With the right message, even a small startup can connect with established and emerging stars on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube who will promote your products and services — as long as your marketing team understands the influencer marketplace. Creators have …
NASA inches closer to printing artificial organs in space
In America, at least 17 people a day die waiting for an organ transplant. But instead of waiting for a donor to die, what if we could someday grow our own organs? Last week, six years after NASA announced its …
HarmonyOS: Hands-on with Huawei’s rival to Android
Huawei has revealed a new tablet and smartwatch running HarmonyOS, its new operating system that it is developing to replace Google’s Android. The Chinese communications giant said it would develop new software after former President Donald Trump put the company …
Big Tech has a battle ahead over antitrust regulation — and it’s going to get messy
For several years now, Congress and regulatory agencies have warned that they could, in the future, try to break up Big Tech. In the past week, that threat got more real. On June 11, Congress introduced a sweeping set of …
Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown
Enlarge / A Colonial Pipeline facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Hackers last month disrupted the pipeline supplying petroleum to much of the East Coast. (credit: Michael M. Santiago, Getty Images) in a statement on Wednesday that it had worked with …
Delivery service Gopuff acquires rideOS for $115 million
On-demand goods, food and alcohol delivery service Gopuff has acquired fleet management platform rideOS for $115 million, sources familiar with the deal say. This acquisition comes just a few months after the Philadelphia-based startup announced a $1.15 billion funding round …
Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) calling the malware, gets installed when victims download and execute what they think is pirated software or games. Behind the scenes, the malware reports the file name that was executed to an attacker-controlled server, along with …
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to create a new agency to deal with data privacy
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is introducing a revamped version of her Data Protection Act, which would create a new government agency in charge of regulating and enforcing federal privacy laws — the ones we have now as well as any …
Bias isn’t the only problem with credit scores—and no, AI can’t help
But in the biggest ever study of real-world mortgage data, economists Laura Blattner at Stanford University and Scott Nelson at the University of Chicago show that differences in mortgage approval between minority and majority groups is not just down to …