Tech

According to sources with knowledge of the situation, fintech startup Stripe has given itself a 12-month deadline to go public, either through a direct listing or by pursuing a transaction on the private market, such as a fundraising event and a tender offer. The news, which was first reported by …

The Munich-based car subscription startup Finn is moving into long-term corporate rentals in addition to individual consumer rentals in the United States. For about the same cost as a lease, car subscription services provide flexibility, maintenance, roadside assistance, and, in many cases, direct delivery of the vehicle to your door. …

Users now have a choice in who they want to receive messages from thanks to a covert expansion of TikTok’s direct messaging settings. Now you can choose from everyone, suggested friends, followers you have in common, people you’ve messaged, or nobody. Prior to this modification, only users who had designated …

According to a recent annual report released by data.ai, consumer spending on apps decreased 2% to $167 billion last year, signaling the first-ever slowdown in the global app economy. Downloads were also up 11% year over year, giving the impression that app adoption was still happening and was being particularly …

The ability of the natural world, whether it be dogs or ants, to detect diseases and a wide range of chemicals is still unmatched, despite extensive research into the development of electronic sensing devices that can detect scents better than anything biological. A new biohybrid sensing device has thus been …

Even though our privacy protections are rapidly evolving, accessing the internet can still give snoops and thieves a foot in the door. A gives you back control over your data and provides an always-on, simple-to-use tool. By connecting to a server owned by the network before you log into a …

Infrastructure for charging EVs is among the biggest bottlenecks in the EV rollout. There are many businesses trying their hand at it, but Orange thinks it has a more intelligent strategy. The company makes it incredibly simple for building managers to install sockets specifically for overnight charging of vehicles while …

You’ve come to the right place if, like us, you were captivated by the new Amazon Prime series The Rig but left with more questions than answers about how offshore oil drilling actually operates. Here, we break down what happens on an offshore oil rig. No infectious spookiness here. Deep-sea …

The DISH-owned streaming service Sling TV ended Q4 2022 with a loss of 77,000 subscribers, marking a significant decline in subscribers for the entire year. Sling TV now has a total of 2.33 million subscribers, down from 2.41 million in the previous quarter, as revealed in an SEC filing on …

Amazon is scrambling to save money wherever it can after announcing a significant round of layoffs that will affect 18,000 workers just a few days ago and ending AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is a program that donates 0.5% of the price of all qualifying purchases to charitable organizations. It is a different …