What a difference two years make! For years, big tech companies including Google, Facebook’s Meta, and Twitter have been accused of using their monopoly power to silence and punish dissents. But in the case of Twitter, that all changed in […]
Ahmad Abouammo, a former Twitter employee, was found guilty of spying on users on behalf of the Saudi royal family. He was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for acting as a foreign agent without notice. […]
TuSimple announced today it has appointed interim financial chief Eric Tapia on a permanent basis and reconstituted its audit committee. The announcement comes weeks after the autonomous-driving trucking company fired its co-founder and CEO Xiaodi Hou after an internal probe revealed links to […]
Is another trouble brewing in crypto land? That’s the question everyone is asking after the global accounting firm Mazars Group suddenly suspended all work with its crypto clients including Binance, Crypto.com, and KuCoin. The decision to cut ties with these leading […]
Despite the ongoing crypto winter and the news about the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX, the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry continues to weather the storm of the global economic slowdown. DeFi adoption has increased in the past two years as the […]
The winners of the Polkastarter GAM3 Awards, dubbed the Grammys for web3 gaming, have been crowned. The 16 winners were revealed at a live event on December 15, marking the conclusion of the inaugural industry awards. The GAM3 Awards Game […]
It’s been called a Google killer. ChatGPT is the new chatbot-powered AI is the latest from the Elon Musk-founded independent research body OpenAI foundation. ChatGPT took the internet by storm as thousands of users rave about the dialogue-based AI chatbot on […]
It has been four years since we last covered Orbs, a blockchain platform that serves as a decentralized execution layer between existing layer-1 and layer-2 chains and the application layer. Back then, Orbs raised $118 million to fund the development of its […]
Silicon Valley-based Open XDR innovator Stellar Cyber and New York-based cybersecurity company Deep Instinct have announced the integration of their protective solutions. The collaboration will provide even more accurate detection, better response, and prevention of cyberattacks such as ransomware and […]
After six weeks of inaction, FTX investors can now breathe a sigh of relief that the disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) will soon be brought to justice. He was arrested at his home in the Bahamas on Monday. Yesterday, Chief […]
About half of the people in the world are not connected to the internet. Nearly 3.8 billion people don’t have access to the internet, and many more lack what we would consider meaningful access. The unconnected are missing out but […]
Tech layoffs are rising around the world as companies cut costs to cope with uncertain global economic challenges. Mass layoffs, which started early this year in the United States and later in Europe, have now spread to Asia. Early this month, Indonesia’s […]
Rotor Technologies, Inc.’s uncrewed helicopter prototype achieved its first flight on 2 December 2022 at the FAA’s New York UAS test site after receiving experimental certification on 30 November 2022. Rotor’s team of MIT scientists is combining flight control algorithms, […]
Twitter is shutting down Revue, a newsletter platform the social giant acquired two years ago. Twitter acquired the Substack-competitor Revue and email newsletter startup in January 2021. The platform helped attract writes and users to make money from their followers through the […]
Globally, millions of people have turned to solar energy as part of the effort to reduce global warming, which causes climate change. However, unknown to many, it’s light, not heat, that generates electricity. Too much heat is actually bad for […]
Africa has seen an explosion in digital payments over the past five years, thanks to the penetration of smartphone devices on the continent. Research firm Statista estimates that the total value of e-commerce in Africa generated $16.5 billion in 2017 […]
ChatGPT took the internet by storm late last month after Open AI launched the dialogue-based AI chatbot. ChatGPT’s popularity has not only brought AI into mainstream technology but also reignited the conversation about how AI is going to permeate every aspect of […]
Currently, the United States is suffering a shortage of both veterinarians and their vet techs. Adding this to the rising costs of pet care, one of the smartest things for pet parents to do is to focus on prevention. It’s […]
Just a day after Binance ‘temporarily paused’ withdrawals following the outflow of $1.9 billion from the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said a degree of calm has returned to the exchange. “Things seem to have stabilized,” CZ tweeted, […]
Early this year, we wrote about two tech startups that raised over $180 million in combined funding to scale their operations. The first is Tül, a Colombian tech startup that sells construction materials to small-sized retailers. The other is Estonia-based Werk raises […]
