Gadgets

Summertime is in full swing, and it’s time to make your patio a little more inviting when friends and family come over. Take a look at these Wi-Fi-connected smart lights built to handle the outdoors. Not only do they offer color and control, but they squeak in under the $100 mark, making them a fine…

Even though Black Friday is over, there are still a lot of great Roku Cyber Monday deals to take advantage of, and we’ve collected some of the best. If you aren’t familiar with Roku, we’ve done a breakdown of the service, but the quick and dirty of it is that it’s one of the best…

FrankieOne, a Melbourne-based startup that provides an API platform for identity verification and fraud detection, said it has added $23 million AUD (about $15.4 million USD) in a Series A+, taking its Series A’s total to $45 million AUD (about $30 million USD). FrankieOne says this is the largest amount of VC funding raised by…

Andrew Ritter Contributor Andrew Ritter is a partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Corporate Department and is a member of wiggin(x). He focuses his practice on M&A, emerging companies, venture capital and corporate restructuring. Adam Silverman Contributor Adam Silverman is a partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Corporate Department and is a member of wiggin(x). He advises…

Cofactr is a logistics and supply chain tech company that provides scalable warehousing and procurement for electronics manufacturers. The company today announced it raised a $6 million round of seed funding, to “lead the next generation of agile hardware materials management.” The company raised on a SAFE note with a $25 million cap. We spoke…

The world of smart home plumbing is still relatively small, but the benefits of hooking up your home’s pipes with sensors can save you loads on repairs by catching leaks early. Managing your water usage can be vital if you’re living in a drought-prone area, while smart water heating can save a few bucks on…

Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes, just received an update that the company claims will help to identify more “low quality” fact checks — meaning, the notes written by Twitter users that are appended to tweets to provide further clarification and context. As a result, more of the contributors who write these unhelpful annotations will…

You wouldn’t drive a car or fly a plane if the only controls you had available were on/off switches for left and right or up and down, and yet that’s pretty much what gamers are stuck with when they control their virtual avatars with their keyboards. U.K. startup Peratech wants to change that with a…

Legal trouble may be brewing for Microsoft in the European Union, where an assessment by a working group of German data protection regulators that’s spent around two years looking into a swathe of privacy concerns attached to its cloud-based 365 productivity products — including by engaging directly with the tech giant to try to get…