Connected vehicle data startup Wejo has announced partnerships with Microsoft, Palantir and Sompo Holdings to improve its ability to collect, store and analyze data from millions of connected vehicles around the world. This follows the GM-backed startup’s announcement that it would be going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, Virtuoso Acquisition Corp., […]
Twitter is considering changes to the way it contextualizes misleading tweets that the company doesn’t believe are dangerous enough to be removed from the platform outright. The company announced the test in a tweet Thursday with an image of the new misinformation labels. Within the limited test, those labels will appear with color-coded backgrounds now, […]
Barracuda Networks has purchased Skout Cybersecurity, a New York-based channel-only provider of extended detection and response (XDR) services. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, will see the California-based cybersecurity vendor enter the fast-growing XDR market. As a result of the ever-increasing attack surface as businesses shift to the cloud and embrace hybrid working, […]
Neobanks have led the charge as regards venture capital funding for consumer fintech startups. But while they have collectively dominated the fintech space, they don’t operate a monolithic model. There are five distinct models, and the one adopted by Nubank, the $30 billion behemoth, is the credit-led model. Neobanks operating this model start by offering […]
Volvo Cars wants to completely electrify its lineup by 2030 and on Wednesday offered a glimpse into how it plans to get there and what its next generation of vehicles might look like. But it’s not going to do it alone. Although the automaker plans on developing its own in-car operating system and other parts […]
The Quick Notes feature implemented on iPadOS 15 Jason Perlow/ZDNet Apple on Wednesday released the first public beta of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for anyone to help test the upcoming software update that will power millions of iPhones and iPads. You can sign up for the public beta if you’re willing to deal with […]
Apple on Wednesday expanded its public beta program to include iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 , both of which were announced in early June during the company’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference . The update is in the process of going live. If you don’t see it on Apple’s beta site right now, keep refreshing. It […]
The Razer Blade 14 released just a few short weeks ago is aimed squarely at gamers. The headline on the Razer website is “the world’s most powerful 14-inch gaming laptop.” But don’t be fooled by the glowing green logo and the RGB-backlit keyboard: with its AMD CPU, NVIDIA GPU, and color-accurate QHD display, the Blade […]
To train a robot to navigate a house, you either need to give it a lot of real time in a lot of real houses, or a lot of virtual time in a lot of virtual houses. The latter is definitely the better option, and Facebook and Matterport are working together to make thousands of […]
Asus VivoBook M515UA When AMD rolled out the Ryzen 7 5000 series of mobile processors at this year’s CES, the big story was the adoption of the high-performance chips in some gaming laptops, a market that Intel has long dominated. Less heralded were the lower-power chips that were also part of the launch, including a […]