TECH

Now at the top of the App Store, The Eclipse App is a great companion for Monday’s solar eclipse
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 8, 2024
A well-designed app designed to optimize your viewing of the total solar eclipse on Tuesday has surged to the top of the App Store. With

YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 4, 2024
The second half of Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort presented on Thursday, once again bringing dozens and dozens of new startups before a chunk of

Ember’s journey from hot coffee to medication transport
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 31, 2024
Ember’s first Indiegogo campaign drew sideways glances when it launched in 2015. Would anyone actually buy a $129 heated coffee mug? Nearly a decade later,

NewRetirement aims to shake up retirement planning with a holistic approach
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 27, 2024
When entrepreneur Stephen Chen’s mom began approaching retirement age, she was forced to borrow money from Chen — and Chen’s brother — to make ends

Mallard Bay is the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 23, 2024
Americans spent more than $144.8 billion on fishing and hunting in 2022 alone, according to a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Guided

Nvidia CEO wants enterprise to think ‘AI factory,’ not data center
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 19, 2024
In Monday’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC 2024 event, CEO Jenson Huang kept repeating the phrase “AI factory.” “In the last Industrial Revolution, the raw material

Lordstown Motors comes out of bankruptcy with a new name to fight Foxconn
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 15, 2024
Lordstown Motors has emerged from bankruptcy with a new name and a nearly singular focus: continuing its lawsuit against iPhone-maker Foxconn for allegedly “destroying the

After losing access to Twitter’s API, Block Party pivots to privacy
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 11, 2024
Block Party, a startup developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, was among the victims of Twitter’s (now X’s) API changes earlier

Threads now lets all users save drafts and take photos within the app
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 7, 2024
Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is rolling out the ability for users to save a draft and take photos within the app. Instagram head

Camshaft says Byju’s unit beneficial owner of $533 million funds
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 3, 2024
Camshaft disclosed in court filings this week that some $533 million it managed for Byju’s Alpha, a U.S. unit of Indian edtech group Byju’s, was