Enlarge (credit: Yuri Smityuk | Getty Images) have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off …
6 Copenhagen investors share their outlook on investing in 2021
While Denmark and Copenhagen don’t often come up as a destination for European startups, it has a thriving local tech scene that’s home to some of the better startup conferences. After all, who doesn’t want to visit Copenhagen? A highly …
The one-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson now has FDA support in the US
That is because in the US, children under 18 make up about a quarter of the population but aren’t yet allowed to receive the shots. As well, about 30% of American adults claim they won’t get a covid-19 vaccine at …
What companies can do to speed up board diversity
After a national reckoning in the summer of 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests around the country, public and private companies alike vowed to add Black directors to their corporate boards. …
Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem
When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. She had nearly two decades of experience leading diversity and inclusion …
Magento 2 Follow Up Email Extensions Comparison (Amasty, Mirasvit, Aheadworks)
Cart abandonment might be considered the biggest curse of ecommerce. Luckily, there are lots of Magento 2 extensions designed to solve this problem or, at least, reduce its influence on online business. Below, we try to figure out the relative …
An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis
The chatbot uses GPT-2 for its baseline conversational abilities. That model is trained on 45 million pages from the web, which teaches it the basic structure and grammar of the English language. The Trevor Project then trained it further on …
How to land startup funding from real estate giant Brookfield, which manages $600 billion in assets
There are big investment firms, and then there are big investment firms. Brookfield Asset Management, the Toronto-based,122-year-old outfit whose current market cap is $63 billion and that oversees $600 billion in assets, clearly falls into the latter camp. Think real …
AT&T announces deal to spin off DirecTV into new company owned by… AT&T
Enlarge / AT&T’s logo at its corporate headquarters on March 13, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez ) buying DirecTV for $48.5 billion, AT&T today announced a deal to sell a minority stake in the business …