HONG KONG – Starting from January 17th, 2020, BitDeer.com will launch their annual Lunar Giveaway Event for their loyal user-base approaching the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations. During the Christmas holidays, a plethora of mining plans were launched, including 180-day, 270-day, and 360-day durations of BitDeer’s S17 Pro, S17, T17, and T15. The cost-effective plans…
OrCam is expanding its product lineup with new devices that tackle new use cases. OrCam’s best-known device is the OrCam MyEye 2 — a tiny device for people with visual impairment that you clip on your glasses to help you navigate the world around you. At CES, OrCam announced that the MyEye 2 is getting…
PewDiePie announces break from YouTube in early 2020. Cites fatigue as reason for self-imposed hiatus. Announcement appears genuine rather than a ploy as we’ve seen in the past. Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg is taking a break from YouTube. In a video published this weekend, the second most subscribed YouTuber announced he would pausing his daily upload…
Microsoft has announced a vague intention to launch its xCloud game streaming service sometime in 2020, and dropped a double handful of new titles that will arrive on it and the existing Game Pass subscription. It seems that next year will indeed be the opening battle in the streaming wars to come. The announcements came…
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced that its upcoming presidential primary debate will be moderated by an an all-female panel amid concerns over the event’s neutrality and sinking viewership. The debate, which is being sponsored by The Washington Post and MSNBC in Georgia on Nov. 20, will be moderated by NBC News’s Andrea Mitchel and…
It was a big day for startup Render, which participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield today. It also announced some upgrades to its managed cloud platform. First of all, it announced the ability to spin up object storage in the cloud, while greatly simplifying the tasks associated with adding storage. CEO and founder Anurag…
On Thursday, Target Corporation announced that its board of directors had authorized a new $5 billion share buyback program. Target would begin repurchasing shares under this new authorization after its current $5 billion buyback program concludes next year. This comes on the heels of Wednesday’s announcement that Microsoft would be repurchasing up to $40 billion…
Google today announced its largest package of renewable energy deals yet. Worth a total of 1,600-megawatts, the package includes 18 deals in the U.S., Chile and Europe. This brings Google’s current set of wind and solar agreements to about 5,500 megawatts (MW) and the company’s number of total renewables projects it’s involved in to 52.…
President Emmanuel Macron announced in a speech ahead of France Digitale Day that the French government has convinced institutional investors to invest more heavily in late-stage VC funds and asset managers in one way or another. Institutional investors have committed to investing $5.5 billion (€5 billion). “We’ll have €2 billion that will go in so-called…
Gogoro, the Taiwanese electric vehicle company, has announced its first manufacturing partners. Yamaha, Aeon Motor and PGO will all launch new scooters this summer that run on Gogoro’s swappable batteries and charging infrastructure. This means consumers who like Gogoro’s battery system will have a choice between buying Gogoro’s own scooters or scooters from its three…
