Friday, September 20, 2024

Saltsea Chronicles review: sailing the distances between us

“Saltsea Chronicles is a poignant nautical adventure about the distances between us and what we gain from crossing them.” Pros Vibrant art style Rich world Endearing characters Thoughtful dialogue systems Cons Dialogue can...

Relativity inks Terran R launch deal with Intelsat

Relativity Space has signed a launch settlement with Intelsat that might see the telecom big’s satellites fly on a Terran R rocket as early as 2026. Relativity...

Sony Ventures earmarks $10M to invest in African entertainment startups

Sony Group announced today that it has established Sony Innovation Fund: Africa (SIF: AF), a program that will support the growth of entertainment businesses in Africa....

Bon Vivant toasts taking $15.9M to brew up versatile animal-free dairy proteins

Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast microorganisms to produce animal-free milk proteins with a substantially lower environmental...

WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms

Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plug-in that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include...

SEC is investigating MOVEit mass-hack, says Progress Software

U.S. securities regulators have opened a probe into the MOVEit mass-hack that has exposed the personal data of at least 64 million people, according to the...

Phasio helps local manufacturers manage their customer relationships

For small- to medium-sized local manufacturers, cultivating their network of customers is key to scaling up. But maintaining customer relationships means a lot of tasks that...

Google’s Pixel Watch 2 offers solid upgrades

There are a couple of parallels to be drawn between the Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2. One is obvious, the other a bit more subtle....

10 Minute School aims to democratize education for Bangladeshi students

Access to education in Bangladesh is filled with inequalities, say the founders of edtech 10 Minute School. Many rural areas don’t have good learning centers and...

Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE

Anysphere, a startup building what it describes as an “AI-native” software development environment, called Cursor, today announced that it raised $8 million in seed funding led...