by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
The Galaxy Note Ultra is a $1,399 smartphone. Even by Samsung’s standards, this is a high-end luxury device. It’s the phone for people who board the plane early and derive a sense of pride in watching the rest of us slowly shuffle onto the plane, wondering just how...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Apple is revamping its streaming radio service. Starting today, its flagship radio station Beats 1 will be rebranded to Apple Music 1 — a change that more closely associates the station with Apple’s subscription-based streaming music service, Apple Music. In addition,...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Walmart reported earnings this morning. Most of the numbers are immaterial to you and I, having little to nothing to do with the world of private capital and startups, but one metric did leap out: In its quarter ending July 31, Walmart’s U.S. “e-commerce sales” grew...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Website-building platform Wix is expanding today with the launch of a customer support product (and new company) called Wix Answers. Joe Pollaro, the general manager of Wix’s U.S. business, said that while the company has “been expanding into much larger types of...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Amazon today announced an upcoming hiring spree set to bring 3,500 jobs to a half-dozen U.S. cities. The news is, of course, particularly notable amid a pandemic that has cause many industries to freeze hiring, while unemployment claims have soared across the country....
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
An AI-based technique to accelerate MRI scans has been shown to produce as good or better results than traditional methods in a blind comparison by expert radiologists. The system halves or even quarters the time necessary to get a good scan without sacrificing...
