GoDaddy confirms some of its staff fell for a social engineering scam, after hackers changed the email and DNS records for a number of crypto trading platforms
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week.
Craig Federighi, Johny Srouji, and Greg Joswiak on how Apple designed M1, the importance of UMA, non-linear increase in performance at higher power levels, more
but there's a catch Jim Salter / Ars Technica : Benchmarking M1-native version of Google's Chrome browser Joe Wituschek / iMore : Apple executives talk the advent of the M1 chip and what it means for ...
Critics of Coupang, South Korea's online retail giant, describe the COVID-19 outbreak at a warehouse as an inevitable outcome of putting efficiency over safety
South Korea's Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.
A look at Google Pay redesign as an all-encompassing money app with P2P payments, personal finance insights, deals, and banking services, rolling out in the US
Today, Google Pay for both Android and iOS is relaunching with a giant array of new features.
A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US
At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs. Tweets: @alexismadrigal , @armstrongdr...
Teachers say they are spending hours reviewing tests that were scored incorrectly by auto-grading bots, which try to match a student's response to an answer key
Auto-grading software often marks answers incorrect when they are right, giving teachers and families more remote-school headaches Tweets: @sub8u , @hypervisible , @brittanystoroz , @wsj , and @mims T...
A year in, Stadia's free-to-play and added phone support are great, but it needs a successful Cyberpunk 2077 launch to be seen as a true console alternative
Firing up a big-budget modern video game inside a Chrome browser window for the first time feels like you're tapping into some arcane magic …
Twitter says it will transfer @POTUS to Joe Biden when he is sworn in as president, along with other official accounts; Facebook says it will do the same
which allows rule-breaking tweets to remain up, with warning labels — the moment that Biden is sworn in to office.” https://twitter.com/... Alex Howard / @digiphile : Good to know. We haven't heard an...
Inside YouTube Music's plans to compete with Spotify and others by putting the entire music business, including livestreams and tickets, onto a single platform
For the last eight months, musicians and bands haven't been able to tour, play festivals or go much of anywhere. Tweets: @sarthakgh , @martinsfp , @protocol , and @nealmohan See also Mediagazer Tweets...
Apple Support page says the company is working with Microsoft on adding support for Xbox Series X controller to Apple devices
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors :
Fourteen states and DC released their contact tracing apps so far, with CA and others to follow, but adoption has been uneven due to politicization of COVID-19
Exposure notification technology, now available to more Americans, shows promise — Covid-19 contact-tracing apps from Apple Inc …
Profile of Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, who is fighting lawsuits that accuse him of fraud and misappropriation of funds at previous business ventures
The $4 billion fintech startup is hurtling towards an IPO. But its volatile leader is fighting multiple lawsuits that could complicate his ambitions. Tweets: @forbes , @forbes , @edzitron , @noah_kir...
A look at the growing world of virtual HQs on services like Branch, Gather, and Huddle, which are using spatial tech to create a metaverse dedicated to work
‘The future of transportation is no transportation’ — In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world's last dance with spontaneity. Tweets: @nmasc_ , @siliconallee , @rossdawson , @azeem , @drorpo...
Experts say AI-based apps like qXR, which help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis early, could make an enormous impact on the control of the disease in India
In rural India and other places where tuberculosis is rampant, A.I. that scans lung X-rays might eliminate the scourge. Tweets: @erictopol , @rinachandran , @nythealth , @nythealth , @juneymb , and @p...
a16z closes two new funds totaling $4.5B, focused on early and later-stage investments, bringing total assets under management to $16.5B
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Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with $19M in funding
Canvas, a company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites, emerged from stealth today.
ClosedLoop.ai, which is developing AI-based tools to help hospitals predict factors like patient readmission and appointment cancellations, raises $11M Series A
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
Zillow usage since March is up 50%+ YoY, as surfing real estate listings on home buying websites becomes a form of escapism amid the pandemic
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times : Tweets: @adrianachavira , @peterwsinger , @westcoastbill , @taylrn , @menendezrand , @marybschneider , and @taylorlorenz Tweets: Adriana Chavira / @adrianachavira : I...
CAIS, an alternative investment service that also offers an AI-powered training system for independent financial advisors, raises $50M Series B from Eldridge
Report: in the Middle East, $704M was invested across 564 different startups in 2019, compared to only $15M in five venture deals in 2009
Damian Radcliffe / ZDNet :
LA-based Credit Key, which offers a B2B buy-now, pay-later service for e-commerce merchants, raises $33.85M Series A from Greycroft, Bonfire Ventures, others
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Google is loosening control over its Chromium project, welcoming a new outside dev into leadership, granting community access to its software development system
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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.