Elon Musk’s decision to green light a robotaxi over an affordable EV might cost the company its lead.
Last week, Musk reportedly canned the effort in favor of a robotaxi, the sort of pie-in-the-sky project that defined his first decade at the helm.
Tesla was reportedly on the cusp of building a $25,000 EV.
Given flagging sales of the company’s existing product line, it would have been a welcome shot in the arm.
It also would have given the company a product to hold its ground against a predicted onslaught of inexpensive Chinese EVs.
The carpooling and bus ticketing company has been around for so long that it’s hard to consider it a startup anymore.
Today, the company is announcing that it’s secured a €100 million revolving credit facility ($108M at today’s exchange rate).
And the good news is that there are BlaBlaCar users all around the world — not just France.
When the war in Ukraine started, BlaBlaCar had millions of users in Russia.
Even if you don’t book your next train ride on BlaBlaCar, the company is also experimenting with last-mile carpooling.
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The company has offered accessibility-focused Xbox peripheral for some time and has introduced the Adaptive line of computing peripherals roughly this time last year.
The Adaptive line got a refresh and a couple of new entries at this week’s virtual Windows event.
This round brings back the Adaptive Mouse, which features thumb support and custom tails 3D printed by Shapeways.
The Adaptive Hub is effectively an adaptive accessory for the other adaptive accessories, allowing for up to three devices and four Adaptive Buttons to be connected wirelessly.
Rounding out Microsoft’s new accessibility accessories is a Surface Pro Keyboard with brighter backlighting and bolder text for users with vision impairments.
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 line arrives with camera improvements and generative AI tricks Starting at $800, the new flagships offer brighter screens and a slew of new photo editing toolsNo awards for correctly guessing that today’s big Unpacked news is all about Samsung Galaxy S24 series.
As anticipated, the Korean hardware giant just unveiled its latest flagship line, including the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Ultra.
Writes Samsung,After great shots are captured, innovative Galaxy AI editing tools enable simple edits like erase, recompose, and remaster.
On the new Galaxy S24 series, Samsung’s Notes, Voice Recorder and Keyboard apps will use Gemini Pro to deliver better summarization features.
The S24, S24 and S24 Ultra sport 6.2, 6.7 and 6.8-inch displays, respectively.
Telegram and Line, two of the world’s most popular messengers with hundreds of millions of monthly users, have both been integrating crypto features in recent months.
Backed by all three divisions of Sequoia — Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital India and Sequoia Capital China (now called HongShan), Singapore-based EthSign aims to provide a web3 equivalent of DocuSign with the promise of an additional layer of transparency and trustworthiness.
EthSign is deployed on the respective blockchain network that runs on Telegram and Line, TON and Finschia.
EthSign has already rolled out on Telegram as a mini app, which can notify users of a list of pending documents to approve.
Already live on Line as a web app, EthSign has signed a memorandum of understanding with Finschia for further integration in the coming months.
LineNext, a web3 unit of the Japanese messaging app Line, raised $140 million in its funding led by Crescendo Equity Partners, a Peter Thiel-backed private equity firm in South Korea, to expand its web3 platform.
The new funding comes nearly a year after LineNext released its browser-only beta service — a consumer-to-consumer(C2C) marketplace launched on its non-fungible token (NFT) platform DOSI.
The company plans to use the new capital to launch its official NFT platform DOSI and web3 services in January next year.
LineNext will also release a new social app allowing users to communicate via AI avatars and launch new Web3 games utilizing Line’s character Brown and Friends.
LineNext Korea manages Web 3 business strategy, while Line Next U.S. operates the NFT platform business.
LineNext, a web3 unit of the Japanese messaging app Line, raised $140 million in its funding led by Crescendo Equity Partners, a Peter Thiel-backed private equity firm in South Korea, to expand its web3 platform.
The new funding comes nearly a year after LineNext released its browser-only beta service — a consumer-to-consumer(C2C) marketplace launched on its non-fungible token (NFT) platform DOSI.
The company plans to use the new capital to launch its official NFT platform DOSI and web3 services in January next year.
LineNext will also release a new social app allowing users to communicate via AI avatars and launch new Web3 games utilizing Line’s character Brown and Friends.
LineNext Korea manages Web 3 business strategy, while Line Next U.S. operates the NFT platform business.
LineNext, a web3 unit of the Japanese messaging app Line, raised $140 million in its funding led by Crescendo Equity Partners, a Peter Thiel-backed private equity firm in South Korea, to expand its web3 platform.
The new funding comes nearly a year after LineNext released its browser-only beta service — a consumer-to-consumer(C2C) marketplace launched on its non-fungible token (NFT) platform DOSI.
The company plans to use the new capital to launch its official NFT platform DOSI and web3 services in January next year.
One of the things that sets LineNext apart from its competitors is its global infrastructure and know-how based on its global services, Kim noted.
LineNext Korea manages Web 3 business strategy, while Line Next U.S. operates the NFT platform business.
Planet Computers is synonymous with high-end, tactile mobile keyboards and the Gemini. Astro Slide 5G, their 2020 product, continues in this vein but with a modern twist: it utilises 5G…
