Extending Industrial Automation to Optimize Efficiency and Decision Making

Click Here to Download the PDF Industrial organizations have embraced automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce human error. By and large, however, industrial automation is siloed – it is applied to individual aspects of the business, but not used holistically across the organization. The key to extending automation throughout your business is hyperautomation. In…

Tencent backs Indian social media Lokal – TechCrunch

Indian hyperlocal social media platform Lokal has raised $12 million in a new round of financing led by Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent, according to a source familiar with the matter. Existing investors 3one4 Capital, Y Combinator, and India Quotient have also participated in the Bangalore-based startup’s Series A, the source said, requesting anonymity as the…

Vodafone and Deloitte team up on virtual centre for digital healthcare

Vodafone and Deloitte have teamed up on a virtual centre for digital healthcare. The new facility, called the Vodafone Centre for Health with Deloitte, combines the former’s healthcare solutions and the latter’s healthcare consultancy practice. The two will collaborate, they said, to simplify access to connected healthcare for patients and healthcare professionals. Professionals from the…

Doyobi, a Singapore-based edtech startup focused on teachers, gets $2.8M seed – TechCrunch

The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too. Doyobi, a Singapore-based professional development platform, wants to give educators new, more engaging ways of teaching STEM subjects. The startup announced today it has raised $2.8 million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. The round included Tresmonos Capital, Novus…

Researchers Break Intel SGX With New ‘SmashEx’ CPU Attack Technique

A newly disclosed vulnerability affecting Intel processors could be abused by an adversary to gain access to sensitive information stored within enclaves and even run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability (CVE-2021-0186, CVSS score: 8.2) was discovered by a group of academics from ETH Zurich, the National University of Singapore, and the Chinese National…