StuDocu raises $50M as its note-sharing network for college students passes 15M users Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ingrid Lunden - May 10, 20210 Whether learning online or taking a class in person, every student knows all too well how important it is to have good notes from your classes as a key way to remember and apply what you’ve been taught. Now, an Amsterdam-based startup called StuDocu, which has built a big and
Clubhouse finally launches its Android app Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Manish Singh - May 9, 20210 Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store — provided you live in the U.S. The voice-based social network launched its beta Android app on Play Store for users in the U.S. on Sunday, and said it will gradually make the new app available in
We reviewed three at-home covid tests. The results were mixed. Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Antonio Regalado - May 9, 20210 Over-the-counter home tests for covid-19 are finally here. MIT Technology Review obtained kits sold by three companies and tried them out. After buying tests from CVS and online, I tested myself several times and ended up learning an important lesson: while some people worry that home tests could miss covid cases,
How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Will Douglas Heaven - May 9, 20210 Uploading personal photos to the internet can feel like letting go. Who else will have access to them, what will they do with them—and which machine-learning algorithms will they help train? The company Clearview has already supplied US law enforcement agencies with a facial recognition tool trained on photos of millions
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by HendrikWiese - May 9, 20210 In March 2017, a group of hackers from China arrived in Vancouver with one goal: Find hidden weak spots inside the world’s most popular technologies. Google’s Chrome browser, Microsoft’s Windows operating system, and Apple’s iPhones were all in the crosshairs. But no one was breaking the law. These were just some
Nintendo's Ready For Acquisitions, When The Time Is Right Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - May 8, 20210 It's got $9.2 billion ready to go.Mergers and acquisitions have been the talk of the town since Microsoft completed a $7.5 billion deal with Bethesda last year, so what's Nintendo's approach to acquisitions moving forward?In a press conference following the company's full-year earnings results earlier this week, president Shuntaro Furukawa
This Week in Apps: App Store advertising expands, Google Play plans for safety, Epic v. Apple trial begins Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Sarah Perez - May 8, 20210 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. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using
When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Danny Crichton - May 8, 20210 The internet is now our nervous system. We are constantly streaming and buying and watching and liking, our brains locked into the global information matrix as one universal and coruscating emanation of thought and emotion. What happens when the machine stops though? It’s a question that E.M. Forster was intensely focused on
Epic Apparently Wanted First-Party Exclusives From Nintendo, Microsoft And Sony On Its Digital Storefront Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - May 8, 20210 But thought a deal with Nintendo would be a "moonshot".Take this with a grain of salt, but at some stage, the Fortnite creator Epic Games was apparently eager to get Sony, Microsoft and even Nintendo's first-party titles on its digital storefront - and for all we know, it could still
Longevity startup Gero AI has a mobile API for quantifying health changes Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Natasha Lomas - May 8, 20210 Sensor data from smartphones and wearables can meaningfully predict an individual’s ‘biological age’ and resilience to stress, according to Gero AI. The ‘longevity’ startup — which condenses its mission to the pithy goal of “hacking complex diseases and aging with Gero AI” — has developed an AI model to predict morbidity