission to the ISS is scrubbed for today Continue Reading →

Massachusetts-based smart home company Savant Systems this morning announced a deal to acquire GE Lighting. The division has existed as part of General Electric since 1911, with its origins reaching back even further to Thomas Edison’s work in the space. Today’s GE Lighting portfolio still largely revolves around bulbs, with some push into more modern corners of … Continue reading Smart home company Savant set to acquire GE Lighting Continue Reading →

$1,000+ smartphones are still not a good value proposition for most people, With iPhone 12 inching closer to its release later this year, it’s interesting to look at how well Apple’s current generation of iPhone has performed, especially in the context of the lockdown measures that have put a lot of strain on the global supply … Continue reading Apple iPhone 11 remains popular, surpasses iPhone XR sales Continue Reading →

Bad news for BlizzCon fans. It seems like just about every major gaming conference scheduled for 2020 has been re-scheduled, shifted to an online format, or even canceled entirely due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Unfortunately, another major event has fallen into that final category: BlizzCon 2020 has been officially shut down. This news likely won’t … Continue reading Blizzard cancels BlizzCon 2020, will consider an online variant next year Continue Reading →

Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team, is rolling out yet another new app today called Collab after having just launched a new group audio calling app, CatchUp, on Tuesday. With Collab, the focus has now returned to video, and specifically, the concept of watching, mixing and matching original videos together, beginning with music. In Collab, creators can either … Continue reading Facebook launches Collab, a mix-and-match app for making collaborative music videos Continue Reading →

Satellites, remote sensing and global collaborations are paving the way to peatland restoration. Scientists started raising alarm bells in early 2015. The signs were clear — the world was in for a large-scale El Niño event, as warm water began to settle in the central and east-central Pacific Ocean. For Southeast Asia and many equatorial … Continue reading Inside Indonesia’s fight to save its most important soil Continue Reading →