Tempow turns any old Bluetooth speakers into a surround sound system

That might sound crazy, especially given the narrow amount of bandwidth available to Bluetooth devices. But CEO Vincent Nallatamby says there’s more than enough space to process full surround sound streams, and Tempow also manages to do that without compressing audio any further. We didn’t […]

Insight Venture Partners closes on its largest fund with $6.3 billion

Insight Venture Partners that it has raised $6.3 billion for its latest (and largest ever) fund as technology investors continue to amass increasingly large war chests. In the wake of SoftBank’s massive $100 billion Vision Fund, investors in technology companies have said that capital has […]

Aerial Images Capture Swathes of Amazon Rainforest Destroyed by Gold Mining

Typical aerial photographs of the Amazon rainforest show a green expanse of trees so thick you can’t see ground. But the ones Ernesto Benavides captures are almost entirely brown, revealing a wasteland pocked by muddy, gaping holes where trees once fought for light. Benavides’s images […]

Europe updates its predatory pricing investigation against Qualcomm over UMTS baseband chips

On the heels of Google getting served a $5 billion fine by the EU over monopolistic practices related to its Android operating system, the European Commission today resurfaced another ongoing case in the world of large U.S. tech companies. The EC said that it has […]