Blue owned the consumer podcast mic market – now the brand is being phased out
Blue Microphones was ahead of the game. The first Snowball was released all the way back in 2005, as the company was celebrating its 10th birthday. Within a few years, the USB mics were everywhere. They were effectively synonymous with the nascent world of amateur podcasting and became a go-to
Read moreTeaser’s AI dating app turns you into a chatbot
A man on a dating app is telling me how much we have in common – we both love books, music and traveling. He even writes poetry, and he’d love to share some poems with me. Could be a red flag, but sure, why not? I ask to see his
Read moreFour venture capital personas (and how to land them)
Blair Silverberg Contributor Share on Twitter Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital, a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market
Read moreGoogle Chrome’s password manager adds biometric unlocking on desktop
Image: Google Google Chrome’s password manager will soon support biometric authentication on PCs and Macs. The feature, which was previously only available on mobile, uses facial recognition or your fingerprint to verify your identity before Chrome automatically fills your passwords. This is ideal if you share a computer with someone
Read moreMt. Gox: all the news on Bitcoin’s original biggest bankruptcy scandal
One of the strangest stories in crypto still isn’t over. Mt. Gox was once Bitcoin’s biggest exchange. Then, in 2014, the exchange shut down its website and announced that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customers’ Bitcoins had been lost to a series of hackings that went unnoticed over
Read moreBuilding a Real-Time Multiplayer Game With Unity3D and Amazon GameLift
Don’t struggle with the backend anymore!Illustration by Gianca ChavestYou are talented with Unity and game creation in general, and it’s time for you to move up a gear by creating a real-time multiplayer game, but you have no idea how to do it, and you know very little about cloud computing. Don’t
Read moreFeds charge two men for the $400 million Bitcoin hack that took down Mt. Gox
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US federal government has charged two Russian nationals in connection with the series of hacks that brought down the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange in 2014. In a press release on Friday, the Department of Justice announced it’s unsealing a 2019 indictment charging
Read moreLerna Monorepo with Vite and Storybook
How to organize frontend packages in monorepo, track changes across all projects, reuse shared libraries, and build packages with a modern build systemLerna + Vite + Storybook logos | created by authorBuilding components and reusing them across different packages led me to conclude that it is necessary to organize the correct approach
Read moreWhat’s being built in generative AI today?
If you look past the financial headlines, what are today’s AI startups building? News coverage of the AI boom has been hectic and mainly covered a few categories: Financial, big tech, concern and hype, and startup activity. The financial side is simple: Investors are working to put capital into companies
Read moreCan RFCs Help You Create More Effective Technical Plans Together?
Ways to establish effective processes for collaborating and sharing knowledgeRFCs can help your team collaborate asynchronously, streamline planning, and create more effective technical plans. Here’s how.As engineering teams grow, it becomes increasingly important to establish effective processes for collaborating and sharing knowledge. One such process we implement at Brightec is the
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