Last year, after sparking the biggest hype frenzy the watch market has seen with the release of the MoonSwatch, a bioplastic Swatch version of Omega’s legendary Speedmaster Moonwatch, Swatch president Nick Hayek Jr. said that “positive provocation” was a key part of the brand’s mission. Which perhaps explains the... Read more

This article is part of a VB Lab Insights series on AI sponsored by Microsoft and Nvidia. Don’t miss additional articles in this series providing new industry insights, trends and analysis on how AI is transforming organizations. Find them all here.   Developers, researchers and thought leaders will come... Read more

Getty Images | NurPhoto Twitter suffered an embarrassing technology failure today that temporarily broke links to outside websites and even to Twitter’s own webpages. The problem lasted for about 45 minutes or so. In our tests, clicking any link brought up this error message: {“errors”:[{“message”:”Your current API plan does... Read more

Apple reminds us that spring is around the corner with the announcement that its iPhone 14 and 14 Plus will come in a new yellow color. As has been the case for the past few years, Apple dropped a new color for the iPhone in March. In 2021, we got... Read more

My first cell phone was a brick-shaped Nokia with a couple hundred minutes loaded onto it. My parents gave it to me when I got my first car, on the understanding that, whenever I drove somewhere that wasn’t school, I’d call them as soon as I arrived so they’d... Read more

CISOs tell VentureBeat they’re taking an increasingly pragmatic approach to modernizing identity access management (IAM) — and this starts with reducing legacy app and endpoint sprawl. The goal is a more efficient, economical, lean tech stack that’s solid enough to scale and support their enterprise-wide zero-trust frameworks.  Identities are... Read more

Getty Images | NurPhoto Twitter’s revenue and adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year over year in December 2022 amid an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk’s takeover. Twitter no longer reports earnings publicly since Musk bought the company and took it private in late October. But Twitter reported... Read more

Once you’ve purchased your cryptocurrency, you’ll need somewhere to hold it. While you could choose to leave it on a crypto exchange in a custodial wallet — which means you don’t fully own the asset, but instead you’re trusting the company to hold it for you — the better option is... Read more

The pause has allowed people to pay down other debts, save money, and improve credit scores. It has also brought an opportunity to take pause and question the broken economics of the US higher education system. The federal government is expected to lose nearly $200 billion on student debt rather... Read more

Whether you work in finance or the food industry, interviews can be a tricky process if you don’t prepare in advance, and aren’t well equipped to navigate questions while seamlessly selling your skills and experience. And if you work in tech, the bar has been elevated even higher. That’s... Read more