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Titan raises $58M for mobile crypto investment platform
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Titan has raised $58 million to build an investment management platform to take on the likes of Fidelity and other traditional investment funds. The company aims to enable everyday investors access to investment experts — as well... Read more
What Jeff Bezos, New Shepard, and Blue Origin mean for space tourism
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is flying straight to the border of space. If all goes well, the billionaire — carried in a rocket built by his spaceflight company Blue Origin and accompanied by three fellow space tourists — will join a small but growing number of people who have... Read more
US warns China over state-sponsored hacking, citing mass attacks on Exchange
Getty Images | cbarnesphotography The US government blamed the Chinese government on Monday for attacks on thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers. China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) “has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime for their own financial gain,” US... Read more
Turing Distinguished Leader Series: Darren Murph Head of Remote at GitLab
Hi, everyone. Thank you for the great response to the first round of Turing’s Distinguished Leader Series (with Henrik Hussfelt, Director of Engineering at Proxy). Today I’m talking with Darren Murph, the Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren may be the first person ever to hold the Head of... Read more
French anti-vax protesters condemned for using Nazi icon
The yellow star worn by French protesters over the weekend is a reference to the yellow stars Nazis forced Jews to wear, for identification purposes, during the ’30s and early ’40s.  SOPA Images/Getty France has endured three national lockdowns and its president wants to stave off a fourth. To... Read more
Hungry Wild Pigs Are Worsening Climate Change
There is no agent of ecological imperialism more ferocious than the wild pig. Wherever Europeans invaded, from the Americas to Australia, so did their pigs, many of which escaped into the countryside to wreak havoc. The beasts tear through native plants and animals, they spread disease, they destroy crops,... Read more
Digital threads link workflows across users
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The recent Esri User Conference 2021 was a major event for virtual replicates of real-world entities, called digital twins. Real-world digital apps are also beginning to benefit from a complementary technology known as digital threads. Digital threads... Read more
Pegasus spyware leak shows how iPhones are vulnerable to hackers
If you were paying attention to the news over the weekend, you might have heard something about “Pegasus.” In this case, Pegasus is not a mythical flying horse, but powerful phone-hacking spyware sold by an Israeli company that’s allegedly been used to snoop on journalists, politicians, activists, and even... Read more
“Clickless” exploits from Israeli firm hacked activists’ fully updated iPhones
Getty Images Smartphones belonging to more than three dozen journalists, human rights activists, and business executives have been infected with powerful spyware that an Israeli firm sells, purportedly to catch terrorists and criminals, The Washington Post and other publications reported. The handsets were infected with Pegasus, full-featured spyware developed... Read more
Govee Lyra Floor Lamp Review
I love the Govee Lyra Floor Lamp.  This floor lamp can light up any space — especially a dull one, and make it appear mysterious. It’s bright enough to enjoy your party moments for work or home — playing games, eating and visiting, yet subtle enough for a great... Read more