When it comes to startups’ flight to quality, have we swung too far in the other direction?
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Read moreWhat CES 2024 told us about the home robot
Few tech demos can match the spectacle of robotics. Even as the field grows increasingly prevalent in a broad range of industrial workplaces, mechatronics doing impressive things will never cease to amaze. For many, the mere presence of a robot is shorthand for the future, and for big electronics firms,
Read moreThe tech industry’s layoffs and hiring freezes: all of the news
Companies have been cutting costs. | Photo by Natt Garun / The Verge Companies across the tech industry have been laying off staff and reducing hiring after explosive growth during the pandemic. Over the last couple years, it feels like we’ve heard news of mass layoffs and hiring freezes from
Read moreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for Friday, Jan. 12, 2024
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, January 12th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. This week IT World Canada announced a partnership with the Canadian Cybersecurity Network. In a few minutes
Read moreMakera is releasing a baby sibling of its Carvera desktop 4-axis mill
In the depth of the pandemic, 500 or so backers chipped in to make Makera’s Carvera Kickstarter campaign, a fully automatic desktop CNC machine, hit its goal. Since then, the company has sold another 2,500 or so of them — but with a hefty $6,000 price tag and a huge
Read moreX-59 ‘Quiet supersonic’ jet from NASA and Lockheed finally rolls out
NASA and Lockheed Martin have finally taken the wraps off of the X-59, a “quiet supersonic” aircraft that may shape the future of both military and civilian air travel. The X-59 has been under development at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works for years, following a $248 million grant from NASA in
Read moreInstagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down
Artifact, the news aggregator-turned social network from Instagram’s founders is shutting down. On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind down operations” of the app launched over a year ago, saying that the market opportunity wasn’t big enough to warrant continued investment.
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