Month: February 2020
Develop a serious cybersecurity strategic plan that incorporates CCM
Robert R. Ackerman Jr. Contributor Robert R. Ackerman Jr. is the founder and managing director of AllegisCyber, a venture capital firm specializing in cybersecurity, and the co-founder and executive at DataTribe, a cybersecurity startup foundry which focuses on launching startups based on cyber domain expertise from the intelligence community and…
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SoftBank-backed Brandless shuts its doors for good
It was a roller coaster ride — a short one. Brandless, a San Francisco-based e-commerce company that made and sold an assortment of “cruelty-free” products in beauty and personal care, household, baby and pet categories has shut its doors less than three years after officially opening them in July 2017.…
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Tesla ramps up solar tile roofs installations in U.S., eyes China and Europe expansion
Tesla appears to be ramping up installations of its solar tile roofs in the San Francisco Bay area and will eventually roll out to Europe and China, according to CEO Elon Musk who in a series of tweets provided the first substantial update since the company launched the third iteration…
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Amazon wants to question Trump and cronies over JEDI contract
Amazon is seeking to depose US President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, former Defense Secretary James Mattis and others over how the Pentagon’s $10bn JEDI cloud computing contract was awarded to Microsoft. In court documents which were recently unsealed and filed, the ecommerce giant’s cloud computing division AWS said…
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Facebook quietly acquired another UK AI startup and almost no one noticed
Over the last few years, Facebook has been busy building out AI capabilities in areas like computer vision, natural language processing (NLP) and ‘deep learning,’ in part by acquiring promising startups in the space. Understandably, this has seen the U.S. social networking giant look to the U.K. for AI talent,…
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Xiaomi shows off Mi 10 phone design, confirms February 13th launch date
Xiaomi has announced that it will launch its new Mi 10 smartphones on February 13th in China with a global launch to follow on February 23rd, the day before Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona, Spain (via Android Authority). The company announced the Chinese launch on the Chinese social…
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