One of the tech darlings to come out of the Great Recession of the late 2000s, Kickstarter popularized crowdfunding. Since its founding in 2009, its platform has helped to raise $5 billion, launching more than 220,000 projects, including businesses like Oculus, Allbirds, and Peloton. The number of funded projects on the site is reaching new heights, and this year 54% of all projects have hit their funding goals, steadily up from less than 43% in 2018. But the past couple of years havenȁ
At an event where Google launched two new Pixel phones, showcased a Pixel smartwatch, and teased a Pixel tablet for next year, one element was conspicuously absent.
Throughout the event, there was no obligatory nod in the direction of Google’s other hardware partners—the Samsungs, Motorolas, and OnePluses that largely keep the Android ecosystem humming along. Their names never came up, and a large chunk of Google’s presentation covered features that will never
Modern Android phones are awesome, but man, they are greedy. My Samsung Fold 4 can do pretty much anything I need in a compact package, but it sucks down juice like a technology journalist at an open bar. So I sometimes have to rein my phone in, persuading it to pace itself so we will both still have some get-up-and-go to spare.
Here are 10 tips for extending the battery life of your Android phone.
Lower the brightness
The most power-hungry pa
John Fetterman had a neat way of saying “Hi everybody!” to his entire electorate recently. The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate tweeted a video comparing his opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, to The Simpsons quack Dr. Nick Riviera—an alumnus of Hollywood Upstairs Medical College—using clips of Oz’s many dubious miracle cures. The video proved so brutally effective that a wide array of media outlets contributed to its virality, doing the candidate’s work for
U.S. customers can now enjoy a seemingly ever-improving selection of new electric vehicles across a wide price range. But while these new EVs differ in cost and specification, they typically have at least one thing in common: They’re mostly trucks and SUVs.
According to the website Electrek, 6 out of the 10 best-selling EVs in the U.S. are considered SUVs by either their maker or a government regulatory agency. And these vehicles weigh a lot. For example, the all-electric Fo
When you think of Google Maps, the first thing that springs to mind may be, well, maps—flat representations of streets and locations. For all their comprehensiveness and intelligence, they still have a lot in common with a Rand McNally Road Atlas from the previous century.
But as Google charts a future for the mapping app, it’s increasingly focusing on features that go beyond its most obvious responsibility of directing you from one point to another. Today, at a
Google announced a suite of new features meant to simplify the shopping experience on Search at its annual Search On event on Wednesday.
Personalization is key when it comes to a platform that has more than 35 billion product listings on its shopping graph, its AI-enhanced model that connects things like product data that is utilized to show users relevant listings. Google says that, starting later this year, consumers will be able to get tailored results on Search. In order t
Ahead of an expected initial public offering later this year, Instacart is launching a slew of new features as part of a health initiative aimed at making healthy foods more accessible.
The Instacart Health project touts three goals: simplifying healthy grocery shopping, improving nutrition security, and bolstering the concept of food as medicine.
“Study after study have shown that some of America’s biggest health problems are actually food pr
Gig work has transformed transportation, hospitality, and food. Why not law, too?
Lawtrades, a legal gig work platform founded by Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia, launched its app this month to help connect its 2,000-plus legal professionals with customers (mostly mid-market and enterprise companies). The goal is for corporate attorneys to essentially run their own practices and take back their time.
For Ahmed, the idea for the app was spurred by first-person accoun
Lyft debuted autonomous vehicles on Thursday for riders in Austin through a partnership with self-driving startup Argo AI and Ford.
The announcement marks Lyft’s latest foray into the autonomous vehicle (AV) space via partnership. Lyft is far from alone on that front: Competitors, including Uber and DoorDash, have also worked with outside autonomous companies to bring robots to consumers.
Gig companies have long eyed automation as a means to cut down cost