Technology

LetsGetChecked, a company that develops at-home health-testing kits covering various conditions, has raised $ 71 Million in an “oversubscribed” series C round of funding to accelerate the production and supply capacity for a new COVID-19 testing kit. The raise fits into a broader telehealth trend, that has seen numerous startups …

Activision Blizzard president and chief operating officer Daniel Alegre said in an earnings call that the next premium Call of Duty game is on track for the fall. Activision’s own revenues were $ 519 million in the first quarter, driven by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Warzone …

Cockroach Labs, the company behind the open source distributed SQL database CockroachDB, has raised $ 86.6 million in a series D round of funding co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bond. Alphabet’s venture capital arm, GV, also participated in the round, having co-led its $ 55 million series C round back …

Today during its annual IBM Think conference, IBM announced the launch of Watson AIOps, a service that taps AI to automate the real-time detection, diagnosing, and remediation of network anomalies. It also unveiled new offerings targeting the rollout of 5G technologies and the devices on those networks, as well as …

Electronic Arts announced today that its EA Play Live digital event will broadcast on June 11 at 4 p.m. Pacific. EA Play was an event that the publisher has held concurrent to the Electronic Entertainment Expo that takes place in Los Angeles each June. EA dropped out of that show …

If you’ve been following the saga of Apple’s troubled butterfly keyboards, you know that the failure-prone typing surface has been the weakest link across all of the company’s laptops since 2016 — including its most popular 13-inch models. Today, Apple is finally addressing that issue by updating the 13-inch MacBook …

While investors may see the CARES Act as a lifeline for their startup portfolio companies, there are certain traps to be aware of. Under the False Claims Act, the government can seek both civil and criminal penalties against companies obtaining funding under false pretenses. On top of this, individual whistleblowers …

If you have gamers in your household, chances are one is playing Call of Duty: Warzone. The new battle royale mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer arrived on March 10 just in time for the lockdown in the United States and elsewhere. And it’s become my game of …

Magic Leap sent owners of its AR headsets a warning that they need to update their devices due to an issue related to the battery. Developers received the email Tuesday, April 28, less than a full week after massive layoffs on April 22 left the organization a fraction of its former …