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Itai Damti co-founded Unit in 2019 to help businesses integrate banking services into their consumer products. In 2020, Emmalyn Shaw, as Flourish’s managing partner, invested in Unit’s Series A round, and later, in the company’s B round. We’re excited to host both of them on an episode of TechCrunch Live taking place on February 16 […]
Itai Damti co-founded Unit in 2019 to help businesses integrate banking services into their consumer products. In 2020, Emmalyn Shaw, as Flourish’s managing partner, invested in Unit’s Series A round, and later, in the company’s B round. We’re excited to host both of them on an episode of TechCrunch Live taking place on February 16 […]
Itai Damti co-founded Unit in 2019 to help businesses integrate banking services into their consumer products. In 2020, Emmalyn Shaw, as Flourish’s managing partner, invested in Unit’s Series A round, and later, in the company’s B round. We’re excited to host both of them on an episode of TechCrunch Live taking place on February 16 […]
Cryptocurrency has always been prone to theft. Blockchain bridges heighten the risks.
News Corp said data was taken during the cyberattack.
The Alpha-Omega Project will improve open-source software’s security. While it’s a good start, it may not be enough.
It’s kind of a broken record at this point, but the cloud infrastructure market continues to grow at an astonishing rate. Over the last year, it added almost $50 billion in business, growing from $129 billion in 2020 to $178 billion last year, according to Synergy Research data. Canalys reports similar numbers. As for the […]
News Corp says it was the target of a cyberattack that impacted The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Dow Jones, its UK news operations and other publications and business units. The company says hackers accessed the emails and documents of some employees, including journalists. A cybersecurity consultant News Corp brought in believes that China was connected to the intrusion, and that the aim of the attack may have been to gather intelligence for the country’s benefit.
The attack was discovered on January 20th and News Corp disclosed it in a securities filing on Friday. It also informed law enforcement. According to The Journal, the company told staff the threat appears to have been contained and that it’s offering support to affected employees. It doesn’t appear that systems containing financial and customer data (including details on subscribers) were affected.
It’s not the first time The Journal has been the target of a cyberattack. The publication said Chinese hackers aiming to keep tabs on coverage of the country accessed its network in 2013 to snoop on reporters.
This week, FBI director Christopher Wray said China is behind a “massive, sophisticated hacking program that is bigger than those of every other major nation combined.” Wray noted the agency has more than 2,000 investigations in progress connected to thefts of US tech or information that were allegedly orchestrated by the Chinese government. On average, the FBI opens two such probes every day.
Tax season can be an overwhelming time for many people. However, finding the best tax preparation service can help lighten the burden.
The Space Race is no longer a competition between the global superpowers of the world — at least not the nation-states that once vied to be first to the Moon. Today, low Earth orbit is the battleground for private conglomerates and the billionaires that helm them. With the Mir Space Station having deorbited in 2001 after 15 years of service and the ISS scheduled for retirement by the end of the decade, tomorrow’s space stations are very likely to be owned and operated by companies, not countries. In fact, the handover has already begun.
“We are not ready for what comes after the International Space Station,” then-NASA-administrator Jim Bridenstine explained at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee in October. “Building a space station takes a long time, especially when you’re doing it in a way that’s never been done before.”
If fractured databases have ever created a headache for your business, Ditto may have the offline syncing tool you’ve been looking for.
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The hacker that made off with millions from blockchain bridge service Wormhole exploited an incredibly common coding error that could be lurking in anyone’s software.
The post What your organization can learn from the $324 million Wormhole blockchain h…
The magic in Ghostwire: Tokyo is fat and tangible, glowing between Akito’s palms and streaming from his fingertips in sturdy golden ropes, binding enemies to one another before exploding them into pieces. From a first-person perspective, Akito rapidly contorts his hands into a series of precise shapes, forming orbs of elemental energy and supernatural strings before unleashing their power on the ghosts and demons sauntering along the streets of Tokyo. Magic isn’t the only weapon at Akito’s disposal, but it’s certainly the most stylish one.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We had the full crew aboard today, headed by our killer production team Grace and Chris, and hosting crew Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex. Last week we promised Cute Farming Robots, and this week we delivered, along with a lot more. […]
In an exclusive interview with ZDNet, co-founder Tom Okman shares his five-year plan to make Nord Security – formerly known as NordSec – synonymous with digital privacy and cybersecurity.
Google, Acer and Lenovo release guides and repair manuals to help IT admins in education fix devices themselves.
