Calendar Planning to Create Work-Life Balance
From the Monday morning work meeting and that new assignment to a child’s soccer game and a friend’s upcoming birthday party, life is busy. Finding the perfect balance between work…
The Download: Early adopters cash in on China’s OpenClaw craze, and US batteries slump
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. Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze In January, Beijing-based software engineer Feng Qingyang started tinkering with OpenClaw, a new AI tool that can take over a device and autonomously complete tasks.…
Alibaba (BABA) and NetEase (NTES): Is It Time to Invest in These China Stocks?
China’s faster-than-expected GDP growth in the third quarter and solid consumption and industrial activity last month showed economic recovery gaining traction amid a recent flurry of stimulus measures. So, let’s…
Photon’s app for pro photographers lets you shoot and save to an external drive
Photon, an iOS app for pro photographers, is introducing a new feature that will allow iPhone 15 Pro users to save their photos directly to an external drive, freeing up valuable disk space on their device. The app, which hails from LateNightSoft, the makers of the popular consumer app, Camera+, was launched this July to […]
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Discord is growing its developer monetization efforts
In a time when X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit have sequestered API access behind steep paywalls, Discord is taking the opposite approach. A few weeks ago, Discord enabled U.S. developers to sell their apps to Discord users in a centralized hub, and today, that feature expands to include developers in the UK and Europe. Developers […]
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Google Meet now lets you apply a skin-smoothing effect with its new portrait touch-up mode
Google Meet finally rolled out a portrait touch-up mode to compete with rivals Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The new capability allows you to apply beautifying features during video calls, including complexion smoothing, under-eye lightening and eye whitening. Google now offers two portrait modes– “Subtle,” which provides light cosmetic adjustments and “Smoothing,” which has a “slightly […]
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Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts
The popular messaging app Telegram can leak your IP address if you simply add a hacker to your contacts and accept a phone call from them. Denis Simonov, a security researcher, who is also known as n0a, recently highlighted the issue and wrote a simple tool to exploit it. TechCrunch verified the researcher’s findings by […]
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OnePlus Open is a foldable contender
In the earliest days of foldables, simply participating was enough to get people to take notice. With every new player on the scene, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish oneself from the crowd. As we barrel toward the end of 2023, Samsung is far from the only game in town. We’ve got Google, Motorola, […]
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Iink puts its digital stamp on property insurance claim lending following $12M Series A
Iink integrates with mortgage servicing banks and insurance carriers to create an entirely digital and automated workflow to keep the restoration process moving along.
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Is Your Family Business Giving Women the Short End of the Stick? Here’s How to Recognize and Combat Discrimination.
The last place women might expect to experience discrimination is within their family business. But research shows it’s a significant problem. Here’s how to recognize and combat it in your business.
RagnarLocker ransomware dark web site seized in international sting
An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web portal used by the notorious RagnarLocker ransomware group, TechCrunch has learned. A message on the RagnarLocker website now states that, “this service has been seized by a part of a coordinated international law enforcement action against the RagnarLocker group.” According to the seizure […]
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