Researchers say they have been able to store the digital data of thumbnail-sized images on molecules smaller than DNA and retrieve it with ~99% accuracy
DNA isn't the only molecule we could use for digital storage. It turns out that solutions containing sugars, amino acids and other small molecules could replace hard drives too.
7-Eleven Japan shut down its 7Pay mobile payment app two days after launch after hackers reset passwords for ~900 accounts and made ~$500K in illegal charges
Hackers exploit 7-Eleven's poorly designed password reset function to make unwanted charges on 900 customers' accounts.
A look at the growing demand for screen time consultants, parenting coaches getting paid up to $250/hour to help parents wean their kids off devices
Screen consultants are here to help you remember life before smartphones and tablets. (Spoiler: get a dog!)
Comscore report: in March, 69.9M US homes had DVRs and 64.1M had smart TVs; monthly viewing hours on smart TVs hit 5.5B, vs. 4.6B for DVRs
Among the many positive indicators for OTT in Comscore's newly released 2019 “The State of OTT” report is the platform's imminent surpassing of DVR tech.
Source: CFIUS has cleared SoftBank's $2.25B investment in GM's Cruise after fresh assurances that Cruise's technology would be completely off limits to SoftBank
(Reuters) - Cruise, a U.S. self-driving vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors Co, told Reuters on Friday …
A list of Amazon's known businesses, subsidiaries, and brands, including some that have been discontinued or absorbed into other services
Everything about Amazon in 2019 is inconceivably big: Amazon will make up an estimated 38% of the US e-commerce market this year …
Some creators are posting apologies for bad behavior on alternate platforms, letting them acknowledge issues without damaging their main channels
Creators have perfected the inauthentic public apology — When Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm released a statement apologizing for his behavior …
How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest on July 1
Crowd estimates for Hong Kong's large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. The organizers and the police often release vastly divergent estimates.
B2B ecommerce marketplace IndiaMART closed up 34% on its first day of trading in India on Thursday, after raising ~$70M at a valuation of ~$400M in its IPO
Shares of ecommerce company IndiaMART rose 25 per cent from their issue price on their Thursday debut in what marked the end …
Google Play app called “Updates for Samsung”, with 10M+ installs and no affiliation with Samsung, tricks users into paying $35/year to download firmware updates
from a blog to an Android advertisement revenue goldmine of 10,000,000+ users, https://medium.com/... @Android @Google @malware
Experts worry that the upcoming US Census, the first to incorporate digital methods, could fall victim to disinformation campaigns, glitches, and hacking
The government plans to deploy new technology for next year's head count, but risks abound. — In the run-up to the 2020 census …
Ola says it has received a private hire vehicle license from Transport for London and plans to launch its ride-hailing service in the city in September
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Antwerp-based Unifly raises €17 million Series B for its software that enables drone tracking and management alongside commercial aviation traffic
Mary Loritz / EU-Startups :
Inside Facebook's elite “info ops” team, created in 2017 to respond to co-ordinated disinformation campaigns, often from state actors like Russia's IRA
Among the thousands of staff at Facebook, there is one group that talks about the company not as a social network, but as a battlefield. Tweets: @donie and @hughmason Tweets: Donie O'Sullivan / @donie...
Profile of Omio, formerly GoEuro, a Berlin-based website and app for booking travel across Europe that has raised nearly $300M in VC funding
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PwC: global podcast ad revenue to pass $1B by the end of 2019 and hit $1.4B by 2023, in part due to the advent of programmatic ads in podcasts
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing :
New Hampshire-based Appcast, which makes programmatic job advertising tech, has sold an 85% stake of itself to Axel Springer's StepStone job portal for ~$79M
John Lippman / Valley News :
Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the ability to regulate the technology to prevent 24-hour real-time surveillance
Christopher Beam / MIT Technology Review :
Japan-based Tier IV raises $100M+ Series A for its Autoware open-source self-driving software which, it says, is used by 200 organizations around the world
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Baidu says its DuerOS AI assistant install base has passed 400M devices and voice queries topped 3.6B; DuerOS was installed on 150M devices last November
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace files for IPO, posts $431M revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 8% YoY, and a net loss of $116M
Benjamin Pimentel / Business Insider :
TrapX, which makes tools to thwart cyberattacks in real time via decoy databases and workstations, raises $18M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$50M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.