[ad_1] CHINESE authorities are looking to impose strict regulations on a new form of crowdfunding with digital currencies, known as initial coin offerings (ICOs), after a national government Internet finance organization said that the new form of launches was causing undue harm, if not outright fraud. Growing concern about ICO’s ...
Read More »NGINX builds platform for application development and delivery
[ad_1] Getty Images/iStockphoto Web server and application delivery company NGINX has unveiled a suite of products that will allow teams to build or modernise applications using DevOps tools and includes best practices for cloud, containers, and microservices. Its new NGINX Application Platform combines application delivery tools, an application server and ...
Read More »Virtual science lab startup Labster bags $10M to accelerate its ed tech play
[ad_1] Ed tech startup Labster whose software platform enables virtual simulations of laboratories for teaching life science to students, has closed a $10 million Series A round of funding led by early stage European VC firm Balderton Capital. Stockholm-based Northzone is also joining the round, as is Unity Technologies founder David Helgason ...
Read More »A new Kickstarter will help you turn your surfboard into an electric hydrofoil
[ad_1] Why it matters to you Electric hydrofoil surfboards look like one of the greatest transport methods ever. A new Kickstarter wants to help you achieve this on a budget. Have you ever looked at a surfer, paused to ponder the majesty of a man or woman gliding unaided over ...
Read More »$40 keychain-size detector quickly alerts you of allergens in food
[ad_1] If you’re someone with a horrible allergy that’s not often accommodated at restaurants or food producers, taking a bite means taking your life into your hands — or mouth, I suppose. A new device developed at Harvard Medical School may soon let you test food for common allergens instead ...
Read More »Insta360 One 360-degree Camera hands-on Review
[ad_1] Shooting photos and video should be fun. It’s an aspect we look for in our smartphone reviews: Does the camera inspire us to go out and take a picture, and then actively make us think of ways to use it better? We want the answer to be yes. In ...
Read More »Mobile AI is Huawei's not-so-secret weapon
[ad_1] In addition to a slew of high-end features like powerful graphics performance (integrated 12-core GPU), better power management (10nm structure) and improved LTE capability (Cat 18 support), the Kirin 970’s standout feature is its embedded neural processing unit (NPU). With the NPU, Huawei’s next smartphone will dedicate power to ...
Read More »PSA: You Can Read Overwatch's 'Wasted Land' Comic Now
[ad_1] Earlier this week we offered up a glimpse of the latest Overwatch comic, titled ‘Wasted Land.’ The comic follows Roadhog, Junkrat, and a few other characters as they deal with with some unfinished business in Junkertown, Ovewatch’s newest map. The full comic is now available to read on Blizzard’s ...
Read More »Europe's biggest tech show finally delivered
[ad_1] Daniel CooperSenior Editor When Microsoft began talking about its Mixed Reality program earlier this year, the whole thing left me pretty cold. The company claimed that it could slash the cost of a VR headset almost in half, and that the kit would even work with PCs that used ...
Read More »Tenka Labs raises another $2M to get its kids’ LEGO engineering kits in retailers
[ad_1] Tenka Labs co-founder John Schuster is no stranger to walking friends through lueuilding gadgets using Arduino, an open-source hardware controller — except they might be great software engineers, but not understand the actual circuitry. But Tenka Labs, which builds simple kits that help young students create small gadgets with ...
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