Facebook Announces Voice Products To Compete With Clubhouse
Facebook is launching a range of products on Monday under the “social audio” category, including its own version of the audio chat app Clubhouse and a push into the discovery and dissemination of podcasts. The plan is for an audio version of Rooms, a video conferencing product that the social media giant launched a year […]
Clubhouse New Funding Would Value App at $4 Billion
The audio chat app Clubhouse ended a new round of Series C funding, but did not close the amount that had gathered at its weekly meeting last Sunday at City Hall. A source familiar with the financing confirmed that the figure is $4 billion. The new round of funding was led by Andrew Chen of […]
NASA Picks SpaceX As Its Sole Lunar Lander Provider
NASA recently announced they have selected SpaceX and its Starship vehicle to serve as the lunar lander for its Artemis program as NASA looks to return humans to the moon. This comes almost a year after NASA gave initial study and preliminary development contracts for Moon landers to SpaceX, Dynetics, and a team of aerospace […]
Facebook Data Leak Victims Urged To Take Legal Action
Recently, some 530 million people have had some personal information leaked, including in some cases phone numbers. A digital privacy group is now preparing to take legal action on behalf of affected EU citizens in an Irish court. Digital Rights Ireland DRI, a group, has also warned other tech giants that their move could be […]
PDF Inventor and Adobe Co-Founder Dies At 81
Charles Geschke, co-founder of the software company Adobe who helped develop the Portable Document Format (PDF), has reportedly died at the age of 81. Geschke, who is widely known for founding Adobe in 1982 with the ubiquitous PDF software and many other audiovisual innovations, died on Friday in California. In response to the loss, Adobe […]
Biden Admin Asked To Keep Chip Design Software From China
Two members of Congress, Senator Tom Cotton and Rep. Michael McCaul, are calling on the Commerce Department to prevent American companies from selling semiconductor design software to Chinese firms. Although semiconductors are important to China, as the country imported more than $300 billion worth of chips last year, the members of Congress, in their letter […]
Facebook Encryption May Hinder Fight Against Child Abuse
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel will speak at a program organized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and warn against Facebook’s plans to introduce encryption on its messaging services. Patel warns Facebook’s plans for encryption to protect user privacy could jeopardize ongoing work to tackle child abuse. In her […]
Bitcoin Slumps 14% In Sell-Off from Record High
Bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, fell as much as 14% to $51,541 on Sunday, wiping out most of last week’s gains. It last traded at $53,991, down 10%, a whopping $12,000 below Wednesday’s record high, while smaller rival Ether, the cryptocurrency linked to Ethereum’s blockchain network, fell 10% to $2,101. The blackout in China’s Xinjiang […]
Xwing Has First Gate-to-Gate Autonomous Airplane Flight
Reports circulate around the world that a Cessna Grand Caravan 208B left the gate, taxied, took off, landed and returned to the gate on its own. Flight was monitored remotely and all air traffic control interactions took place from the ground. Xwing, a San Francisco-based company that introduced autonomous technologies or regional air cargo, is […]
Two Dead in Allegedly Driverless Tesla Crash in Texas
Two men have been killed after a TESLA vehicle believed to be driving without a driver crashed into a tree north of Houston on Saturday night. The 2019 Tesla Model S was travelling at high speed when it veered off the road, crashed into a tree and burst into flames after a driver error. After […]
