Jack Dorsey on Monday stepped down as the chief executive officer of Twitter, the social media firm he helped found in 2006 and steered through a high-profile hack and the controversial banning of former US President Donald Trump. Dorsey, who also helms fintech firm Square, will be succeeded by Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal. Here is
Month: December 2021
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more Dataiku recently released version 10 of its unified AI platform. VentureBeat talked to Dan Darnell, head of product marketing at Dataiku and former VP of product marketing at
Spotify 2021 Wrapped is now live. The personalised user experience, which the platform has been releasing for the last three years since 2019 on the first day of December, features top artists, albums, songs, playlists, and podcasts that you have played throughout the year. In addition to the dedicated Wrapped experience for mobile users, Spotify
In this article HRB Jack Dorsey (L), CEO of Square and CEO of Twitter, live casts video while standing outside the New York Stock Exchange for the IPO of Square, in New York November 19, 2015. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Square is renaming itself Block as it focuses on technologies like blockchain and expands beyond
Gameberry Labs, an Indian gaming startup, is making massive headway globally with two of its popular mobile games – Ludo Star and Parchisi Star. The latter is extremely popular in countries like Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Columbia, and Dominican Republic. Both the games together enjoy six million DAUs (daily average users) according to Gameberry Labs, a
There’s been increased anxiety after epidemiologists warned of a new and significantly more virulent coronavirus variant, Omicron, circulating in parts of South Africa and some other countries. With it, the race to find ways to stop the COVID-19 pandemic has acquired more urgency. In that effort, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, US, have tested
Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch) users are facing an issue with charging the device via MagSafe. As per user reports on Reddit, a considerable number of users are finding that their MagSafe 3 connector sometimes fails to deliver the expected charge when their laptop is turned off and the lid is closed. Apple MacBook Pro (2021)
A newly discovered botnet capable of staging distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted unpatched Ribbon Communications (formerly Edgewater Networks) EdgeMarc appliances belonging to telecom service provider AT&T by exploiting a four-year-old flaw in the network appliances. Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360’s Netlab network security division, which detected the botnet first on October 27, 2021, called it
At a packed Miami conference in June, Jack Dorsey, mused in front of thousands of attendees about where his real passion lay: “If I weren’t at Square or Twitter, I’d be working on Bitcoin.” On Monday, Dorsey made good on one part of that, announcing he would leave Twitter for the second time, handing the
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more CyCognito, a company developing bot technology to probe potential cyberattack vectors, today announced that it raised $100 million in a funding round led by The Westly Group with
The job of astronomers is as intriguing as it is frustrating. There are days when they find nothing of interest despite putting in a lot of effort and resources, and then there are days when they discover celestial objects or events that have the potential to change the course of history, or rather the future.
Motorola is tipped to have a new smartphone in development that will come with an under-display selfie camera. The new Moto phone may come alongside the Moto Edge X30 and Moto Edge S30. Motorola earlier on Thursday confirmed that the Moto Edge X30 is launching next week, while the Moto Edge S30 is also speculated
Three different state-sponsored threat actors aligned with China, India, and Russia have been observed adopting a new method called RTF (aka Rich Text Format) template injection as part of their phishing campaigns to deliver malware to targeted systems. “RTF template injection is a novel technique that is ideal for malicious phishing attachments because it is
After a year that made the terms WFH (work from home) and metaverse instantly recognizable for many people, there are a new set of technological trends headed this way for 2022. Here’s a selection of how technology may change lives in the coming year: Meatless meat Meat alternatives have become common in an increasing number
Hawkeye episode 3 — out now on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — gives us more villains; I’m considering Jack Duquesne (Tony Dalton) to be one for now. It properly introduces the antagonist Maya Lopez/ Echo (Alaqua Cox) who was teased last week at the tail end of Hawkeye episode 2. Heck, Hawkeye episode 3 was
Vu Televisions has launched its own online store in India where select models will be available to buy directly from the company. The new online store vustore.com was launched today (December 1), and will initially have two of the company’s successful television models in the Vu Premium TV range on sale. Vu says that its
In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 08, 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Apple stock was up more than 2% on Tuesday as stocks tumbled on concerns of the new omicron Covid variant, showing investors see the company as
Cricket 22 is the latest iteration in the popular cricket video game franchise by Big Ant Studios. It will be the first game in the series to be available for the next-generation consoles: PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. Cricket 22 will have Pat Cummins and Meg Lanning — captains of Australia’s men and women