The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hi friends and new readers, welcome to The Station. A few items before we jump into the news. Rebecca Bellan, who started writing for TechCrunch earlier this month,…
After launching in April 2020, Clubhouse has already been downloaded 10 million times and has around two million weekly active users. In the grand scheme of things, this might sound like a small amount — especially if you consider that Facebook has 2.7 billion active users on its platform, Instagram 1 billion, Twitter 330 million,…
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Discovered by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter team, the flaws — tracked as CVE-2020-27170 and CVE-2020-27171 (CVSS scores: 5.5) —…
Dr Virtyt Koshi, SVP and general manager EMEA at cloud-native network software provider Mavenir, recalls a video telecommunications system pioneered by BT which he used in his lab at the University of Oxford in 1995. It had “everything that Zoom had and much more”, he explains. Unfortunately, carriers in general did not capitalise on innovation,…
Dr Virtyt Koshi, SVP and general manager EMEA at cloud-native network software provider Mavenir, recalls a video telecommunications system pioneered by BT which he used in his lab at the University of Oxford in 1995. It had “everything that Zoom had and much more”, he explains. Unfortunately, carriers in general did not capitalise on innovation,…
Dr Virtyt Koshi, SVP and general manager EMEA at cloud-native network software provider Mavenir, recalls a video telecommunications system pioneered by BT which he used in his lab at the University of Oxford in 1995. It had “everything that Zoom had and much more”, he explains. Unfortunately, carriers in general did not capitalise on innovation,…
Increasingly, the need to offer products and services based on up-to-date, or, in some cases, even realtime data is imperative in industries like manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and insurance. Analytics and AI (artificial intelligence) technologies offer a much more accurate and granular look at various metrics that help businesses make decisions about their products, services, and…
A third stimulus check is part of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, called the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. President Joe Biden signed the legislation earlier this month, approving stimulus checks for millions of eligible Americans. Some people have received theirs already, but many payments are still going out. So you might want to know…
Curious how the giant Ever Given cargo ship might look if it was stuck in another part of the world? Well, there’s an app for that.
Shiv has over 8 years experience working on Internet of Things and an avid user of Drones
Revolut, a UK-based neobank, recently announced that they have applied for a banking charter in the US, a few months after they applied for one in their home country. The news is the latest in a string of neobank forays into the domain of traditional banks.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
