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Paris’ commercial court has accepted Cooltra’s offer to acquire Cityscoot. These two companies provide shared electric mopeds that you can unlock and ride to go from one place to another. Cityscoot had been placed under court-ordered receivership several months ago. As interest rates hovered around 0% in Europe, micromobility startups thrived. Europe became the perfect playground for scooter startups, bike-sharing services and electric moped companies thanks to dense cities combined with a low cost of capital. But things have taken a dark turn with rising interest rates. Not only it became harder to raise funding rounds, but also to secure...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Orkes, which provides a microservices orchestration platform for developers, raised a $20M Series A led by Nexus, taking its total funding to $29.3M  —  Back in 2016, Netflix open-sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it. Source link

Nvidia, the leader in chips driving artificial intelligence, announced its quarterly financial results on Wednesday, highlighting its position as a major player in the AI industry. The company stated that the demand for its products would contribute to sustained sales growth. Over the past 18 months, Nvidia has experienced significant growth due to the demand for its specialized and expensive semiconductors used in training popular AI services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. It has been recognized as one of the top tech stocks alongside companies like Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. Nvidia's valuation has increased by over 40% to $1.7 trillion since...

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Quantum computing may still be an emerging technology, but Apple is two steps ahead of other tech giants by releasing quantum-secure messaging. The company introduced PQ3 for iMessage, bringing the iOS messaging app up to level 3 of cryptographic security, the highest level applied to a messaging app. Most other messaging apps are between levels 0 and 1, including WhatsApp, which offers end-to-end encryption without quantum security. iMessage with PQ3 is designed to withstand quantum attacks that may happen in the future -- years down the line. Also: Wyze camera breach let 13,000 strangers look into other people's...

What just happened? Adobe has introduced an artificial intelligence assistant for its Reader and Acrobat applications. This AI can generate summaries, insights, and answer questions from long documents. It can also format the information it produces. The AI leverages the same technology behind Acrobat Liquid Mode, which provides responsive reading experiences for PDFs on mobile devices. The AI assistant is currently in beta and available for Acrobat Individual, Pro, and Teams customers, as well as Acrobat Pro trialists. Features will be rolling out to Reader in the coming days and weeks. There is no additional cost for using the assistant...

It\'s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I\'m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it\'s fun, but also difficult. What's more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently. But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself...

Google released the first Developer Preview of the upcoming Android 15 operating system on Friday, February 16. The new software will focus on enhancing security, with reports suggesting three new ways it will protect sensitive data on smartphones. One key feature of Android 15 will be its ability to safeguard notifications related to two-factor authentication (2FA) from being accessed by malicious apps or malware. This added layer of security aims to prevent unauthorized access to user data. The operating system will address security gaps left by its predecessors by introducing new measures. Currently, most 2FA methods rely on SMS to...

```html Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends This is not another “lifelong iPhone user tries Android” story. I use and review all kinds of phones, and I prefer the flexibility of Android. That said, I’ve been on the iPhone 15 Pro since its launch — for two reasons. First, I had been getting the iPhone 14 Pro Max-level battery life on it. Second, I like the stability of social media apps like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). But the experience has been downgrading for a while now. Samsung’s “AI phone,” the Galaxy S24 Ultra, tackles these two issues and gives me...

AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) has been available since September, but it is only featured in a few games compared to Nvidia's DLSS 3. The highly anticipated game Nightingale has entered early access without FSR 3 due to reported crashes caused by the technology according to developer Inflexion Games. Inflexion Games stated in a pre-launch update that FSR 3 was causing crashes during a Server Stress Test, leading them to temporarily remove it. However, they plan to reintroduce it in a future update, possibly as an older version of FidelityFX. Nvidia's DLSS and Intel's XeSS, similar technologies, are...

OnePlus is making another run at a smartwatch with its Watch 2. The company claims in an announcement that the new watch will have up to 100 hours of battery life and said it will come in black and silver colors. It says it will share more at Mobile World Congress this Sunday, February 25th. The new watch has a stainless steel chassis and sapphire crystal watchface and will feature “meticulous health monitoring.” The 100-hour battery life claim requires what it’s calling “Smart Mode,” which presumably is just a weird way of saying “low-power mode.” OnePlus wants to be an...