Today, Tesla remains the worldwide leader in electric vehicle sales and has sold nearly half a million EVs so far. However, new electric car companies in China are not far behind. China is the world’s largest market for electric vehicle […]
Fate loves irony is a phrase that describes events in our lives when the opposite of what we expect happens. A famous example is a fire station that burns down. In the early 1990s, way before he became a millionaire and […]
Standard Energy, a South Korea-based tech startup and developer of vanadium ion battery that is on the verge of revolutionizing the current lithium ion-based energy storage system (ESS), announced today it has raised an $8.9 million Series C led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. […]
Back in February, we wrote about a study conducted by scientists in Finland after they discovered a previously unknown variant of the coronavirus in a sample from southern Finland called Fin-769H that makes vaccines slightly less effective. According to the […]
Forget the crowded gym and say hello to a smarter home gym with a one-on-one AI-powered fitness trainer. Enter Tempo, the first home fitness gym that uses advanced 3D sensors and AI to analyze users’ motion to provide a personal training […]
As we reported back in February, Fortnite maker Epic Games unveiled to the world the first glimpse of its MetaHuman Creator, a browser-based app to create stunning digital humans in less than an hour using its UnrealEngine. Today, Epic Games announced […]
Crosspoint Capital Partners is a newly formed private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries. The firm has assembled a group of highly successful technology visionaries, investors, and operators to partner with foundational technology companies, transform the […]
Why rent when you can own? This is a question that often gets asked. However, in today’s world where technology changes almost every minute, maybe it is better to rent than to own. Just like car leasing, renting gives you the […]
The crypto exchange startup Coinbase is what everyone is talking about. The startup’s highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) is finally taking place tomorrow when Coinbase is set to go public in a direct listing that could value the cryptocurrency exchange […]
Last month many European countries halted the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine following new reports of increased blood clot side effects. Now, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this morning that it is asking all 50 states to temporarily halt using […]
Every year, about 305 million total startups are created globally. 1.35 million businesses out of those startups are tech-related. Each one of these businesses starts out with an innovative idea and a passion for the solution they’re providing to the market. Yet […]
Forget about coronavirus vaccines. The U.S. government is working on futuristic technology that will continuously monitor your body for signs of the coronavirus before you even realize you had one. Yesterday, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that it […]
According to surveys, an estimated 10 to 20 percent of people have anxiety and an exaggerated fear of going to the dentist. And so they decided not to go. Recognizing this problem, one startup has made it its mission to make […]
Just a day after U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken warned China that it would be a “serious mistake” for anyone to try and change the status quo in the western Pacific via military threats, China flexed its military muscle exercises […]
SimpliSafe, a Boston-based tech startup and a popular provider of home security products that are designed for wireless security alarm systems and services, today announced it has raised $130 million in growth funding. Since founded 15 years ago, SimpliSafe has fundamentally changed […]
With the U.S. government spending of $10 trillion in the last 12 months and the interest rate at almost zero, rich investors and venture capitalists are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash. As worries about coronavirus continue to go […]
Yesterday, we wrote about a report that Microsoft was in talks to buy AI and speech technology company Nuance Communications for about $16 billion. This morning, Microsoft confirmed in an announcement that it will buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications in […]
The identity verification (IDV) market is seeing significant demand as a result of the pandemic-driven accelerated digitization across the globe. In 2020 alone, identity fraud cost Americans a total of about $56 billion, with about 49 million consumers falling victim, […]
Wildberries is the largest Russian online retailer. The startup was founded in 2004 by Tatyana Bakalchuk at age 28 in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave from teaching. Tatyana started Wildberries using her savings of $700. In 2019, Wildberries was valued […]
To protect employees from COVID-19, many enterprises rapidly shifted to make distributed work possible while maintaining business productivity. Forced to accelerate digital transformation initiatives, these changes led to gaps in visibility and security, ultimately playing into the hands of attackers. […]