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Vamstar has taken on a rather challenging job since its launch in 2019: To be the healthcare industry’s go-to supply chain management app for some 86,000 medical facilities and hundreds of thousands…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insiders phone gets first update in months, breaks Google Pay [U]
June 22, 2022
As a whole, updates in the Android world have gotten much better thanks to stronger efforts from smartphone makers in providing faster security updates. But, they aren’t all good apples. Qualcomm last year debuted its “Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders” which held a…
As Pride month continues, Google is adding support for an LGBTQ+ owned attribute to Business Profiles that appear in Search and Maps.
“Identifies as LGBTQ+ owned” will appear on store listings with an accompanying flag, and joins existing ones in Google…
A group of companies, including some of the biggest names in tech and the internet, have banded together to develop interoperability standards needed to achieve an open metaverse. The organization is called Metaverse Standards Forum, and its founding members include Meta, Microsoft, Huawei, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Unity and Adobe. As Reuters notes, one company…
In less than three months, Apple is expected to unveil the new iPhone 14 series. With four different models, 9to5Mac has been hearing rumors about some of the features and specs we could see on these upcoming phones. Now, a post on the Chinese social media Baidu could be…
Eole X Pro launched as full-suspension folding electric bike, begins taking discounted pre-orders
June 22, 2022
The folding electric bicycle company Morfuns has recently improved upon the brand’s Eole S model of e-bike that we recently tested, adding suspension and outfitting the bike for an even more comfortable ride. The new model known as the Eole X marks the latest evolution in…
Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors announced it has suspended all P5 reservations and pre-orders in the four countries in Europe it currently has a presence. The decision comes just months after the company opened reservations for the P5 overseas. Citing foreseen export timeline issues, XPeng will shift its focus to the P7 sedan.
XPeng Motors ($XPEV) made an initial splash in China last summer…
The $4,500 electric car tax credit bonus for union-made EVs is not on the table anymore
June 22, 2022
Senator Joe Manchin, who has a swing vote in the US Senate, said that the Democrats have given up on the $4,500 electric car tax credit bonus for union-made EVs as part of the Build Back Better Act.
It is still unclear what reform the EV tax credit will see in the spending…
As announced in March, Google Play users on Android are starting to see the Movies & TV store disappear from the app.
Update 6/21: Following the March announcement and first reports at the end of May, Google is now widely removing the Play Store’s Movies & TV…
Microsoft is keenly aware of the mounting backlash toward facial recognition, and it’s shuttering a significant project in response. The company has revealed it will “retire” facial recognition technology that it said could infer emotions as well as characteristics like age, gender and hair. The AI raised privacy questions, Microsoft said, and offering a framework created the…
