Early this month, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said fourth Covid vaccine doses may be needed sooner than expected to fight the Omicron variant. However, that may no longer be necessary if the latest report from the US Army were to […]
2021 has turned out to be a great year for cryptocurrencies. During the past 12 months, bitcoin and other alt cryptocurrencies enjoyed a surge in mainstream adoption and support from institutional investors. Bitcoin went from $29,000 on January 1 to […]
We’ve been following the story of Nikola, a one-time Tesla competitor and the maker of zero-emission, hydrogen-powered electric trucks. As we reported back in July, Nikola founder Trevor Milton was charged with three counts of criminal fraud—for “lying about ‘nearly all aspects of […]
Eight months after Microsoft acquired Nuance Communications for $16 billion, the European Commission (EU) on Tuesday granted Microsoft unconditional antitrust approval for artificial intelligence and speech technology company, according to a report from Reuters, citing a statement from the Commission. The deal has […]
Alex Berenson was a former New York Times reporter, science writer, vaccine advocate, and the author of the book titled, “Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns.” We first wrote about Berenson back in June 2020 after his book was censored […]
2021 is a record year for tech startups with 943 unicorn startup companies now having a combined valuation of $3.053 trillion. One of these unicorn startups is New York-based Cockroach Labs that makes cloud-based database software for some of the world’s largest […]
Enterprise software giant Oracle is closing the year with the announcement of its biggest acquisition ever. Oracle said on Monday that it will buy electronic medical records company Cerner in an all-cash deal for approximately $28.3 billion in equity value (about $95 […]
Last year, we published an article titled “40% of US dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months,,” spotlighting the dramatic surge in currency circulation. It quickly became one of our most popular pieces, attracting over 250,000 unique […]
Bitcoin is the world’s most popular cryptocurrency that many have speculated that will soon replace US dollars. However, Bitcoin is not backed by anything. After a careful analysis of bitcoin, it won’t take long to see that Bitcoin is just a […]
Meta (formerly Facebook) announced Thursday that about 50,000 Facebook users have been targeted by private surveillance companies. The tech giant said the seven companies carried out a combination of reconnaissance, engagement, and exploitation. In a blog post, Meta said, “We alerted around […]
Last week, we wrote about GAMSTOP, a free service that lets residents within the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) put controls in place to help restrict their online gambling activities. The piece covered the inner workings of the GamStop API. GAMSTOP is […]
Investments in consumer goods and food delivery startups have grown in recent years as more people who now work from homes prefer to make their purchases online instead of shopping at the local stores. Companies like DoorDash, GoPuff, and others […]
Back in April 2019, we wrote a piece titled, “Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting More Funding?” The article was about a woman-owned startup based in San Francisco and how the founder linked her inability to raise enough funding to her gender. […]
This is a guest post by Knud Kegel, VP Product at EMnify, a Berlin, Germany-based startup that provides cloud building blocks for cellular communications in the IoT stack, connecting millions of IoT devices globally. IoT continues to grab headlines and […]
It was just five months ago that ShareChat raised $145 million from Temasek and others investors. Back then, the Bengaluru-based Indian regional language social content-sharing platform was valued at around $3 billion. Today, ShareChat announced it has raised another $266 million in fresh […]
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is about to pay the largest taxes in American history. So, where does the $15 billion figure come from? On November 6, Elon Musk launched a Twitter poll asking millions of his fans if he should sell 10% […]
We’ve been following the story of SpaceX’s Starship orbital flight for over a year now. Starship is a fully reusable launch vehicle still under development by SpaceX as part of its plan to fulfill the ultimate purpose of Mars exploration. Starship, which consists of […]
In recent years, there is a significant growth in online learning as millions of people for opportunities to gain new skills. The arrival of the covid pandemic early last year further accelerated the need for online learning. In addition, rapid […]
On December 9, MITRE disclosed a previously unknown new zero-day vulnerability in the popular Java logging package log4j v2.x known as Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228). Log4j is an open-source logging system widely used in a large number of enterprise systems. Hackers may already be taking […]
When it comes to organization spendings on IT, cybersecurity takes the lion’s share. According to a report from Forbes Magazine, 30,000 websites are hacked globally every day. In addition, 64% of companies around the world said they have experienced at least one form […]
