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YouTravel.Me is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. Over the past month, we’ve seen companies like Thatch raise $3 million for its platform aimed at travel creators, travel tech company Hopper bring in $175 million, Wheel the World grab […]

3D printing has garnered a lot of hype, much of it for good reason: the technology has unlocked new kinds of object shapes and geometries, and it uses materials that tend to be much lighter weight than their traditionally manufactured counterparts. But there remain high barriers to entry for many companies that either don’t have […]

Pancake brought in a $350,000 seed round to develop its home design platform that leverages furniture you already have in your home with a designer’s fresh eye on your space. Maria Jose Castro and Roberto Meza, both from Costa Rica, started the company in 2020, based on their own experience of transitioning to work-from-home and […]

JBL has just announced three new true wireless earbuds models, with one pair – the JBL Reflect Flow Pro – that could be a perfect companion in your next workout.  Meanwhile, the JBL Tune 230NC and JBL Tune 130NC firmly occupy the mid-range market with a slew of great features at a more affordable price. […]

Microsoft is finally retiring its Windows Thin PC product on October 12, 2021, after almost a decade in service. Launched in 2011, Microsoft introduced Windows Thin PC to help customers repurpose their existing, but under-powered PCs as thin clients, giving users a cost-effective alternative to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).  While Windows Thin PC was well-received […]

JBL has taken the wraps off its latest flagship portable speaker, the JBL Flip 6, by providing some of its key features as well as its price and release date. The latest features on JBL’s premium Bluetooth speaker include a 12-hour battery life, IP67 water and dustproof rating, and JBL’s PartyBoost feature that allows you […]

JBL has a new wireless gaming headset headed to the UK, which looks set to deliver some great features at a more budget-friendly price than the best PC gaming headsets out there. We haven’t been able to try out the JBL Quantum 350 wireless gaming headset for ourselves but the specs seem promising, so this […]

Harman Kardon has launched what might be the slimmest floor-standing stereo speakers we've ever seen – and in spite of their slight frames, the wireless speakers come with some beefy audio features that could make them the perfect additions to your home cinema setup.  The Harman Kardon Radiance 2400 wireless home audio system comprises the […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has won a 10-year contract worth $2 billion to supply high-performance computing systems to the US National Security Agency (NSA). According to HPE, the systems will be used mainly for tackling compute-intensive analytics workloads, to support the agency’s forecasting and analysis needs.  “Implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics capabilities on […]

September 2, 2021 By Panu Wongcha-um and Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) – Often seen at the wheel of one of his supercars, Thai ultra-royalist Tanat “Nat” Thanakitamnuay became a well-known face at demonstrations that ushered in Thailand’s 2014 coup. Now he is back on the streets demanding the removal of coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha as […]

Labor Day furniture sales are already underway at a number of stores, with many retailers going live early with this year's offers. The official sales land on September 6, but you can already find considerable discounts on various fixtures, fittings and more for the inside and outside of your home. As we're so close to […]

September 2, 2021 By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization needs results by the end of the year and must focus its efforts on securing a deal on fishing subsidies and finding a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, its director-general said on Thursday. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said it was unclear whether the […]

Smarty has a reputation for being one of the top providers of low-cost SIM only plans, and its current offer is no different. This latest offer provides flexibility, lots of data, and an impressive price drop.  Smarty's 50GB data SIM package is only £12 per month right now. That's a great discount from the initial […]

September 2, 2021 By Shashank Nayar (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures inched higher on Thursday on hopes the Federal Reserve would maintain an accommodative policy amid signs that a broader economic recovery was slowing. Heavyweight technology stocks including Apple Inc, Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc, which tend to perform better when interest rates are […]

September 2, 2021 By Sarah Kinosian CARACAS (Reuters) – Soon after rebels from neighboring Colombia arrived in this Venezuelan village, they started choosing students from the local high school to harvest coca, the plant used to make cocaine, the school’s principal told Reuters. Four years later, these foreigners from the National Liberation Party, or ELN, […]

The new Tesla Roadster has been a long time coming. Originally the world's first electric sports car, we tested the inaugural Roadster all the way back in 2009, and have followed developments on its much-anticipated successor ever since CEO Elon Musk announced plans for a new model in 2017. In the years since that iPhone-esque […]

September 2, 2021 By Sujata Rao LONDON (Reuters) -The euro held near a one-month high versus the dollar on Thursday and a six-week peak against the pound, supported by hawkish comments from ECB policymakers after data showed inflation at a decade high and on signs the Fed is not hurrying to tighten policy. The dollar […]

September 2, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China has developed a prototype miniature helicopter for surveillance work on future Mars missions, according to its space science agency, following the historic landing of a robotic rover on the Red Planet a few months ago. The prototype is similar in appearance to the robotic helicopter Ingenuity, developed by […]

September 2, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – German luxury carmaker Daimler expects significantly lower sales at its Mercedes unit in the third quarter compared to the previous one due to a global shortage in semiconductors, its chief executive told Automobilwoche weekly. “With the plant closings at semiconductor suppliers in Malaysia and elsewhere, the challenge has now […]

September 2, 2021 BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) – China’s aviation regulator is likely to keep the current tight caps on international flights throughout the first half of 2022, analysts cited Air China as saying this week. The move has broad implications for tourism in the Asia-Pacific region, where Chinese outbound travellers normally play an outsized role, though […]