Earlier today, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a national lockdown until December 2 as coronavirus cases top 1 million in Great Britain. “From Thursday until the start of December you must stay at home, you may only leave home for specific […]
For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started this year, the United Kingdom recorded 1 million cases of coronavirus as the country braced for another round of lockdown since March. Prime Minister Boris Johnson expected to announce a month-long national lockdown during […]
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Twitter poses a “threat” to U.S. national security Friday in a scathing letter he wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on recent censorship by Twitter of DHS personnel. Secretary Wolf said that Twitter’s decisions to censor government agencies […]
Just when you think you can’t get enough of Big Tech censorship, Mailchimp announced this week that it will start deleting ‘misleading’ and materially false content sent via its platform effective October 28, 2020. It was not clear how Mailchimp […]
Shares of Twitter plunged more than 21% on Friday, a day after the social media giant reported adding fewer than expected new users during the third quarter. Twitter reported user growth that fell short of expectations amid heightened scrutiny and […]
If you think this is coming from the Onion or Babylon Bee, then you’re wrong. The state of Colorado is taking the mask mandate to a new level. Now, the Colorado Department of Public Health now wants to impose indoor mask […]
Today, with thousands of organizations moving their IT operations to the cloud, they are now faced with new ubiquitous and fundamental challenges of asset discovery and visibility that’s preventing enterprises from efficiently managing, securing, and transforming technology. Enter Lucidum, a California-based […]
Last week, we wrote about PayPal after the payments company announced it has joined the cryptocurrency market, and allowing customers to buy, sell, shop, and hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on its network. This is good news for cryptocurrencies and especially for Bitcoin. Bitcoin […]
Sony Corp is in final talks with AT&T to acquire San Francisco-based animation-streaming service Crunchyroll in a deal worth more than $957 million (100 billion yen), according to a Friday report from Reuters, citing Nikkei business daily. Crunchyroll is a San Francisco-based […]
Whoop, the Boston-based health tech startup and the maker of a wearable device that tracks sleep among other health metrics, has raised $100 million Series E funding with back from investors including venture capital firm IVP, SoftBank Vision Fund, and athletes […]
Over the years, the number of startup investments at the seed and early-stage has dropped off, according to data provider PitchBook. And even when the funding is available, some venture firms simply follow the mantra of “invest to divest,” meaning […]
Jen Gennai is Google Head of Responsible Innovation. In June 2019, Gennai published a Medium blog post titled, “This is not how I expected Monday to go!” The piece was written after she returned to the US from an overseas trip, and […]
UC Berkeley SkyDeck, the startup accelerator of the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), today announced today that it is launching its fall 2020 startup cohort program with 16 tech startups from eight countries and the U.S. The new group […]
Last week, hackers stole $2.3 million from President Trump re-election funds in Wisconsin. The cyber hackers created fake invoices to look like vendors that the Wisconsin Republican Party worked with, the state’s Republican Party said on Thursday. According to a report […]
TAIA is a Slovenian-based machine translation platform that helps businesses translate their content more efficiently using artificial intelligence and experienced translators. Using its proprietary technology, TAIA fills the void between translation agencies and Google Translate to automatically translates content in a matter of minutes. Unlike Google Translate, […]
Smallholder farmers managing up to five hectares produce more than 50% of the global fruit supply1, yet agricultural workers still make up 65% of all poor working adults and many smallholder farmers suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. Fresh fruits […]
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a stunning revelation during the Section 230 hearing with big tech companies. During the questioning from lawmakers at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that a warning from the FBI on hack-and-leak operations […]
VentureIsrael announced today the launch of a new venture capital fund to invest in Israel based, early-stage deep-tech startups. The fund investment strategy focuses on the companies with clear-cut technological advantages, an experienced management team, and a flexible business strategy. […]
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and executives of Facebook, and Google found themselves in the hot seat as US Senators grilled them regarding censoring of users’ content on their platform. During the hearing, Senator Ed Markey asks Zuckerberg if he can commit […]
As the second wave of coronavirus spreads across Europe, France and the UK recorded the highest daily COVID-19 cases ever. The EU warned that some countries have worse outbreaks than during the peak in March. French President Emmanuel Macron is planning […]
