August 2023

Withings introduced the original ScanWatch in Europe back in 2020, before bringing it to the U.S. the following year, with FDA-cleared features like atrial fibrillation (afib) detection. Announced today during the IFA event in Berlin, the ScanWatch 2 arrives with its predecessor’s features,  such as SPO2 (oxygen saturation) measurement, activity tracking and sleep tracking. The […]

Love listening to full-length albums instead? Longplay, an indie music app from developer Adrian Schoenig that focuses on the album-listening experience, is out today with a significant update that improves on the album-playing app first launched in 2020. While the original version offered a unique music discovery experience by offering a visual wall of your […]

Google is finished rolling out its new SafeSearch feature that blurs explicit imagery, such as violent or sexual photos, by default. The company announced back in February that it would be rolling out the change later this year, and has now confirmed in a blog post that it is available to everyone. The filter is […]

The U.S. restaurant chain allegedly used a tactic that’s proliferating in the restaurant industry and beyond.

Beverage giant Coca-Cola (KO) surpassed Wall Street estimates for the second quarter of 2023. Supported by the heightened demand for its innovative product lineup, KO is strategically positioned for impressive…

VanMoof, the flashy e-bike startup that skidded into bankruptcy this summer, has gotten back on its own bike, so to speak. Today it was announced that Lavoie, which makes electric scooters, has acquired the business out of administration. The company plans to invest in the brand and relaunch the business, it said. That will include […]

Are startups facing an insurmountable hurdle when it comes to leveraging LLMs and related technologies as effectively as their larger rivals?

Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes this week laid off 100 employees as it prepares for a major restructuring that will see the business split into two, TechCrunch has learned. The layoffs come almost exactly a year after Malwarebytes eliminated 14% of its global workforce. A former employee who asked not to be named told TechCrunch that the layoffs […]

TikTok’s AR development platform called “Effect House,” which allows creators to build AR effects for use in the video app, is officially out of beta. Creators can now download Effect House 3.0 and join TikTok’s official Effect House community on Discord, where can be kept up-to-date on the latest events and challenges, office hours, and also […]

While you might have heard that data is the new currency, it continues to be the lifeblood of the dynamic finance industry. However, when it comes to tons of data…