Early this month, the EU privacy watchdog ruled that Facebook’s Meta cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so. The ruling was a big blow for the social giant which already lost over 70 percent […]
In a race to zero emissions, governments and investors have poured billions of dollars into clean energy initiatives to combat climate change and its impact on the environment. While the US government has invested in multiple clean energy projects, tech […]
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was sent back to a Bahamas prison on Monday after a reported plan for him to waive his extradition to the United States stalled. In a chaotic courtroom scene on Monday, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Jerone Roberts, told […]
Binance.US has agreed to buy the assets of bankrupt crypto exchange Voyager Digital for $1.02 billion. Voyager said on Monday that the $1 billion bid represents the fair market value of Voyager’s cryptocurrency portfolio. Binance’s acquisition of Voyager gives renewed hope […]
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club, has appointed “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard chief operating officer Daniel Alegre as its new CEO. The metaverse startup announced Monday that Alegre will join the company as its chief executive. He […]
In March 2020, the United States had approximately 78,500 charging outlets and almost 25,000 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs). A considerable number of these charging stations are based in California, with 6,835 stations and 28,545 power outlets, according to data from research […]
Proof-of-stake blockchain startup Tezos has developed quite a reputation as a self-upgradeable and energy-efficient blockchain platform that evolves as it scales as the adoption increases. In September, Tezos 11th upgrade called Kathmandu went live on the Tezos PoS network at block 2,736,129, following […]
Twitter users have voted for Elon Musk to step down from the helm of affairs of the company. Over the weekend, Musk asked users if he should step down as the head of the company. The result came in 24 hours […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For centuries, gold has been a status symbol in India even before the arrival of the British. Indian kings and queens were adorned in gold and other jewelry. Spanning a legacy of at least 5,000 years, jewelry is a striking expression […]
The ongoing economic downturn coupled with the looming recession has exacerbated the challenges tech startups faced in raising new funds. While the funding well may be drying up, investors continue to pour money into cybersecurity, AI, and other tech sectors that […]