Month: September 2022

Twitter rolling out TikTok-like full-screen vertical videos to iOS users

At this point, you can’t deny that vertical videos are here to stay, and more platforms are focusing on such content following the success of TikTok. This time, Twitter is the one to follow in the footsteps of the competing social network. The company announced this week that it is now rolling full-screen vertical videos out to iOS users.

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Tech Moves: Techstars Seattle leader Isaac Kato steps down after leading accelerator for 3 years


Isaac Kato has stepped down as managing director of Techstars Seattle after leading the startup accelerator program for the past three years. Kato told GeekWire he’ll be doing something “in the investment space,” but did not provide more details. “Techstars Seattle remains the crown jewel of the global Techstars network, and I’m excited to remain an active member of this remarkable ecosystem,” he said. Before joining Techstars, Kato was president at MightyAI, a Seattle startup that developed training data for computer vision models and was acquired by Uber in 2019. Kato joined MightyAI in May 2018 after founding and leading London-based data… Read More

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Why this Microsoft vet quit and launched an EV charging startup


In 2014, Brian Grunkemeyer was a Microsoft principal software engineer with a passion for fighting climate change. That year he bought a Tesla Model S and drove it from his home in Redmond, Wash. to San Jose, Calif. “On a road trip like that, you have a lot of time to think deeply about EV charging,” Grunkemeyer said. His realization? That if projections were correct, electric car charging was going to require a huge amount of power. Grunkemeyer began working on a solution, creating a startup that launched in 2019 as FlexCharging. The company recently landed the initial close of… Read More

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After Trying To Deny The Obvious, Google Announces It’s Shutting Down Stadia

While Google’s Stadia game streaming service arrived with a lot of promise, it generally landed with a disappointing thud. A limited catalog, deployment issues, and a quality that couldn’t match current gen game consoles meant the service just never saw the kind of traction Google (or a lot of other people) originally envisioned. Developers have been

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9to5Mac Happy Hour 401: More iPhone 14 Pro thoughts, Stage Manager changes, October event rumors

Benjamin and Zac have more to say about the iPhone 14 Pro, with another week of usage under their belts. They also dissect what’s new in the iOS 16.1 beta including the policy changes surrounding Stage Manager on iPad. There’s also rumors about the hardware products we expect to see before the end of the year, and whether they’ll arrive via an October media event or press release.

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iPhone 6 is now considered a ‘Vintage’ product by Apple

iPhone 6 will certainly remain in the memory of many Apple users as it was the company’s first smartphone with a considerably larger display than its predecessors. The phone was discontinued a few years ago, but it still gets security patches and technical support from Apple – perhaps not for much longer. Apple has now added the iPhone 6 to its list of “vintage” products.

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