Month: January 2020
Man accused of making thousands of racist robocalls faces $13 million fine
The FCC has proposed an almost $13 million fine for a man it says was behind a series of racist and anti-semitic robocalling campaigns consisting of over 6,000 calls being placed across six states. The man is accused of using anti-semitic and racist tropes to attack political candidates, threaten a…
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How Bykea is winning Pakistan’s ride-hailing and delivery market
With less than $7M in VC funding, the startup is beating Uber Manish Singh 9 hours Increasingly, the streets of Karachi and Lahore are being flooded with men riding bikes and wearing green T-shirts, a writer friend recently told me. In a sense, these men represent the emergence of Pakistan’s…
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Microsoft to block crapware downloads in its Edge browser
Microsoft is planning to block potentially unwanted apps from being downloaded through its Edge browser. Known as crapware or adware, these apps aren’t necessarily malware but could be toolbars, stuffed with annoying ads or notifications, or bundle crypto miners. Edge already uses a SmartScreen Filter to protect against phishing and…
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Over half of British consumers faced a data breach last year
New research has revealed that over half of Brits have fallen victim to a data breach over the past year. According to a report from DynaRisk, which has run a scan on over 750,000 data pieces, users in the UK have faced more threats compared to the users in New…
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Amazon wants Alexa to feel normal, Google wants its assistant to feel nostalgic
Happy Friday — the Super Bowl is this weekend and some of the ads have begun to be released. The two that have struck me the most are from Google and Amazon, each taking a different tack to sell you on their respective intelligent assistants. They are very different. Amazon…
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Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud
Friday typically brings a bunch of new music releases, but this Friday’s new drops includes a new track from an unlikely source – Elon Musk . The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said earlier this week he had written a new song called “Don’t doubt yer vibe,” to be released on…
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