When it comes to e-paper devices, the Kindle is of course the first brand people think of, though I’ve done my best to spread the Kobo and reMarkable gospel as well. Chinese e-reader maker Boox
A London-headquartered startup called LOVE, valued at $17 million following its pre-seed funding, aims to redefine how people stay in touch with close family and friends. The company is launching a me
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“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.”That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to chang
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This January, Twitter acquired the newsletter platform Revue, but until now its integration into Twitter has been minimal; sometimes when you write Twitter threads, you’ll be greeted with a R
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Welcome back to The Exchange. Today we’re doing something fun with crypto.Sure, we could write more about how insurtech valuations are under fresh pressure after Hippo’s Q2 earnings report
Webiny, an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to
Fifteen years ago, Aydin Senkut, a former Google exec, was an outsider in venture circles that didn’t take seriously his ambitions to become a top VC. Now, his firm, Felicis Ventures, is announc
Writer Ai Wei's new novel An Everlasting Life was recently published in China.The novel describes an irresponsible mother, who was a sought-after star of Shaoxing Opera, one of the most popular Ch
Sci-fi pioneer, scholar and writer Wu Yan won this year's National Outstanding Children's Literature Award for his latest work China Orbit and he told China.org.cn that he's happy that his
Swing Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics startup, has received an FDA breakthrough device designation for their 12 week smartphone-assisted fibromyalgia management program. This is the company’s fir
Hackers could listen to and watch live audio and video feeds from smart cameras and baby monitors, due to a vulnerability being disclosed by Mandiant and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
02:01 Chinese artist Wen Lipeng created the oil painting “Ode to the Red Candle” in 1979 in memory of his father Wen Yiduo, a prominent Chinese poet and scholar.Wen Yid
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Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on wheels” — and let it ferry me around a closed cour