Mastering Quality Engineering in Connected Hardware Ecosystems

Pillar's investors include a16z, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Crucible Capital and Gallery Ventures.

Sony's PC-focused InZone brand is covering a lot of ground, now adding open-back headsets to its growing catalog of gaming accessories. The $199.99 H6 Air borrows the comfortable, easy-to-adjust design of the flagship $350 H9 II wireless headset, makes it wired, and pokes a bunch of holes in the ear cups, resulting in an open-back design that sounds more natural and fits more comfortably than most other headsets. Like other open-back headphones, the H6 Air isn't built to reduce outside noise. Instead, sounds coming from the headset's drivers are mixed with outside sounds. Open-back headsets or headphones are a bad choice if you're easily di … Read the full story at The Verge.

The first StrictlyVC of the year will be coming to San Francisco before you know it. There are still a few tickets available to join us and our stacked speaker lineup April 30, so register today!

DaVinci Resolve 21’s updates include support for RAW files from Sony, Canon, Nikon, and Fujifilm cameras. | Image: Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design announced an update to its powerful multipurpose post-production software today adding new tools and improved workflows for editing photos. In addition to helping position DaVinci Resolve 21 as an alternative to Adobe's Lightroom and Photoshop, the latest version also introduces new features to lure users away from Adobe Premiere including AI tools that can make an actor look younger or older by adding wrinkles or changing the shape of their face. The new photo mode in DaVinci Resolve 21 can be used to organize, rate, and label large collections of images and includes an AI-powered search feature for finding specific subje … Read the full story at The Verge.

The CLARITY Act passed the House 294-134 and is awaiting a Senate Banking Committee markup expected mid-April 2026. The entire bill is stalled over one issue: whether stablecoin holders should earn interest on their balances. Banks spent $56M lobbying against it. Crypto firms raised $200M for midterm campaigns. Coinbase's CLO just said a deal is 48 hours away. If it doesn't pass before midterms consume the Senate calendar around May-June, we're looking at another year or more of regulatory limbo. Meanwhile, Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade targeting June could trigger a 25-35% pre-upgrade rally based on historical patterns. The clock is ticking on both fronts.

Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters.