Mark Zuckerberg is putting guardrails around Meta Verified after seeing Twitter’s impersonation issues when Elon Musk relaunched Twitter Blue. The company announced its subscription plan for New Zealand and Australia this week. Meta Verified prevents profile name, username, date of birth, and photo changes. The company will stop them. Unsubscribe …
Read More »
The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has confirmed that the same hackers who attacked Twilio, Cloudflare, DoorDash, and more than a hundred other companies last year briefly compromised their systems. Coinbase claimed in a post-mortem on the incident that the so-called “0ktapus” hackers stole one of its employees’ login information in an …
Read More »
While some experts predict a second honeymoon period for edtech, entrepreneurs in the sector must change their strategies and figure out how to achieve more with less. It makes sense to anticipate making a lot of money if you have a great product, fantastic marketing, and fantastic sales teams. Unfortunately, …
Read More »
TechCrunch has exclusive knowledge of the acquisition of space tug startup Launcher by Vast Space, a business that came out of stealth last September with the goal of developing artificial gravity space stations in low Earth orbit. It will be a first for Vast to gain access to Launcher’s Orbiter …
Read More »
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense shut down a server that had been leaking private emails from the American military to the public internet for the previous two weeks. The exposed server was housed on a Department of Defense server that was part of Microsoft’s Azure government cloud, which …
Read More »
The company disclosed exclusively that Kaito, an AI-powered search engine for cryptocurrencies, raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. According to Yu Hu, the founder and CEO of Kaito, “there are people fighting against information overload all the time.” “We are reducing the time it takes …
Read More »
Transportation-focused weekly newsletter The Station. Click The Station to get the full newsletter in your inbox every weekend. Free signup. Welcome back to The Station, your hub for moving people and packages. EV charging has improved, but it cannot support the number of electric vehicles the Biden Administration wants on …
Read More »
WhatsApp’s iOS update adds picture-in-picture. This lets callers use WhatsApp or other apps without muting the video. The 23.3.77 iOS app introduced this feature. Previously, if you switched apps on your iPhone during a WhatsApp video call, the other person couldn’t see your feed. The new feature lets you respond …
Read More »
TikTok launched its “Creativity Program” beta today. The company claims the program will increase creator revenue and opportunities. Invite-only creators can join the program today, with all eligible creators joining soon. TikTok didn’t disclose the program’s budget because it’s still in development. The company didn’t specify how many followers or …
Read More »
Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), will launch a pilot to test a “digital yen” in April. The BoJ launched a central bank digital currency (CBDC) proof of concept experiment in October 2020, more than two years ago. In April 2021, the BoJ began testing CBDC issuance, …
Read More »
Tech Gadget Central Latest Tech News and Reviews