Month: January 2020
How to use Fitbit’s female health tracking tool
Fitbit added a female health feature to its app in May 2018, allowing you to manually track menstrual cycles and symptoms to predict upcoming cycles and likely fertility windows. Tracking your female health is also useful overall for monitoring any unusual symptoms that could be related to issues like fibroids,…
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Techstars Detroit accelerator is shutting down
Techstars Detroit, the accelerator that has funded 54 startups in the past five years, is shutting down, TechCrunch has learned. In an email to supporters, Techstars Detroit managing director Ted Serbinski said the accelerator was not able to secure enough funding for 2020. “It’s clear the entire automotive mobility industry…
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Moscow rolls out live facial recognition system with an app to alert police
Moscow is the latest major city to introduce live facial recognition cameras to its streets, with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announcing that the technology is operating “on a mass scale” earlier this month, according to a report from Russian business paper Vedomosti. It follows news earlier this week that London is…
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Plugin flaw puts over 200,000 WordPress sites at risk of attack
Over 200,000 WordPress sites have been warned they may have been exposed to a bug that allows hackers to take over the website easily. The affected sites were all found to be running an unpatched open-source plugin that puts them at risk of attack. This high severity cross-site request forgery…
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CloudTrucks raises $6.1 million to help truckers run their businesses
After selling autonomous driving startup Scotty Labs to DoorDash just five months ago, entrepreneur Tobenna Arodiogbu is back with a new startup. This time, he’s focused solely on truck drivers and their businesses. CloudTrucks, which aims to help truck drivers earn more money, has closed a $6.1 million round led…
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This Untitled Goose Game app turns your Windows PC into pure mayhem
“What if the Untitled Goose Game was your entire computer?” asked nobody but Sam Person until this week. Person has created an app for Windows PCs that spawns a virtual goose to cause mayhem on your desktop. Much like the game, this goose is annoying and will spread virtual mud…
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