Benchmarks results have been driving the smartphone industry for quite some time. Manufacturers try to impress customers and each other with higher and higher results, leading to tampering with the outcome in order to look favorable in the eyes of the users. In a conversation at IFA 2018 in Berlin with Anandtech, Huawei official confirmed…
IBM has brought its Blockchain World Wire (BWW) payment network out of beta testing and officially announced it to the world. The computing services giant says that World Wire uses the Stellar blockchain to clear and settle international payments between banks in “near real-time”, via a mutually agreed digital currency. Using the new system, two…
McCarthyFinch sounds a bit like a law firm — and with good reason. The startup has developed an AI as a Service platform aimed at the legal profession. This week, it’s competing in the 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco. The company began life as a project at a leading New Zealand law firm,…
America may have created AI, but China is taking the ball and running when it comes to one of the world’s most pivotal technology innovations. That’s according to Kaifu Lee, a world-renowned AI expert who founded Sinovation, a China-U.S. fund that raised its fourth fund worth $1 billion earlier this year. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt…
Challenger bank N26 is launching a premium plan for professional accounts. N26 already had a free plan for freelancers and self-employed called N26 Business. N26 Business Black introduces the same perks as N26 Black, but for freelancers and self-employed. The new plan costs the same for regular users and business users. The company recently raised…
Never has it been so clear that the attorneys charged with enforcing the laws of the country have a complete disregard for the very laws they’re meant to enforce. As executives of Twitter and Facebook took to the floor of the Senate to testify about their companies’ response to international meddling into U.S. elections and…
D-ID, the company developing software to scramble facial recognition technologies, has signed its first customers and launched its initial product onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The culmination of an idea that was fourteen years in the making, D-ID’s technology is being sold as both a service and as an enterprise software solution on-premise for…
Hot on the heels of Nikon’s first full-frame mirrorless cameras, Canon is announcing its own: the EOS R. After releasing half-baked mirrorless products through its EOS M line – likely in an attempt to avoid cannibalizing its DSLR sales – the company appears to be embracing the format in its entirety. The EOS R is…
The Iran-linked group is using a variant of the data-exfiltration OopsIE trojan to attack a Mideast government entity.
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Our increasingly connected, always-on world has changed the way we manage most aspects of our lives. It’s not just our cellphone, computer, or tablet that transmits data anymore. Smartwatches, thermostats, refrigerators, televisions, and more are contributing to the rapid growth of the IoT (Internet of Things) even at home. This connectivity and functionality have provided…
