The next big thing in mechanical keyboards is magnetic switches.
On a standard mechanical keyboard switch, you physically close an electrical circuit to register a key press.
Popularized by Dutch keyboard startup Wooting, these switches rely on the Hall Effect and have actually been around since the 1960s.
That’s one thing about board with magnetic switches: they tend to favor proprietary software over open-source solutions like VIA.
The switch is a Khailh Sakura Pink magnetic switch with a 50gf bottom-out force.
In addition, Redis today announced that it has acquired storage engine Speedb (pronounced ‘speedy-bee’) to take it beyond the in-memory space.
Redis license changesIn some way, the licensing move is no surprise.
We’ve seen other open source companies like MongoDB, Elastic and Confluent make similar moves.
He is also quite aware that these new license mean Redis won’t be considered open source, at least according to the definition of the Open Source Institute.
Because of the BSD license, Redis wasn’t able to put its latest innovations into Redis Core, meaning it was missing features like search and query, for example.
Pitch, the company behind a collaborative presentation software for businesses, is scaling back and bootstrapping, with CEO and co-founder Christian Reber stepping down and two-thirds of its employees losing their jobs.
This translates roughly to 80 personnel, based on the 120 headcount figure Pitch has published on its about page.
As with just about every other VC-backed startup, Pitch has clearly faced challenging times in terms of maintaining growth and keeping their investors happy.
“Despite having more than 4 years of runway, we know that a sustainable path has a much higher chance of success than the path we were on,” Reber added.
“Going forward, we’ll be a significantly smaller team focused on creating maximum value for our customers and driving sustainable growth.”
