The Best Smart Plugs (2020): Plugs, Power Strips, and More

Medea Giordano turned her shopping problem into a career as a product reviewer for WIRED. She covers a little bit of everything but loves health and beauty tech. Before coming to WIRED, she was an assistant editor at Wirecutter, where she wrote about erasable pens, hair straighteners, and GPS devices,... Read more via Wired https://ift.tt/2AwliSo …

Basecamp launches Hey, a hosted email service for neat freaks

Project management software maker Basecamp has launched a feature-packed hosted email service, called Hey — which they tout as taking aim at the traditional chaos and clutter of the email inbox. https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/a Hey includes a built in screener that asks users to confirm whether or not they want to receive email from a new address. …

Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display

When Looking Glass Factory showed of its first holographic display way back on August 2018, it felt more like a proof of concept than anything — though it was immediately an impressive concept. In November of last year, the Brooklyn-based startup showed off an 8K display that used its holographic tech. The feeling wasn’t quite …

Let’s Rebuild the Broken Meat Industry—Without Animals

Our debts have now come due.The last thing taxpayers should do is bail out an industry that hurts animals, workers, consumers, the environment, and public health. But we don’t need to scrap the whole system and start again. The Achilles heel of factory farming is that we try to force unapologetically biological, infection-prone, metabolically expensive, …

5 More Security Risks for Infrastructure-as-Code

Accurics sponsored this post. Piyush Sharrma Piyush is co-founder and chief technology officer at Accurics. He is a technologist, entrepreneur, and engineering leader with almost 20 years of experience building large-scale IaaS, endpoint, and data center security products. Provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure through code — such as Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource …

Plaid launches Plaid Exchange to help banks manage their API

Plaid, the fintech company that was acquired by Visa for $5.3 billion a few months ago, is launching Plaid Exchange this week. Plaid is mostly known for its range of APIs that let developers access banking information. This time, with Plaid Exchange, the company wants to help financial institutions directly so that they can build …

The New Stack Context: Serverless Application Flows in the Cloud

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week’s episode, we spoke with Sebastien Goasguen, co-founder and chief product officer, TriggerMesh, about how to build applications from serverless functions that span multiple clouds, using the company’s software. TNS editorial and …

Serverless Needs Standards to Be the Future of Application Infrastructure

Gadi Naor Gadi Naor brings 15 years of experience in leading the development of cybersecurity products to his role as CTO and co-founder of Alcide. Gadi has blended his management and technological background in various positions. Gadi worked at CheckPoint where he served as business development manager and senior developer, leading the development of CheckPoint’s …

The good, better and best of cloud and SaaS growth

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. The crew at Bessemer released their new, yearly cloud report this week. It’s a useful lens into how venture capitalists are thinking about cloud and SaaS startup performance metrics. Bessemer’s cloud and SaaS exits include …

Why You Should Buy a Cheap Gaming Mouse

Does your wrist or hand often hurt after work? The problem might be your mouse or trackpad. Wrist pain sucks when all you want to do after work is cook dinner or wind down with a guitar. Years back, I’d come home every day feeling like Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget. My hand hurt like …