Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a staggering fortune: He's the richest man in the world, worth about $108 billion, according to Forbes. And he's been busy. Just in the last year, Amazon acquired Whole Foods, began allowing Amazon Prime members to watch its movies and […]
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Amazon adds voice control to its Alexa app for Android
Just like using an Echo or Echo Dot, you can use ask your phone’s Alexa to find nearby restaurants, order gadgets from Best Buy or find out what movies are playing in your town. Better yet, the updated Alexa app can show responses on-screen, too, […]
The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper
In 2014, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were bitcoin-obsessed engineers hanging out at pizza-fueled meetups in San Francisco. Their conversation often turned to the central problem of bitcoin: How to make it more useful? The bitcoin network’s design effectively limits it to handling three to […]
Turo car-sharing marketplace launches in Germany
Peer-to-peer car-sharing platform Turo is expanding to Germany officially, starting today, after acquiring last September Daimler’s Croove in-house product for providing essentially the same service. Turo also received a significant strategic investment from Daimler at the same time, as it acquired the automaker’s car-sharing experiment, […]
SEC cools traders’ hot plans for cryptocurrency-based exchange traded funds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has serious concerns about the securities industry’s plans to create exchange traded funds around cryptocurrency. In a strongly worded letter to the heads of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Investment Company Institute, the director of […]
Tasty One Top Review: This Smart Induction Cooktop Is Just Getting Warmed Up
My test kitchen tends to be a pretty happy place to work. Case in point? I got to make fried chicken the other day. For it, I put the bird parts in a salty buttermilk bath for the afternoon, then cooked them using the brand […]
Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders
Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders Published on January 19, 2018 at 04:30AM An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Intelligence makes for better leaders — from undergraduates to executives to presidents — according to multiple studies. It certainly makes sense that handling […]
Best sat nav: the ultimate GPS units on the market right now
“I could have sworn it was this way…” It’s happened again. You’re lost. You need direction in your life – literally. Well, you’ve found your way to the right location. Welcome to TechRadar’s guide to the best sat nav systems on the market right now. […]
Wine 3.0 Released
Wine 3.0 Released Published on January 18, 2018 at 11:40PM prisoninmate shares a report from Softpedia: The Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) project has been updated today to version 3.0, a major release that ends 2017 in style for the open-source compatibility layer capable […]
Enzyme.io wants to make FDA compliance easier for startups
The Food and Drug Administration approval process can be like navigating a landmine for health startups hoping to get through regulations and begin selling to the American public. YC company Enzym.io hopes to help these small businesses out by automating the process for them. Biomedical […]
