It’s Tesla versus everyone else in the race for EV dominance
Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP via Getty Images For years, Tesla was synonymous with everything cool, high tech, and futuristic. But is it still today? “Teslas used to look cool and now they don’t,” said Jessica Resler, a Brooklyn resident recently shopping for an EV who eventually settled on
Read moreGoodNotes’ biggest update in four years brings AI-powered handwriting features and a digital marketplace
GoodNotes is releasing a new version with features like AI-powered handwriting recognition, a marketplace for digital stationery, and an educational module for maths in the popular note-taking app’s biggest push in four years to win and retain customers. The app, launched by Steven Chan in 2011, said the new version,
Read morePretiosum Ventures hits first close on its second fund to back infrastructure startups
London-based Pretiosum Ventures has reached the first close of what TechCrunch understands could eventually be a $20 million second fund. Founded in London in 2019 by Yana Abramova, the solo GP fund invests in ‘infrastructure’ startups, (enterprise SaaS, Fintech, and Web3). Pretiosum (a witty inflexion of the Latin phrase ‘pretiōsus’
Read moreCoupang to ramp up investment in Taiwan after four quarters of profits
Coupang, a South Korea-headquartered e-commerce company, said it will accelerate its investment in Taiwan after four straight quarters of profits. Coupang was the most downloaded app in the second quarter of this year in Taiwan, the company said in an earnings call on Wednesday. “Taiwan is another investment that is
Read moreWhat a truly engaged engineer looks like
Image generated using MidjourneyI think it is fair to say that at this point, we all know that the stereotype of an engineer coding in a dark room, burning the midnight oil, has become painfully outdated and ridiculous. We haven’t internalized in the industry, yet that engineering productivity is less
Read moreAn Introduction to the esbuild Bundler
Learn how to use the esbuild bundler to optimize your JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, and CSS code, and how to create your own build system. Continue reading An Introduction to the esbuild Bundler on SitePoint.
Read moreMade Renovation promises “tech-enabled” remodels; customers describe “absolute nightmare”
Last year, Jonas Heineman was overseeing a team of commercial project managers as they installed hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations. Heineman’s wife was also pregnant with their first child. Given his busy days and evenings filled with planning for the couple’s growing family, the last thing that Heineman wanted
Read moreMicromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles
Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace
Read moreA Beginner’s Guide to CSS Grid Layout
Follow these simple examples to learn how CSS Grid allows us to easily lay out elements on a page to create a range of flexible layouts. Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to CSS Grid Layout on SitePoint.
Read moreZoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models
Three years ago Zoom settled with the FTC over a claim of deceptive marketing around security claims, having been accused of overstating the strength of the encryption it offered. Now the videoconferencing platform could be headed for a similar tangle in Europe in relation to its privacy small print. The
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