June 19, 2025

Is this the electric grid of the future?

One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard stalled above eastern Nebraska, pounding the state capital of Lincoln with 60-mile-per-hour winds, driving sleet, and up to eight inches of snow. Lincoln Electric System, the local electric utility, has approximately 150,000 customers. By lunchtime, nearly 10% of them were without power. Ice was…

Wonder Dynamics puts a full-service CG character studio in a web platform

March 8, 2023

The tools of modern cinema have become increasingly accessible to independent and even amateur filmmakers, but realistic CG characters (like them or not) have remained the province of big-budget projects. Wonder Dynamics aims to change that with a platform that lets creators literally drag and drop a CG character into any scene as if it […]

Wonder Dynamics puts a full-service CG character studio in a web platform by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Spotify revamps its app with TikTok-style discovery feeds, Smart Shuffle for playlists and more

March 8, 2023

At Spotify’s Stream On event today in L.A., the company introduced a significant redesign of its app, which capitalizes on its investments in personalization technology while also adopting a similar short-form video feed as the one popularized by TikTok. In the updated Spotify mobile app, users and subscribers will gain access to a handful of […]

Spotify revamps its app with TikTok-style discovery feeds, Smart Shuffle for playlists and more by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s new developer preview of Android 14 focuses on privacy and security

March 8, 2023

Google’s Android release cadence for Android has become a familiar annual ritual. A month ago, the company launched the first developer preview of Android 14 and now, a month later, here is the second developer preview. Like with the first release, this is very much a version that’s still meant for developers, with the more […]

Google’s new developer preview of Android 14 focuses on privacy and security by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch