Lauren Feiner / CNBC: FTC bans “stalkerware” company Support King, whose Android app allegedly secretly harvested users’ location and other data, from the surveillance business — – The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to ban what it called a “stalkerware app company” and its CEO …
Read MoreImage: Starship Technologies Crossing city streets filled with SUV drivers in a hurry is tricky for any pedestrian, but what about a robot that’s less than two feet tall? Starship Technologies is flooding college towns with autonomous electric delivery bots that trundle goods to your location in their locked storage compartment. While the safety of
Read MorePhoto by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Richard Branson’s July flight to the edge of space is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration for veering out of its designated airspace mid-flight, the FAA said on Wednesday after a report from The New Yorker. The mission’s two pilots were alerted to yellow and red
Read MoreHannah Miller / The Information: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says Binance.US is set to close a large private fundraising round in the next two months, and could go public in the next three years — Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has run into a stream of regulatory and legal problems.
Read MoreThe Windows Insider program is usually a good way to see what’s next in the world of Microsoft’s ubiquitous operating system…unless you’re trying to run Windows 11 without the right hardware. As the October launch date for Windows 11 grows closer, Microsoft is standing firm on the new software’s spec requirements. In fact, anyone running
Read MoreThe growth of technology and innovation expands opportunities for making profits. According to Alex O’Byrne of We Make Websites, the pandemic has caused websites to “become the primary purchase path for many brands—rather than a secondary or alternative method to in-store.” The alternative method to in-store methods means merchants need to improve their online retail
Read MoreDoes this sound familiar? An app goes viral on social media, often including TikTok, then immediately climbs to the top of the App Store where it gains even more new installs thanks to the heightened exposure. That’s what happened with the recent No. 1 on the U.S. App Store, Fontmaker, a subscription-based fonts app which
Read MoreScreenshots of Facebook’s fantasy sports. | Image: Facebook Facebook is adding fantasy sports-like prediction games that will let users guess what’s going to happen in sports, TV shows, and pop culture. The new games, called Facebook Fantasy Games, are rolling out first on the iOS and Android apps for users in the US and Canada.
Read MoreMark McClain Contributor Share on Twitter Mark McClain is the founder and CEO of SailPoint, the leader in cloud enterprise security. You’ve heard the phrase “leading by example,” but what about “leading with values”? I’ve always led by example by using my values as my guide. Still, it wasn’t until I founded my first company
Read MoreJonathan Greig / ZDNet: Asana beats in Q2 with revenue of $89.5M, up 72% YoY, net loss of $68.4M, up from $41.1M last year, and says it has over 107K paying customers — Asana brought in a revenue of $89.5 million in Q2, an increase of 72% year over year. — Team management software provider
Read MoreABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox have secured a victory in their legal fight against Locast, a nonprofit that re-streams their local broadcast stations at little to no cost, much to the consternation of those networks. Locast is a service that makes local broadcasts free — kind of, we’ll get to that — to those who
Read MoreDavid McLaughlin / Bloomberg: Source: the DOJ is preparing to file a second antitrust lawsuit against Google by the end of this year, targeting Google’s digital ads business — U.S. antitrust officials are preparing a second monopoly lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google over the company’s digital advertising business …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 2021 has been a big year for lossless music now that Apple has gone in on the higher-quality streaming and Amazon is no longer charging an added premium for it. But one of the main challenges confronting lossless audio is how to play it wirelessly (at full fidelity)
Read MoreMakena Kelly / The Verge: TX State Senate passes bill banning social media companies with 50M+ users from censoring users’ political views; Gov. Abbott is expected to sign it into law — But experts argue it’s unconstitutional — Texas is one step closer to enacting a law that would make it more difficult …
Read MoreAs part of our investigation into the consumer SSD market, we’ve reached out to multiple manufacturers to better understand the practice of shipping different versions of an SSD under the same SKU. Over the past 10 days, we’ve learned that at least four manufacturers — Western Digital, Samsung, Crucial, and Adata — have engaged in
Read MoreWe’re used by now to many of the more capable microcontrollers and systems-on-chip that we use having an ARM core at their heart. From its relatively humble beginings in a 1980s British home computer, the RISC processor architecture from Cambridge has transformed itself into the go-to power-sipping yet powerful core for manufacturers far and wide.
Read MoreEarlier this week, we reported that ARM China had seized IP belonging to ARM, its parent company. The author of the story we linked apparently did not fully understand the context of the situation, however, and we inadvertently magnified an article with some misapprehensions in it. We have spoken to ARM and done some follow-up
Read MoreWhat you need to know Beats By Dre has signed Shedeur Sanders as its first college athlete brand ambassador. Sanders says that it is “really exciting” to have a company like Beats behind him. Beats is moving into the college arena. Beats By Dre has found its first college brand ambassador. The company, which is
Read MorePhoto by Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images As Congress pushes for more details of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, tech companies have found themselves caught between a new request from the select committee investigating the attack and ominous threats from Republicans hoping to stall the committee’s investigation. Pushing for new
Read MorePeter Beck hasn’t been shy about his intention to grow Rocket Lab into more than just a launch provider, but a fully vertically integrated space company that makes spacecraft in addition to sending them to orbit. The company, which he founded in 2006, has taken yet another major stride toward that goal with the news
Read MoreWhat you need to know Two of Apple’s self-driving cars have been in minor accidents in August. Both accidents were not the fault of Apple’s cars. It is the first time in two years that one of the cars was involved in an accident. I wonder if Elon was behind the wheel of that Subaru.
Read MoreBright Cellars, a six-year-old, Milwaukee, Wis.-based subscription-based wine seller has, like many upstarts, evolved over time. While it once sent its club members third-party wines that fit their particular profiles, Bright Cellars says it’s now amassing enough data about its customers through its “palate” quizzes that it no longer sells wines made by other brands.
Read MoreDieter Bohn / The Verge: Amazon says it will stop showing autocomplete search suggestions for horse de-worming drug ivermectin; the drug remains easy to purchase on the site — Amazon claims it will fix autocomplete search suggestions — Earlier this week, I started a search on Amazon and mistyped, entering just two letters in: “iv.”
Read MoreFew people thought of virtual events before the pandemic struck, but this format has fulfilled a unique and important need for companies and organizations large and small during the pandemic. But what will virtual events’ value be as more of the world attempts to return to life before COVID-19? To find out, we caught up
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is asking all of its employees in the United States to disclose if they are vaccinated against COVID-19. The company says that the request is voluntary. Apple is inching closer to a vaccine mandate. Apple is asking that all of its employees tell the company whether or not they
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