The suspect, Joseph O’Connor, was found in Spain and faces U.S. charges of hacking, extortion and cyberstalking.Read More
Year: 2021
The Amazonification of Space Begins in Earnest
With the suborbital flights made by Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson this month, the privatization of the space industry has crossed the point of...
Lyft will team up with Ford and a self-driving car start-up to offer rides in Miami.
The companies plan to begin offering the service this year, expanding later to Austin, Texas. A human will still be behind the wheel.Read More
Clearview AI raises $30 million from investors despite legal troubles.
The facial-recognition start-up closed a Series B financing round. It faces multiple lawsuits challenging its business model.Read More
The Nightmare of Our Snooping Phones
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A Catholic official’s resignation shows the real-world consequences of practices by America’s data-harvesting industries.Read More
Robinhood’s Guinea Pig for Upending Public Offerings: Itself
The stock trading app is opening its initial public offering and investor presentations to everyday investors. The risks are significant.Read More
Want to Buy a PlayStation 5? Befriend a Bot.
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In a pandemic-induced era of scarcity, a bit of automation can go a long way to obtaining the unobtainable.Read More
Jeff Bezos just went to space and back
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Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, went to space and back Tuesday morning on an 11-minute, supersonic joy ride aboard the rocket and capsule...
Instagram is making it easier for users to control how much sensitive content they see when browsing the app’s Explore page.