Month: July 2021
Nikola founder Trevor Milton indicted on three counts of fraud
Trevor Milton, the fast-talking showman founder of Nikola and the electric truck startup’s former CEO and executive chairman, has been charged with three counts of fraud. Milton “engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deceive retail investors” for his own personal benefit, according to the federal indictment unsealed by U.S. Attorney’s…
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The Google Play Store may need a serious security upgrade app security
Google’s Play Protect security service has fared poorly in an endurance test of Android security apps. With the number of malware-laden malicious apps on the rise, AV-Test pitted 15 security apps to rate their ability to fend off such dubious apps. “Included in the test as the 15th app in…
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This Hyper-V vulnerability could plague Microsoft users for some time security
New details have emerged about a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Hyper-V that was discovered by cybersecurity researchers and patched in May 2021. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-28476 was reported to Microsoft by Guardicore Labs’ Ophir Harpaz and SafeBreach Labs’ Peleg Hadar, and was assigned a CVSS score of…
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Hello Divorce raises $2M so that couples can say ‘good-bye’ easier
Divorce is messy and stressful, made even messier and stressful when a couple is unable to go through the legal process because of the cost. Online divorce startup Hello Divorce is developing a platform to make this process more affordable and quicker. To do this, the Oakland, California-based company announced…
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Intel NUC 11 Extreme review: A tiny gaming desktop you may actually want
Who is a powerful miniature desktop for? That was the question running through my mind when I reviewed Intel's NUC 9 Extreme last year. It was the company's most powerful compact PC kit (NUC stands for "next unit of computing") at the time. But it was so wildly expensive —…
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Nothing’s Ear 1 wireless earbuds are an ambitious start
How do you stand out as a new tech company when the dominant players have huge budgets, thousands of employees and decades of product R&D? That is Nothing’s challenge, and its first product, a pair of true wireless earbuds, makes a pitch for a simplified kind of tech, designed to…
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