SoundCloud announced on Wednesday that it acquired Nina Protocol, a decentralized music platform that allowed independent artists to sell music directly to their fans while keeping 100% of their revenue. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. It’s also unclear if any members of Nina’s team will join SoundCloud. The company has not yet
Marina Demeshko/iStockphoto/Getty Images seven years ago, He New Yorker Copywriter Jia Tolentino is widely credited with coining the term “Instagram face” to describe a beauty standard she noticed emerging on social media among white female influencers. “The face looked like the beauty filters that Snapchat and Instagram provided to lift the cheeks, plump the lips,
Science Corporation, a startup developing new brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), has won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost due to age-related macular degeneration. The company said the device, called PRIMA, also received a designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is the first step toward
Elizabeth Murchison, a professor at the University of Cambridge, and Peter Emerson of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife collect catfish for testing in Newport, VT. Emerson was one of the researchers who published a new article in the journal. Nature describing the first known transmissible cancer in fish. Joshua Brown/University of Vermont hide
Google on Wednesday announced a new migration experience built directly into Android 17 that should make it easier to switch from iPhone to Android. The feature allows users to wirelessly transfer more types of data from an iPhone without needing to download a separate app, Google says. By simplifying the onboarding process and supporting more
Governments have long warned against paying a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only allows criminals to profit from their cyberattacks and fund the next one. There’s another reason, too: hackers are unlikely to leave you alone if you pay once, and many will come back demanding more. In a report released Wednesday, cybersecurity
