President of El Salvador says the country bought 550+ bitcoins on Monday, as the law making bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador goes into effect
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on Twitter his government bought 200 BTC on Monday, a day before the country's Bitcoin Law … Source: @nayibbukele and @nayibbukele .
ProtonMail is under fire for disclosing a French activist's IP address to Swiss authorities; ProtonMail had claimed to only log IPs in “extreme criminal cases”
ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism …
Investigation finds Facebook has over 1,000 contractors moderating WhatsApp, including private messages and media, undermining assurances of WhatsApp's privacy
When Mark Zuckerburg unveiled a new “privacy-focused vision” for Facebook in March 2019, he cited the company's global messaging service, WhatsApp, as a model.
Harvard study details how automated hiring systems, now used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies, exclude 10M+ qualified workers in the US from hiring discussions
Automated-hiring systems are excluding many people from job discussions at a time when additional employees are desperately neededSource:Harvard Business School.
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden reveals he left due to burnout, and says the industry has a sustainability problem due to rising game development costs
This week: a game about ancient history and a massive video game company investment. But first: the former boss …
Apple announces a “California Streaming” virtual event on September 14 at 10am PT, where new iPhones and Apple Watches are expected
Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Tuesday, September 14 at 10:00 a.m. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater …
Crypto adoption is accelerating in the developing world, especially in regions with a history of financial instability, like sub-Saharan Africa and Asia Pacific
In Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, a software coder bills her client in London and is paid in bitcoin …
Researchers uncover BrakTooth, 16 flaws in Bluetooth firmware in SoC boards used in billions of devices from 11 top vendors that can allow remote code execution
A team of security researchers has published details this week about a suite of 16 vulnerabilities that impact the Bluetooth software stack …Source:Singapore University of Technology and Design.
A look at Freedom Phone, a $500 device aimed at right-wing users and created by a 22-year-old bitcoin millionaire, who admitted it was made by China's Umidigi
A 22-year-old Bitcoin millionaire wants Republicans to ditch their iPhones for a low-end handset that he hopes to turn into a political tool.
Crypto exchange Bitso says it is the core service provider for El Salvador's Chivo wallet and will work with Silvergate Bank to facilitate USD transactions
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Researchers are developing “smart toilets” that can scan urine and feces samples for health data using cameras and machine learning, raising privacy concerns
Commodes that measure vital signs, screen for chronic illnesses and might even diagnose Covid-19 are in the works Tweets: @sub8u , @intellihubnews , and @martinsfp Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : ...
Analysis: mining bitcoin uses 91 TW/h of electricity annually, ~0.5% of all electricity consumed globally or 7x Google's total usage, and grew 10x in five years
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CoinGecko: Solana's SOL token has more than tripled in value over three weeks and has a $45B+ market cap, making it the seventh most valuable cryptocurrency
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Sources: Apple Watch Series 7 will be announced alongside the new iPhone, but production issues may cause the new models to ship late or in limited quantities
JD.com says founder and CEO Richard Liu will step back from day-to-day operations to focus on long-term strategy and names its first president
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal : Source: JD.Com, Inc. .
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo details plans to expand its online ad platform, focusing on consumer products, as its delivery business slows
CEO Fidji Simo is leading Instacart to expand in digital consumer-products advertising, going up against supermarkets and tech giants
Didi's ride hailing rival Cao Cao Mobility, which is owned by automaker Geely, raises ~$588M from Chinese state-owned funds; Cao Cao had 10M+ MAUs in July
it has forced all the players to cut prices” https://www.ft.com/...
Survey: 93.9% of US consumers with Apple Pay activated on their iPhones do not use it to buy items in stores, seven years after Apple launched the service
Remember this? — when Tim Cook took the stage at Apple's WWDC and introduced Apple Pay. — What the world saw …
Bangladesh's ShopUp, which aims to digitize neighborhood stores in the country, raises $75M Series B led by Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to $100M+
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US and Senegal-based Wave, which offers mobile money services, raises $200M Series A at a $1.7B valuation, led by Sequoia Heritage, a subsidiary of Sequoia
The largest Series A in Africa by a long shot is geared towards taking on telecom-led mobile money
A look at Microsoft's M12 venture arm: 107 investments in total, focused on financial returns rather than acquisitions, expansion into seed rounds, and more
From the outside, M12's mission likely seems simple to most: Invest money from the second-most valuable technology company in the world … Tweets: @crunchbasenews Tweets: @crunchbasenews : We take a lo...
A look at the growing movement of “self-hosting”, a practice where dedicated hobbyists run their own internet services at home on hardware they own
John Kehayias / VICE : Tweets: @soumyadip , @yrb1rd , @9bladed , @ow , and @milkohol Tweets: Soumyadip Choudhury / @soumyadip : A small handful of enormous companies dominate the internet as we know ...
As libraries and schools transition to e-books, the value of e-book vendors like OverDrive, which make money by licensing content to libraries, has skyrocketed
A look at the substrates that connect chips to circuit boards, and how years of underinvestment in substrate manufacturing has worsened the global chip shortage
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @whatthebit , @wsj , and @hassankhan Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : so the chip shortage is actually a substrate shortage (?) and it looks like u...
Quantum Machines, whose hardware and software help users leverage quantum computing, raises $50M Series B led by Red Dot Capital
A look at the evolution of App Store rules from 2009, when FCC investigated Apple's refusal to approve Google Voice, to the recent antitrust-related changes
Barcelona-based Factorial, which develops HR software for SMBs, raises $80M led by Tiger Global, sources say at a $530M valuation
Deep dive on AWS, with margin estimates for specific services including S3, EC2, and EBS, as AWS has made up over half of Amazon's operating profit since 2014
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UK food sharing app OLIO raises $43M Series B led by VNV Global, as it tries to tackle food waste, with Tesco adding 2.7K stores to the service in 2020
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.