Rieko Miki / Nikkei Asia: The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan — Economic and diplomatic chiefs to discuss supply chains at 2+2 meeting Friday — Taiwan hosts the lion’s share …
Daily Archives: July 30, 2022
Photo: Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo Good news for PC gaming fans eager to play laying down! Valve has announced it will be able to fulfill the demand for the Steam Deck, its handheld gaming console, sooner than initially estimated. Anyone currently in the reservation queue should expect a Steam Deck email, where they’ll be able […]
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One truth about me as a runner is that I need my jams. No jams, no run. I have meticulously curated playlists where the bass drops are strategically timed to gas me up when I lose steam. Aside from my sneakers, my earbuds are the most important piece of running tech I own. And yet, […]
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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Bootstrapped startups, or companies that use their own revenue or existing cash flow to fund growth instead of relying on external capital sources, sit in a very separate box than venture-backed startups. […]
Your honor, I love themPhoto: Aaron Epstein/HBO Max One of the dangers of going viral when you’re a pop culture reporter is that occasionally, sometimes, every now and then, your editor will ask you to start an open channel based on a silly tweet you shot off at midnight after reading a fanfic so devastating […]
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A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in the scooter rental sector collapse (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
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Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in the scooter rental sector collapse — Almost exactly five years ago, the scooters came. That’s when Bird, the first unicorn in this once sizzling startup sector, launched […]
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Once upon a time, my smartphone doubled as my most-used gaming platform. It’s hard to believe now, but there was once a period when app stores felt like a new frontier, and game developers had a blast experimenting with a little touchscreen rectangle that you always had in your pocket. Then the economics changed. Games […]
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The Ukrainian military says it has killed dozens of Russian soldiers in fighting in the south, including the Kherson region that is the focus of Kyiv’s counteroffensive in that part of the country and a key link in Moscow’s supply lines. Rail traffic to Kherson over the Dnieper River had been cut, the military’s southern […]
Launch of the Long March 5B rocket on July 24, 2022.Photo: Liu Huaiyu (AP) The core stage of a wayward Long March 5B rocket has returned from its short stint in low Earth orbit, disintegrating above the northern coast of Borneo. Dramatic videos of the disintegrating booster began to appear shortly after 1:00 p.m. ET, […]
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]