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 […]
In August, researchers at Oxford University found that covid vaccines are less effective than advertised. In the largest study of its kind, Oxford University and the UK Office for National Statistics analyzed more than 3 million PCR tests from a random sample […]
Lum Network, a blockchain tech startup building the first decentralized protocol for businesses to build authentic trust with their customers, has raised $4 million in a private Sale round led by a number of key crypto and technology investors. The round also […]
No day goes by without new headlines on climate change. While organizations and governments around the world focus their attention on reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, measuring emissions is equally crucial to implementing and reporting on carbon […]
Airtable, a cloud-based software tech startup that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases, has raised a massive $735 million Series F funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $11 billion from a year ago. AirTable joined the highly […]
Water leaks are a significant environmental problem. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, leaky faucets are estimated to waste almost 1 trillion gallons of water per year in the United States, that’s equal to the annual household water use of more […]
Travelers have many things to worry about when traveling to their destinations. The situation is further compounded especially during the holiday seasons when millions of travelers are traveling to see friends and loved ones. However, one of the major concerns […]
Atlanta-based tech startup Punchlist has raised $2 million in seed funding to save teams time by allowing creative companies to add feedback directly to websites, images, and pdfs in one place. The round was led by Overline and PJC, with participation from Meritech […]
