Thought Machine, a 2014 (Xoogler) founded startup that sells cloud-based b2b banking services, has closed a $200 million Series C round and announced that it’s achieved unicorn status (aka, passing a $1BN valuation). The new funding follows an $83M Series B round last year — when it described its market cap as “increasing healthily”. The …
Fairphone is updating its 2015 Fairphone 2 with Android 10, some six years after the device was launched, a level of support for an old device that the company is claiming as a first when it comes to Android smartphones. Fairphone carved out a niche in smartphones with its eponymous, more sustainably made devices. …
As many companies push back a full return to the office because of the pandemic — and struggle to figure out just what the workplace of the near future will look like — a glut of office space continues to grow, particularly in the US. Corporate office leasing remains below pre-pandemic levels, according to Jones …
This is that time of year when people are busy looking for gifts for friends and family. Socks. After shave. Chocolates. How about giving someone a gift that will keep them and their data safe? That’s a gift that will keep giving throughout 2022 and beyond. So, how do you give someone added security, without …
Riding a scooter in Paris will soon feel incredibly… slow. The City of Paris has announced that scooter sharing services should restrict the maximum top speed to 10km/h (that’s 6.2mph). That decision comes following a number of pedestrian injuries that involved a scooter. Paris has been an important market for scooter sharing companies. It’s a …
Every company worth its weight is set on achieving practical and scalable artificial intelligence and machine learning. However, it’s all much easier said than done — to which AI leaders within some of the most information-intensive enterprises can attest. For more perspective on the challenges of building an AI-driven organization, we caught up with Jing …
Apple is now expected to introduce the first-generation of its AR/VR glasses in Q4 2022, and a report from analyst Ming-chi Kuo tells us a little more of what to expect from these things. If true, you’ll one day be wearing your Mac like sunglasses. To be fair, a lot of this we’ve heard already. …
As part of an ongoing antitrust investigation into Google’s Privacy Sandbox by the UK’s competition regulator, the adtech giant has agreed to an expanded set of commitments related to oversight of its planned migration away from tracking cookies, the regulator announced today. Google has also put out its own blog post on the revisions — …
Security researchers have discovered new remote access trojan (RAT) malware that has created an unusual new way of hiding on servers. As first reported on BleepingComputer, this new malware, dubbed CronRAT, hides in scheduled tasks on Linux servers by being set for execution on February 31, a date that doesn’t exist. ZDNet Recommends Discovered and …
Apple says its lawsuit against NSO Group this week is an attempt to hold the surveillance firm “accountable for … the surveillance and targeting of Apple users.” And it spared no ire in accusing the Israeli spyware company of its selling surveillance software to authoritarian governments — regardless of whether those governments use it to target …
Uber will halt its ride-hailing service in most of Belgium tomorrow following a court ruling Wednesday that extends a 2015 order banning its p2p UberPop service to also cover professional drivers providing its ride-hailing service. Uber told us that it is studying the detail of the ruling to decide whether to appeal the decision with …
Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek has addressed four vulnerabilities that could have allowed malicious apps to eavesdrop on Android phone users. Three the of vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-0661, CVE-2021-0662 and CVE-2021-0663, affected MediaTek’s audio digital signal processor (DSP) firmware. It’s a sensitive component that if compromised could allow attackers to spy on user conversations. Researchers at …
Apple has punched back against the “amoral” surveillance as a service industry of smartphone snoopers, filing suit against the NSO Group and its owner, Q Cyber Technologies, and taking steps to further secure digital lives. Why this should matter to your business Israeli firm NSO Group is a spyware firm that provides surveillance services to governments. It effectively …
The first electric Hummers will be making their way to their new owners this holiday season. According to Autoblog, GMC boss Duncan Aldred has announced that deliveries of the Hummer Edition 1 — the all-electric truck variant that’ll set buyers back over $112,000 — begin in December. The conference has also revealed that Edition 1 …
IT leaders fear their departments don’t have the necessary skills to keep up with digital transformation. Image: 10’000 Hours / GETTY One in five IT decision makers have little or no confidence in their teams’ ability to bring about positive change in the IT department over the next five years, according to research. A survey …