This cutting-edge sensor only requires you to spit on it to spot COVID, H1N1, and Zika.At this point in COVID, I don’t want to think about how many at-home test kits my family has burned through (or what that privilege has cost my bank account). And even still, my children have had to sit in pharmacy drive-throughs, with mom and dad swabbing and mixing samples in the front seat, for school-cer...

After a red-hot 2021, global venture investment cools in Q1’22, even as the global unicorn club reaches a new high.Global venture funding reached $143.9B raised across 8,835 deals in Q1’22, down 19% from the previous quarter’s funding. Despite the slowdown, Q1’22 marked the fourth-largest quarter for funding on record.The US alone accounted for nearly half of total funding, with some of the...

New pill management, sleep, women’s health features coming. Group of physicians depart company’s health tech group.[Blood-pressure features may become a key selling point for smartwatches in coming years.]Apple Inc.’s plan to add a highly anticipated blood-pressure monitor to its smartwatch has hit some snags and the technology isn’t expected to be ready until 2024 at the earliest, accordin...

Virtual influencers are fictional characters generated using computer graphics software and created to have their own personalities, interests, and unique personas. These digital characters have generated large followings on many different social media platforms including YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and more. The Influencer Marketing Factory has been seeing more and more virtual influ...

Virtual community has new owners with a ‘new roadmap’. Penguin owners hope for success like Bored Apes Yacht Club.Pudgy Penguins, a once hugely successful NFT project that got blown off course by drama that included the ousting of its founders, is attempting a comeback. Hopes are high in the newly energized community -- but in today’s crowded, up-and-down market for nonfungible tokens, it wi...

Uplift is a posture-monitoring desk accessory that broadcasts users’ real-time side profiles and posture-correcting suggestions.Working from home has done a number on our spinal alignment. As we crunch in work to meet our deadlines, we gradually hunch over the laptop to meet its screen without ever realizing how it affects our spines and postures. While physical posture correctors do exist, we...

The global recorded music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by growth in paid subscription streaming, according to IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Figures released today in IFPI’s Global Music Report show total revenues for 2021 were US$25.9 billion.Paid subscription streaming revenues increased by 21.9% US$12.3 billion. There were 523 million u...

A microchip was first implanted into a human back in 1998, but it is only during the past decade that the technology has been available commercially. And when it comes to implantable payment chips, British-Polish firm, Walletmor, says that last year it became the first company to offer them for sale."The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut...

CR3 Labs, the Boulder, CO-based creator of FungyProof, a provider of an NFT quality assessment platform, raised $1M in Pre-Seed funding.Backers included Cadenza Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, ZMT Capital, Red Beard Ventures, HanDAO, Branson Bollinger, and Daniel Hwang.The company intends to use the funds to hire additional talent, expand its product offering with a crowd-sourced token review s...