Day: June 12, 2019

Launched alongside the Xiaomi Mi Band 4, the new Amazfit Verge 2 is a more feature-packed device that’s still affordable compared to the competition. The Verge 2 is one of the very first smartwatches to come with an ECG monitor– at the moment the only […]

A 70-year-old woman who was diagnosed with arthritis and told she should stop lifting weights has proved doctors wrong by becoming a bodybuilding champion.     Rebecca Woody, from Missouri, grew up with a fitness fanatic father who was a coach at a local community center. The […]

Startups in East Africa have a new source for investment and mentorship. Sweden’s Norrsken Foundation—a coworking space and investment fund based in Stockholm—opened its tech fund and entrepreneurship hub in Rwanda today to support ventures across the region. Norrsken’s Kigali center is located on the […]

Election Systems & Software, which describes itself as the nation’s leading elections-equipment provider, has vowed to stop selling paperless electronic voting systems—at least as the “primary voting device in a jurisdiction.” And the company is calling on Congress to pass legislation mandating paper ballots and […]

A partnership between Volkswagen and self-driving vehicle startup Aurora has ended, according to a report by the Financial Times, citing three people familiar with the matter.  A spokesperson from VW confirmed the news, telling TechCrunch that “activities under our partnership have been concluded.” VW did […]

Dronemaker DJI has spent the last few years running a massive robotics competition in China called RoboMasters, where students build and code … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

Tech giants often work alongside the government to help with a variety of projects and the head of Amazon’s cloud computing division has revealed that the company is open to working with any government agency that follows the law. This is in stark contrast to […]