You Can Now Lease Your Apple Gear Like a Car — Here’s How It Works
A new program called Apple Upgrade launches July 28, replacing the company’s own financing plans with a Klarna-backed lease.
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk’s and Luckey’s companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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Referees Can Make Up to $3,000 a Game. But Nobody Wants the Job.
There’s a nationwide shortage of referees and umpires, and the pay is better than most people would think.
How to Turn Every Customer Interaction Into a Win With 4 Smart AI Strategies
Transform your customers’ journey to its peak and set autonomous development as a default framework by leveraging AI.
Cascade raises $3.5M to help construction firms find and win projects
A16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade’s $3.5 million seed round.
The Franchise Disclosure Document Explained: What Every Buyer Should Know
Carefully reviewing the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) with an attorney helps prospective franchisees understand the agreement, brand expectations, and long-term relationship to determine whether the franchise is the right fit.
Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
WhatsApp adds Apple CarPlay and Android Auto upgrades, iPad sign-ups, and more
WhatsApp on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will let users hear and reply to messages, make calls, view their call history, and access favorite contacts hands-free and right from their car’s screen.
The Download: NASA’s new space telescope and OpenAI’s autonomous hacker
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will…
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own
When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy’s most precise disappearing acts to date. The telescope will carry the first space-bound “active” coronagraph, an instrument that effectively erases most of the light from a star during photography. It will allow astronomers…