The Metaverse And Future Of Gaming
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The Xiaomi 17 Ultra gives you a ton of options to play around with images, including preset filters and hardware add-ons.
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Instafest app lets you create your own festival lineup from Spotify
If your favorite music festival’s lineup didn’t live up to your expectations this year, don’t worry; a new app called Instafest will create a music festival poster for you based on your Spotify listening habits. The free web app, created by developer Anshay Saboo, is pretty straightforward to use: sign in with your Spotify account, […]
Instafest app lets you create your own festival lineup from Spotify by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart
At its re:Invent kickoff keynote tonight, AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. Typically, when a function isn’t used for quite a while, Lambda will shut the virtual machine down — and despite improvements like faster Firecracker microVMs, this […]
AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Despite ban, Twitter downloads surge in China amid COVID protests
Twitter saw a surge in downloads in China as protests against the country’s stringent COVID restrictions erupted nationwide over the last few days. The social media app ranked 9th amongst all the free iOS apps in China on November 29, up from 150th a week ago, according to app analytics firm SensorTower. Discussion about the […]
Despite ban, Twitter downloads surge in China amid COVID protests by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
AWS launches Graviton3E, its new Arm-based chip for HPC workloads
At its traditional evening keynote at re:Invent, AWS tonight announced quite a bit of new hardware in its cloud, starting with a new version of its Nitro hypervisor, new instance types, and a new version of its custom Arm-based Graviton chips which was specifically designed for powering high-performance computing workloads. This new Graviton3E chip — […]
AWS launches Graviton3E, its new Arm-based chip for HPC workloads by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Southeast Asia insurtech Igloo increases its Series B to $46M
Igloo, a Singapore-based insurtech focused on underserved communities in Southeast Asia, announced it has raised a Series B extension of $27 million, bringing the round’s total to $46 million. The first tranche of $19 million was announced in March, and led by Cathay innovation with participation from ACA and returning investors OpenSpace. The newest round […]
Southeast Asia insurtech Igloo increases its Series B to $46M by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
EV SPAC Faraday Future ousts its CEO
Faraday Future, the troubled EV startup-turned-publicly-traded company, has shuffled its executive ranks once again. The board fired its CEO Carsten Breitfeld, according to a regulatory filing posted Monday after the markets closed. Brietfeld, who was the former co-founder of failed EV startup Byton, took the leadership role at Faraday Future in September 2019. The board […]
EV SPAC Faraday Future ousts its CEO by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Daily Crunch: WhatsApp rolls out new ‘Message Yourself’ feature globally
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Daily Crunch: WhatsApp rolls out new ‘Message Yourself’ feature globally by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Max Q: Thank you
Before we get to the news, I wanted to give a heartfelt thank you to all Max Q subscribers.
Max Q: Thank you by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
Nufa lets you live up to unrealistic beauty standards at the tap of an app
It isn’t like Instagram is a beacon of truth as it is, but things are about to get a lot worse, as Nufa takes any image and sculpts you into the “after” picture dream that every gym owner wants to project into our souls as they continue on their mission to make us all look […]
Nufa lets you live up to unrealistic beauty standards at the tap of an app by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch