Recent data suggests traditional venture capital (VC) firms are gradually starting to diversify their portfolios, investing in more cryptocurrency and blockchain projects than ever before. Not surprisingly, VC firms specializing in funding blockchain projects top the list. But traditional VC firms are slowly starting to catch up, making cryptocurrency-based investments a larger portion of their…
Project Zero researcher highlights stubborn iOS bugs as an example of why Apple and the rest of the industry needs to take a fresh approach to securing systems.
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Airbnb has canceled a contest that would’ve given winners a free one-night stay in an open-air bedroom on the Great Wall of China. Airbnb called off the event following a backlash that started on Chinese social media. The post Airbnb calls off Great Wall sleepover contest after backlash appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link…
Every company that targets foreign customers should go multilingual. Localized versions of websites are the great sources of traffic for the modern-day businesses. The post Top Reasons Why Affiliates Should Build Localized Versions of Their Sites appeared first on MonsterPost. Source link Jessica VenkatJessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for…
The Samsung Unpacked event for the unveiling of the Galaxy Note9 is today, and it takes place in New York, United States. We will cover everything you need to know, but if you want to follow the unveiling live, scroll down for the YouTube video. It goes live at at 3pm GMT / 11am EDT…
In August 2017, Icelandic online retailer Aha partnered with Israeli startup Flytrex to ferry packages from one side of Reykjavik to the other as part of a drone delivery trial. One year on, Aha and Flytrex have announced their intention to expand the service from a single flight route to 13, offering regular deliveries to…
So this is bad. Black Hat, the king of enterprise security conventions, kicked off today, and most noticeable amid the fusillade of security research was some impressive work from Ruben Santamarta of IOActive, whose team has unearthed worrying vulnerabilities in satellite communication systems, aka SATCOM, used by airplanes, ships and military units worldwide. Now, it’s…
Elon Musk, billionaire founder of Tesla, startled the Twittersphere yesterday by announcing he wanted to take the company private at the price of $420 per share. While some speculated the tweet was a joke or a marijuana reference, others took to the market. The tweet sent the stock soaring up 11 percent, causing a halt in…
To hack: to study a system’s flaws and emergent properties, and use them for your own ends; to instil your own instructions into a computer’s memory, and coerce its microprocessor to run them. To pick at the air gaps and missed stitches in the many overlapping layers of software from which our modern world is…
TaskUs, the business process outsourcing service that moderates content, annotates information and handles back office customer support for some of the world’s largest tech companies, has raised $250 million in an investment from funds managed by the New York-based private equity giant, Blackstone Group. It’s been ten years since TaskUs was founded with a $20,000 investment…
