Another fintech startup has made the leap into publicly-traded company: Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer lending platform for small and medium businesses that was originally founded in the UK, opened for trading today on the London Stock Exchange. It was a positive, if not stratospheric, debut. Trading under FNIG.L, its stock opened at 460 pence, only…
Another fintech startup has made the leap into publicly-traded company: Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer lending platform for small and medium businesses that was originally founded in the UK, opened for trading today on the London Stock Exchange. It was a positive, if not stratospheric, debut. Trading under FNIG.L, its stock opened at 460 pence, only…
Lyft has released its second annual diversity report outlining the gender and racial breakdown of its 4,000-person workforce. At a glance, little has changed from last year’s report, which was the first time the $15 billion ride-hailing company disclosed its diversity stats. Forty percent of Lyft’s workforce is female, a slight decrease from last year’s 42 percent,…
The most actively used Ethereum ETH decentralized app (dApp) 333ETH has just been labelled an “active scam” and blacklisted by popular cryptocurrency wallet MetaMask. When MetaMask users head to the 333ETH website, their browser will greet them with a message warning them the app could compromise their security. 333ETH – which currently stands as the…
A cybersecurity researcher with Google Project Zero has released the details, and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a high severity vulnerability that exists in Linux kernel since kernel version 3.16 through 4.18.8. Discovered by white hat hacker Jann Horn, the kernel vulnerability (CVE-2018-17182) is a cache invalidation bug in the Linux memory management subsystem that…
American drivers like Advanced Driver Assist Systems but don’t understand ADAS limitations says a new AAA study. An American Automobile Association survey found significant percentages of drivers rely too much on driver assist features. The post Car owners have too much faith in advanced driver assistance aids, AAA says appeared first on Digital Trends. Source…
No ratings yet. Are you new to web design? Are you creating web projects for yourself or other people? You will, no doubt, get to work on website user experience and login or registration forms in particular. In this article, we will explore why your website needs such a form, what it should look like,…
Red opened pre-orders for a smartphone built by the high-end camera manufacturer over a year ago and those who plopped down $1,600 for the highest-tier Titanium version have been patiently waiting for the phone to be shipped. Red was supposed to begin shipping Titanium devices to backers on October 9 but an update from the…
The X-Men movie franchise is still chugging along — and it’s returning to one of the comics’ best-known stories. For those of you who haven’t read it, the Dark Phoenix saga focuses on Jean Grey’s growing telekinetic powers, which eventually transform her personality and force her fellow X-Men to make a terrible choice. It’s…
WikiLeaks has a new top dog. Its contentious figurehead and founder, Julian Assange, will step aside, letting former WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson take the reins due to what WikiLeaks calls “extraordinary circumstances” that have seen Assange “held incommunicado.” Assange created the organization in 2006 and has served as its editor-in-chief ever since. Hrafnsson, an Icelandic…
