Airline industry executives have ramped up their warnings that an upcoming type of 5G service will interfere with radio altimeters. Radio altimeters measure the altitude above the terrain beneath an aircraft by timing how long it takes a beam of radio waves to travel to ground, reflect, and return to the craft. They are, of…
Airline industry executives have ramped up their warnings that an upcoming type of 5G service will interfere with radio altimeters. Radio altimeters measure the altitude above the terrain beneath an aircraft by timing how long it takes a beam of radio waves to travel to ground, reflect, and return to the craft. They are, of…
As we begin wrapping up the year, it’s time to predict what the IoT industry will look like in 2022. Seamlessly connected homes “The US market has seen substantial year-over-year growth in the number of connected homes, and this is expected to continue in the years to come,” analysts from McKinsey said in a recent…
Razorpay has more than doubled its valuation to $7.5 billion from $3 billion in April as one of India’s largest fintech giants demonstrates fast growth and aggressively broadens its product offerings. The Bangalore-headquartered startup, which is a market leader in payments processing in India, said Sunday evening it has raised $375 million in its Series…
Jessica Brandt Contributor Jessica Brandt is policy director of the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative and a fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. As the information domain becomes an increasingly active and consequential realm of state…
Jessica Brandt Contributor Jessica Brandt is policy director of the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative and a fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. As the information domain becomes an increasingly active and consequential realm of state…
Jessica Brandt Contributor Jessica Brandt is policy director of the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative and a fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. As the information domain becomes an increasingly active and consequential realm of state…
Hyperscalers have been strengthening their telco ambitions in 2021, culminating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) launching its own private 5G solution this month (December). The AWS model for private 5G is consumption-based with pricing determined by coverage area and bandwidth. While the solution immediately targets the US, expansion into other national markets with shared or…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the…
The issues with Log4j continued to stack up as the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) on Friday rolled out yet another patch — version 2.17.0 — for the widely used logging library that could be exploited by malicious actors to stage a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Tracked as CVE-2021-45105 (CVSS score: 7.5), the new vulnerability affects all…
