Author: Tech Support

    • Check Point: DJI's website and apps had a vulnerability that would have given hackers unfettered access to a drone owner's account, including live video footage (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Check Point: DJI’s website and apps had a vulnerability that would have given hackers unfettered access to a drone owner’s account, including live video footage  —  It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps … Check Point: DJI's

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    • Netflix CCO announces plans to produce 17 original productions in Asia including shows in Chinese and Thai as it looks abroad for growth (Reuters)

    Reuters: Netflix CCO announces plans to produce 17 original productions in Asia including shows in Chinese and Thai as it looks abroad for growth  —  Jonathan Weber, Aradhana Aravindan  —  * Firm seeing quicker subscriber growth outside U.S.  —  * To make 17 more original productions in Asia Netflix CCO announces plans to produce 17

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    • Seagate will use IBM Blockchain Platform to block counterfeit drives from being distributed to users, starting with the drives intended for IBM servers (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

    Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Seagate will use IBM Blockchain Platform to block counterfeit drives from being distributed to users, starting with the drives intended for IBM servers  —  Global tech giant IBM is partnering with hardware manufacturer Seagate to ensure that computer hard drives are authentic using blockchain tech. Seagate will use IBM Blockchain Platform

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    • RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, raises $25M Series A led by Accel, with Altair Capital participating (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, raises $25M Series A led by Accel, with Altair Capital participating  —  RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, has raised $25 million in a series A round of funding led by Accel … RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform

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    • Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz with Lightspeed, Zeev, and SGVC participating (Biz Carson/Forbes)

    Biz Carson / Forbes: Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz with Lightspeed, Zeev, and SGVC participating  —  Corporate travel isn’t typically seen as a rewarding experience.  TripActions, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup now valued … Corporate travel startup TripActions raises 4M Series C at a

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    Put an ItsyBitsy Zork in your Pocket

    Before computer games had all these fancy graphics, text based games were a very popular genre. Rather than move a character on the screen, you’d type out commands for your player in sentence form which the game would interpret; decades before the “cloud” language processing technology that the likes of Amazon and Google currently use

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