With over 100 channels, YouTube TV offers more of the most popular channels than its competitors. By CNET’s count, out of the top 100 networks, YouTube TV offers the most channels, 78, of any streaming service.
YouTube TV enables you to watch your…
Microsoft calls on customers to enable multi-factor authentication as it blocks billions of phishing email and password attacks.
Another Sundance Film Festival has come and gone, and with it we’ve gotten a close look at some of the films and interactive experiences that’ll be the talk of 2022. After Yang, the profound story of a family dealing with the loss of their beloved android, has all the makings of an awards contender. And we have a feeling we’ll be hearing more about We Met in Virtual Reality once it’s released, as it manages to capture some moving portraits of relationships formed over VRChat.
Worthwhile Apple Watch deals can be hard to come by, and even more difficult if you’re set on a specific size and color. Amazon has a slew of sales going on right now, some of which knock up to $60 off Series 7 models. The 45mm GPS Series 7 in midnight has that precise discount, bringing it down to a record low of $370. Numerous colors of the 41mm GPS Series 7 are down to $350, which is $50 less than usual and only $10 more than the all-time-low price. Finally, those that want cellular connectivity can get it by opting for the 41mm GPS + Cellular Watch, which is $50 off and down to $449 in a bunch of colors.
Buy Series 7 (45mm, midnight) at Amazon – $370Buy Series 7 (41mm) at Amazon – $350Buy Series 7 (41mm, GPS + Cellular) at Amazon – $449
This is the latest flagship wearable from Apple and we gave it a score of 90 when it came out last October. If you’re familiar with the Apple Watch, you’ll notice that there’s nothing starkly different about the Series 7 in its design. The biggest thing is its larger display, which is 20 percent bigger than that of the Series 6. Apple whittled down the bezels to only 1.7mm, so you’ll get a bit more screen area to play with and you may even notice that text on the Watch is easier to read on the Series 7 because of this.
Other noteworthy changes are all under the hood. The Series 7 has a new SiP and performs just as well as the Series 6 did, plus it supports faster charging. The new charging pad that comes with the Series 7 helps it power up 10 percent in 10 minutes, and we reached 100 percent in under an hour of charging in our testing. This will come in handy if you plan on using the Watch to track sleep overnight and need more juice in the morning before heading out for the day.
Apple didn’t reinvent its Watch with the Series 7, but thanks to those small hardware features and improvements made in watchOS 8, it’ll feel like an upgrade for anyone coming from an older Watch. And if you’re new to the Apple Watch, the Series 7 is the model to get if you want all of the features watchOS has to offer. If your budget is tight and you’re willing to sacrifice some features, namely an always-on display and an ECG sensor, the Apple Watch SE could do the trick and it’s also on sale for $249 right now.
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In its press release for its fourth quarter 2021 financial results, Activision Blizzard has revealed that it has plans to release Warcraft for mobile sometime this year. Company CEO Bobby Kotick told investors a year ago that the developer made “multiple, mobile, free-to-play Warcraft experiences” that were already in advanced development back then. Blizzard has yet to reveal more detailed information about the games and a more concrete timeline, so it’s unclear if its release plans include all those experiences or just few.
The only part of the company’s earnings results that mentions the franchise on mobile reads:
“Blizzard is planning substantial new content for the Warcraft franchise in 2022, including new experiences in World of Warcraft and Hearthstone, and getting all-new mobile Warcraft content into players’ hands for the first time.”
There have been rumors about a Warcraft mobile game since at least 2017. In 2018, reports came out that Blizzard was working on a mobile entry for the franchise that will be similar to Pokémon Go, which presumably means that it’s an augmented reality title. According to a Kotaku report, it was being developed by an “incubation” team that was formed when co-founder Allen Adham returned to the company 2016. The team was also behind mobile game Diablo Immortal that’s coming out this year, as well.
Coined in late 2019 by Neil MacDonald and Joe Skorupa of Gartner®, SASE (secure access service edge) describes a strategy that converges cybersecurity and WAN edge networking to address challenges that organizations are facing now. Specifically, organ…
This week, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with Senior Editor Jessica Conditt about Sony’s surprising $3.6 billion Bungie acquisition. It’s too soon for it to be a direct response to the Microsoft/Activision deal, but clearly Sony sees the need for new blood. Also, they dive into Spotify’s weak response to protests around the Joe Rogan podcast. Should Spotify be using a stronger editorial hand? And yes, they discuss the whole New York Times/Wordle acquisition too.
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In-car charging has never been better.
Multi-factor authentication makes it more difficult for accounts to be hacked – but cyber criminals are persistent and are turning to new means to gain access to accounts.