Tel Aviv-based Photomyne, an A.I.-powered app that helps you bring your old photo prints online, has been benefitting from the subscription app boom to the tune of $5 million in Series A funding. Today, the app is used by a million people every month, and 250,000 people pay the $20 annual …
Read More »Zara seeks to innovation to keep up with faster style
MADRID (Reuters) – The leader of quick fashion isn’t really looking so quickly anymore. FILE PHOTO: Individuals walk in front of an advertisement for an Inditex owned Zara shop in Milan, Italy, March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo/File Photo Inditex, the world’s biggest clothes retailer and owner of the Zara chain, …
Read More »Tesla Roadster to get optional SpaceX rocket thrusters
Tesla is at it again. Last month, its CEO Elon Musk said the Tesla Model 3 will get a high-performance four-wheel drive variation that accelerates faster and deals with much better than the BMW M3. Big, bold claims there, but the billionaire isn’t done. Obviously, the Tesla Roadster will get …
Read More »With iOS 12, Your iPhone Will Instantly Share Place Information Throughout 911 Calls
With its upcoming iOS 12 update for iPhones, Apple is enabling users in the United States to instantly and securely share their area data with first responders throughout a 911 call. Apple states that around 80 percent of 911 employ the United States are from mobile phones, but out-of-date technological …
Read More »South Korean Carrier Will Start Selling the iPhone 3GS Again
Apple launched the iPhone 3GS way back in June of 2009, and the phone has been discontinued for many years. However, South Korean carriers Sk Telink is resuming sales of this retro phone after finding a cache of unsold units in a warehouse. Customers will be able to pick up …
Read More »Facing Epyc Onslaught, Intel Will Aggressively Compete in Servers
It’s been almost exactly a year since AMD launched its first Epyc server CPUs. Over the last 12 months, AMD has fed the market with a slow, steady drip of new products and design wins as it begins the process of re-entering the server market in earnest for the first …
Read More »5G Standard Finalized in a Major Step Toward Commercialization
The 3GPP has announced the finalization of the other half of the 5G standard, bringing the overall standardization process to a close. If you’re having a flash of deja vu from this announcement, it’s because this is the second 5G standard that’s been completed. The first, which is intended …
Read More »Google’s Datally app adds more ways to limit mobile data usage
In November, Google introduced Datally, a data-saving app largely aimed at emerging markets where users often rely on prepaid SIM cards, and don’t have access to all-you-can-eat unlimited data plans. The app lets users granularly control which apps can use data, which resulted in a 30% savings on data usage …
Read More »Google May Be Planning to Run Windows 10 on Pixelbook
Google’s Pixelbook is an impressive piece of hardware, but it runs Chrome OS. While Chrome has improved substantially in the last few years, it’s still nowhere near as powerful as a true desktop OS like Windows. According to a note in Google’s open source code, there’s evidence that Google is …
Read More »PC OEMs Are Selling Laptops With Optane Cache Drives and Claiming It’s Memory
Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives — but they’re improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents some kind of DRAM rather than a conventional cache drive. Meanwhile, Intel has made explicit changes to its …
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