Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday that he personally invested cryptocurrency. Cook made the revelation after he was asked at the DealBook Online Summit conference if he owns bitcoin or ethereum. “I do. I think it’s reasonable to own it […]
According to the latest estimates, Google controls a little more than 92% of the search engine market share worldwide, which includes 72% of the desktop market and 92% of the mobile search engine market. Google’s nearest competitor, Bing, only controls 2.5% of […]
Data governance tech startup Collibra announced Tuesday it has raised $250 million in a late-stage investment round of funding that values the 13-year old startup at $5.25 billion. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Belgium-based holding company Sofina, with […]
AI-powered drone startup Citadel Defense announced today it has been acquired by BlueHalo, a mid-market defense innovation company backed by Arlington Capital Partners‘ $1.7B investment fund. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. Citadel CEO Chris Williams told Tech Startups […]
In its Global Risks Report 2021, the World Economic Forum listed five top cybersecurity challenges. These are the increased complexity of cyber threats, fragmented and complex regulations, dependence on other parties, lack of cybersecurity expertise, and the difficulty in tracking cybercriminals. […]
With the electric car market is getting more crowded, automakers around the world are beginning to set their sights on a new smaller portion of the market: the electric trucks. Unlike the electric cars, there are a few handful companies in […]
Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng is an adjunct professor at Stanford University Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering and the brain behind the Google Brain research lab. In 2011, he co-founded Google Brain, a deep learning artificial intelligence […]
Less than 10 months after emerging from stealth, San Diego-based compliance and security automation startup Drata joins the coveted unicorn club after raising $100 million in Series B funding. The round, which was led by ICONIQ Growth, makes Drata one of the fastest SaaS companies […]
Over the weekend, we wrote about Elon Musk’s first-ever Twitter poll when he asked Twitter users if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock to pay billion in taxes. Now the results are in 24 hours after the poll […]
Have you ever wondered why asteroids have not hit our planet? Asteroids are small, rocky, or metallic objects orbiting the Sun. Most Asteroids are usually a little over 1 meter in diameter. The largest asteroid is Ceres, which has a diameter of 965 […]
Late last month, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen proposed a tax on unrealized capital gains of billionaires. Responding to criticism that he’s avoided paying his fair share of taxes, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Saturday to ask over 62 […]
For more than half a century, researchers and governments around the world in a race to zero emissions have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion, a nuclear process, where energy is produced by smashing together light atoms. Theoretically, nuclear […]
Up until two decades ago, machine learning (ML) was a topic of discussion for a few members of academia. At the time, machine learning applications were mostly confined to large corporations or governmental organizations. Today, ML is everywhere. However, building machine […]
In April, Blue Origin lost to SpaceX after NASA selected Elon Musk’s space company to build the astronaut lunar lander (HLS). NASA awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX with a sole $2.89 billion contract to build the next crewed lunar lander under its Human […]
On September 9, the Biden administration announced the sweeping COVID-19 vaccine requirements that affect about 100 million Americans. The new measures include a vaccine mandate for all federal workers and contractors and a requirement that large companies with more than […]
Insurance companies in the United States lose billions to fraud claims every year. According to the FBI, over $40 billion a year is lost through fraud across all non-health insurance. Fraudulent claims total at least $80 billion per year in the […]
In 2021, the world population is estimated to be 7.87 billion people. By 2050, the number is expected to rise to 9 billion people, 70 percent of these will live in cities. The rapid urbanization boom will be a challenge to […]
Last August, the UK government brought in thousands of refugees into the country as part of its response to the crisis in Afghanistan. The British government also added that 20,000 refugees from Afghanistan will be arriving in the UK over the next […]
UC Berkeley SkyDeck, the startup accelerator of the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), today announced it has selected 20 tech startup companies from across the globe for its Batch 13 startup cohort, with each receiving $105,000 funding along […]
For decades, organizations rely on traditional application security testing (AST) to find and eliminate vulnerabilities in their software. However, as these organizations move to the cloud, they quickly realized that their legacy AST approach is not only unscalable but also […]