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Instagram’s new settings target creepy adults

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Viewing your child’s social media accounts only to find obscene messages from older users intended for your preteen son or daughter. Unfortunately, nightmares like this are a reality for a rapidly increasing number of parents, as more youngsters’ dive into the social media world.  Luckily, Instagram has decided to take it in their hands to put an end to child predators roaming the photo and video-sharing site. […]

Google’s 2021 Q2 soars as antitrust grip tightens

Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc, recorded on Tuesday a rising profit in second quarter revenue, despite heated antitrust regulations and prosecutions, the search giant marked its highest mark so far of quarterly revenue. Amidst the latest antitrust cold war between Big Tech companies and Washington in the last quarter, Google and Alphabet Inc. tallied in […]

Smart Eye Deputy CEO Rana el Kaliouby talks automotive AI

Rana el Kaliouby co-founded and led Boston startup Affectiva, which uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze mood and emotion. Now she’s got a new job as deputy CEO of Smart Eye, after the Swedish eye-tracking company bought Affectiva for $73.5 million in June. The auto industry is the prime market for el Kaliouby […]

LinkedIn skyrockets to $10 billion in revenue for the first time

For the first time, LinkedIn has officially surpassed $10 billion in annual revenue, five years after Microsoft announced its decision to acquire the platform for more than $26 billion, the company reported on its recent fiscal report released on Tuesday. Although Microsoft did not exactly reveal the number of the profits and losses made, officials did state that LinkedIn’s revenues were up by 46 percent in […]

Bitcoin jumps on speculation that Amazon considering crypto

Bitcoin’s price surged again Monday after speculation that Amazon may be entering the cryptocurrency sector after it posted a job seeking a “digital currency and blockchain product lead.” Bitcoin jumped more than 14% in the past 24 hours, nearly reaching $40,000 per unit before settling closer to $37,000. The five-week intra-day high reached Monday comes […]

5G standalone and non-standalone in a nutshell

Everyone interested in reading about developments in telecommunication technology has had their minds and screens bombarded with news about 5G development and its rapid adoption around the world.  It’s that thing that, when the ribbon is cut, will give us ten times the throughput, ten times less latency, and 100 times more capacity that the currently available 4G LTE.   What many telecoms novices don’t know is […]

Musk vs. Bezos: A rivalry reaching the moon

Two of the world’s high-profile tech geniuses, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, have been competing against each other over their respective space ambitions. Musk owns SpaceX, a space transportation company that was recently awarded by NASA a $2.9 billion contract to build the spacecraft in charge of helping astronauts travel down the lunar surface by […]

Intel reveals architecture roadmap, welcomes Qualcomm as new customer

In its greatest attempt to reclaim its chipmaking crown, Intel announced on Monday its new architecture roadmap during the company’s Accelerated webcast, unveiling the manufacturer’s strategy to refresh innovative naming schemes for future nodes.  Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger announced during the company’s Accelerated livestream webcast how the semiconductor company is planning to switch its branding plan to push for more semiconductor innovations.  The revelation incorporated broad strokes of its next-half decade […]

Brazil gears up for potential cyber-threats

Over the years, cybersecurity has increasingly become a major issue. Rightfully so, as multiple organizations have been compromised by cyberattacks within a matter of seconds, placing sensitive information in the hands of opportunistic tech criminals.  However, Brazil isn’t taking any risk, as the country is prioritizing cybersecurity by creating a cyberattack response network, with the goal of encouraging fast action toward cyberattacks.  The Federal Cyber Incident Management Network will embody the Institutional Security Office of […]