The value of remittances globally continues to rise, and today a startup that has built a business targeting money transfers into emerging markets has raised a large round of growth funding to capitalize on that. WorldRemit, the London startup that has focused on enabling competitively-priced, quick money transfers from migrant workers and immigrants living in…
Trump administration’s latest move to vet people during the visa process is to ask for their emails and social media handles. And according to a report by Hill.TV, if you lie about your accounts, you can face “serious immigration consequences.” As an applicant, you can choose to not declare that you don’t use social media, but…
I have said it before, and I will say it again — Smart devices are one of the dumbest technologies, so far, when it comes to protecting users’ privacy and security. As more and more smart devices are being sold worldwide, consumers should be aware of security and privacy risks associated with the so-called intelligent…
After a temporary ban, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, commonly known as the IEEE, announced on Monday it has lifted curbs on editors and peer-reviewers that work for Huawei and the Chinese firm’s affiliates. The reversal is yet another example of the regulatory murkiness in the U.S.-China trade negotiations. In response to the…
A pair of scientists from prestigious Dartmouth University recently published research postulating why Godzilla has more than doubled in size since 1954. If you guessed a gym membership and a high-protein diet: you’re wrong. The King of the Monsters’ incredible evolution in fiction is, arguably, due to real-world global anxiety over increasing nationalism and the US…
A Google Cloud outage is currently affecting a number of services in and out of the Google suite including Snap and Discord as well as Google services like Gmail, Nest, and others. The problem was first reported by East Coast users in the U.S. in the afternoon, but reports from outage monitor DownDetector indicate that…
It’s good if the TV setup in your living room has a great sound system to support it, but it’s even better if your bedroom matches that experience. Look no further, we’ve got the perfect thing for you. The Bose SoundTouch 10 wireless speaker system is available for $149, down from its original price of $199. The…
May was a momentous month, which marked a victory for sanity and pragmatism over irrational paranoia. I’m obviously not talking about politics. I’m talking about Microsoft finally — finally! but credit to them for doing this nonetheless! — removing the password expiration policies from their Windows 10 security baseline. Although NIST and others precede this…
Did you know Excel is so smart now that it’ll actually fill in your spreadsheet tables for you? Sort of, anyway. Microsoft has a new tool in the Excel app that allows your smartphone to take a picture of rows and columns of raw data, then watch in astonishment as that image gets imported into…
High-risk applications that require zero latency, like remote surgery, could cause loss of life in the event of a cyberattack.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
