Yuval Brisker Contributor Yuval Brisker is CEO and co-founder of Alviere, an embedded finance company. He previously co-founded TOA Technologies, a SaaS firm acquired by Oracle in 2014. The technologies underlying fintech point to a world of empowerment and access, transparency and efficiency. And yet the past few years tell a story in which fintech’s…
Yuval Brisker Contributor Yuval Brisker is CEO and co-founder of Alviere, an embedded finance company. He previously co-founded TOA Technologies, a SaaS firm acquired by Oracle in 2014. The technologies underlying fintech point to a world of empowerment and access, transparency and efficiency. And yet the past few years tell a story in which fintech’s…
The electronic payments industry has undergone a radical change over the past several years with the proliferation of convenient digital payment options such as contactless cards and smartphones/smart watches with mobile payment capabilities and apps. These contactless payment options are increasingly supported at payment terminals, vending machines, EV chargers and kiosks as well as for…
Long before the Apple Vision Pro sees the light of day next year, Meta gets first crack with yet another headset of its own — the Meta Quest 3. It’s not official that the mixed reality headset will launch at Meta Connect, the annual gathering of developers affiliated with the company formally know as Facebook.…
Just a week after setting a new altitude record on Mars, NASA’s impressive Ingenuity helicopter has just flown faster than ever before, reaching a speed of 17.9 mph (8 meters per second) during its 60th flight. Its previous record was 15 mph (6.5 m/s) in a flight earlier this year. Ingenuity also covered 1,116 feet…
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has warned that DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks orchestrated through IoT botnets are in high demand among hackers, as the company outlines a ‘thriving underground economy on the dark web focused on IoT-related services.’ Kaspersky issued a communique which was part research note, part consumer advice. For the former, the company…
Some 76% of the top 500 VC-backed UK startups have done nothing to either measure or offset their carbon emissions, according to new research shared exclusively with TechCrunch. In total, these companies have raised $40 billion in VC funding. Furthermore, of the VCs looked at, the highest only scored 37 out of a possible 100…
Google has announced the launch of its earthquake alert system for Android devices in India. The system uses smartphone sensors such as accelerators, which can act as small seismometers and detect tremors. The company on Wednesday said the system, developed with consultation from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Seismology Center (NSC),…
Google has announced the launch of its earthquake alert system for Android devices in India. The system uses smartphone sensors such as accelerators, which can act as small seismometers and detect tremors. The company on Wednesday said the system, developed with consultation from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Seismology Center (NSC),…
Google has announced the launch of its earthquake alert system for Android devices in India. The system uses smartphone sensors such as accelerators, which can act as small seismometers and detect tremors. The company on Wednesday said the system, developed with consultation from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Seismology Center (NSC),…
