For over four months now, the naysayers have been warning us about the danger of taking malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The disgraced medical journal Lancet even went as far as using falsified data from Surgisphere Corp to back […]
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 […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the news. Yesterday, it was Dr. Birx. Today Fauci pushes for more lockdowns as coronavirus spreads across Sun Belt states. After several months of misleading comments, White House health advisor and the nation’s top infectious […]
Tesla is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. According to NHTSA, level 5 autonomous refers to a fully-autonomous system […]
Google announced Wednesday that it has abandoned its cloud project on concerns over political tensions and the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from Bloomberg. Dubbed as “Isolated Region,” the initiative is sought to address the desires of China and other […]
Amazon sellers in the U.S. will soon be required to provide their business contact information including names and addresses. Today, the e-Commerce giant informed U.S. sellers on Wednesday that it will soon require them to disclose their business name and […]
It’s been a while since we last wrote about Xometry, the world’s largest marketplace for On-Demand manufacturing. Xometry is changing the way you order custom parts with custom manufacturing on demand services for 3D printing, CNC machining, Injection molding, and more. Late last year, […]
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the trends show some increased interest in use of telemedicine and telehealth services among patients and healthcare providers around the country. In the first half of 2020, healthcare providers have seen a sharp increase in utilization of […]
Micro social platform Twitter is reportedly working on a new subscription platform under the codename Gryphon, according to two online job postings. Twitter revealed little about the new platform, though it said it will work with its Payments and Twitter.com […]
It’s been a bad few weeks for TikTok. Last month, the Chinese social app TikTok was caught reading data from user clipboards. The ByteDance-owned app was caught after TikTok users were notified by Apple that TikTok was reading data from their […]
Third drone parachute validation by NUAIR and New York UAS Test Site, advancing safe integration of unmanned aircraft Following vigorous testing, completed in collaboration with NUAIR, the drone parachute recovery system by Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions (AVSS) for the DJI […]
SUSE, a Linux distribution company controlled by private equity firm EQT, has agreed to acquire Rancher Labs, an open source container software startup tech startup that helps organizations run software in virtual containers across many servers. The financial terms of the deal […]
Slack has acquired software as a service startup company Rimeto, the company announced Wednesday. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is a natural fit with Slack. Channels make it easy to find the information you […]
Last week, China passed a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, which many fear could be used to override existing legal processes and end China’s “One country, two systems” policy. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the United States […]
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), a senior administration official confirmed Tuesday. The U.S. has submitted its withdrawal notification to the United Nations secretary-general, the official said. Withdrawal requires a year’s notice, so it […]
OwnBackup, a New Jersey-based cloud-to-cloud business continuity platform that provides backup and security services for Salesforce clients, today announced a $50 million in follow-on funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Vertex Ventures, and existing investor Innovation Endeavors. This latest round, which […]
Novavax, a late stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that it has been selected to participate in Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a U.S. government program that aims to begin delivering millions of doses of […]
We’ve been covering the story of Moderna vaccine development for a few months now. Moderna is a biotech company focused on drug discovery and drug development based exclusively on messenger RNA. In May, Moderna announced positive results of its phase 1 data […]
Fake news websites, commonly known as hoax news websites, are websites that deliberately publish fake news—hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation purporting to be real news. The sites often use social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to drive web traffic and […]
Questo, a Bucharest, Romania-based tech startup and a developer of the platform for city exploration games, has raised €300,000 to help travelers and locals explore destinations by going on tours in game form, called quests. The round was led by Sparking Capital […]