A new report by the Capgemini Research Institute claims that blockchain could become “ubiquitous” by 2025, entering mainstream business and underpinning supply chains worldwide. “Through investment and partnerships, the distributed ledger technology will dominate manufacturing as well as consumer products and retail industries, ushering in a new era of transparency and trust,” gushes the research…
We’re just a few short weeks away from the inaugural Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018 that takes place November 8 at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. That’s when up to 15 of Latin America’s exceptional early-stage startup founders will launch their companies to the world as they compete for cash, glory and…
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Bilal Zuberi is a partner at Lux Capital, and is on the boards of Evolv Technology, CyPhy Technologies, and Nozomi Networks, among others. Silicon Valley is currently, and correctly, under fire for the failure of leading platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter to protect against the spread of disinformation, hate speech and efforts to…
A government system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans was breached, allowing hackers to siphon off sensitive and personal data on 75,000 people. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirmed the breach in a late Friday announcement, but revealed few details about the contents of the…
Network engineers may not work in an IT arena as sexy as data analysts or machine learning experts. But without the services of smart, knowledgeable minds laying out, then building networked systems, there’s nowhere for any of those high-profile number-crunchers to ply their trade. Whether you’re working with large-scale or mom-and-pop networks, assembling that digital…
The group is a successor to BlackEnergy and a subset of the TeleBots gang–and its activity is potentially a prelude to a much more destructive attack.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
British innovators and researchers are being invited to pitch new ideas to help tackle the effects of climate change on towns, cities, and the countryside as part of the government’s new Industrial Strategy. On offer is £60 million in funding, announced as part of the first Green GB and NI Week, a government-led week of…
The market for small satellites in low Earth orbit is expanding faster than the gas in a thruster nozzle, and Vector aims to be the go-to launch platform for companies looking to put a bird in the air on short notice. The company just raised a $70 million B round and aims to take its…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the Three Excellent Friends (Connie Loizos, Danny Chrichton, and Alex Wilhelm) on hand to kick things about with Scale Venture Partner’s own Rory O’Driscoll. As I’ve written the last few weeks, what a pile…
