Sources: US Cyber Command is deploying offensive malware in Russia's power grid, using powers granted in 2018 by Congress and a secret presidential directive
WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin …
NIST study: a widespread GPS outage would have an estimated $1B/day impact on the US economy; 90% of GPS' financial impact has come since 2010
90 percent of the technology's financial impact has come since just 2010. — Since becoming fully operational in 1995, Global Positioning System technology …
Genius claims it has irrefutable proof of Google lifting song lyrics, displayed in search results, from Genius.com; Google says it licenses lyrics from others
Genius Media says it can prove lyrics from its site are appearing in Google search information panels— by examining the apostrophes
The “Amazon's Choice” label seems to imply curation, but it's awarded to listings by an algorithm, and some of the products have defects and manipulated reviews
When you're looking at a search result with hundreds of options on Amazon, the “Amazon's Choice” label may give you a sense of relief.
Survey of 34K+ LGBTQ+ youth across the US: 76% prefer to seek mental help by text or chat; 81% say having a safe social networking space online is very valuable
THE KIDS ARE not all right. Almost 40 percent of young people between the ages of 13 and 24 who identify as LGBTQ+ have seriously considered suicide in the last year. Tweets: @wired , @wired , @natio...
SoftBank is leading a $300M investment in Gympass, a fitness app giving employees at 2,000+ companies access to ~47K partner gyms worldwide, at a $1B+ valuation
- Brazilian fitness startup makes gym workouts more accessible — SoftBank wants to build global champions out of Latin America
Jack Dorsey on plans to hire a team of five engineers and one designer, reporting directly to him at Square, to work on contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem
NO JERKS ALLOWED. — Square is a company best known for its disruptive card payment technology.
Square competitor SpotOn, which offers merchant services such as payment processing and customer engagement tools, raises $40M to help its market expansion
If you recently bought something from a local business, you may have SpotOn to thank for the transaction.
Twitter says its official app will return to the Mac by using its existing iOS codebase through Project Catalyst, with full feature parity with other platforms
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Farming-as-a-service startup Infarm raises $100M Series B for its remotely operated modular farms placed in grocery stores, restaurants, other urban locations
Infarm, the Berlin-based startup that has developed vertical farming tech for grocery stores and restaurants, is disclosing $100 million in in Series B investment. Tweets: @balderton and @tomfgoodwin ...
Developers say they have mixed feelings about the “Sign In With Apple” button and Apple's decision to make it mandatory for apps with other sign-in systems
Remembering Gabriele Grunewald, Who Ran For Herself and Others — The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist Tweets: @itsmccants and @ultratiem Tweets: John McCants / @itsmccants : @Techme...
Edge Case Research, which is developing AI-based safety assessment tech for autonomous vehicles, raises $7M seed round led by Aurora CEO Chris Urmson and ANSYS
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Sources: as Stellar and others refused to partner and MobileCoin refused to sell, Facebook hired several dozen blockchain experts for several million/year each
Here's Everything You Need to Know ETHNews : Insiders Provide Realistic Timeline For Facebook's Crypto Project Tweets: Temtum / @wearetemtum : According to The Block, Facebook are set to launch the li...
ADDI, a Colombia-based point-of-sale lending startup, reveals it had raised $12.5M Series A from a16z in April, following $3.8M in seed rounds since Sept. 2018
Andreessen Horowitz <3 Latin American startups. — Latin America is the only region outside of the U.S. where the venture firm …
Waterdrop, a Tencent-backed Chinese online health care platform, raises a Series C of over $145M led by private equity firm Boyu Capital
Funding will go toward building a professional team in health care insurance and adopting AI in its products China is home to the world's third largest insurance market … Tweets: @rahul_j_mathur Tweet...
Paris-based video game developer Novaquark, which had raised $11.4M on Kickstarter in 2018 for its Dual Universe MMO game, has raised $11.2M in VC funding
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Wyoming's laws exempting some digital tokens from state securities rules, and cryptocurrency from state property taxes, spawned dozens of crypto LLCs there
exempting crytpo from state property taxes, allowing banks to hold digital assets—to bring blockchain entrepreneurs to the state. @GregoryJBarber https://www.wired.com/...
20 years since children's online protection law COPPA was passed, it has been weakened by court rulings, uneven enforcement, and relentless technological change
Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Tweets: @geoffreyfowler and @byheatherlong See also Mediagazer Tweets: Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : How does YouTube get around a law aimed at protecting k...
Alibaba partners with Audi, Renault, and Honda to offer a range of in-car voice services like finding restaurants using its AI platform Tmall Genie Auto
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The holding company that owns the dating apps Bumble, Lumen, and Chappy has been renamed as Magic Lab, says it will spend $100M on an array of new dating apps
$1.7 billion+. Bumble? 500 million+. https://www.wsj.com/... @wsj : “We're looking for the big, big monsters who can partner with me,” says the billionaire founder behind Bumble and other niche dating...
Lemonade, the digital insurance company that has raised $480M, is expanding into Europe, with its first launch in Germany
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Scoutbee, which develops and sells access to an AI-driven supplier discovery platform, raises $12M Series A, says its marketplace has more than 9.5M suppliers
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