PC users may be disappointed that there’s nothing new for them here, but anyone with a MacBook will be thrilled to learn that their flashy TouchBar can now mute calls, turn the camera off, and more. The request for this function came from the Microsoft Teams forums, before being implemented by the development team. Recently announced, it’s now possible for MacBook users to control Teams with the TouchBar, including using it for key features, such as turning the camera off, muting the microphone, raising and lowering their hand, leave a meeting, and more....

Founder Barry Givens hatched the idea for an automatic drink dispenser while waiting almost two hours for drinks at a college bar when he was a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Several years later after graduating college, entering the corporate world, then leaving the corporate world to pursue entrepreneurship full-time, he revisited the idea of a robotic bartender. Givens and his co-founder (who’s no longer with the company) eventually created a prototype that they named Monsieur....

According to a survey taken by NordVPN, 94 percent of internet users are confident in their ability to spot phishing emails asking for personal information. This number is staggeringly high for how prevalent cyber attacks have become in the business world today. Fortunately, we all know that confidence doesn’t always equal actual skill, as the study found that 45 percent of internet users are still regularly clicking on dangerous links and providing personal information where they shouldn’t, putting their company at risk, all because of phishing emails....

We’ve already had hands-on time with the Razr, but the Galaxy Z Flip isn’t set to be released until later this month. However, we have seen a leaked video of the Z Flip, so we can compare and contrast some of the details about each phone. So, which is better? The Motorola Razr or the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip? Read on for our first impressions. Razr vs Flip: Design Differences The Galaxy Z Flip and the Motorola Razr might appear similar, but there are a number of design touches that make them quite different....

The idea is to develop and test zero-emission autonomous vehicles. Nissan has already been testing cars that can navigate urban environments on their own. NASA has operated remotely operated vehicles millions of miles from Earth. They will join forces and start research from Silicon Valley. “This is a perfect blend of the capability of what the robotics folks at NASA Ames have and the autonomy that we bring,” says Maarten Sierhuis, the director of Nissan’s Silicon Valley research center, who also spent ten years as a NASA senior scientist....

Launching TamboWorks Coworking spaces are not new, in fact WeWork is now valued for billions, but mom and pop shops are more focused on the local community. For two of the partners at TamboWorks, Adolfo Taylhardat and María Alejandra Márquez, it was about making collaboration more accessible to those who lived in South Miami. “We were all working from home, and all are South Miami residents. We said ‘let’s work in a co-working space’, but it’s not convenient for us to get to South Beach or downtown or something near by that wasn’t really a coworking space,” said Taylhardat....

The PlayStation 5 is our first real glimpse at the sort of tech that will power the generation of consoles following the current PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Meanwhile, the new discless Xbox One S (officially called the All-Digital Edition) is another look into the crystal ball towards our game-streaming future. So, what do we actually know about the two new consoles? And, what do they mean for the future of gaming?...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a bi-national organization that monitors all activity in the air on and around North America that uses the most sophisticated tracking technology in the world, says “We Have The Watch” on Santa, and this year they’ve upped the ante on helping you track his sleigh. NORAD has been tracking Santa for 61 years, so they’ve got this down to a science. The tradition began back in 1955 when Sears placed an ad in a Colorado newspaper telling kids they could place a call to track Santa Claus, except the phone number was wrong and it called the “Red Hot Line” to what is now known as NORAD....

Tech Cocktail: How did you get started? Tech Cocktail: What was your experience raising money for a tech startup? Kenjora: I spent a year, just working on raising money. Going to investor pitches, writing business plans, putting together one pagers, rehearsing my elevator pitch, walking into every writing workshop on how to write a pitch and pitch investors. I was raising money in Arizona, this wasn’t Silicon Valley so it’s not like I could walk over to a different investor event ever week....

The contest will run until December 12, and all Chicago companies who want a shot at the prize can enter by visiting the Happy Hour Delivered sweepstakes website. All you’ll need to do is provide a reason describing why you think your company deserves to win the ultimate happy hour. The winning company will be announced on December 15. The winner of Happy Hour Delivered will receive the following:...

