Twitter suffers worldwide outage | Engadget
Twitter’s recent troubles include more than its battle with Elon Musk. The social media giant has suffered a global outage that started shortly after 8AM Eastern. Users reported a variety…
Hivery bags money to optimize product placement on shelves – TechCrunch
Hivery, a startup that bills itself as an “optimization platform” for retailers, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global, the embattled…
You.com raises $25M to fuel its AI-powered search engine – TechCrunch
There’s a growing appetite for alternative search engines. At least, that’s the crux of the argument Richard Socher, the former chief scientist at Salesforce, likes to make. In 2020, Socher…
Apple MacBook Air M2 review – TechCrunch
Our MacBook Pro review felt strangely incomplete when it dropped roughly two weeks back. In many ways, my experience with the laptop was defined as much by the product I…
The inaugural report by the DHS Cyber Safety Review Board finds that Log4j has become an “endemic vulnerability” that will persist at least for the next decade
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GM is building a ‘coast-to-coast’ EV fast-charging network | Engadget
Electric vehicle adoption has reached its tipping point in the US. With more and more EVs appearing on American roadways, automakers and charging networks alike are working to build out…
A Chinese Wikipedia editor spent years writing fake Russian medieval history | Engadget
Chinese Wikipedia had a robust collection of detailed and authoritative articles on medieval Russia, thanks to a user called Zhemao who claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat assigned…
European Commission says Amazon offered to limit its use of marketplace seller data and make changes to “Buy Box” rankings in a bid to settle antitrust concerns
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Powin raises $153M funding from Singapore’s GIC, Trilantic North America and Energy Impact Partners – TechCrunch
Powin, an energy storage technology developer, said today it has raised $135 million in funding led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, with participation from existing investors Trilantic Energy Partners…
Plaid adds read-only support for crypto exchanges – TechCrunch
Plaid, the company building data transfer technologies to power fintech and digital finance products like smartphone-based wallets, today announced that it’s adding support for thousands of crypto exchanges to its…