๐ฅ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ Category: Startups,Transportation,lightspeed venture partners,drone deliveries,Lachy Groom,Airbound ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: Airbound, an Indian drone startup, has raised $8.65 million in seed funding led by Physical Intelligence co-founder Lachy Groom, as it launches a drone delivery pilot with a private hospital and is working on making a dime delivery using its ultra-light, hybrid-wing aircraft. The seed round includes participation from Humba Ventures and existing Airbound investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, as well as senior leaders at Tesla, SpaceX and Anduril. Founded in 2020 by Naman Pushp โ then 15 and now…
๐ Explore this trending post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / National Security,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Security Roundup ๐ก Hereโs what youโll learn: Publish this research This week, it was reported that scammers in North Korea are trying to trick American companies into hiring them for architectural design work, using fake profiles, resumes and Social Security numbers to pose as legitimate workers. This hustle fits into the reclusive kingdom's long-running campaigns to steal billions of dollars from organizations around the world, using careful planning and coordination to pose as professionals in all different fields.Under…
๐ Explore this must-read post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Culture,Culture / TV,Culture Guides ๐ก Hereโs what youโll learn: While Netflix is busy pumping out more series than any one person could watch (probably), some of the best shows are on Amazon Prime Video. Trouble is, navigating the serviceโs labyrinthine menus can make finding the right series a pain. Weโre here to help. Below are our favorite Amazon seriesโall included with your Prime subscription.For more viewing picks, read WIREDโs guide to the best movies on Amazon Prime, the best movies on HBOโs Max, and the best movies on Netflix.If you…
โจ Explore this must-read post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Science,Science / Environment,Green Dream ๐ Main takeaway: "[The clutch] โIt's like 1950s technology โ it's really boring,โ Westerman said (โboringโ for network operators is the highest form of praise). โThe marginal cost of putting this in is like nothing compared to the cost of the station.โA company called SSS has been building these clutches for decades. One is almost operational in Queensland at the Townsville gas-fired plant, which Siemens Energy is converting into what it calls a โhybrid rotary grid stabilizerโ. Siemens says that this project is the first conversion…
โจ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Computers,Product Review ๐ Key idea: We shouldn't expect any Windows laptop with a powerful discrete GPU to replicate what the MacBook Pro does. Yes, there are more powerful systems, but efficiency is not what these systems are about. Even with the improvements Nvidia has made in Advanced Optimus (automatically switching between the discrete GPU when needed), battery life suffers, especially while running heavy apps. In our local video playback test, the Yoga Pro 9i 16 lasted about 12 hours. Despite using the same…
๐ Explore this trending post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Gear / Reviews,Product Review โ
Key idea: Offline guidance is supposed to be one of the tagline features of this watch. You should be able to just choose a point in the Maps app on the watch, then choose straight-line navigation or route navigation. Unless you're in a wide-open field, a straight line won't help you much, but the Route Navigation feature should analyze the Watch's ability to read roads and lanes to get you where you want to go.Then you can choose between…
๐ Explore this awesome post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Home,Buying Guide ๐ก Main takeaway: Compare our picksOthers have been testedPhoto: Simon HillHoover HF4 Hydro for ยฃ199: For people in the UK who live in apartments or small homes with a mix of carpets and hard floors, this space-saving cordless vacuum and mop from Hoover could be a smart choice. You can get a standard cordless vacuum with about half an hour of battery life, but you can switch the head to a mop. It's excellent for cleaning hard floors, with a shape…
๐ฅ Explore this awesome post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / National Security,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Don't Look Up ๐ Main takeaway: This suggests that someone could set up similar devices elsewhere in the world and potentially obtain their own set of sensitive information. After all, the researchers limited their experiment to only off-the-shelf satellite hardware: a $185 satellite dish, a $140 ceiling mount with a $195 motor, and a $230 tuner card, for a total of less than $800."These were not NSA-level resources. These were DirecTV user-level resources. The barrier to entry for…
โจ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ Category: Apps,Biotech & Health,Hardware,TC,Dorothy Kilroy,oura,Palantir,whoop ๐ก Main takeaway: Dorothy Kilroy has seen her company's smart ring on some very famous fingers. Mark Zuckerberg wears one. So does Jack Dorsey. Prince Harry too. But when Oura's chief commercial officer at the Elevate conference in Toronto sat down with this editor last week, she surprised me by saying that the company's fastest-growing user segment isn't tech billionaires or wellness-obsessed CEOs. They are women in their early twenties. It highlighted an interesting moment for Oura. The 13-year-old Finnish health tech company invented the smart…
๐ฅ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ Category: TC,Venture,Goldman Sachs,hans swildens,Industry Ventures,secondaries ๐ Key idea: Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Industry Ventures, a 25-year-old San Francisco-based investment firm with $7 billion in assets under management, CNBC reported Monday. The deal underscores the growing importance of secondary markets and acquisitions, as exits from traditional ventures remain slow. The investment bank is paying $665 million in cash and stock, with up to another $300 million tied to the company's performance through 2030, according to a statement from Goldman Sachs. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter…
