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Tesla has unveiled its V4 Supercharger station, and it now includes a credit card reader for the first time. When Tesla first launched the Supercharger network in 2012, it was a free service to Tesla owners. Later, the automaker started charging some Tesla owners for charging at the Supercharger stations, but it was only for Tesla owners, and therefore, the company handled all payments and activation of charging sessions through an automatic handshake between the cars and charging stations…

Prime Day is the best time of the year to pick up Amazon ebook readers. The company has a wide selection, ranging from cheap, basic units to some that could read and annotate documents. The base model is the Amazon Kindle. It has a 6” display that is now as sharp as all the others at 300ppi. And it comes with double the storage, 16GB, so you’ll basically never run out of room. Note that this version has lockscreen ads, the one without ads is $20 more. …

Evidently, folks at DC are aware that manga is the most popular form of comics around the world. As we reported in the spring, DC has a new partnership with Kodansha, one of Japan’s biggest manga publishers, and will debut three new series in print on September 5: Joker: One Operation Joker, Superman vs. Meshi, and Batman: Justice Buster. But before that they are debuting on DC’s digital comics service, DC Universe Infinite – and with a new manga-ready digital comics reader. The first chapters of all three series just…

With Prime Day finally upon us, it’s the perfect time to pick up a business laptop if you’ve been eyeing one for a while. Luckily, there’s a great Prime Day deal on the Asus VivoBook 14, a lightweight yet versatile laptop for work and school. You can grab one from Amazon for just $210, rather than the usual $270 it goes for, which is a nice $60 discount. Why you should buy the ASUS VivoBook 14 The ASUS VivoBook 14 has many great productivity chops while also being very budget oriented, mostly due to the Intel Core…

If you're a really avid reader, you may resent the visual distractions that keep you from becoming thoroughly immersed in a book. That's where the Sol Reader comes in, as it fills your vision with text.Looking not unlike a set of VR goggles, the device is linked via Bluetooth to an iOS/Android app on the user's smartphone.Third-party EPUB files (such as ebooks) are streamed from that phone to the Sol Reader, where their text is displayed in dual side-lit E Ink screens – one for each eye. It should be noted that users can…

We’ve been waxing lyrical (and critical) about Apple’s Vision Pro here at TechCrunch this week – but, of course, there are other things happening in the world of wearable tech, as well. Sol Reader raised a $5 million seed round with a headset that doesn’t promise to do more. In fact, it is trying to do just the opposite: Focus your attention on just the book at hand. Or book on the face, as it were. “I’m excited to see Apple’s demonstration of the future of general AR/VR for the masses. However,…

Posted in: Comics | Tagged: jobwatch, sensitivity reader, WebtoonWebtoon, the biggest comcsi publisher in the world, is now hiring a Sensitivity and Expert Reader for their Los Angeles offices,Four years ago Webtoon became the most popular comic book publisher in the world, and its size and scope have increased vastly since, with an average of 89 million monthly active users, about ten million of which are in the US, and its serialised webcomics that scroll vertically are available in the free-to-download Webtoon app for…

Last updated: May 31st, 2023 at 11:21 UTC+02:00 Samsung’s Pro Plus memory cards announced in April are getting repackaged in a new bundle. Yesterday, the company revealed new plans to sell the Pro Plus series paired with a USB card reader, and the bundle is now available for sale on Samsung’s online shop in Germany. The company says the Pro Plus microSD card with USB card reader makes it easier for hobbyist photographers and videographers to transfer data from the microSD card to devices like a notebook or a PC. The…

In January, I attended my first ever wedding. Later, I mentioned the event in passing at my publisher’s office. “Wait,” someone said. “You wrote a whole book about a wedding before you’d been to one?”At that stage I had signed off on the final proofs of my second novel, The Happy Couple. Matrimony structures the plot; the first chapter opens with the couple getting engaged, and we follow them as the ceremony draws near. Why choose this setup when I’d never attended a wedding? Because I thought it would make a good book.…

The internet was abuzz with rumors when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were seen having a heated exchange on the red carpet at the "Mother" premiere. However, an exclusive report by the Daily Mail has now revealed that the couple's argument was not as serious as it seemed. Actress/singer Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck arrive for the premiere of 'The Mother' at the Westwood Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, California.(AFP) According to a lip reader hired by the Daily Mail, Affleck and Lopez were…