Category: Tech news

 Bootstrapping Barcelona-based visual commerce startup Photoslurp has taken its first external funding: Announcing €750,000 (~$870k) in pre-Series A financing, led by Spanish VC Inveready Technology Investment Group, with participation from Bankinter VC, Caixa Capital Risc and ICF. Read More

Despite its best intentions, the franchise’s prequel is business as usual. Thankfully, business is good.

 Bang & Olufsen’s headphones tend to stand out from the crowd, and their new fully wireless mode, the Beoplay E8, is no exception. The E8 is easily the best totally wire-free headphone I’ve used thus far, with comfortable earbuds that should fit regardless of your ear shape, good battery life of around four hours per charge and the best sound quality of any true wireless buds… Read More

 The used-car market seems ripe for disruption, not least in terms of customer service and creating a better experience online. However, if recent events are anything to go by, it is a hard nut to crack. Following Carspring going quiet, another U.K. car-buying startup looks to be shutting. According to sources, London-based Hellocar has ceased trading. Read More

 Apple just started selling new bonds in order to finance a share buyback program and dividends for shareholders, as Bloomberg spotted in a filing. This is counterintuitive, as Apple is sitting on a big pile of cash and probably doesn’t need to issue bonds. But most of the company’s cash is outside of the U.S. Read More

We review the newest $800 Windows laptop-tablet hybrid from Microsoft.

Her only constant is that she’s always evolving.

Something Adam Driver said in a recent interview might be a huge spoiler for the current Star Wars saga.

Open-source software is increasingly popular, but some modules rely on just a single developer. What happens when they die?

The billionaire-backed Breakthrough Listen SETI project is keeping a beleaguered telescope running—at the expense of other science.

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

Across the country, activists are using data science, crowdfunding, and other digital tools to reclaim state and local offices from conservatives.

The president’s Twitter account went down for a few minutes last week. A lot of people had feelings about it.

Encrypted, simple, and free, Signal is the one messaging app you need on your phone.

They really want humans and autonomous vehicles to be friends.