Technology

Instagram confirms that a bug this morning mistakenly rolled out a massive change to its feed that replaced the traditional scrolling with horizontal tap-to-advance like with Stories. In October, TechCrunch reported Instagram was testing tap-to-advance for browsing through Explore posts. But many users woke up to a shock this morning when their familiar vertical swipe […]

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Grove Collaborative, a four-year-old, San Francisco-based startup that sells household, personal care, baby and kids, and pet products, has been busy raising money in 2018, shows two new SEC filings that lists representatives from company’s earlier investors, including Mayfield, Norwest Venture Partners, and MHS Capital, as well as apparent new investor General Atlantic, represented by partner Catherine […]

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Grove Collaborative, a four-year-old, San Francisco-based startup that sells household, personal care, baby and kids, and pet products, has been busy raising money in 2018, shows two new SEC filings that lists representatives from company’s earlier investors, including Mayfield, Norwest Venture Partners, and MHS Capital, as well as apparent new investor General Atlantic, represented by partner Catherine […]

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Gfycat, a home for GIF-making tools and an online community, is rolling out a new way to create GIFs — it will now let you keep the sound on. With “Gfycat Sound,” as the feature is called, GIF makers will have the option to retain the audio from the video file they’re using to create […]

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Epic Games had as good a year in 2018 as any company in tech. Fortnite became the world’s most popular game, growing the company’s valuation to $15 billion but it has helped the company pile up cash, too. Epic grossed a $3 billion profit for this year fuelled by the continued success of Fortnite, a […]

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Alexa wasn’t the only thing that crashed over Christmas due to an influx of new users. Apparently, Philips Hue has been having an outage as well. A multi-day outage, in fact. The company confirmed on Wednesday that customers were experiencing issues creating new accounts, logging in, and linking their account to third parties. It blamed […]

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is making some audacious promises again for the company’s network of electric fast chargers, known as Superchargers. This time, he’s aiming for 100% Tesla Supercharger coverage in Europe by next year. In response to a question on Twitter, Musk said Tesla’s Supercharger coverage will extend to 100% of Europe in 2019. […]

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Presented by Transferwise People lose billions of dollars year to their banks, without even realizing it. But there is a new technology that is changing all that — and saving expats, freelancers, families, and SMBs millions of dollars a day. Have you ever sent money internationally? If you have, there’s a good chance . Generally, […]

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(Reuters) — President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China’s and , three sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. It would be the latest step by the Trump administration to cut Huawei and […]

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We’re at the end of the year, and that means I have to figure out my favorite games of the year for . And that was tough. I played so much good stuff in 2018, and it didn’t help that a lot of those games came out just a couple of weeks ago. But I’m […]

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