Singh began working on the Dashboard.io technology before he even joined 500 Startups, but it became integral to the 500 experience. Over 400 accelerator companies got access to the platform, where they could communicate with each other and with mentors. By plugging in their website’s Google Analytics, they could compare their progress to other 500 companies. As Singh opens up the platform today, he sees it as a way to innovate in venture capital....

To be chosen, each startup needed to have met the following criteria: Be innovative and truly disruptive, clearly differentiated from competitors already in the marketBe relevant and interesting to the Brand & Marketing industryIncorporation within the last 5 yearsRaised less than $10 million in equity funding If you’re interested, you can find the full list here. When you’re over there, scroll down the letter ‘M’ and I think you’ll find a familiar name in Mattr....

April 15 is tax day, the deadline for filing individuals’ U.S. federal income tax returns. Here’s why tax scammers are likely to be out in full force this year. Phishers want your tax info Phishers tend to jump on trends: Anything that the general population might be interested in will give phishers an opportunity to harvest private data. COVID-19 vaccination appointments and relief payments were a few recent chances to scam, while Black Friday is always a big annual event for them....

That is, anybody seeking to improve individual lives and societies have long felt the absence of a way to measure their influence in hard, analytic data. According to Elizabeth Dreicer, CEO of Posiba, a lot of them recognize that they need intelligent information to drive more positive impact, and they’re ready to adopt solutions that are both easily deployable and affordable. Posiba was created as a joint effort between Dreicer and the then COO of The California Endowment B....

This expansion isn’t limited to America – there has been a global wave of restaurants announcing their intention to open up or expand. Whether or not all these plans will come to fruition or success is obviously up in the air, but the fact that it’s even in the conversation is a great sign. It’s no secret that the pandemic had a massive impact on the economy. Millions of people lost their jobs, entire businesses fell through, and people are still struggling to make ends meet over a year after the initial hit....

This week, we interviewed Pooja Chandrashekar, Founder and CEO of ProjectCSGIRLS. ProjectCSGIRLS shows middle school girls how to break gender stereotypes in tech. ProjectCSGIRLS is a national youth-driven nonprofit working to close the tech gender gap through running a national computer science competition for middle school girls and workshops around the country. The ProjectCSGIRLS Competition for Middle School Girls challenges participants in 6th to 8th grade to build something using computer science and technology that can help solve an imminent social problem under one of three themes – global health, a safer world, and intelligent technology....

Reolink, a decade old security hardware company decided to take their spin of the wheel by offering up an affordable solution that goes against their standard offering and placed it on Indiegogo. With more than $1 million in funding later, the wireless indoor/outdoor security camera, Argus, became reality. Over the past year, we’ve seen many different forms of security devices and cameras hitting the market. From Canary’s popular indoor system, to Netatmo’s AI-infused outdoor flood light, to Blink, which is a personal favorite....

Collectively, these apps have been downloaded over a billion times — and all of those downloads were vulnerable to potential trojan attacks. In the US alone, 121 financial apps in categories including payment apps and blockchain wallets accounted for over 286 million downloads from the Google Play Store. Here’s what to know so that you’ll be ready the next time you consider downloading a new payment service. 193 Million Americans Potentially at Risk The report, titled “Mobile Banking Heists: The Global Economic Threat” and out from mobile security platform Zimperium, identified two types of banking trojans....

Will an increase in characters really result in higher engagement and more frequent tweets? According to Twitter’s math it will, and that is primarily because they feel users are constantly frustrated by the limits of a single tweet. However, this has been resolved through threaded tweets, tweetstorms, or a more lazy option: taking a picture of text. Twitter is also correlating that, because nine percent of English speaking Twitter users run up against the 140 character limit versus only ....

These new phones come with strong spec sheets and affordable price tags. What’s more, they also include something you won’t get even with the new S21 flagship series of phones — a charging brick in the box. Here’s a quick look at all of Samsung’s new mid-range efforts. Both phones feature a 6.5-inch AMOLED display with 1080×2400 resolutions. The A52 gets a 90Hz refresh rate screen while the 5G version gets a 120Hz screen....