Author: Bilal

The new layout emphasizes follower counts and does away with Likes. Facebook is rolling out a set of experimental features to select English-language Pages after using celebrities’ accounts for their initial testing. One of those experimental features is a brand new layout for its mobile apps that puts the focus on the Page’s name, description and … Continue reading Facebook tests new Pages that feel more like Instagram and Twitter Continue Reading →

The spacecraft with a Mars rover aboard has reached its initial orbit. China has launched its Tianwen-1 lander, rover and orbiter mission and successfully reached a pre-determined transfer orbit, according to CASC, the nation’s main space contractor. The mission launched early this morning on a powerful Long March 5 rocket from the Wenchang launch site. If the mission … Continue reading China successfully launches its Tianwen-1 Mars rover Continue Reading →

Get an SD card, headphone jack and waterproof rating for $500. If you’ve been looking at Samsung’s Galaxy S10e but weren’t into paying even the new, lower $600 price, Amazon has an interesting proposal. For today only, it’s selling the Galaxy S10e at $500, or $100 off Samsung’s current unlocked price. Buy Samsung’s Galaxy S10e on Amazon – $500 The … Continue reading The Galaxy S10e is cheaper than ever on Amazon today Continue Reading →

Facebook’s  messaging app is adding new privacy controls, the company announced this morning. Initially, this will include today’s launch of App Lock for iOS, which allows users to lock access to their private chats by way of the device’s built-in security mechanisms, including Touch ID and Face ID. A second privacy feature, which involves new controls … Continue reading Messenger’s new privacy controls let you secure your chats via Face ID or Touch ID Continue Reading →

Dexterity emerged from stealth this week to announce its full-stack solution aimed at creating collaborative robotics systems. The hardware-software system is designed for a variety of different tasks, including bin picking and box packing, targeted at warehouse fulfillment and logistics needs. Image Credits: Dexterity The Bay Area-based startup has already built up significant support from the investment … Continue reading Dexterity exits stealth with $56.2M raised for its collaborative warehouse robots Continue Reading →

Amazon  today announced a slew of new features for developers who want to write Alexa skills. In total, the team released 31 new features at its Alexa Live event. Unsurprisingly, some of these are relatively minor, but a few significantly change the Alexa experience for the more than 700,000 developers who have built skills for the … Continue reading Amazon launches new Alexa developer tools Continue Reading →

Reflect, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 class, is building a tool to automate website and web application testing, making it faster to get your site up and running without waiting for engineers to write testing code, or for human testers to run the site through its paces. Company CEO and co-founder Fitz … Continue reading Reflect wants to help you automate web testing without writing code Continue Reading →

Ready to do everything in your power to keep your startup on track for success — and keep more of your hard-earned currency in your wallet? Listen up. Early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt 2020 ends in less than two weeks. Buy your pass before the bird expires on July 31 at 11:59 p.m. PDT, and you’ll save up … Continue reading Less than two weeks left to save big on Disrupt 2020 passes Continue Reading →

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/17/an-unsurprising-wave-of-video-focused-startups-is-trying-to-make-video-calls-better/ All that work paid off this year when COVID-19 shook up the world, forcing companies to cancel business travel and instead lean on video conferencing solutions. Given the international nature of modern business — globalization is a fact, regardless of what nationalists want — the change in the world’s meeting landscape scooted demand toward … Continue reading Kudo raises $6M for its real-time translation and video conference platform Continue Reading →

GEDmatch,  the DNA analysis site that police used to catch the so-called Golden State Killer, was pulled briefly offline on Sunday while its parent company investigated how its users’ DNA profile data apparently became available to law enforcement searches. The company confirmed Wednesday that the permissions change was caused by a breach. The site, which lets users … Continue reading GEDmatch confirms data breach after users’ DNA profile data made available to police Continue Reading →