Daily Archives: November 11, 2021

Owen Fernau / The Defiant: Ethereum Name Service’s ENS token hits $1B market cap, just two days after its airdrop in which users received the token for free in their crypto wallets  —  ENS, the governance token of Ethereum Name Service, hit a market capitalization of $1.1B in early morning […]

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: Weave Communications, which offers cloud tools for small business communications, drops 21.7% in market debut, after raising $120M in its IPO  —  ‘What QuickBooks is to small-business accounting, we will be to small-business customer communication,’ CEO says

Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Autonomous driving startup Embark Trucks closes at $8.80 per share in its Nasdaq debut, down 4.45%, after going public via a SPAC merger that valued it at $5.2B  —  Alex Rodrigues of Embark Trucks is one of the youngest to run a multibillion-dollar listed company.

Enlarge / Head of pork tapeworm. (credit: Getty | Michael J Klein) On a night that seemed like any other, a perfectly healthy 38-year-old man in Massachusetts fell from his bed amid a violent seizure at 4 am. The commotion woke his wife, who found her husband on the floor, […]

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify acquires audiobook distributor Findaway and says it expects the deal to close in Q4 2021  —  In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business.  Now the company has set its sights on another […]

Enlarge / Judge Bruce Schroeder reprimands Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger during cross-examination of Kyle Rittenhouse at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Wisconsin on November 10, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Pool) When Kenosha County prosecutor Thomas Binger cross-examined murder suspect Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday, he wanted to show Rittenhouse video […]

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google creates a new Labs team under Clay Bavor, with its Area 120 incubator, AR and VR efforts, and Project Starline holographic videoconferencing project  —  Google Labs is back, but this time around, it’s not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products.

Peter Kafka / Vox: Facebook acquired more than 21 startups in the last three years, per PitchBook, with at least 4 VR acquisitions this year; sources say it paid $500M+ for Within  —  Can Mark Zuckerberg M&A a new monopoly?  —  Of the many complaints about Facebook, one comes through […]

Enlarge / Logitech’s Pop Keys mechanical wireless keyboard. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Logitech Pop Keys $100 at Logitech (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.) Mechanical keyboards can be intimidating for newcomers. The sheer number of options—keyboard size, the type and the manufacturer […]

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Amazon will let Prime users on iOS share video clips up to 30 seconds long for some of its content  —  You can now help Amazon with its marketing if you have iOS  —  Amazon has announced that it’ll let you easily share video clips […]