The internet has forever changed the world and our ways of life. In the early 1990s when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Who would have thought back then that the internet would account for 30 percent […]
Since the pandemic began over 18 months ago, there has been an uptick in the number of teachers leaving public schools. According to the World Bank, some 40 million teachers around the world have left the sector. Their departure has also […]
The edge is an essential layer of the manufacturing technology stack. Machines on the factory floor collect vast amounts of raw data from various sources using numerous protocols, which all need to be processed quickly to gain actionable insight. By […]
Pico, a New York-based startup that provides technology services for the global financial markets around the world, announced today it is going public in a SPAC deal with Cohen’s FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp. According to the agreement between the two companies, the merger […]
On Sunday, Jack Dorsey’s Square announced it is acquiring Australian fintech startup Afterpay for $29 billion. It’s a huge validation for the fast-growing “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) market that many are saying is poised to disrupt the $8 trillion US credit card […]
Aspen Digital is a Hong Kong-based fintech startup and a crypto asset management platform that provides wealthy investors and High-Net-Worth Individuals a single portal to manage their crypto investments. Today, Aspen announced it has raised $8.8 million in funding led by RIT […]
From 2011 to 2020, there were an average of 62,805 wildfires annually and an average of 7.5 million acres impacted annually in the United States, according to wildfire statistics from the Congressional Research Services (CRS). Data also showed that in 2020, […]
The highly-anticipated Pfizer’s safety and efficacy study of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is finally out. After six months of monitoring over 45,000 patients, the study found that there were 15 deaths in the vaccine group and 14 deaths in the unvaccinated […]
In 2020, nearly 20,000 people were murdered by guns, and another 40,000 were injured. The number does not include the approximately 24,000 suicides by gun in 2020. In other words, guns are involved in 75 percent of all murders and […]
Most of us don’t comply with the CDC-recommended minimum amount of time to wash our hands. Now, e-commerce giant Amazon just unveiled a smart soap dispenser with a 20-second timer that also works with Alexa. The $54.99 dispenser, which is now available on […]
Authored by Edward Snowden via “Continuing Ed” substack, “Just as we cannot trust governments to decide what can and cannot be said, we must not empower them to determine the things we can or cannot install.” Last month, we wrote […]
Late last year, Facebook acquired customer relationship management (CRM) startup Kustomer.com for $1 billion. As we reported back then, Facebook said that Kustomer.com will continue to own the data that comes from interactions with their customers. However, Facebook said it […]
SPACs have been dominating the IPO scene in recent months but they are not the only ones making the waves. It’s been a busy year for electric vehicle (EV) IPOs as well. Just last month, at least three EV tech startups […]
Last year, carbon dioxide emissions rose to 2.4 million pounds per second. All the world’s nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, according […]
Marvell Technology, a Broadcom rival and one of the leading companies in infrastructure semiconductor solutions, on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire chip startup Innovium in a $1.1 billion all-stock deal aimed at bolstering Marvell’s share of networking chips […]
After more than seven years of helping modern software teams work collaboratively and ship quickly, Clubhouse.io announced it is changing its name to Shortcut. The announcement came after users start confusing Clubhouse.io with the popular social audio app Clubhouse. In a blog post, […]
Festo is a German industrial control and automation tech startup based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. The company develops and markets pneumatic and electrical automation technology solutions for factories. Founded 1985 by Albert Fezer and Gottlieb Stoll, FESTO offers pneumatic drives, servo-pneumatic positioning […]
A little over a year ago, we wrote about Zoom after a team of cybersecurity researchers at the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab found that the Zoom app sent user data and encryption keys to China. “This report examines encryption in the […]
UC Berkeley SkyDeck, the global startup accelerator of the University of California at Berkeley, has opened the application period for its upcoming Batch 13 program for startups. Around 20 accepted startups will receive $105,000 funding along with other benefits. Applications for […]
As you may recall, we covered Bolt back in May after the Uber rival and European ride-hailing startup launched a car-sharing service in Europe called Bolt Drive. Just like ZipCar and Drivy, the new car-sharing service enables customers to rent a car […]
