On October 28, 2021, Facebook announced it was changing its corporate name to Meta to reflect its focus on the metaverse. Meta’s version of the metaverse intends to expand beyond just Facebook but also span social presence, office work, entertainment, […]
Early this month, we wrote about GAMSTOP, a free service that lets UK residents exclude themselves from all online betting sites licensed in Great Britain and also put controls in place to help restrict their online gambling activities. GAMSTOP is an […]
If you’re still waiting for a cybersecurity 9/11 or a ransomware Pearl Harbor to punch us in the gut, wake up. The equivalent has already happened. More than one, in fact. Maybe SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline1 didn’t have the same […]
Dr. Robert Malone, the supposed inventor of mRNA vaccines, has been permanently banned from Twitter, for posting tweets that “Pfizer mRNA vaccine does more harm than good.” Dr. Mallone, who has amassed over 500,000 followers before his ban, was finally suspended […]
Last year, we wrote about Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition tech startup that uses AI to automatically scrape and collect publicly billions of photos of faces across social media and other websites to build out its biometric database. Clearview is the world’s […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the world’s richest person with a net worth of about $300 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaire Index. In just over a decade, Tesla has gone from a one-car company that almost went bankrupt to becoming […]
Who said you can’t make billions while claiming to save lives? The pharmaceutical industry has minted at least nine billionaires since the covid pandemic started almost two years ago. The “booster jabs have become easy money for Pfizer and Moderna” as the two companies […]
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), transportation was responsible for more than 29% of greenhouse emissions in the U.S in the year 2019. These emissions from transportation come primarily from burning fossil fuel in aircraft, trains, ships, and […]
Hedge fund firm Starboard Value LP has purchased a 6.5% stake in GoDaddy worth about $800 million, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, citing a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Starboard said […]
It’s commonly known that Silicon Valley, San Francisco is the world’s tech capital. It almost feels like it’s spawning billionaire companies left and right. However, few people know that Stockholm is second only to Silicon Valley in terms of unicorns – startups valued […]
In America’s high technology sector, the gains are often incredibly centralized. Over the course of the past decade, the main story has been the staggering concentration of tech jobs, companies, capital, and innovation within a narrow corridor stretching from Silicon Valley […]
California is home to some of the world’s largest and best-known technology companies in the world. It all started during The California Gold Rush of 1948 through 1955 when over 300,000 people from other states and around the world flocked […]
Carlos Tejada, Deputy Asia Editor for The Times, has died at the age of 49. Before his death, Tejada was an editor in Asia for 13 years, including with The Wall Street Journal. He spent his career at the Journal before joining the […]
What started out as a conspiracy theory a few months ago has become a reality. In April, we ran a story asking if you are ready for a COVID monitoring microchip to be implanted under your skin. Back then, the Pentagon’s […]
2021 has been a great year form for the private space tourism industry. Thanks to companies like Virgin Galactic and Bezos’ Blue Origin, space travel which was once reserved for superpowers like Russia and the United States, is now available to […]
HUMAN Protocol, a permissionless protocol that offers a new way for humans and machines to securely connect and collaborate, today announced the full launch of its HUMAN App, a web-based application that demonstrates how work published to the Protocol can be accessed […]
Sinqia, a Brazilian fintech company that offers IT solutions to financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies, has acquired NewCon, a small tech startup and local developer of software for consortiums, in a transaction worth $74.73 million (422.5 million reais). The deal, which is Sinqia’s largest acquisition […]
TikTok, the Chinese viral video-sharing app that started out as a joke now, has now become the most popular app in the world. That’s not all, TikTok has also dethroned Google to become the most popular site on the planet. According […]
Early this month, we wrote about SenseTime after the Chinese AI facial recognition startup finally announced the highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO). After several false starts, SenseTime Group said it was looking to raise up to $767 million in […]
What goes around comes around. Twitter is known for censoring dissenting views. Now the founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey is getting a taste of his own medicine. Marc Andreessen, a renowned venture capitalist and Silicon Valley heavyweight, has blocked Jack for his comments on […]
