Month: June 2021
Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC
Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, the newest special purpose acquisition company launched by LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and managing partner Michael Thompson, according to several sources familiar with the talks. One of…
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Jack Dorsey would rather give you a bitcoin wallet than Twitter features worth paying for
Twitter Blue — the social network’s first subscription product that adds an undo button to tweets among other minor additions like changing the color of icons and adding folders for bookmarks — launched on Thursday. It’s limited to Canada and Australia for now but has already garnered attention for lacking…
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Xometry is taking its excess manufacturing capacity business public
Xometry, a Maryland-based service that connects companies with manufacturers with excess production capacity around the world, filed an S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announcing its intent to become a public company. Growth aside, it’s clear that Xometry is no modern software business, at least from a…
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Don’t miss these startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
We’re just five days away from TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, where thousands of mobility movers and shakers will dive deep into the game-changing technology that’s reinventing the way we move people — and pretty much everything else — around the world. Mobility 2021 is a jam-packed event, and we want…
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Google Chrome now warns you if you’re about to install a dodgy extension Google Chrome
Google is bolstering its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature with new protection capabilities in Chrome which will help protect users when they try and download untrusted extensions. The search giant first launched its Safe Browsing feature back in 2007 to warn users if they tried to visit a malicious website by…
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The rise of cybersecurity debt
Howard Boville Contributor Howard Boville is head of IBM Hybrid Cloud. He leads the global cloud business at IBM and helps develop market-leading capabilities to drive digital transformation for enterprises. More posts by this contributor The ‘Frankencloud’ model is our biggest security risk Ransomware attacks on the JBS beef plant,…
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