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All the tech that went into turning Columbus, Ohio into a ‘Smart City’
The U.S. Department of Transportation launched a Smart City Challenge in 2015, which asked mid-sized cities across the country to come up with ideas for…
Psychedelic VR meditation startup Tripp raises $11 million Series A
As an increasing number of startups sell investors on mobile apps that help consumers prioritize well-being and mindfulness, other startups are looking for a more…
Twitch suspends two popular female creators over sexy ASMR streams
Popular Twitch streamers Amouranth and Indiefoxx are the two latest casualties of Twitch’s ongoing battle to enforce its own confusing rules around sexually suggestive content….
Ford unveils Maverick, a compact hybrid pickup truck for under $20,000
Ford unveiled on Tuesday the Maverick, a new compact hybrid pickup truck for people who didn’t know they needed one. The truck’s smaller more approachable…
Facebook and Instagram will now allow users to hide ‘Like’ counts on posts
Facebook this week will begin to publicly roll out the option to hide Likes on posts across both Facebook and Instagram, following earlier tests beginning…
Taking Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 for a spin
These days, the path of least resistance in laptop design is straight-up knocking off the MacBook. We’ve certainly seen our share of egregious cases over…
TikTok rolls out tools to bulk delete and report comments, block users
TikTok today is introducing a feature that will allow creators to deal with online abuse in an easier way. The company is launching new tools…
Fisker and Foxconn sign deal to build electric vehicles
Electric car startup Fisker signed an agreement with Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles iPhones, to co-develop and manufacture a new electric vehicle. Production on…
Clubhouse finally launches its Android app
Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store — provided you live in the U.S. The voice-based social network…
Live video platform Bright lets you Zoom with your favorite creators
What if you could Zoom with your favorite creator and ask them questions? That’s the promise of Bright, the new live video platform launching today…
Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try
Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190 million…
‘Returnal’ is a frantic, familiar pleasure — but spurns mainstream appeal to its peril
Returnal, released today for the PlayStation 5, is an action adventure that has you exploring an alien world that reconfigures itself whenever you die, bringing…
Cannabis banking act passes U.S. House with bipartisan support
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a landmark bill aimed at easing restrictions placed on the cannabis industry. The SAFE ACT (Secure and Fair Enforcement)…
Roku launches a rechargeable, hands-free voice remote and other devices, rolls out Roku OS 10
Roku today is unveiling new hardware and software, including the latest version of its Roku OS media software, Roku OS 10, which expands support for…
Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results
Efforts to unionize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse were defeated by a wide margin in the second day of vote counting. More than half of the…
Authentic Artists is building virtual, AI-powered musicians
Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is taking a new approach to bringing music into the virtual world with his startup…
Microsoft outage knocks sites and services offline
Microsoft is experiencing a major outage, so that’s why you can’t get any work done. Besides its homepage, Microsoft services are down, log-in pages aren’t…
Collabio lets you co-edit documents without the cloud
Meet Collabio Spaces: An office suite app with a cloudless co-authoring twist that looks helpful if you need to collaborate on documents without having to…
New York moves to legalize recreational marijuana
New York State officials struck a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow recreational use of cannabis. The move would create the largest legal cannabis…
Talking robots with Ford
Before we get too far into this week’s roundup, I want to kick things off with an interview we haven’t published anywhere else. Earlier this…
Firms backed by Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Gates have funded an electric motor company that can slash energy consumption
Sometimes the smallest innovations can have the biggest impacts on the world’s efforts to stop global climate change. Arguably, one of the biggest contributors in…
Planning 500,000 charging points for EVs by 2025, Shell becomes the latest company swept up in EV charging boom
Shell’s plan to roll out 500,000 electric charging station in just four years is the latest sign of an EV charging infrastructure boom that has…
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