As Xiaomi widens its smartphone lead over Samsung in India, a new competitor is increasingly posing a challenge. Realme, a one-and-half-year-old smartphone vendor that spun out of Oppo, commanded 14.3% of the world’s second largest smartphone market in the quarter that ended in September, research firm IDC said on Monday. While Xiaomi, with 27.1% of…
While across much of Asia, November 11th is either “singles day” (a $38 billion Alibaba extravaganza this year) or Pepero Day (named because 11/11 looks like a bunch of chocolate dessert sticks), here in the United States and parts of Europe, November 11th also marks the end of World War I and the commemoration of…
Balderton Capital, one of the so-called “big four” early-stage VC firms in London (the others being Accel, Atomico and Index), has raised a new $400 million fund to continue backing European tech startups at Series A. Dealroom recently released a report that pegged Balderton as the most active Series A investor in Europe (between 2014-2018),…
Sarah, “the world’s smartest chimp,” died in July 2019, just before her 60th birthday. For the majority of her life, she served as a research subject, providing scientists with a window into the thoughts of homo sapiens’ nearest living relative. Illustration (by T. W. Wood) of a chimpanzee, disappointed and sulky, from Charles Darwin’s The…
The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
When Disney+ launches on November 12 at 12:01 a.m. PT, it will be packed with good stuff. There will be (almost) all of Disney’s animated movies. There will be the first episode of The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars TV show. There will be original content from National Geographic, the entire Pixar library, Disney’s…
One difficult aspect of being an accountant, or a businessperson of any kind, is not knowing whether a client is going to pay a debt owed for goods or services rendered and, if so, when?
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
