There’s worrying news from China’s online media world as ByteDance, the $75 billion company behind popular video app TikTok is taking a news site to court for alleged defamation after it published a story about ByteDance’s fake news problem in India. U.S. tech firms have come to rely on media to help uncover issues, but Chinese…
The digital revolution has spawned ‘challenger’ banks that operate entirely online, with no high street presence. That phenomenon has taken off in Europe — particularly the UK — but over in Hong Kong, one of the world’s key financial hubs, the digital-only push is coming to the insurance industry. Bowtie, a Hong Kong-based digital insurer, just…
There’s been major disruption at Gatwick Airport in the U.K. on Wednesday night, and going into Thursday morning, as two rogue drones forced it to suspend and divert all flights for at least nine hours. The post Drones force one of the world’s busiest airports to suspend all flights appeared first on Digital Trends. Source…
Andrew Kirillov, CFO at TradingView, discusses why he believes regulation is essential to the future success of cryptocurrency. NEW CONNECTIONS An occasional series of vendor perspectives on the world of connected business. To regulate cryptocurrency or not – that is the question challenging industry leaders, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and now Congress. With headlines…
Lawmakers are again unhappy with Facebook after the latest big story again portraying Facebook’s failure to protect the private data of its users. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the company had special relationships with a handful of major tech companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Spotify. The report alleges that Facebook allowed those partners forms…
If you’re concerned about what you eat, there’s a good chance you’ve looked at the food in the supermarket, or in your fridge, and wondered where it actually comes from. Now urban farming incubator Square Roots is introducing a new way for you to check full history of the produce that you’re about to purchase.…
After leaving Elon Musk’s big Boring Company test tunnel reveal Tuesday night, TechCrunch stumbled upon a gem that only the interwebs can provide. And because farting Teslas and an “entirely new system of transport” just wasn’t enough for the last 24-hour Elon Musk news cycle, TechCrunch is sharing what it found. To be clear, this…
In the city, we’re constantly saturated with the radio waves from 10 or 20 different routers, cell towers and other wireless infrastructure. But in rural communities there might only be one internet connection for a whole village. LibreRouter is a hardware and software project that looks to let those communities build their own modern, robust…
The future looks bright for connected vehicles. In 2019, experts expect the technology that makes smart cars “smart” will continue to mature as the value this tech provides—often in the form of realtime data—enables new use cases. Telematics solutions are connecting entire fleets and opening up many new opportunities for companies across multiple industries, and…
It may seem strange to purchase a disc player when streaming services offer so much great entertainment on demand, but hard-copy media still offers the highest-quality experience. It also makes it possible to throw in an old copy of your favorite CD or movie that hasn’t yet been licensed to stream. If you’re going to…
