I was happy — excited, even — to check out Shure’s latest USB microphone. Its predecessor, the MV7 , has been my default podcasting mic since it was launched toward to end of 2020 . I’ve recorded more than 100 episodes of my show on the thing — not to mention using it...

Nearly 20 years after finding success in helping startups build products, Canadian interface design firm Metalab has launched Metalab Ventures to invest in many of those product-led startups. Serial entrepreneur and investor Andrew Wilkinson started Metalab in 2006, a...

When a hacker called the company that his gang claimed to breach, he felt the same way that most of us feel when calling the front desk: frustrated. The phone call between the hacker, who claims to represent the ransomware gang DragonForce, and the victim company...

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) plans to back up to 21 growth-stage companies across the continent after closing its first fund at $60 million. The pan-African VC hit the milestone following fresh backing from Nigeria’s SCM Capital formerly Sterling Capital...

X, formerly Twitter, is rolling out support for passkeys , a new and more secure login method compared with traditional passwords, to all iOS users globally. The option had first debuted in January , but only for iOS users in the U.S. In an update to the X @Safety...

WordPress.com owner Automattic is acquiring Beeper , the company behind the iMessage-on-Android solution that was referenced by the Department of Justice in its antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the...

At an event in London on Tuesday, Meta confirmed that it plans an initial release of Llama 3 — the next generation of its large language model used to power generative AI assistants — within the next month. This confirms a report published on Monday by The Information...

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned key planks of the bloc’s data protection and privacy regime are under attack from industry lobbyists and could face a critical reception from lawmakers in the next parliamentary mandate. “We have quite strong...

Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of this job is that true, game-changing inventions rarely cross your desk. In fact, you’re extraordinarily lucky if...

The European Union and United States put out a joint statement Friday affirming a desire to increase cooperation over artificial intelligence. The agreement covers AI safety and governance, but also, more broadly, an intent to collaborate across a number of other tech...