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Worker engagement and communication platform Sense raises $16M
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Sense, an AI-powered worker engagement and communication platform backed by Alphabet’s venture capital arm GV, has raised $16 million in a series C round of funding. The raise comes as the San Francisco-based company reports demand for its platform... Read more
World Wide Web NFT by Tim Berners-Lee will be auctioned off at Sotheby’s
If you’re reading this article, you’re probably doing so on the World Wide Web. And if you’d like to own a piece of the web’s history, you now have the chance to purchase a copy of its original code in the form of a non-fungible token, or NFT. On... Read more
Over half a billion people will use 5G this year, Ericsson predicts
Angela Lang/CNET Pandemic or not, 5G is still traveling the globe at high speeds. More than half a billion people will be using 5G by the end of this year — and they’re all using a lot of data, according to a new report from Ericsson. There’ll be about... Read more
Zillow Taps AI to Improve Its Home Value Estimates
Stories of people getting cash offers for their homes tens of thousands of dollars over asking price have become normal. This year, inventory in the US housing market hit a record low while home prices hit a record high. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman recently highlighted the craziness with a... Read more
Strong cloud demand helped boost Oracle’s quarterly earnings
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. (Reuters) — Oracle on Tuesday forecast current-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates, as the business software maker ramps up investments in its cloud computing business to take on rivals including Microsoft and Amazon.com. The company is planning to double... Read more
MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, gives away $2.7 billion
MacKenzie Scott says she’s given away another chunk of her fortune: more than $2.7 billion. Along with the $1.7 billion announced in July 2020 and $4.2 billion in December, Scott has now given away about $8.5 billion in less than a year. Scott, who is the billionaire ex-wife of... Read more
The best Bluetooth wireless speaker for 2021
Maybe you need an outdoor speaker for summer gatherings. Maybe you want great sound that can be moved on a whim, or maybe you’re building surround sound with multiple speakers in your home theater. There are so many reasons to get a Bluetooth speaker. And regardless of your reason,... Read more
Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Chris Welch discuss all the announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference that took place this week. All the links: COVID-19 hospitalization rates in adolescents went up during March and April Where did the COVID microchip conspiracy theory come from anyway? The pandemic... Read more
NASA Might Put a Huge Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
The universe is constantly beaming its history to us. For instance: Information about what happened long, long ago, contained in the long-length radio waves that are ubiquitous throughout the universe, likely hold the details about how the first stars and black holes were formed. There’s a problem, though. Because... Read more
Wario, Advance Wars, and Metroid fill out Switch’s 2021 release calendar
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Nintendo sped off toward the second half of 2021 today with its E3 2021 Direct presentation. During that media briefing, the company revealed a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character, a Zelda-dedicated handheld, and more. But most important, the... Read more