Month: December 2020
Apple staff won’t return to the office until summer 2021 Remote worker
After making the transition to working from home earlier this year, Tim Cook has revealed that Apple employees won’t be returning to the office anytime soon. As first reported by Bloomberg, Cook said in a recent virtual town hall meeting that it “seems likely” that the majority of the company’s…
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Apple’s iPhone has an aggravating text notifications bug
If you’ve noticed that you’re receiving SMS texts and iMessages from people but aren’t getting any notifications about them, you’re not alone. Far from it. I’m one of many people experiencing an annoying bug where messages come through fine — but without any pop-up notification or even the usual red…
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Google and Apple are banning technology for sharing users’ location data
You may have never heard of the company X-Mode Social, but its code may be in some of the apps on your phone, tracking and selling your location data. Now, Google and Apple are trying to put a stop to it. According to a Wall Street Journal article, the tech…
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Benchmark fills out its, yes, bench, with Miles Grimshaw
Benchmark, the storied venture firm, has brought aboard a fifth general partner: 29-year-old Miles Grimshaw, a Yale graduate who joins the outfit from Thrive Capital, where he similarly joined a team of four other partners back in 2013, helping them raise the firm’s fourth and fifth funds (per Forbes). From…
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Cloud-gaming platforms were 2020’s most overhyped trend
It was an unprecedented year for [insert anything under the sun], and while plenty of tech verticals saw shifts that warped business models and shifted user habits, the gaming industry experienced plenty of new ideas in 2020. However, the loudest trends don’t always take hold as predicted. This year, Google,…
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Facebook outs company behind infamous APT32 malware group, suspends accounts Ransomware
Facebook has unexpectedly revealed the identity of the notorious APT32 hacking group that has been blamed for a number of malware campaigns stretching back almost a decade. Little was previously known about the group, apart from a widely-held suspicion that it was backed by the Vietnamese Government. “APT32, an advanced…
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