Enterprise cloud giant Cloudera has pulled several of its cloud storage servers offline, despite initially claiming the servers were “open by design,” after a security researcher found sensitive internal files…
A new Philosopher AI could help you find meaning in a meaningless world — as long as you don’t ask it any controversial questions. The system provides musings on subjects…
Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging with special-purpose acquisition company Gores Metropoulos Inc., with a…
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Yac, the digital voice messaging service that launched last year, has raised new money from the Slack Fund as it continues to gain ground among companies looking to give their…
I’m sure you’ve played Google Chrome‘s hidden dinosaur game — but never with a bunch of guns and performance-enhancing drugs involved. Enter Dino Swords, an outlandish mod of the popular…
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Zoom says it’s having an outage. Perfect timing to help you avoid your Monday morning meeting. The video calling giant said it’s “received reports of users being unable to visit…
Despite there being an ever-growing choice of EVs on the market, in South Korea just two vehicles dominate the market. According to figures from EV Volumes, compiled by Clean Technica,…
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On April 7, Square (and Twitter) CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was setting up a charitable fund to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. His goal was to mitigate its social and economic impact…
In 2010, TV show host Conan O’Brien was abruptly asked to give up the time slot he’d been handed just six months earlier by his longtime employer NBC. Instead, he…
A program that can automate website development. A bot that writes letters on behalf of nature. An AI-written blog that trended on Hacker News. Those are just some of the…
After being handed a temporary reprieve last week, Uber and Lyft are allowed to continue operating in California, but the companies are running out of options. With every failed legal…
SugarCRM announced this morning it has acquired customer intelligence startup, Node. The companies did not reveal the purchase price, but the deal has closed. While Sugar gains a ton of…
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The difficulty many people have getting tested for SARS-CoV-2 and delays in receiving test results make early warning of possible COVID-19 infections all the more important, and data from wearable…
It’s no secret that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees TikTok as a threat. On several occasions, he has brought up TikTok‘s data collection and censorship policies to point out that…
In day-to-day life, you probably haven’t had someone yell at you, “Get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich!” If you’re a woman who plays online video games,…
Still working to turn a profit and shake off its fake-goods reputation, China’s e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo set itself another ambitious goal for 2025: surpass 1 trillion yuan or $145 billion…
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LiDAR, a combination of the words light and radar, is a type of sensor technology that’s popular among some self-driving car companies for real-time mapping. But so far, the tech…
An unsecured server of the Indian ticket platform RailYatri exposed the personal information of over 700,000 passengers. The details in the database included full names, phone numbers, addresses, email IDs, ticket booking details,…
Popular short video app TikTok is aiming to take legal action against US President Donald Trump over the app’s potential ban. Earlier this month, Trump issued an executive order that…
Twitter flagged one of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Monday, placing it behind a notice that warns users it violates the platform’s rules against dissuading people from voting. In the…
Jimmy Qian and Lucia Huang, the co-founders of a new clinical practice management and data analysis platform for mental health providers focusing on cutting edge psychedelic treatments, met at Stanford…
Lockdowns across Europe to curb the coronavirus pandemic drastically changed how we move around the world. Work-from-home restrictions, furlough schemes, and job losses left millions of cars gathering dust in…
If you were to stack up all the electronic waste produced annually around the world it would weigh as much as all the commercial aircrafts ever produced, or 5,000 Eiffel…
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The public markets are staying receptive to tech IPOs, and tech unicorns are trying to recover from pandemic damage, polish up their financials, and head back towards the starting gates.…
Though asthma affects almost 340 million people worldwide, there is still no cure. The respiratory disease frequently develops in childhood and can cause asthma “attacks” where the lungs become inflamed…
Amit Garg and Sanjay Rao have spent the bulk of their professional lives developing technology, founding startups and investing in startups at places like Google and Microsoft, HealthIQ, and Norwest…
Apple’s a hard company to like these days. Their glory days behind them, they have relentlessly pursued a misguided concept of optimization that has alienated their user base and compromised…
Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic computer, cracking…
Edtech’s reputation has been revitalized due to the coronavirus pandemic, which forced millions of students to adopt remote education overnight. But behind the scramble is a crop of investors who…